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<mask> is a businesswoman and philanthropist who has lived in the United States since 1969. She is a developer of and stockholder in the Del Mar Country Club in Rancho Santa Fe, California, and the owner of the Mustang Monument: Wild Horse Eco-Resort near Wells, Nevada and the founder of Saving America's Mustangs. She is also a thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder. She is the widow of American businessman <mask>. Paulson and former wife of multi-millionaire T<mask>. Background
<mask> was born <mask> on March 5, 1947 in Kirkuk, Kingdom of Iraq where her father, Bill Baker, was a British oil executive. He was also a golf course designer, who built a golf course in Kirkuk and cut down his golf clubs to teach the five-year old <mask> to play. After her family left Iraq, <mask> grew up in France and England, where Baker designed several courses.<mask> and her twin sister Christine, both British citizens, moved from England to the Bahamas in 1965. At some point she started using the name <mask>. <mask> modeled and worked as a flight attendant for Pan American Airlines in her twenties. She moved to Marina Del Rey, California in 1969 and went into business for herself, providing cabin service crews for corporate jets and special charter flights. In 1976, she was featured in an article in Black Belt magazine. She was married to Robert Richter, with whom she had a daughter, Dominique, in 1980. She met <mask>, the founder of Gulfstream Aerospace in 1983, and married him in 1988.In 1993 they bought the Del Mar Country Club in Rancho Santa Fe, California, where she drew upon her background to design and build the golf course. Upon Paulson's death in 2000, she and his children from his previous marriages disputed over the estate until 2003, at which time she was awarded in the settlement, among other assets, stock in the Country Club. In September 2015, the IRS filed suit against beneficiaries of Paulson's estate, including <mask>, for unpaid estate taxes. On September 10, 2018, a judge ruled <mask> was not liable for the taxes. In 2005, she married Texas oilman T. Boone <mask>. Not long after their marriage, the couple traveled to New Orleans to rescue pets stranded during the evacuation from Hurricane Katrina and flew them to California and Colorado on a chartered cargo jet. They divorced early in 2013.In 2007, <mask> paid $35 million for a home on the beach in Del Mar; in 2010 she sued the city for ordering her to prune plants that were obstructing her neighbors' view. <mask> has sponsored several events at the Del Mar Country Club benefiting military organizations. In July 2016, <mask>, Jenny Craig, and Doug Manchester co-chaired a fundraiser for Donald Trump at the Del Mar Country Club in Rancho Santa Fe. Equine interests

<mask> is said to be a lifelong equestrian. She developed an interest in thoroughbred flat racing and with <mask>, she owned several race horses, including U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Cigar. She traded Cigar to husband <mask> for the filly, Eliza, the 1992 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner and that year's Eclipse Award winner as American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly.<mask>' other horses included Fraise, who won the 1992 Breeders' Cup Turf;  Yokohama, winner of the 1997 Prix Foy at Longchamp Racecourse; and Rock Hard Ten, winner of the 2005 Santa Anita Handicap. <mask> and Jenny Craig owned Rock and Roll who won the 1998 Pennsylvania Derby and ran in the Kentucky Derby. <mask> also raced Miss Dominique, named for her daughter. After the settlement of Paulson's estate, <mask> no longer had colors to race, although she was still part owner of Rock Hard Ten and a few broodmares. She announced in June 2005 that, upon her marriage to T. Boone <mask>, her involvement with racing would be reduced. At the same time, she took up equine welfare causes when Old Friends Equine purchased Fraise and multiple Grade One winner Ogygian from their Japanese owners and she paid the $65,000 to bring them back to retirement at the Old Friends facility in Georgetown, Kentucky. About a year after their marriage, the couple led the fight to close the last horse slaughterhouse in the United States.The slaughterhouses were closed due to Congress's prohibiting funds to pay inspectors in the year appropriations bills, but the Pickens worked for a more permanent solution by lobbying Congress to pass the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (AHSPA), which passed in the United States House of Representatives, but not in the Senate (in 2015, the AHSPA was folded into the proposed Safeguard American Food Exports Act). In recognition of their efforts, in 2007 <mask> and <mask> received the Equine Advocates' Safe Home Equine Protection Award. In the summer of 2008, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), was faced with a budget crisis in its free-roaming horse program due to the cost of maintaining 33,000 excess (unadopted) horses captured on public lands in holding facilities. The agency was considering implementing the options that Congress had provided for in amendments to the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, to either euthanize or sell the horses "without limitation" to any willing buyer. Since "any willing buyer" included those that would send the horses to slaughter in foreign countries, Pickens established "The National Wild Horse Foundation," to create a sanctuary for excess horses. On November 21, 2008, <mask> was named Person of the Week by ABC News due to her announcement that she would adopt and maintain, with private funds, all 33,000 horses at the sanctuary. However, shortly thereafter she stated that the recession forced many of the donors she hoped would help her pay for the venture backed out, and she requested the BLM pay her a yearly stipend of $500 per horse to maintain the horses.The BLM responded that it was not possible to enter into the contract she requested. In January 2010, <mask> hired three helicopters to view and photograph a BLM horse gather, and at one point they flew across the flight path of other helicopters being used to herd animals, leading to the accusation she had interfered with the gather. A year later, a $500,000 float she sponsored for the Tournament of Roses Parade depicted a Native American on a horse watching over several galloping horses. The day before the parade, the National Tribal Horse Coalition issued a news release objecting to the float for using "the symbolism of the North American Indians and horses to promote agendas in direct opposition to the tribes' position." Also in 2010, <mask> purchased property in Elko County in northeast Nevada; the 14,000 acre Spruce Ranch in the remote Goshute Valley for $2,570,000. Shortly afterwards, she purchased the Warm Creek Ranch which is located about 25 miles south of Wells, Nevada on Highway 93, adjacent to the northwest boundary of the 508,000 acre BLM Spruce Mountain grazing allotment. In March 2011, the BLM put out invitations for <mask> and others who wished to provide lands to maintain horses for the BLM in "Eco_Sanctuaries" to submit proposals for evaluation.Saving America's Mustangs, the formerly named National Wild Horse Foundation to which <mask> had transferred title to the Spruce Ranch, submitted a proposal to maintain horses, that the BLM agreed to evaluate in April 2012. In August 2012, the BLM published the proposal in the Federal Register but in June 2014 the evaluation stalled after scoping found issues that have yet to be resolved. Although she has purchased several hundred horses at risk of slaughter and maintains them on the private lands of the ranches, in 2014 Saving America's Mustangs leased the Spruce Allotment grazing permit to the Spruce Grazing Association that instead grazes cows. On December 21, 2017, the BLM announced it would be rounding up horses in the area of the Spruce allotment. On August 25, 2018, the BLM announced an emergency gather of 300 horses at Boone Spring within the allotment. Mustang Monument Eco-Resort

Initially, the Warm Creek Ranch headquarters was slated to be used as the "base of operations" for the eco-sanctuary. However, on September 11, 2012, <mask> made reference to plans for a luxury resort called the Mustang Monument: Wild Horse Eco-Resort.<mask> began converting the headquarters for the resort, and began renovating the old ranch house there to become a dining hall and kitchen. On April 3, 2013, the Elko County Commission approved a liquor license for the venture, and <mask> spent a million dollars on "Safari Tents" or Tee Pees for the guests. The eco-resort was open for business in the summer of 2014 and, among other things, offered horseback rides on BLM-administered public lands and using a road crossing BLM administered lands to the Spruce Ranch to take guests to see the horses kept there. <mask> states she was informed by the BLM in December of that year that she would need a permit to use the road and public lands for her commercial ventures and that she filed the application for the permit. <mask> claims that in October 2015 the BLM told her the paperwork had been misplaced, and her representative claims that the BLM requested trivial information to process the application. Also, Elko County officials determined that the food preparation facilities she planned did not meet the County health and safety codes, and required her to install a commercial kitchen. By February 2016 the BLM had not finished processing the permit application and the County's safety codes had not yet been met.The County required <mask> to, in case of fire, to put sprinkler systems in the lavishly furnished teepees, and because the town of Wells had, in 2008, suffered a major earthquake, she was required to modify the walk-in cooler in the kitchen to be earthquake-proof. <mask> issued a press release on February 10, 2016, stating the resort would not open for 2016, but although the Mustang Monument website stated she hoped to open in 2017 and having spent $25 million on the venture, she stated on September 1, 2016, she was "out of it" and would sell the Tee Pees. George Knapp, an investigative reporter for a Las Vegas television station, reported that <mask> said that she had made a bad decision and she would not spend more money on the venture. The webpage for Mustang Monument announced the facility was closed in 2016. In the beginning of 2019, Mustang Monument announced it has re-opened for the summer season. <mask> stated that her problems with acquiring the BLM permit are due to her being "a tall tree" that "catch(es) the wind." <mask>' representative suggested the real reasons for Elko County's safety requirements were due to local hostility to a wild horse sanctuary and because <mask> was from California, and Knapp, a Coast to Coast AM host that had Pickens' representative on as a guest in 2012, expanded upon that to imply that they were imposed because Pickens was "rich, blonde, female, and...from California."Adding to the conflicts in 2016, a lawsuit against Saving America's Mustangs and the Del Mar Country Club was filed for an alleged racially motivated hostile work environment at the Country Club and Mustang Monument in 2014. As of January 2017, that lawsuit was pending. Politics
Since 2010 Pickens has donated extensively to Republican political campaigns, including the Donald Trump presidential campaign and numerous state Republican parties. References

External links
 Mustang Monument's "Saving America's Mustangs" Webpage

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<mask> (; born 1933) is an American retired psychiatrist, author, co-founder of the National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF), and the webmaster of Quackwatch. He runs a number of websites dealing with quackery and health fraud. He focuses on consumer protection, medical ethics, and scientific skepticism. Biography

<mask> is a 1957 graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed his psychiatry residency in 1961. In 1967 and 1968 he completed part of a correspondence course in American Law and Procedure at La Salle Extension University (Chicago). He was a practicing physician until retiring from active practice in 1993. , his medical license was listed as "Expired" in good standing: "No disciplinary actions were found for this license." A longtime resident of Allentown, Pennsylvania, <mask> now resides in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.In addition to webmastering his websites, <mask> was a co-founder, vice-president and a board member of the National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF). He is a scientific advisor to the American Council on Science and Health, and a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI). From 1987 through 1989, he taught health education at Pennsylvania State University. <mask> was the consulting editor for the Consumer Health Library at Prometheus Books, and has been a peer-review panelist for  two medical journals. He has also served on the editorial board of Medscape and the Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine. According to his website, he "has written more than 2,000 articles and delivered more than 300 talks at colleges, universities, medical schools, and professional meetings. His media appearances include Dateline, Today, Good Morning America, Primetime, Donahue, CNN, National Public Radio, and more than 200 other radio and television talk show interviews."Quackwatch received the award of Best Physician-Authored Site by MD NetGuide, May 2003. In 1984, he received an FDA Commissioner's Special Citation Award for Public Service in fighting nutrition quackery. He was included in the list of outstanding skeptics of the 20th century by Skeptical Inquirer magazine. In 1986, he was awarded honorary membership in the American Dietetic Association. <mask> has been profiled in Biography Magazine (1998) and in Time (2001). The magazine Spiked included <mask> in a survey of 134 persons they termed "key thinkers in science, technology and medicine." When he was asked: "What inspired you to take up science?"he replied that his appreciation of medical science:

probably began when I took a college course in medical statistics, and learned what makes the difference between scientific thought and poor reasoning. Medical school brought me in touch with the rapid and amazing strides being made in the understanding and treatment of disease. My anti-quackery activities have intensified my interest and concern in distinguishing science from pseudoscience, quackery and fraud. Consumer information

The Quackwatch website is <mask>'s main platform for describing and exposing what he and other contributors consider to be quackery and health fraud. The website was part of Quackwatch, Inc., a nonprofit corporation founded by <mask> that aims to "combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct." The non-profit was dissolved in 2008. <mask>'s writing is supplemented with contributions from many scientific, technical, and lay volunteers and includes numerous references to published research articles.<mask> defines quackery as "anything involving overpromotion in the field of health," and reserves the word fraud "only for situations in which deliberate deception is involved." <mask> has become a "lightning rod" for controversy as a result of his criticisms of alternative medicine theories and practitioners. <mask> says he does not criticize conventional medicine because that would be "way outside [his] scope." He states he does not give equal time to some subjects, and has written on his web site that "Quackery and fraud don't involve legitimate controversy and are not balanced subjects. I don't believe it is helpful to publish 'balanced' articles about unbalanced subjects." <mask> is at the forefront of exposing questionable aspects of chiropractic. <mask> is a strong supporter of the HONcode and has made efforts to improve compliance with its rules and to expose those who abuse it.A number of practitioners and supporters of alternative medicine oppose <mask> and Quackwatch for its criticism of alternative medicine. Donna Ladd, a journalist with The Village Voice, says <mask> relies mostly on negative research to criticize alternative medicine, rejecting most positive case studies as unreliable due to methodological flaws. According to Ladd, <mask> insists that most alternative therapies "simply should be disregarded without further research. 'A lot of things don't need to be tested [because] they simply don't make any sense', he says, pointing to homeopathy, chiropractic, and acupuncture as examples of alternative treatments with no plausible mechanism of action." Both website reviews and various journal articles mention or use as references <mask>'s Quackwatch as a useful source for consumer information. However, other authors have critcised Quackwatch as being overly biased in its presentation. In February 2020, Quackwatch became part of the Center for Inquiry.CFI planned to maintain its various websites and to receive <mask>'s library later in the year. Selected publications

Articles for which <mask> was an author include:

 In 1985, <mask> was the author of the "Commercial hair analysis. Science or scam?" article in the Journal of the American Medical Association that exposed commercial laboratories performing multimineral hair analysis. He commented that in his opinion, "commercial use of hair analysis in this manner is unscientific, economically wasteful, and probably illegal." His report has been cited in later articles, including one which concluded that such testing was "unreliable." "A Close Look at Therapeutic Touch", Rosa L, Rosa E, Sarner L, <mask> SJ.(April 1, 1998). JAMA, Vol. 279, No. 13, pp 1005–1010. His (co)authored and (co)edited books include:

Consumer Health: A Guide to Intelligent Decisions, Barrett S, London William, Kroger M, Hall H, Baretz R (2013). (textbook, 9th ed.) McGraw-Hill,
Dubious Cancer Treatment, Barrett SJ & Cassileth BR, editors (2001).Florida Division of the American Cancer Society
Chemical Sensitivity: The Truth About Environmental Illness (Consumer Health Library), <mask>, SJ & Gots, Ronald E. (1998). Prometheus Books. The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America, <mask>J, Jarvis WT, eds. (1993). Prometheus Books,
Health Schemes, Scams, and Frauds, <mask> SJ (1991). Consumer Reports Books,
Reader's Guide to Alternative Health Methods, Zwicky JF, Hafner AW, <mask>, Jarvis WT (1993). American Medical Association,
The Vitamin Pushers: How the "Health Food" Industry Is Selling America a Bill of Goods, <mask>J, Herbert V (1991).Prometheus Books,
Vitamins and Minerals: Help or Harm?, Marshall CW (1983). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins  (edited by <mask>, won the American Medical Writers Association award for best book of 1983 for the general public, republished by Consumer Reports Books). Collections of articles:

 Paranormal Claims: A Critical Analysis, 2007, edited by Bryan Farha, University Press of America, . Three of the eighteen chapters are written by <mask>. See also

 <mask> v. Rosenthal
 Consumer protection
 Debunker
 Evidence-based medicine
 Pseudoscience

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External links
 Quackwatch.org – <mask>

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American health activists
American psychiatrists
American science writers
American skeptics
Critics of alternative medicine
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons alumni
La Salle Extension University alumni
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Pennsylvania State University faculty
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<mask> (born August 2, 1980) is a Turkish-Taiwanese stand-up comedian, actor, TV host, showman and writer. Biography
Born in Izmit, <mask>'s family origins go back to the city of Karlová. He finished his primary school in his father's city of Hayrabolu / Tekirdag. Following that, his father sent him to Private Tekirdag College which was the first English private school in Tekirdag. After graduation, he continued his studies at the Tekirdag Tourism Profession High School. In 1998, he graduated from this school's Department of Accounting and Reception and in the same year he enrolled at the University of Mersin Anamur Vocational School in the Department of Hotel Management in German Language. <mask> got his degree in 2001 and in 2002 he entered Ankara University's Department of Chinese/Sinology, graduating in 2006.The same year he received a scholarship for studying in Taiwan. <mask> received his master's degree in the Department of Political Science at National Taiwan Normal University <mask> speaks fluent German, English (broken), Mandarin, Taiwanese (broken) and Turkish. He also completed script writing and acting courses from prestigious universities in Taiwan including Chinese Culture University and Taipei National University of Arts. <mask> is currently studying and developing his entertainment career in Taiwan. Television and stage career
<mask>'s television career started in Taiwan with a documentary movie named The History of Taiwan People in 2006. The producers saw him on the street and invited him for their film castings. <mask> was selected for the role of George Leslie Mackay, who was a dentist and missionary in 19th century Taiwan.FHM took <mask>'s pictures for Taiwan's FHM August 2008 issue in Eclipse commercial. The 22-episode TV series Faysal Agabey began in 2008 and <mask> did his first TV series appearance as good-hearted engineer Alaeddin who worked for survivors of the 1999 Golcuk earthquake in Turkey. This was the most expensive production of Taiwan's Buddhist channel 'Great Love TV' and nominated best drama in Seoul Drama Awards 2009. <mask> continued his commercial appearances in Te Quiero Diamond Watches, Taipei City Tourism Introduction, Nissan, Fubon Bank, Gigabyte and Ocean Spray TV advertisements. <mask> has appeared one of the most famous TV shows in Taiwan with many television celebrities such as Li Jing's Zhuang Shı Ye Zong Hui  talent show, Daxüe Sheng Le Mei the university talk show and with Taiwan television celebrities Aken, Nado and Taozı. <mask> is known for his Aaron Kwok and Stanley Huang imitations. These imitations were the first shows by a foreign entertainer in Taiwan.<mask> is using the stage name Wu Feng in Taiwan. He has taken  acting and script writing classes from Taipei University of Arts. <mask>'s another TV drama is for Hakka TV, The Pioneers. This is one of the biggest TV dramas of Hakka TV in Taiwan. In Hakka TV drama <mask> acts as a foreign researcher with another famous foreign actor and director Brook Hall. <mask>'s third TV drama role was a father in Taiwan's popular TV drama The Perfect Man which got high audience ratings and become Taiwan's one of the most popular drama in 2011. In this TV drama he was worked with famous artist such as Tian Xin and Yang Yi Zhan.The Perfect Man has helped <mask> to raise his popularity among Taiwan audience. <mask>'s first movie appearance is the movie Black and White as a foreign anchorman. <mask> also hosted a TV program for Taiwan's public television PTS. The name of the program is Jian Kang Suo Cha Dui, in this program <mask> has visited many hospitals and introduced many new developments on health technology. Since 2011 Rifat <mask> is hosting I-Walker travel show on Set TV. The show is the first foreign hosted prime time travel show in Taiwan's television history. In this show Rifat <mask> is traveling around Taiwan  and introduce different food, local people and Chinese culture.Nowadays I Walker show also started to send Rifat to other destinations such as Europe, Turkey and Hong Kong. Besides these TV shows, Rifat <mask> has hosted MTV Movie Chart TV show for over 80 episodes and became the first foreign TV host of MTV. He successfully interviewed Tom Cruise, Will Smith, Gore Verbinski, Jerry Bruckheimer etc. Hollywood stars. Rifat <mask> is still working hard to bring more creativity to entertainment industry in Asia and looking forward to grab new opportunities as a television and stage entertainer. 47th Golden Bell Award

Rifat <mask> is the first foreign artist who nominated and won the best travel host award in Golden Bell Awards history in Taiwan. The award went to Rifat <mask> in his first year of hosting I WALKER travel show on Set TV.9 of all judges voted for his performance in the show and praised his witty, unique style of hosting. During the ceremony he showed his red underwear to the press and the moment became the 3.popular news of that night in Yahoo Taiwan's page. He dedicated this award to co-workers, Mazu Goddess and his father. Stand up comedy
<mask> started his single stage performances at the Comedy Club Taipei which is the sole comedy club in Taiwan. He has performed more than 100 shows in the Mandarin Chinese language. He is one of the first foreigners to perform in the Chinese language in Taiwan and the world. He performs his live shows barefoot.He explains, "performing barefoot is amazing – it helps me to feel the wooden stage and I really can be part of it." He is currently performing at the Comedy Club and for special events. <mask> also performed in Hong Kong at Take Out Comedy Club and got the 2. title in 2010 Hong Kong International Stand Up Comedy Contest. TV and stage appearances
 The History of Taiwan People as George Leslie Mackay. 3M Table Light TV commercial as the green genie. Te Quiero diamond watches as a fashion designer. TV series- Faysal Agabey – as engineer Alaeddin (4 episodes).Nissan TV commercial as the green foreigner. Gigabyte  commercial as a young office worker. Daxue Sheng Le Mei – The university talk show. Zhuang Shı Ye Zong Hui – Talent show as Aaron Kwok imitation. Fell in Love with Taiwan- Travel program. Host (1 episode)
 Halin Teacher Hi – Entertainment show, as himself. Hayrabolu Sunflower Festival – Host.Oylum Talu ile Burası Haftasonu, live morning program, HaberTurk – Special Guest. Gümüş Hilal, culture and art program, TRT Turk – Special Guest. Momotai Shopping Channel PONPIE Popcorn Commercial as American guy. Microsoft BING Search Portal Commercial for USA, as Cook in the Japanese restaurant. Guo Min Da Hui- Talk show. As Himself- About Education in Taiwan and Turkey. Jiu Shı Ai Ba Mei-Guest.Niu Dan Kuai Pao- Donation Gameshow-Host. (1 episode)
 Jin Wan Nali You Wenti- Talk Show, as foreign artist and showman in Taiwan. TV Series- Yuan- The Pioneers  Hakka TV drama as foreign researcher Locke. Ocean Spray TV commercial as the young farmer. Fun Taiwan travel show, special guest. Martens Beer TV commercial as the barman. Yes Water TV commercial as referee.Jian Kang Suo Cha Dui. Host. Taiwan Quan Ji Lu. Host. Xia Yi Zhan Taiwan. Host.

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<mask> (born 11 September 1978) is an Australian musician and actor. <mask> began his career as a musician at the age of 14 with the Sydney band Noise Addict, but he focused on his solo career when the band broke up in 1995. He appeared as the protagonist in the Australian film The Rage in Placid Lake (2003). He has released eleven solo studio albums. Career

Noise Addict
<mask>'s musical career began in 1993 with the band Noise Addict, who were signed to Steve Pavlovic's independent label Fellaheen Records, on the strength of a self-produced and distributed four-track demo recorded in <mask>'s bedroom. Pavlovic's connections brought the band to the attention of Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Beastie Boys' Mike D, both of whom released the band's material in the US. The group put out several releases on the Beasties' Grand Royal Records.These including the acoustic Young and Jaded EP in 1994, which contained <mask>'s Evan Dando tribute, "I Wish I Was Him". In 1995, Grand Royal released the band's only full-length album, the Brad Wood–produced Meet the Real You. Noise Addict made a music video for the song "16", toured with Sebadoh, but then broke up. <mask> was also briefly a member of the alternative act Gerling. In 2009, <mask> recorded a new Noise Addict album, It Was Never About the Audience, with a new lineup: Lou Barlow and Lara Meyerratken. Solo career
<mask>'s solo career started at the age of 16, while he was still in Noise Addict. He began recording his first solo album, Grandpaw Would, in both Sydney and Chicago with producer Brad Wood.This was followed by the 1997 album, Something to Remember Me By, also produced by Wood. An alternate version of his song "Burn to Shine", produced by T-Bone Burnett, played over the end credits of the film Best Men. <mask>ic's new label Modular, marked a new direction for <mask> as he introduced synthesisers and increased instrumentation into his sound. The album was a success in Australia, earning <mask> ARIA Award nominations for Best Male Artist and Album of the Year. The album's first single, "Cigarettes Will Kill You", was also nominated for Single of the Year and finished second in that year's Triple J Hottest 100. In 2001, <mask> contributed a track ("Sweet Is the Night") to a Jeff Lynne tribute album Lynne Me Your Ears.<mask>'s fourth album, hey you. yes you., was released in 2002. The first single from the album, "Something Borrowed, Something Blue", reached number 67 on the ARIA Charts and number 22 on the 2002's Triple J Hottest 100. The second single, "Running with Scissors", peaked at number 82 on the ARIA charts. In 2003, he also contributed several songs to the Evan Dando solo album Baby I'm Bored. In late 2004, <mask> left Steve Pavlovic's Modular Recordings and started his own record label, Ten Fingers. The first release on the label was the single, "Gamble Everything for Love", followed by the album, Awake Is the New Sleep in February 2005, which went double platinum in Australia.A defining release in his career, the album showcased a much brighter, positive side of <mask>'s personality, in contrast to his previous darker musings. Awake Is the New Sleep received several nominations for the 2005 Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) awards, and <mask> won Best Male Artist, Best Independent Release, and Single of the Year for "Catch My Disease", which <mask> wrote with Mcgowan Southworth. "Catch My Disease" also went to No. 2 on the 2005 Triple J Hottest 100. In addition, the song was featured on the soundtracks to the 2005 films Just Friends and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, as well as the soundtracks to the television series, Grey's Anatomy, Hidden Palms and Scrubs. In 2006 it was used in a television commercial for Dell Computers. On 26 March 2006, <mask> performed "We're All in This Together" from Awake Is the New Sleep at the closing ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth Games.The single for "We're All in This Together" was released on 8 April 2006. The CD includes cover versions of the song by Pony Up, Holidays on Ice and Gelbison. "We're All in This Together" is being used in commercials for Kohl's (2008), Coca-Cola (Remixed Australian Summer Series Ads in 2007), the South Australian Government (2006), the Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal (2007) and Telus Mobility's "My Faves" (2007). <mask> released his sixth album, Ripe, on 18 September 2007 with <mask> Madden and Mandy Moore making appearances. Mandy Moore sung a light-hearted, '50s style duet with <mask> called "Birds and Bees". "Mandy was very sweet and did her best Olivia Newton-John for me. I'm really psyched about this recording," <mask> says.Madden helped out with some backing vocals, along with US band Rooney and Sara Watkins from the band Nickel Creek. "American Television" from the album was used in a VH1 advertisement for Flavor of Love 3 and the song "Ripe" appeared in an episode of One Tree Hill (Season 5, episode 2). In 2007, <mask> performed a cover of Crosby, Stills & Nash's "Our House" for Landmarks on The DL. In February 2009, <mask> released his seventh studio album, The Rebirth of Venus, which received mixed reviews. It featured guest performances from the likes of Missy Higgins and Patience Hodgson, and peaked at No.21 on the ARIA Charts. <mask>'s eighth studio album, Deeper into Dream, was released on 11 October 2011. It was <mask>'s first attempt at a concept album, basing the entire 12 tracks around the dream state.Despite not charting, it was received fairly favourably by critics. In April 2013, <mask> released his ninth and arguably his most experimental studio album entitled Ayahuasca: Welcome to the Work, with collaboration from Jessica Chapnik. The album is based upon his personal experience with the psychoactive South American drug known as Ayahuasca. <mask> featured as the mentor for Joel Madden's team on the 2013 season of The Voice Australia. In June 2015, <mask> released his 10th solo album, Love Is the Great Rebellion, his first on a major label, Warner Bros. Records. According to Radio National's Geoff Wood, <mask> invented the term "electro-yoga" to describe a new form of music dedicated to the practice of yoga. <mask> has since followed up this release with an acoustically-oriented album, entitled Freedom, Love and The Recuperation of the Human Mind, in 2016; as well as a children's album, called <mask> Sings Songs About Islam for the Whole Family, in 2017.Together with former How I Met Your Mother star Josh Radnor, <mask> formed an indie-folk duo called Radnor and <mask>, and released their debut self-titled album in November 2017. 2018 saw the release of B Is for Beer, a soundtrack to the musical based on the novel of the same name written by Tom Robbins. <mask> and Robbins had collaborated for ten years to develop the musical. Funding for the album's development came via crowd-sourcing at Kickstarter. <mask> released Quarter Century Classix in 2019, a collection of cover songs he was influenced by during his teenage years. In 2020, Radnor and <mask> released their second collaborative album, Golden State. In 2021, <mask> competed in the third season of the Australian version of The Masked Singer as "Professor".He finished tenth after being eliminated in the third episode. In September 2021, The Music Network confirmed <mask> had signed with Warner Music Australia, who will release I'M FUN! in June 2022, preceded by single "Born for This Bullshit". The deal includes rights to his 19-album back catalogue. Personal life
<mask> was born in Sydney and was raised in a Jewish household, but did not consider himself religious as a child. <mask> was educated at Moriah College located in Sydney's eastern suburbs. <mask> dated Claire Danes for several years, but their relationship ended in 2003.He married actress Ione Skye on 28 December 2008, in a Hindu wedding ceremony in India. They have one child. <mask> stated that he follows a pescatarian diet. Discography

Studio albums

Collaboration albums

Soundtrack albums

Mix Tapes

Extended plays

Singles

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A  The Australian peak for the "Into the Dark" EP is on the ARIA albums chart. Promotional singles

Other appearances
 "Make Your Move" (featuring Ione Skye) from Spider (2007)
 "Beautiful Flirt" (with Ione Skye and Jack Graddis) from Bear (2011)
 "We're All in This Together" (with Jack River and Lime Cordiale) from Music from the Home Front (2020)

Awards and nominations

Awards
2005 ARIA Music Awards, Single of the Year – "Catch My Disease"
2005 ARIA Music Awards, Best Male Artist for Awake Is the New Sleep
2005 ARIA Music Awards, Best Independent Release for Awake Is the New Sleep
2005 ARIA Music Awards, Best Cover Art for Awake Is the New Sleep
2006 APRA Music Awards, Song of the Year – "Catch My Disease"
2006 APRA Music Awards, Most Performed Australian Work – "Catch My Disease"

Nominations
1999 ARIA Music Awards, Album of the Year for Breathing Tornados
1999 ARIA Music Awards, Single of the Year for Cigarettes Will Kill You
1999 ARIA Music Awards, Best Male Artist for Breathing Tornados
2003 ARIA Music Awards, Best Male Artist for hey you. yes you. 2005 ARIA Music Awards, Album of the Year for Awake Is the New Sleep
2005 ARIA Music Awards, Best Pop Release for Awake Is the New Sleep
2005 Australian Music Prize, for Awake Is the New Sleep
2006 AIR Awards of 2006 Independent Artist of the Year
2006 AIR Awards of 2006, Best Performing Independent Album for Awake Is the New Sleep
2006 ARIA Music Awards, Best Male Artist for We're All in This Together
2006 ARIA Music Awards, Best Pop Release for Into the Dark
2006 ARIA Music Awards, Best Independent Release for We're All in This Together
2008 ARIA Music Awards, Best Independent Release for Ripe

References

External links

Artist page on Dangerbird Records

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<mask> (1 May 1503, in Cirié – 24 November 1569, in Basel) (usual Latin form Caelius Secundus Curio) was an Italian humanist, grammarian, editor and historian, who exercised a considerable influence upon the Italian Reformation. A teacher in Humanities, university professor and preceptor to the nobility, he had a lively and colourful career, moving frequently between states to avoid denunciation and imprisonment: he was successively at Turin, Milan, Pavia, Venice and Lucca, before becoming a religious exile in Switzerland, first at Lausanne and finally at Basel, where he settled. He was famous and admired as a publisher and editor of works of theology and history, also for his own writings and teachings, and for the wide sphere of his friendships and correspondence with many of the most interesting reformists, protestants and heretics of his time, though his energetic influence was at times disruptive. The imputation of antitrinitarianism is very doubtful. Curio published under the Latin form of his name, but scholarship has adopted the Italian form. His rebellious youth

<mask> was born on 1 May 1503 at Cirié, in Piedmont, not far from Turin, to <mask> and Charlotte de Montrotier (a lady in the court of Bianca of Savoy) who died giving birth to him. The twenty-third of the sons of Jacomino, who married into the feudal family of the Counts di Provana, his surname may derive from the Castello di Cuori, near Ciriè.He was brought up by his maternal aunt Maddalena at Moncalieri (in the Po valley under the Western Alps), a little town under the authority of Turin, where his father received public appointments and where his mother's family dwelt. His father died when he was nine, leaving him among other things a precious illuminated Bible. Around 1520 he began his studies at the University of Turin, where his masters were Giorgio Corona, Domenico Machaneo (commentator upon Suetonius) and Giovanni Bremio for Humanistic studies, and Francesco Sfondrati, future Cardinal, for Law. Some of the Turin Augustinians introduced him to some of the writings of Luther, the De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae and Resolutiones Disputationum de Indulgentiarum Virtute, and other works of the reformers north of the Alps, the De Falsa et Vera Religione of Zwingli and the Loci Communes of Melancthon. Curio and his friends Jacopo Cornello and Francesco Guarino (who became pastors at Geneva) were much enthused. Curio planned a journey into Germany, but instead found himself imprisoned for two months in the fortress of Caprano by order of the Bishop of Ivrea, Cardinal Bonifacio Ferrero. He was then sent to the Benedictine abbey of Fruttuaria at San Benigno Canavese, to be "purged" of heretical ideas through penitence and the study of orthodox texts.This was unsuccessful: Curio violated the reliquary of SS Agapeto and Tiburtius, substituting a Bible for the bones, with a message in Latin: "This is the Ark of the Covenant, from which true Gospels can be brought forth and in which are found the true relics of the Saints." The early chronology is unclear: his biographer states that, having fled to Milan, he distinguished himself by helping the citizens during an epidemic of the plague. There was one such at Milan in 1524, and another in 1528 in the province of Bergamo. To this period belong a journey to Padua and his enrolment in study, another journey to Rome and a later return to Milan, with (around 1530) his marriage to Margherita Bianca Isacchi (1509–1587) at Barzago (Brianza). A teacher in Italy

At Milan he lived by teaching Humanities, while continuing to study Law with Sfondrati. To avoid the constant warfare in the Duchy he accepted an invitation from Gian Giorgio, Marchese of Montferrat. He remained at the court of Casale Monferrato for a while after the Marchese's death on 3 April 1533: his first daughter, future wife of Girolamo Zanchi, was born at Ceva on 8 November, and his second son Orazio at Casale in 1534.Here he became acquainted with Fulvio Pellegrino Morato, professor at Vicenza, who was visiting Piedmont: they agreed in religious matters so much that Morato later said that Curio had been for him what Ananias had been for St Paul. His brethren having died of the plague Curio should have returned to Moncalieri to settle his inheritance with his only surviving sister, but, faced with being denounced for heresy, he renounced his rights. Having failed to respond to a summons to Casale from Federico Gonzaga, successor to the Marquessate, he took work as a teacher at Castiglione Torinese, where in a disputation with a Dominican preacher in 1535 he argued in defence of Luther. Denounced to the Suffragan of Turin he was imprisoned, but managed to escape by tricking the gaoler into shackling a false leg to the cell wall and escaping through the unbarred window. As the mystery of his escape gave rise to superstitious rumours, he later explained how it was managed in a Dialogue, Probus. He took refuge at Salò, where he was reunited with his family: two of his sons were born there, Leo in 1536 and Agostino in 1538. Pavia, Venezia and Ferrara

In 1536 he obtained a Chair in Humanistic Letters for three years at the University of Pavia: Andrea Alciati was his colleague there, and he wrote his first Orations and the first draft of the three books of Schola, sive De Perfecto Grammatico (not published until 1555).He described the perfect Grammaticus as an orator who takes the classical foundations of Cicero and Quintilian to inform a contemporary embodiment of the humanist professor, one who dignifies his profession through full responsibility towards his role as educator and cultural guide. His renown as professor was tied to his anti-Catholic stances: as a result Pope Paul III demanded his removal from the University. His admiring students accompanied him to his alternative lodgings in the city to defend him from possible attack. The Senate of Pavia, fearing a threat of excommunication from the Church, succumbed and in 1539 licensed Curio to leave the Duchy. He next went to Venice, where he attended the French Ambassador to the republic, the Bishop of Montpellier. To him he dedicated the Aranei Encomion, a short tract treating the fable of Arachne as an allegory of the Church and Holy Wisdom, published in Venice in 1540. In Lent he is likely to have heard the preaching of Bernardino Ochino.He became the companion of the Augustinian mendicant Giulio da Milano, a secret protestant convert. Giulio, who had preached justification by faith alone, was arrested in 1541, and Curio, identified as his close associate, departed abruptly for Ferrara. There his friend Pellegrino Morato, preceptor in the court of Este, recommended him to Duchess Renata, wife of Ercole II d'Este. He remained briefly, forming a friendship with Morato's young daughter Olympia Fulvia Morata, with whom he maintained a lifelong correspondence. Lucca

By October he was already in Lucca, employed as preceptor by the nobleman Niccolò di Silvestro Arnolfini. The Republic of Lucca was stirred up with religious and political reform movements. The Gonfaloniere, , hoped to end the dominion of Cosimo I de' Medici and the temporal power of the Church in that region, and to create a federation of free Tuscan cities.To this end he advocated to the Comune the formation of a special militia which he should lead. Burlamacchi himself was not Lutheran, but the various protestant groups in the city (reflecting its mercantile and intellectual exchange with Germany) might approve his project. When Curio arrived, there was already a large active colony of Italian internal religious exiles, including Paolo Lazise, Celso Martinengo, the jewish convert Emanuele Tremellio, Peter Martyr and Girolamo Zanchi. From June 1541 Peter Martyr was Prior of the Basilica of San Frediano, a position of considerable authority: he held a school for reading in the Gospels, the letters of St Paul, and Saint Augustine, and encouraged direct reading and understanding of the Bible. His lessons were attended by young students and learned elders such as Curio himself and the humanist Francesco Robortello alike. Cardinal Bartolomeo Guidiccioni, non-resident Bishop of Lucca newly appointed to the Roman Inquisition, in a letter to the Senate of Lucca dated 22 July 1542 denounced that Evangelic group and that "Cellio who dwells in the house of Master Niccolò Arnolfini". Burlamacchi's plan to subject the citizen power to his political and religious reforms was exposed.At the end of July Peter Martyr, the young disciple Giulio Terenziano, Lazise and Tremellius fled, while Curio took refuge at first in Pisa, where the Inquisition tried to catch up with him. Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, on 26 August 1542, sent to Duke Cosimo from Rome the warrant for the arrest for that "wretched spirit called <mask> of Turin", who however had already taken the road to Switzerland and was received, at the recommendation of the theologian Heinrich Bullinger, in the Academy of Lausanne. In Switzerland
With letters of recommendation from Konrad Pellikan and Heinrich Bullinger, Curio went by Bern to Geneva. He had crossed the frontier in Valtellina in company with another heretic, the antitrinitarian Camillo Renato, whom he described to Bullinger as "very outstanding in letters and religion" and "good and learned among the best". Eventually he obtained a place as Praefectus studiorum in the Latin school at Lausanne. In 1544 his plainly anticlerical and antipapistical dialogue Pasquillus Extaticus et Marphorius made its first appearance in a collection of Pasquinades, Pasquillorum Tomi Duo, by various authors, which Curio introduced through the press of Giovanni Oporino at Basel. Pasquillus Extaticus acquired a great following throughout Europe, and rapidly appeared independently

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 of the collection in several different languages.Curio ventured back incognito into Italy to collect his wife and children from Lucca, and his movements were dogged by papal agents. While staying at an inn at Pescia, a senior bailiff came in looking for him. Curio was dining, and jumped up with a meat knife in his hand. The captain cowered in a corner, and Curio walked straight out past the guards outside, leapt on his horse and rode off. He was obliged to leave the youngest child Dorotea in care of the family of the humanist Aonio Paleario. He went on to Ferrara to deliver to Duchess Renata the Commentarii in Matthaeum which Bullinger had entrusted to him. Returning to Lausanne, where three more daughters were born to him, he maintained a diffident attitude towards the Calvinist theology prevalent there, but avoided open polemic or dissention.He revised his Aranei Encomion, publishing a second edition at Basel in 1544 under the title Araneus, seu De Providentia Dei, with which were included several shorter tracts including one on the Immortality of the Spirit, drawing overtly upon Pythagorean and Platonist concepts. He finished a new book, the Pro Vera et Antiqua Ecclesiae Christi Autoritate. In 1546 he had to leave Lausanne over an affair with a female student. In Basel, where he was reunited with his family, he held a teaching post at the University from 1547. Here he remained for the rest of his life as Professor of Rhetoric, as editor and translator. His circle of friends in Basel included theologian Martin Borrhaus, printers including Johannes Frobenius and Giovanni Oporino, and the academic jurist Bonifacius Amerbach. He maintained contact with other religious exiles, including Sebastian Castellio (who had left Geneva in 1544 having fallen out with Calvin), and with the Italian Lelio Sozzini.It is not agreed whether he was then in contact with the Netherlander David Joris, later sentenced as an heretic. From Basel he maintained a wide network of correspondence, principally with Bullinger, but also with Wolfgang Musculus, Johannes Sturm, Philipp Melanchthon and other theologians. Curio published part of his correspondence in 1553 (Selectarum Epistolarum). As Professor he gained high respect: he took on many students, some of whom lodged in his house, and had contact with the many Polish students who were then in Basel. Deeply interested in the English Reformation, Curio, who had prepared a Latin translation of a sermon of Bernardino Ochino published in 1544, made the most of Ochino's presence in Basel in 1547. When Ochino travelled into exile in England in that year he was carrying books and letters of introduction from Curio to Sir John Cheke, preceptor to King Edward VI. Publishing activities
Along with his Pasquino Curio at first published educational writings and books for students in Basel.In 1551 in the press of Johannes Hervagius he dedicated to Amerbach his richly augmented edition of the Ciceronian lexicon of Marius Nizolius. He also busied himself as a theological writer. He contributed a Preface to a Life of Francesco Spiera published by Matteo Gribaldi with Pietro Paolo Vergerio in 1550. When Castellio in 1554 strongly attacked the conviction of Michael Servetus in a published writing, Curio was suspected of being his co-author by John Calvin and Theodore Beza. He gained much attention with his work De Amplitudine Beati Regni Dei (1554), partly presented as a dialogue with . On account of the incendiary nature of the theological opinions expressed in it, he had it published not in Basel but in Poschiavo, to circumvent the Basel censor. This work was dedicated to the Polish King Sigismund.It was rejected by some of Curio's friends, and also by Bullinger. It was heavily attacked by Vergerio (like Curio a religious exile from Italy, whose Otto Difensioni Curio had published, introduced and defended) and Curio was denounced as an heretic before the Council at Basel: he was able to clear himself largely before the inquisition of the censors. Through these experiences Curio drew back from theological publication, but he remained in correspondence with the apostles of the Reformation. In 1554 Sir John Cheke met him in Strasbourg, soon after leaving England in voluntary exile following the accession of Queen Mary, by whom the English reforms were reversed. Cheke was carrying the seven letters which had passed between him and Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, in 1544, when Gardiner had issued a severe prohibition against Cheke's reforms of ancient Greek pronunciation in the University of Cambridge. Gardiner's letters showed his unpleasant side. Cheke explained the significance of the letters to Curio and entrusted them to him.In the following year Curio had them published at Basel without Cheke's knowledge, and they attracted wide interest. Curio's preface is full of admiration for the teaching of Cheke and Sir Anthony Cooke, and elsewhere extols the learning of Sir Thomas Wroth (all intimates of Edward VI), with whom he dealt in their travels in exile. On the orders of King Philip Cheke was seized and intimidated into an involuntary formal recantation in 1556. Curio dedicated his second and later editions of the works of Olympia Fulvia Morata to Queen Elizabeth I of England. The last years
Curio now became more active as editor and as author of historical writings. Hervagius and Brand published his edition of Seneca's works in 1557. He communicated materials concerning the martyrs Galeazzo Trezio, Pomponio Algerio and Fra Goffredo Varaglia to the historian .He is particularly remembered for his editions of the works of the humanist poet Olympia Fulvia Morata, and his correspondence with her. As an historian he is still appreciated for his History of the Siege of Malta (1565). His editions and commentaries on classical works range from his Thesaurus Linguae Latinae to the Aristotelis Stagiritae Tripartitae Philosophiae Opera Omnia, from the Commentarii a Cicerone, Tacito, Plauto, Sallustio ed Emilio Probo, to the Quattro Libri dei Logices Elementorum of Aristotle. Particularly notable from his last years was his Latin translation of the History of Francesco Guicciardini, dedicated to Charles IX of France and printed by Pietro Perna in 1566, which placed a essential work of Italian historiography at the disposal of students throughout Europe. Three of Curio's daughters died of the plague in 1564, including Angela, who had helped him in his philological researches. His son Orazio, physician and philosopher (died 1564), and Agostino (died 1567) were, like their father, active in publishing, and died before their time. The humanist Agostino was the editor of Pietro Bembo (author of the Sarracenicae Historiae and the De Ratione Conseguendi Styli, seu De Imitatione), and was professor from 1564 in the University of Basel.Only Leone survived his father (1601): he left a manuscript Memoir of his father. A final twist was the death of his friend Giovanni Oporino in 1568, for whom he wrote his Mortis Ioannis Oporini Praesagia, published with the Oratio for Oporino by Andrea Jociscus: it was like a presage of his own death, which occurred at Basel on 24 November 1569. He was buried near his sons in Basel Cathedral, where his wife Margherita (who long survived him) was buried in 1587. His Panegyric was delivered at Basel in 1570 by Johann Nikolaus Stupanus, who succeeded him in the Chair of Rhetoric. The woodcut portrait of Curio is an illustration from Nikolaus Reusner's 1587 collection of images of men of letters. An example is held in the British Museum collections. Works (selection)

 Aranei Encomion.Venice, 1540. digitized
 Aranaeus, seu De Providentia Dei, with De Immortalitate Animorum and other shorter tracts. Basel, 1544. digitized
 Pasquillus Extaticus et Marphorius (the Latin original), in Pasquillorum Tomi Duo, II, pp. 426-529 digitized. Basel, 1544. Pasquillus Ecstaticus (separate publication), Geneva 1544, digitized
 (dt.) Der verzucket Pasquinus. Auss Welscher sprach inn das Teütsch gebracht.Augsburg 1543(?). digitized
 (it.) Pasqvino in Estasi, Nuouo, e molto più pieno, ch'el primo, insieme co'l viaggio de l'Inferno. Rome(?) 1545. digitized
 (fr.) Les Visions de Pasquille, with the Dialogue de Probus. Geneva, 1547. digitized
 (en.)Pasquine in a Traunce. London, 1566. Eebo transcript digitized 1566 edition, digitized 1584 edition
 Pro Vera et Antiqua Ecclesiae Christi Autoritate, Basel, 1547. digitized
 Selectarvm Epistolarum Libri duo, Basel, 1553. digitized
 De Amplitudine Beati Regni Dei, Basel, (Poschiavo?) 1554. digitized
 Schola, sive De Perfecto Grammatico, with De Liberis Honeste et Pie Educandis. Basel, 1555. digitized
 De Bello Melitensi Historia Nova. Basel 1567. digitized
 (dt.) Neuwe unnd warhafftige Historien, von dem erschröcklichen Krieg so der Türckisch Keyser Solyman wider die Ritter von Jerusalem, in der Inseln Malta kürtzlich gefüret hat.Basel, 1567. (it.) Nuova Storia della Guerra in Malta. Rome, 1927. (en.) A New History of the War in Malta. Rome, 1928.De Historia Legenda Sententia ad Basilium Amerbachium. Basel, 1576. References
This article incorporates material from the Italian and German Wikipedia articles on Caelius Secundus Curio. Sources
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 K. Benrath, 'Curione, <mask> <mask>', Realencyclopaedie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche (Leipzig, 1898), vol. 4, pp. 353–357. A. Biondi, 'Curione, <mask> <mask>', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Roma 1981) vol.31, pp. 443–449. D. Cantimori (1902–1966), Eretici Italiani del Cinquecento: Ricerche storiche (3rd Edn) (Firenze 1978); Biblioteca di cultura storica (Einaudi, 1992). 'Curione, <mask> <mask> (1503–1569)', The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (2005). 1503 births
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<mask> (September 27, 1860 – September 5, 1950) was an American sculptor with the contemporary reputation as one of the nation's foremost animaliers. Birth and early years
<mask> was born on September 27, 1860 in Bosanquet, Ontario, near the village of Arkona, Ontario, the son of Thirzah Smith (born 1832), herself daughter of a contractor on the Erie and Welland Canals, and <mask> (1822–alive 1904). The family left Canada in 1866 and moved to Iowa and then to Denver, Colorado, when <mask> was eleven. Growing up on the frontier, <mask> early developed into a skilled woodsman and hunter—interests that remained with him for the rest of his life. In his autobiography, Sculptor in Buckskin, he spends as much ink, and seems to be as excited about killing his first bear and elk as he is about obtaining his first major commission. Along with his gun, <mask> took pencils and a sketching pad with him on his trips through the Rocky Mountains. As a hunter he always was careful to measure, draw, and sometimes dissect the animals that had crossed his gun sights.These early studies helped propel him to the position of one of the most sought after and respected animaliers of his day. He was fortunate to find an art instructor in the still rough and tumble Colorado, where his early drawings included big horn sheep, elk, bears, and the lynching of outlaw L. H. Musgrove, which occurred in Denver in November 1868. Studies in New York and Paris

In 1885 <mask> sold a homestead that he had acquired in Colorado and used the proceeds to move to New York City with the intention of studying art. He enrolled first in the National Academy of Design where he studied drawing and painting, and later, at the Art Students League of New York, where his interest in sculpture came to the fore. His ability to capture animals in action, garnered in part from his days tracking them, coupled with his interest in all things Native American, opened a niche for <mask>, one that he parlayed into a long, successful career. As with many of his contemporaries, <mask>'s opportunity to work with some of the greatest sculptors of his day, coupled with the opportunity to create his own large, albeit temporary, pieces presented itself in the guise of the World Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. <mask> later was called upon to produce works of various Western themes, mostly figures of native animals, but also a cowboy and Indian that were to form the genesis of his later works, The Bucking Bronco and On the War Trail, both found in Denver.<mask> moved to Paris to continue his studies. During this period he assisted Augustus Saint Gaudens in the creating of the General John Logan Memorial, now in Chicago. In 1896 he won the Rinehart Scholarship which allowed him to work and study in Paris for four years under Jean Antoine Injalbert and others. By the time he returned to America in 1899 <mask> was well versed in the Beaux-Arts tradition. Settling in New York City
<mask>'s output after he moved to New York City was prolific; among his creations in this period was the sculpture of the horse underneath William Tecumseh Sherman in Grand Army Plaza, bordering Central Park. (Most of the 1903 equestrian statue was by Augustus Saint-Gaudens; the architect of the installation was Charles Follen McKim.) In September 1909, <mask> was commissioned to design four large bronze tigers for the 16th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C.He made minor adjustments in the models, and then cast two more tigers to flank the steps of Nassau Hall at Princeton University. He also designed and cast some animal heads for the Bronx Zoo. <mask> and Alden Sampson had McKim, Mead & White design a three-story double-studio for them on East 51st Street, off Third Avenue, in 1911. The building had a romantic brick facade with double-height rooms on the second and third floors, step-out balconies, and a projecting pent-eave roof. While the building no longer exists, it did represent an intriguing collaboration between the preeminent architecture firm and one of the leading sculptors of wildlife of the day. From this studio in 1922 <mask> completed a model of an equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt. The sculpture was commissioned by Henry Waldo Coe, a long-time friend of both Roosevelt and <mask>.Coe donated <mask>'s sculpture, Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Rider, to the city of Portland, Oregon. Two other versions of this sculpture were created for the cities of Mandan and Minot, North Dakota, and yet another sculpture cast from the same mold many years after <mask>'s death was dedicated in Oyster Bay, New York, on October 29, 2005. His work was also part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Later years
In between commissions <mask> frequently returned to the West for rejuvenation and inspiration, seeking out members of various Native American tribes to pose for his works. On a hunting trip to Alaska in 1947 <mask> shot a bear, seventy years to the day after which he had bagged his first one. <mask> died in Palo Alto, California on September 5, 1950, where he was living with his daughter, just a few days before his ninetieth birthday. A sculptor of the "old school," <mask> resisted even the vestiges of modernism that many of his contemporaries adopted.Examples of his legacy are scattered from coast to coast throughout America. As one of the witnesses of the death of the old America (many other artists saw only the birth of the new one) <mask>'s works showing the animals and peoples of frontier America remain popular and as vital today as when he produced them. Address delivered at the unveiling of the monument, May 31, 1948, University of Texas, Austin. The Adams Publications, Austin, Texas, 1948. Craven, Wayne, Sculpture in America, Thomas Y. Crowell Co, NY, NY 1968

Hassrick, Peter H, Wildlife and Western Heroes: <mask> <mask>, Sculptor, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas 2003
<mask>, <mask>er, edited by Hester <mask>, <mask> <mask>, Sculptor in Buckskin: An Autobiography by <mask> <mask>, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK 1971
Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina, 1968
Taft, Lorado, History of American Sculpture, The MacMillan Company, NY, NY 1925

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<mask> (March 17, 1725 – February 20, 1806) was a Scottish American military and political leader during the American Revolution and the early United States. In a 1777 duel, he fatally shot Button Gwinnett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Early life

Arrival in Georgia
<mask> was born near Raits, Badenoch, Scotland. <mask>'s father, <mask>, moved the family to Georgia in 1736 with a group of 100 Scottish settlers; they founded the town of New Inverness (which was later renamed Darien) at the mouth of the Altamaha River. <mask> led the colonists as they carved out the new settlement from dense forest. The dangers of frontier life were brought home to Lachlan in 1737 when his younger brother <mask> was killed by an alligator while swimming in the river. Georgia was then governed by James Oglethorpe, who had founded the colony in 1732.It was a highly militarized colony, as clashes with neighboring Spanish Florida and its fortress city of St. Augustine to the south were common. In one of these clashes in 1740, during the War of Jenkins' Ear, <mask>'s father was captured by the Spanish and held prisoner for two years. The elder McIntosh was eventually released, but his health had deteriorated during his captivity, and he died a few years later. Before his death he had supported the Georgia Trustees in their opposition to the introduction of Black slavery into Georgia, which was demanded by an increasing number of colonists in need of labor. This earned him the gratitude of Oglethorpe. The "Mòr" of his title is Scots Gaelic for "big". After his father's death, <mask> was sent to the Bethesda Orphanage in Savannah under the care of the noted evangelist George Whitefield.His elder brother, Colonel <mask>, served under Oglethorpe and helped to repulse a Spanish invasion of the colony. Lachlan spent two years at the orphanage before traveling to Fort Frederica to serve as a military cadet. During this time, the Jacobite Rebellion broke out in Scotland. <mask> and his brother William planned to travel to Scotland and join the rebellion, but General James Oglethorpe, who had become a friend and mentor to the young <mask>, convinced them to remain in Georgia. <mask>'s brother William has sometimes been confused with <mask> of the Creek Nation, who was their cousin. The Creek <mask> was the son of Capt. <mask>, a Tory in the Revolutionary War, and a high-status Creek woman.The senior <mask> was the son of Capt. <mask>, who had immigrated with his brother Roderick, and with John "Mòr" <mask> from Scotland. Confusion about the names stems from the fact that on their ship The Prince of Wales, at least five males were named John McIntosh in one form or another. In 1748, <mask> moved to Charleston, South Carolina, where he took a position as a clerk for Henry Laurens, a wealthy merchant and slave trade. Laurens became a lifelong friend and mentor. In 1756, <mask> married Sarah Threadcraft. He soon returned with her to Georgia, where he studied surveying.He acquired land in the Altamaha River delta and slaves to work it; he became a prosperous rice planter. American Revolution

Early war
By 1770, <mask> had become a leader in the independence movement in Georgia. In January 1775 he helped organize delegates to the Provincial Congress from the Darien District of St. Andrew Parish. On January 7, 1776, <mask> was commissioned as a colonel in the Georgia Militia. He raised the 1st Georgia Regiment of the Georgia Line, organized the defense of Savannah, and helped repel a British assault at the Battle of the Rice Boats in the Savannah River. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in the Continental Army, charged with defense of Georgia's southern flank from British incursions from Florida, by then a British possession. On October 22, 1776, <mask> ordered his brother William to construct a fort on the Satilla River to protect Georgia from Florida.The fort was the first to be named Fort McIntosh. Duel with Button Gwinnett
During the period of 1776 to 1777, <mask> became embroiled in a bitter political dispute with Button Gwinnett, the Speaker of the Georgia Provisional Congress and a radical Whig leader. Their bitter personal rivalry began when <mask> succeeded Gwinnett as commander of Georgia's Continental Battalion in early 1776. The two men represented opposing factions in a deeply divided Patriot movement in Georgia. Gwinnett had been forced to step aside after his election had been called into question by opposing forces within the independence movement. Gwinnett, thwarted in his military ambitions, became a delegate to the Continental Congress and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. He returned to Georgia after his allies gained control of the Provisional Congress and succeeded in electing him speaker.Shortly afterward, he was elected president and commander-in-chief of the Committee of Safety. Gwinnett began purging the government and the military of his political rivals. One of his early targets was <mask>, <mask>'s brother, who had opposed Gwinnett's election. Gwinnett had George arrested and charged with treason against the revolution. In addition, Gwinnett had ordered <mask> <mask> to lead a poorly planned military expedition into British Florida. The operation was a disaster; and Gwinnett and <mask> publicly blamed each other for the failure, straining the already tenuous relationship between the two men. On May 1, 1777, <mask> <mask>, a staunch supporter of John Treutlen for Governor, addressed the Georgia assembly and denounced Gwinnett in the harshest terms, calling Gwinnett a "scoundrel and lying rascal."Gwinnett sent a written challenge to <mask> demanding an apology or satisfaction. <mask> refused to apologize, and Gwinnett challenged him to a duel. On May 16, in a field owned by James Wright a few miles east of Savannah, Gwinnett and <mask> met to duel with pistols. At a distance of 12 paces, the two men leveled and fired virtually simultaneously. Gwinnett received a ball to the thigh and <mask> was struck in the leg. <mask> would recover from his wounds, but Gwinnett's wound was mortal and he died three days later. Gwinnett's allies had <mask> charged with murder, but he was acquitted in the ensuing trial.George Washington, fearing Gwinnett's allies would take revenge on <mask>, ordered him to report to Continental Army headquarters on October 10. He spent the winter of 1777–1778 with the Continental Army at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, where he commanded several regiments of North Carolina troops. Military service on the western frontier and in the South
On May 26, 1778, <mask> was given command of the Western Department of the Continental Army, headquartered at Fort Pitt (present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) on the Pennsylvania frontier. He restored order along the frontier and conceived a plan to attack the British stronghold of Fort Detroit. He established several new forts including Fort Laurens, named for his friend and mentor Henry Laurens, who had become President of the Continental Congress, and Fort McIntosh (near present-day Beaver, Pennsylvania) to prepare for the attack. The expedition against Fort Detroit was doomed however, and the troops were forced to turn back before reaching the fort. <mask> was replaced as commander of the Western Department by Colonel Daniel Brodhead on March 5, 1779.Washington ordered <mask> to return to the south to join General Benjamin Lincoln in Charleston, South Carolina. He marched to Augusta, Georgia, in command of the Georgia troops, and then proceeded to Savannah, where he commanded the 1st and 5th South Carolina regiments during the siege of Savannah. After the battle, he retired his troops to Charleston, where he remained to defend the city from the British Army. On May 12, 1780, General Lincoln was forced to surrender the city to British General Sir Henry Clinton. McIntosh was taken prisoner and remained in captivity until he was exchanged on February 9, 1782, for Charles O'Hara. The war was brought to an end in 1783 with the Peace of Paris which recognized American independence and transferred East and West Florida to Spain. Later years

McIntosh returned to his plantation to find it ruined by the occupying British.<mask> tried to restore his property and business interests, but he would spend the rest of his life in relative poverty. He was elected to the Continental Congress in 1784, but never attended. In 1785, he was appointed a commissioner to treat with the southern American Indian tribes. In 1787, he was asked to help settle a boundary dispute between Georgia and South Carolina. <mask> was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati and in 1791 he was part of the delegation that officially welcomed President George Washington to Georgia. <mask> died in Savannah, Georgia, on February 20, 1806. <mask> is buried alongside his great-nephew Colonel James S<mask> (1784–1847) at Colonial Park Cemetery in Savannah's historic district.His great-great-nephews, James M<mask> and John Baillie <mask>ntosh County in honor of his family. (The state also has a county named for Button Gwinnett, the man he killed in a duel.) References

Further reading
Jackson, Harvey; <mask> <mask> and the Politics of Revolutionary Georgia 1979, Univ of Georgia Press, ; (2003 paperback edition, ). Meserve, John Bartlett. "The MacIntoshes", Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 10, No. 3, September 1932.Parker, Anthone W. Scottish Highlanders in Colonial Georgia: The Recruitment, Emigration, and Settlement at Darien, 1735–1748, Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2002. External links
 Gen. <mask> McIntosh historical marker
The Society of the Cincinnati
The American Revolution Institute

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<mask> (née Quilter; 30 November 1945 – 19 August 1979), known professionally as <mask>, was an English model and pornographic actress. Her appearance in the short softcore film Sex is My Business led to her meeting with magazine publisher David Sullivan, who promoted her widely as a model, and featured her in the softcore comedy Come Play With Me, which ran for a record-breaking four years at the same cinema. However, in her later years she faced depression and pressure from frequent police raids on her sex shop. After a downward spiral of drug addiction, shoplifting and debt, she died at home of an overdose of medications and vodka. She was 33. <mask> has been described as one of the "two hottest British sex film stars of the seventies", the other being Fiona Richmond. Early life
<mask> was born out of wedlock on 30 November 1945, brought up by her single mother, Joan Quilter (19 February 1914 - 27 May 1976), initially in Willesden and later in Mid Holmwood near Dorking, growing up without her father, John William G. Klein (1899-1973), <mask> was bullied at school due to being born illegitimately, and suffered from low self-esteem throughout her childhood and teenage years.She left school at age 15 in 1961, and at age 18 in 1964 she married Robert Maxted, and lived in Dorking. She had to nurse her terminally ill mother for more than ten years, and began her porn career to pay for her care. She had wanted to be a fashion model but at 4 feet 11 inches she was not tall enough. Instead she became a glamour model in the late 1960s. Career
Soon after becoming a glamour model, she met the glamour photographer and pornographer John Jesnor Lindsay, who offered to photograph her for softcore magazines. She became one of his most popular models and began appearing in 8 mm hardcore porn loops which sold well in Europe. One of her first films was Miss Bohrloch in 1970.Miss Bohrloch won the Golden Phallus Award at the Wet Dream Festival held in November 1970 in Amsterdam. Maxted starred in around twenty short hardcore films for John Lindsay, although only five (Miss Bohrloch, Oral Connection, Betrayed, Oh Nurse and Special Assignment) have so far resurfaced. She then returned to modelling for British pornographic magazines such as Knave and Men Only. She also appeared in softcore short films by Russell Gay (Response, 1974), Mountain Films (Love Games, Wild Lovers) and Harrison Marks (Sex is My Business, c. 1974). Sex is My Business was shot late on a Saturday night at a sex shop on London's Coventry Street. The storyline concerns a powerful aphrodisiac being dropped by a customer, the potency of which renders the shop's staff and customers sex crazy. Maxted, dressed in a short see-through dress, is the film's main focus of attention, playing a member of staff who drags a customer into the back room for some multi-position sex, thoughtfully turning on the shop's CCTV camera so others can watch.Sex is My Business was considered something of a lost film until a Super 8 mm film print of the film was located and privately transferred to DVD in 2008. The film subsequently made its internet debut on 26 July 2008 at the (now defunct) site ZDD Visual Explosion. In 2010 Sex is My Business was included as a special feature on the DVD re-release of Come Play With Me. In February 1974, Maureen O’Malley, her co-star in Sex is My Business introduced her to adult magazine publisher David Sullivan. Although she was still married, the pair became lovers. He rebranded her as <mask>. In her first appearance in Sullivan's Whitehouse magazine, he claimed that she was the bisexual nymphomaniac sister of the magazine's editor Doreen <mask>, and so gave <mask> her new stage name.She became well-known thanks to her appearances in Sullivan's porn magazines such as Whitehouse and Private. She soon became the most popular model in any of Sullivan's magazines. In November 1977 magistrates acquitted her and Sullivan following prosecution under the Obscene Publications Acts. She had a small part in Sullivan's 1977 softcore sex comedy Come Play with Me, alongside Alfie Bass and Irene Handl. Although critically panned, the film was highly successful, running continuously for four years at one London cinema. It then became one of the first British films to sell in large numbers on the new VHS format. This was followed by a larger role in The Playbirds (1978), in which she was cast as a policewoman working undercover as a nude model.Although her lack of acting training was evident, The Playbirds was a commercial success. Like Come Play with Me it was extensively trailed in Sullivan's magazines. She made many public appearances at this time, promoting her films in regional cinemas, opening shops and restaurants, and raising money for the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. At the height of her fame she was also working behind the counter in Sullivan's sex shops, mainly in the Whitehouse shop in Norbury. She continued working as a call girl, which she had done since her early modelling days. She then made a cameo appearance in Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair (1979), which was a flop, and played the title role in Queen of the Blues (1979). She appeared in other sex movies such as Eskimo Nell (1975), Intimate Games (1976) and Derek Ford's What's Up Superdoc!(1978). In April 1978, <mask> and fellow Come Play With Me actress Suzy Mandel took part in a publicity stunt for the anniversary of the opening of the film at the Moulin Cinema, posing in lingerie on the cinema's marquee. In May 1978 Millington was photographed topless outside 10 Downing Street. She was posing for an innocuous picture with a policeman when she decided to unzip her top and expose her breasts for the photograph. This surprised the people present, including Suzy Mandel, Whitehouse photographer George Richardson (who took the picture) and the policeman (who tried to confiscate the film). According to Simon Sheridan's biography of Millington, "For this stunt <mask> was conditionally discharged and bound over to keep the peace". The filming of Millington's last film appearance took place in early to mid-1978.She played <mask> in the Sex Pistols film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, directed by Julien Temple, which was released theatrically in March 1980. However, neither she nor her punk rock co-star Sid Vicious lived to see the completion of the movie. Liz Fraser, one of her co-stars in the film, remembered "I was next to this girl called <mask>, and she and I had a great chat together…. and then we went into the pub for a lunch during the filming of that and someone said 'she’s a porn star' and I said 'I don’t understand what do you mean' and he said 'porn, p-o-r-n' and he said 'she’s naked and she does everything in all these films' but she was lovely and so I met my first porn star". In 1978 she was approached to appear in a hardcore porn film called Love is Beautiful, to have been directed by Gerard Damiano. However, despite Millington and Damiano being pictured together at that year's Cannes Film Festival, the movie (meant to have been produced by David Grant's Oppidan Films) never materialized. Potential co-stars may have included Harry Reems, Gloria Brittain and Lisa Taylor.That same year she turned 33, and found herself being replaced by younger models in Sullivan's magazines. Last years and death
<mask> had suffered from neurosis and depression, which was exacerbated by her cocaine habit. Her mother's death at age 62 on 17 May 1976, after over 10 years of battling cancer, also affected her deeply, and her behaviour became unpredictable, which led to her breaking up with Sullivan. In March 1978 she ceased to work in Sullivan's Whitehouse sex shop in Norbury and opened her own in Tooting called <mask>ington's International Sex Centre. She began to spend more time working in her own sex shop, selling illegal material. The shop was raided by the police on numerous occasions, and she claimed the police threatened her and forced her to pay protection money. In the past she had publicly criticised police raids on sex shops and published the addresses and telephone numbers of Scotland Yard, the Director of Public Prosecutions and Members of Parliament in her magazines.Her life began a downward spiral into drug use and depression following the raids on her shop. A few months prior to her death, she had received a large tax bill which she was unable to pay. Her kleptomania became more pronounced in the last year of her life, with arrests for shoplifting in June 1979, and again for stealing a necklace the day before her death. <mask> died by suicide at age 33, by an overdose of tricyclic antidepressant anafranil, paracetamol and alcohol at her home in Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey. Her husband found her dead in her bed on 19 August 1979. She left four suicide notes which were found near her body. In one of them she had written, "The police have framed me yet again.They frighten me so much. I can't face the thought of prison... The Nazi tax man has finished me as well." In another note, to her solicitor Michael Kaye (partly published in Private magazine no 59), Millington wrote "the police have killed me with their threats…the police have made my life a misery with frame ups. The tax man has hounded me so much- I will be made bankrupt, he mustn't get anything of his £200,000 demands. He is a religious maniac." In another note, to David Sullivan, she wrote: "please print in your magazines how much I want porn to be legalised, but the police have beaten me".<mask> was a member of the National Campaign for the Reform of the Obscene Publications Acts (NCROPA) and encouraged her readers to demand the abolition of the Acts. After her death, NCROPA founder David Webb wrote "<mask> was a dear, kind person and we much admired her courage in standing up to the bigotry and repression which still so pervades the establishment of this country. She obviously had tremendous pressures put on her as a result and there is no doubt in my mind that these must have contributed to this tragedy." She was buried at St Mary Magdalene Church, in South Holmwood, Surrey marked by a grey granite tombstone which bears her married name. She is buried in the same grave as her mother, Joan Quilter, who died in 1976. Legacy
Millington has been described as one of the "two hottest British sex film stars of the seventies", the other being Fiona Richmond. David Sullivan described her as "the only really uninhibited, natural sex symbol that Britain ever produced and who believed in what she did".Between 1975 and 1982 there was always at least one of <mask>'s films playing in London's West End. A posthumous film about her life was released in 1980, entitled <mask>'s True Blue Confessions. In 1996, Channel Four screened a tribute to her entitled Sex and Fame: The <mask> Story, featuring an interview with David Sullivan. Twenty years after her death, the author and film historian Simon Sheridan put <mask>'s life into context in the biography Come Play with Me: The Life and Films of <mask>. Further information about her career can be found in Sheridan's follow-up book Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema, the fourth edition of which was published in April 2011. In 2004 <mask>'s prominence was recognized by her inclusion in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Colin Matthew and Brian Harrison. Her entry was written by Richard Davenport-Hines.In 2008 an exhibition of the work of the late glamour photographer Fred Grierson was held in London, which included several little-seen pictures of <mask> taken by Grierson at June Palmer's Strobe Studios in the early 1970s. In late 2009, an 8 mm copy of one of her early John Lindsay short films Special Assignment resurfaced. Unseen since the early 1970s, it was subsequently transferred to DVD. Two years later in 2011, Wild Lovers, another 8 mm film starring <mask>, was also traced and transferred from 8 mm to DVD. A nightclub in Liverpool is named after her. She is commemorated in a blue plaque on the site of the former Moulin Cinema in Great Windmill Street, Soho for her appearance in Come Play with Me. The film is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as running there continuously for 201 weeks, from April 1977 to March 1981, making it the longest-running British film.The validity of this record and the blue plaque have been called into question by film historian Allen Eyles who says that Come Play with Me ran for 165 weeks and that Britain's longest running film was South Pacific which ran for four years and twenty-two weeks. Nevertheless, Come Play With Me still stands as one of the longest-running films in British movie history. Respectable – The <mask> Story (2015)
A feature-length documentary chronicling <mask>'s life, entitled Respectable – The <mask> Story, was partly shot and produced at Pinewood Studios in 2015. Written, directed and produced by <mask>'s biographer Simon Sheridan, the film mixes archive footage, previously unseen photographs and interviews with <mask>'s family, friends and co-stars, including David Sullivan, Pat Astley, Dudley Sutton, Linzi Drew and Flanagan. The film received its world premiere at London's Regent Street Cinema in April 2016. A DVD of the film was released in the UK on 2 May 2016. Filmography
 Miss Bohrloch (short, 1970)
 Oh, Nurse!(short, 1971)
 Special Assignment (short 1971)
 Oral Connection (short, 1971)
 Betrayed (short, early 1970s)
 Love Games (short, early 1970s)
 Wild Lovers (short, early 1970s)
 Party Pieces (short, early 1970s)
 Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman (1973)
 Response (aka Go Down, My Lovely) (short, 1974)
 Sex is My Business (aka Sex Shop) (short, 1974)
 Eskimo Nell (1974)
 Erotic Inferno (1975)
 Private Pleasures (Shot in Sweden, 1975)
 Keep It Up Downstairs (1976)
 I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight (1976)
 Intimate Games (1976)
 Come Play with Me (1977)
 The Playbirds (1978)
 What's Up Superdoc! Supermag No.4 197? Weekend Sex No.17 197? Whitehouse No.10 197? Whitehouse No.15 197? (Cover 5 pages article inside)
 Whitehouse No.16 197? (10 pages inc colour photographs and centre spread)
 Whitehouse No.40 197?(colour trade ad for Playbirds film and four-page synopsis)
 Whitehouse No.47 197? (colour trade ad for The David Galaxy Affair plus four-page article on film)
 Weekend Sex No.31 197? Park Lane No.10 197? (5 pages article plus two pages colour photographs)
 Park Lane No.11 197? (8 pages article)
 Park Lane No.23 197? Ladybirds No.1 1976
 New Action MS no. 28 (Millington meets Rosemary England photo shoot)
 Playbirds erotic film guide No.1 (Millington cover, Come Play with Me feature)
 Climax No.14 1975
 Exciting Cinema No.18 circa 1979 ("<mask> meets Rosemarie England in the Flesh")
 International Cover Girls No.14 1979
 Revel No.3 (Tribute to Millington)

* David Sullivan's magazines were often undated, as such the only way of dating them is by which Sullivan produced films were being promoted inside the magazines, i.e. a Sullivan magazine which promotes Come Play With Me would be from 1976/1977, ones promoting The Playbirds would be circa 1978, and ones promoting Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair from 1979. See also

 Sue Longhurst
 Suzy Mandel
 List of British pornographic actors
 Pornography in the United Kingdom
 Outline of British pornography

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 Simon Sheridan's website
 Come Play With Me: The Life and Films of <mask> – book listing at publisher's website

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