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François-<mask> (; 25 March 1784 – 26 March 1871) was a Belgian musicologist, composer, teacher, and one of the most influential music critics of the 19th century. His enormous compilation of biographical data in the Biographie universelle des musiciens remains an important source of information today. <mask> was born in Mons, Hainaut, eldest son of Antoine-Joseph Fetis and Elisabeth Desprets, daughter of a famous chirurgical doctor. He had 9 brothers and sisters. His father was titular organist of the noble chapter of Saint-Waltrude. His grandfather was an organ manufacturer. He was trained as a musician by his father and played at young age on the Choir organ of Saint Waltrude.In October 1806 he married to Adélaïde-Louise-Catherine Robert, daughter of the French politician Pierre-François-Joseph Robert and Louise de Keralio, friend of Robespierre. They had 2 sons : most famous was Édouard <mask>, (1812-1909), his eldest son who helped his father with the editions of Revue Musicale and became member of the Royal Academy. In 1866 his wife died, and he had the request to withdraw from the Brussels society and Court. When his father died Eduard inherited his complete library and collection of music instruments. Career
His talent for composition manifested itself at the age of seven, and at nine years old he was an organist at Saint Waltrude, Mons. In 1800 he went to Paris and completed his studies at the Conservatory under such masters as Boïeldieu, Jean-Baptiste Rey and Louis-Barthélémy Pradher. In 1806 he undertook the revision of the Roman liturgical chants in the hope of discovering and establishing their original form.In this year he also began his Biographie universelle des musiciens, the most important of his works, which did not appear until 1834. In 1821 he was appointed professor at the Paris Conservatory. In 1827 he founded the Revue musicale, the first serious paper in France devoted exclusively to musical matters. <mask> remained in the French capital till 1833, when at the request of Leopold I, he became director of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and the king's chapelmaster. He also was the founder, and, until his death, the conductor of the celebrated concerts attached to the conservatory of Brussels, and he inaugurated a free series of lectures on musical history and philosophy. <mask> produced a large quantity of original compositions, from the opera and the oratorio to the simple chanson, including several musical hoaxes, the most famous of which is the "Lute concerto by Valentin Strobel", premiered with Fernando Sor as soloist. Carcassi, as well as Sor, participated in the performance.The work is attributed NOT to the Alsascian lutenist Valentin Strobel, but to Jean (Johann) Strobach, a member of a prominent Bohemian family of musicians. This Strobach (fl. 1650–1720) served Leopold I, and there is no evidence that Fetis's score is a hoax. The composition was published in 1698, although no copy is known to have survived, except Fetis' manuscript score, which is in the Royal Conservatory Library in Brussels. In 1856, he worked closely with Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume in writing a fascinating treatise about Antonio Stradivari (Antoine Stradivari, luthier célèbre). It includes detailed chapters on the history and development of the violin family, old master Italian violin makers (including the Stradivari and Guarneri families) and an analysis of the bows of François Tourte. His interest in instruments can also be gathered from his very substantial collection, which includes the oldest surviving Arab oud.Fetis had the privilege to have Paganini, Schumann and Berlioz as contemporaries and to work with the violin maker and dealer, Jean Baptiste Vuillaume. Fetis's work provides a unique window into the times and as such is a particularly valuable reference for the modern researcher, dealer and player. More important perhaps than his compositions are his writings on music. They are partly historical, such as the Curiosités historiques de la musique (Paris, 1850), and the Histoire générale de la musique (Paris, 1869—1876); and partly theoretical, such as the Méthode des méthodes de piano (Paris, 1840), written in conjunction with Moscheles. While <mask>'s critical opinions of contemporary music may seem conservative, his musicological work was ground-breaking, and unusual for the 19th century in attempting to avoid an ethnocentric and present-centered viewpoint. Unlike many others at the time, he did not see music history as a continuum of increasing excellence, moving towards a goal, but rather as something which was continually changing, neither becoming better nor worse, but continually adapting to new conditions. He believed that all cultures and times created art and music which were appropriate to their times and conditions; and he began a close study of Renaissance music as well as European folk music and music of non-European cultures.Thus <mask> built the foundation for what would later be termed comparative musicology. <mask> died in Brussels. His valuable library was purchased by the Belgian government and presented to the Royal Library. His historical works, despite many inaccuracies, remain of great value for historians. His pupils included Luigi Agnesi, Jean-Delphin Alard, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Louise Bertin, William Cusins, Julius Eichberg, Ferdinand Hérold, Frantz Jehin-Prume, Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, Adolphe Samuel, and Charles-Marie Widor. Honours
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 Master of the Royal Music. Grand Officer in the Order of Leopold.: Commander in the Order of the Oak Crown. : Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle. : Officer of the Legion of Honour. Academic Honours
 Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. Member of the Academy of Rome. Member of the Academy of Berlin. Member of the Academy of Vienna.Member of the Academy of Stockholm. Member of the Academy of London. <mask> and Berlioz
Some of his criticisms of contemporary composers have become quite famous, as well as the responses that they engendered. He said of Berlioz, "...what Monsieur Berlioz composes is not part of that art which we distinguish as music, and I am completely certain that he lacks the most basic capability in this art." In the Revue musicale issue of 1 February 1835 he wrote of the Symphonie Fantastique:

Berlioz, who had proof-read Fétis' editions of the first eight Beethoven symphonies for the publisher Troupenas, commented that

Troupenas did in fact remove <mask>' editorial marks, but Berlioz was still unsatisfied. He went on to criticize <mask> in one of the monologues of Lélio, ou le Retour à la vie, the 1832 sequel to Symphonie Fantastique:

Not one to be outdone, Fétis may have had the last word in this debate. In the 1845 edition of his treatise La musique mise à la porte de tout le monde, he describes the word "fantastique" saying that "this word has even slid into music.‘Fantastique' music is composed of instrumental effects with no melodic line and incorrect harmony." Theoretical work
Although known primarily for his contributions to musicology and criticism, <mask> had effects on the realm of music theory as well. In 1841 he put together the first history of harmonic theory, his Esquisse de l'histoire de l'harmonie. Assembled from individual articles that <mask> published in the Revue et Gazette musicale de Paris around 1840, the book predates Hugo Riemann's more well known Geschichte der Musiktheorie by fifty years. The Esquisse, as the title implies, is a general outline rather than an exhaustive study. <mask> is attempting to show the "facts, errors, and truths" of previous theories and theorists, as he interprets them, in order to provide a solid grounding for other scholars and to prevent subsequent interpretive mistakes. <mask>' main theoretical work and the culmination of his conceptual frameworks of tonality and harmony is the Traité complet de la théorie et de la pratique de l'harmonie of 1844.This book has influenced later theorists and composers including Paul Hindemith, Ernst Kurth, and Franz Liszt. In the Musik-Lexicon of 1882, Hugo Riemann states that "to [<mask>'] meditations we are indebted for the modern concept of tonality…he found himself emancipated from the spirit of a particular age, and able to render justice to all the various styles of music." Though some other theorists, most notably Matthew Shirlaw, have had decidedly negative views, Riemann's assessment captures the two key features of <mask>' text. Though he did not coin the term "tonality," <mask> developed the concept into its present-day form. He claimed that "tonalité" is the primary organizing agent of all melodic and harmonic successions and that the efforts of other theorists to find the fundamental principle of music in "acoustics, mathematics, aggregations of intervals, or classifications of chords have been futile." The majority of the Traité complet is devoted to explaining how tonalité organizes music. The primary factor of determining tonality is the scale.It sets out the order of the succession of tones in major and minor (the only two "tonal" modes which he recognizes), the distances which separate the tones, and the resultant melodic and harmonic tendencies. Tonality is not only a governed and conditioned state, but it is a socially conditioned one. Scales are cultural manifestations, resulting from shared experience and education. Nature provides the elements of tonalité, but human understanding, sensibility, and will determine particular harmonic systems. This concept was called a "Metaphysical principle" by <mask>, though Dahlhaus argues that the term is used in this case to denote an anthropological, culturally relative sense in his 1990 book Studies on the Origin of Harmonic Tonality, and theorist Rosalie Schellhous posits that the Kantian term "transcendental" might be more appropriate. In his comparative work, <mask> attempted "a new method of classifying human races according to their musical systems" following contemporary trends of social darwinism in the emerging fields of ethnology and anthropology. Harmonic and rhythmic modulation
However, if one wishes to interpret <mask>' metaphysical theory, one of his unique theoretical ideas is laid out in book 3 of the Traité complet, that of harmonic modulation.<mask> argues that tonality has evolved over the course of time through four distinct phases, or ordres:

Unitonic – Resulting from plainchant tonality, the unitonic phase consists mainly of consonant triads with no possibility for modulation due to the lack of the tritone between the 4th and 7th scale degrees. This phase is also referred to by Fétis as tonalité ancienne. Transitonic – Order which began with the introduction of the dominant 7th chord into harmonic discourse, sometime between Zarlino and Montverdi. This development is also directly related to the codification of cadential systems and periodic phrase structure. Pluritonic – Modulation is achieved through enharmonic relationships in which one note of a chord is considered the point of contact between different scales. <mask> claims that Mozart was the first to use such modulations as a means of expression. In this order, the diminished 7th and augmented 6th chords become important as they can modulate to several different tonalities.Omnitonic – The final phase of tonality, and one embodied for <mask> by Wagner, where the alteration of the intervals of natural chords and modification by substitution of notes is so complex that it becomes impossible to identify the original chord. This is seen as a period of extremes, and undesirable compared to the moderately chromatic music of Meyerbeer. <mask> later applied this same system of ordres to rhythm, "the least advanced part of music...[where] great things remain to be discovered." Though he did not publish these theories in any of his treatises, they appear in several articles for the Revue musicale and in some lectures which had a profound impact on Liszt. Though music had not yet made it past the first phase, Unirhythm, by <mask>' time, he argues that composers may be able to "mutate" from one meter to another within the same melodic phrase. Though Liszt may have been an open disciple of the ideas of the Omnitonic and Omnirhythmic, the influence of such thinking can perhaps be seen most clearly in the music of Brahms, where hemiola and mixing of time signatures is a common occurrence. "Se i miei sospiri"
The Italian art song, "Se i miei sospiri", appeared in a Paris concert organized by <mask> in 1833.<mask> published the piece for voice and strings in 1838 and then again in 1843 for voice and piano with alternate lyrics ("Pietà, Signore"). It is these alternate lyrics with which the piece is now typically associated. <mask> attributed the song to Alessandro Stradella and claimed to possess an original manuscript of the work but never produced it for examination. As early as 1866, musicologists were questioning the authenticity of the song, and when <mask>' library was acquired by the Royal Library in Brussels after his death, no such manuscript could be found. Owing to this and the fact that the style of the piece is inconsistent with Stradella's own period, the authorship of the piece is now typically attributed to <mask> himself. The original Italian text for the song (Se i miei sospiri) was found set to different music by Alessandro Scarlatti in his 1693 oratorio "The Martyrdom of St. Theodosia". Publications
Biographies de Joseph et Michael Haydn (Paris, n.d.)
Méthode elementaire et abregée d'harmonie et d'accompagnement (Paris: Petit, 1823)
Traité du contrepoint et de la fugue... (Paris: Charles Michael Ozu, 1824)
Revue musicale (Paris, 1827–35)
Curiosités historiques de la musique, complément nécessaire de la musique mise à la portée de tout le monde (Paris: Janet et Cotelle, 1830)
Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique (Brussels, 1833–1844 [8 vols.])Traité du chant en choeur (Paris, 1837)
Esquisse de l'histoire de l'harmonie considérée comme art et comme science systématique (Paris, 1840). Traité complet de la théorie et de la pratique de l'harmonie (Paris and Brussels, 1844)
Antoine Stradivari, luthier célèbre (Paris, 1856)
Histoire générale de la musique (Paris, 1869–76; 5 vls., unfinished)

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References

Compositions

Ensembles

 String Quartet No. 1
 String Quartet No. 2
 Grand Sextet, Op. 5

Overture

 Ouverture de concert à grand orchestre

Concerto

 1869: Flute Concerto in B-minor

Symphony

 1862: Symphony No. 1 in Eb-major
 Symphonic Fantasy for organ and orchestra

Mass

 Messe di Requiem

Songs

 Se i miei sospiri

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Scores

Texts and books
Books with "Fétis" as author (Google Books)
Books with occurrences of "Fétis" (Google Books)
Texts with occurrences of "Fétis" (archive.org)
 Biographie universelle des musiciens (2nd edition) at Google Books:
 Vol. 1, 1860 (478 pages) Aaron – Bohrer (+vol.2)
 Vol. 2, 1861 (484 pages) Boildieu – Derossi (+vol. 1)
 Vol. 3, 1862 (480 pages) Désargus – Giardini
 Vol. 4, 1862 (491 pages) Gibbons – Kazynski
 Vol. 5, 1863 (480 pages) Kechlina – Martini (+vol. 6)
 Vol.6, 1864 (496 pages) Martini, leP – Pérolle (+vol. 5)
 Vol. 7, 1864 (548 pages) Perotti – Scultetus (+vol. 8)
 Vol. 8, 1865 (527 pages) Sebastiani – Zyka (+vol. 7)
 Biographie universelle des musiciens (supplement by Arthur Pougin) at Google Books:
 Vol. 1, 1878 (480 pages) Abadie – Holmes
 Vol.2, 1880 (691 pages) Holmes, Mlle Augusta – Zwingli

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1871 deaths
19th-century classical composers
19th-century Belgian male musicians
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Conservatoire de Paris alumni
Members of the Royal Academy of Belgium
Prix de Rome for composition
Royal Library of Belgium
People from Mons
Walloon people
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KAV (<mask>) is a British musician from Leicester, England, now based in Los Angeles. <mask> played guitar with British band Happy Mondays for four years after helping reform the band with frontman Shaun Ryder in 2004. He launched his solo project under moniker "KAV" in 2008 with long-time friend and drummer Jim (James) Portas. His solo material has been compared by the media to Iggy & The Stooges, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Primal Scream, Kasabian, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. He uses a full band is used for live performances, which sometimes features guest musicians from various bands. Early career
<mask>'s first band, A.K.A Weave, toured the UK, playing at venues such as the London Astoria, Camden Underworld, and the Manchester Roadhouse. The band caught the eye of Oasis's ex-bassist Guigsy, who had recently parted with Oasis.This resulted in an opportunity to record at the Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales with Guigsy, where the band recorded their debut album. In 2000, Sandhu launched "Groove Harder" tours which A.K.A Weave played at featuring special guest DJs such as Shaun Ryder, Bez, Mani Gary Mounfield and other indie performers such as Rick Witter from Shed Seven DJing. Getloaded – Club events and festival
After the split of A.K.A Weave, <mask> moved to London in 2003 and co-launched the club night Getloaded at London's Turnmills nightclub. This was the start of a partnership with Turnmills MD and House promoter Danny Newman. Over the next 18 months, Sandhu brought various musicians to Getloaded, including Factory Records boss Tony Wilson, Howard Marks (Mr Nice), Clint Boon (Inspiral Carpets/ XFM) Peter Hook (New Order/ Joy Division), Annie Mac (Radio 1), Steve Lamacq (Radio 1/ 6Music), Carl Barat (Libertines/ Dirty Pretty Things) Beta Band, Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce (The Smiths), The Farm, Client, and El Presidente. Getloaded launched its inaugural summer festival in 2004. Ten thousand revellers attended the festival held on Clapham Common.It would go on to become one of the biggest indie festivals in London, and one of the early challengers to the mainstream UK festivals. "Getloaded in The Park 2004" was awarded "Best New Festival" at the UK Festival Awards 2004. <mask> parted with Getloaded in 2006. Happy Mondays
The headliner for Getloaded in the Park 2004 was Happy Mondays, their first live gig in nearly five years. Shaun Ryder had toured with A.K.A Weave as a DJ, and recruited <mask> to join the Happy Mondays on guitar, handing him the task of recruiting new band members to fit alongside original members Gary Whelan and Mark Berry ("Bez"). <mask> completed the new line-up of the Happy Mondays, along with ex A.K.A Weave band member Mikey Shine and San Diego-born slide guitar player Jonn Dunn. After their successful appearance at "Getloaded in the Park 2004", the Mondays continued touring live across the UK & Europe and decided to record a new album.The Hollywood producers for British football film Goal! asked the Happy Mondays to write the title track for their film. <mask> co-wrote the track "Playground Superstar" with Shaun Ryder, Gaz Whelan and producer Dave Parkinson. The track was released on Big Brother Records surrounding the film release. Following this, Happy Mondays commenced work on their new studio album. Happy Mondays continued to tour the world, including appearances at Fuji Rock 2006 and 2007, Coachella Festival, Roskilde Festival, Summercase Madrid and Barcelona, Global Gathering, Getloaded festivals, MEN Arena, Brixton Academy and V Festival. <mask> spent his spare time playing DJ gigs worldwide, including Japan, Mexico, South America, Europe.He played on the same line-up as Guns N' Roses and Bob Dylan and toured Australia on the same line-up as James Brown as part of Good Vibrations Festival. In mid 2005, <mask> started a new indie/electro project called Sonic Audio. The band released a white label 12" Killing Yourself on London indie label Puregroove Records. Sonic Audio went on a small UK tour, playing a show with guest Shaun Ryder at Glastonbury Festival on the Leftfield stage with The Rakes and British Sea Power. Sonic Audio also played Alan McGee's Pop Tones stage as a late replacement for The Libertines ex guitarist Carl Barat. In 2006, Happy Mondays recorded their fifth album, Uncle Dysfunktional, after a gap of over ten years. <mask> played guitar, sang vocals and co-wrote the music.The album was released on Sanctuary Records in 2007. <mask> played his last show with the Mondays at V Festival 2007, leaving to pursue his solo project. KAV (solo project)
In January 2008 <mask> <mask> announced his new solo project titled KAV. On 21 April 2008, he released his début EP Blaggers N' Liars. It received good reviews in the press, including The Guardian, which described <mask> as a "Latter Day Jagger". The Sun rated the EP four out of five. The music was compared to bands like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Primal Scream, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin by The Guardian and other publications.Kerrang! Radio recently described <mask> as a one in million artist and compared him to Bob Dylan with an addiction to sleaze. Los Angeles
After recording several album tracks in London at Fortress Studios, KAV moved to Los Angeles in 2008 to work with producer and Eastern Conference Champions front man Josh Ostrander. He began recording his debut album in Los Angeles, meanwhile playing live at local venues; Spaceland, The Viper Room, Whisky a Go Go, The Silverlake Lounge & the Key Club, testing the new material on US Audiences. <mask> also DJed Cinespace as part of Dim Mak Records night and The Standard Hotel Hollywood. Back in the UK the band performed at The Aftershow in Manchester with The Music, London club night This Feeling & venues Punk, The 100 Club and Proud Galleries. In August 2007, Kav guested with Norwegian dance-rockers Datarock at festivals in Reading and Leeds, along with some London shows.He spent the majority of 2008 to 2011 in Los Angeles, touring the US and on a tour with DATAROCK & Esser, including dates at The El Rey Theatre, SXSW 2010 & CMJ Music Marathon. In October 2010, KAV released The Mr Nice EP featuring Howard Marks (AKA Mr Nice), touring the UK with to promote the release. In 2009 his track "Easy" was featured in Netflix documentary Naked Ambition. The sound track for the movie was chosen by Nic Harcourt. In 2011, his music was featured in the soundtrack for a  short film, To Live & Ride in LA. His track "City of Sun" was also used by AMC across North America in May 2012 for their Spring Trailer. In 2011, KAV's album was remixed by Josh Ostrander and mastered by Stephen Marcussen.He also recorded a live album at Bedrock Studios, Echo Park, mixed by Nick Tipp. His first single "Blaggers N' Liars 2012" was released on 26 March 2012, followed by a UK tour. Gibson Guitar Studios showcased KAV in London on 16 February 2012. In mid 2012, KAV headlined Club NME at KOKO and supported Kasabian at the Brixton Academy London, with Band of Skulls. He also played BT London Live as part of the London Olympics celebrations in Hyde Park and Victoria Park, and played headline shows at King Tuts Glasgow, Death Disco and a headline show at Camden barfly

In October 2012, KAV supported Liverpool band The Farm as part of their 20th Anniversary London Show with special guests Mick Jones and John Power. His single "King of the World (The Undefeated Champion)" was released on Suburban Records on 29 October, featuring Pro MMA Fighters in the video. In March 2013, Shameless used KAV's track "Blaggers N' Liars" for their new series on Showtime.KAV spent the rest of 2013 recording an album project with Rick Genest aka 'Zombie Boy'. Zombie Boy featured on KAV's single "Dirty Rejects", released on 21 May 2013. He went on to tour with Zombie Boy throughout 2012 & 2013. KAV released his single "Dance In A Panic" in May 2014. The single was picked for a movie teaser for feature film Decoding Annie Parker and saw Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) dancing to the track as part of a movie teaser. In May 2014, KAV was joined on stage by Oasis founding member Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs at The Viper Room, Los Angeles. KAV's debut album, The Man With No Shadow was released on 29 August 2014 on Wild Echo Records.His album debuted at #20 on the CMJ 'Most Added' chart in its first week and was in the Top 30 Chart on 22 US College Stations including KXLU, KFSR, KVMR & KLSU, while also securing airplay at influential stations like KUMD, WKNC, WRUV & WUNH. Stryker from KROQ named "Blaggers N' Liars" as his "favorite '4.20' of the year" in December 2014. In 2016, KAV recorded the end credits for a movie starring John Malkovich and Rhys Iffans, directed by Steven Bernstein. The movie was due to be released in 2017. Dance in a Panic
In March 2016, he launched his LA-based, 'British-style rock n' roll' dance parties, "Dance in a Panic", at the 1200 capacity Regent Theater in DTLA, in conjunction with established local promoters Spaceland. The launch event was curated by Peter Hook (Joy Division/ New Order). Dance In A Panic also organized a Coachella kick-off party at The Hard Rock Hotel, Palm Springs, in April with partners Jack Daniels.The April event in Los Angeles saw live performances from Deap Vally & Le Butcherettes with Andy Rourke from The Smiths DJing, with official sponsor partners Britweek and Norwegian Air and Lagunitas. The event has had notable attendees including John Frusciante, Nick Zinner, Anna Faris and Alexandra Holden. Blitz Vega

In April 2019 KAV launched new band Blitz Vega with Andy Rourke from The Smiths. References

External links
 'KAV' Official Website
 Dance In A Panic @ The Regent Theatre, Downtown L.A. Living people
People from Leicester
English male singers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
English rock singers
English rock guitarists
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English male guitarists

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<mask> (previously Endicott; born January 20, 1968), known professionally as <mask>, is an American actress and television host. She is the only child of comedian <mask> and producer Edgar Rosenberg. Early life
<mask> was born on January 20, 1968, in New York City. She is the only child of <mask> and Edgar Rosenberg. She spent the majority of her childhood in Los Angeles, California. She attended the John Thomas Dye School, Marlborough School, and The Buckley School. <mask> first started dancing at the age of 8, taking once-a-week group lessons.She became more serious about the activity at the age of 12, taking regular private lessons. <mask> attended the University of Pennsylvania, where in 1989 she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in history. During her second year of college, her father Edgar committed suicide. In 1990, she took on her mother's stage surname, after which she became known as <mask>. Career
As an actress, she has had roles in television shows including Beverly Hills, 90210, Silk Stalkings, The Comeback. In 1998, she also appeared in the sci-fi/comedy made-for-television movie Men in White and in the 1999 film The Big Tease, a comedy directed by Kevin Allen starring Craig Ferguson. She and her mother, <mask>, portrayed themselves in the 1994 celebrity docudrama Tears and Laughter: The Joan and <mask> Story.In the early 1990s, she branched out on the pre-show red carpet, interviewing celebrities on nationally televised awards shows. <mask>, who has hosted various events and served as a producer for the E! Network, has hosted two of the channel's highest-rated specials: Oh Baby! <mask>’s Guide to Pregnancy and Oh Toddler! Surviving the Early Years (aired in January 2002). With her mother, she hosted fashion on the red carpet interviews for the E! cable network.In 2003, they left the red carpet pre-show on E! to accept a more lucrative deal with the TV Guide Channel valued at between $6 and $8 million. Also in 2003, she appeared on the ABC Network competitive reality show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. She has been a regular guest on the webcast show Tom Green's House Tonight. In 2013, she was a co-creator and co-producer of Joan's YouTube web series In Bed With Joan, a 15- to 30-minute show with a new video uploaded weekly in which Joan interviewed a celebrity about a wide variety of personal topics in Joan's bed, with <mask> conducting interview questions for the last several minutes. Featured videos that have garnered the most views featured comedians Kathy Griffin, Sarah Silverman, and Margaret Cho, television personalities Kelly Osbourne and RuPaul, as well as Youtubers Jenna Mourey (Jenna "Marbles"), Grace Helbig ("itsgrace") and Justine Ezarik ("iJustine"). Other guests included Russell Peters, Gary Busey, Rob Delaney, Gabriel Iglesias, Carmen Electra, Lance Bass, Howie Mandel, Chris Hardwick, Bill Engvall, Tom Green, Penn Jillette, Aisha Tyler, Anthony Jeselnik, Nick Kroll and T.J. Miller.In 2013, <mask> and Joan were honored by the Ride of Fame and a double decker tour bus was dedicated to them. On August 31, 2015, Fashion Police began featuring <mask> as a co-host. Philanthropy
In 2003, she appeared in a PETA anti-fur ad campaign, encouraging consumers to "Fake It...for the Animals' Sake." She raised $100,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, resulting from ABC's 2006 television show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! Live. On June 24, 2008, <mask> appeared on the NBC game show Celebrity Family Feud as part of the Rivers Family Team. She and her mother first battled against the Ice-T Family Team, then went on to compete against the Raven-Symoné Family Team.They won $50,000 for their charity, Guide Dogs for the Blind. She appeared on the NBC reality television program Celebrity Apprentice playing for the Lili Claire Foundation. She was fired in the episode that aired April 26, 2009, after which she stormed out of the boardroom, verbally assaulted teammates Annie Duke and Brande Roderick, yelled at the production crew, and refused the obligatory exit interview. Her mother was also a contestant on that season of The Apprentice, and threatened to quit the show after <mask>'s firing, but remained and ultimately won the competition. She raised $22,250 on a special celebrity edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, where all the celebrities played to raise money for the research of Alzheimer's disease. Personal life
<mask> married horse trainer John Endicott in December 1998, at New York City's Plaza Hotel in a $3 million wedding. They divorced in 2003.She has one son from that marriage, Edgar Cooper Endicott (born in 2000) who was featured with <mask> and her mother in the reality show Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? She was in a relationship with sports coach Jason Zimmerman from 2008 to 2011. On January 26, 2015, <mask> filed a malpractice lawsuit against the clinic and doctors who performed surgery on her mother that caused her death. Since 2015, <mask> has been in a relationship with talent agent Mark Rousso. Filmography

Books
 (Biography/Humor)

Honors
On March 1, 2013, <mask> and her mother, <mask>, were honored by the Ride of Fame and a double decker tour bus was dedicated to them in New York City. References

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Actresses from New York City
American female equestrians
American people of German-Jewish descent
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
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Jewish American actresses
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University of Pennsylvania alumni
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Jean-<mask> (born January 1945) is a Cameroonian politician. He has been the National President of the Progressive Movement (Mouvement Progressiste, MP), an opposition political party, since its foundation in 1991, and he was a Deputy in the National Assembly of Cameroon from 2007 to 2013. As a student activist and a CPDM leader
 <mask> was born in Douala. Early in his political career, he was a member of the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (UPC). He was politically active while studying in France, and he was arrested for political reasons in 1970 when he returned to Cameroon for a visit. After nearly two years in prison, he was released and resumed his studies in France. When the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) was created as the governing party in 1985, replacing the Cameroon National Union (CNU), <mask> joined the party, encouraged by President Paul Biya's promises of reform.<mask> was elected as the President of the Wouri Section of the CPDM in 1986. His election was considered part of an effort by President Biya to reconcile factions in the party by allowing politicians such as <mask>, who had been considered disloyal in the past, to take prominent leadership roles as Section Presidents. In 1990, at the beginning of the period of multiparty political reform, he was considered to be among the leading progressive figures within the CPDM. In early 1991, <mask> was re-elected as President of the Wouri Section, defeating Albert Dzongang. However, he left the CPDM in May 1991. Ekindi was considered the most important CPDM member to defect to the opposition at that time. As an opposition leader in the early 1990s
In opposition, Ekindi founded a new party, the MP; he has been the MP's National President since it was founded on 23 August 1991.He participated in a rally held by the National Coordination of Opposition Parties and Associations (NCOPA) in Douala on 23–24 September 1991, and on that occasion he was arrested and treated so badly that he required hospitalization. 30 to 60 people were arrested when they protested in Douala against Ekindi's arrest. Ekindi was in custody for less than 24 hours and was released without charge at the request of foreign consuls. <mask> was the MP candidate in the October 1992 presidential election. During the campaign, Cameroon Radio Television (CRTV) refused to air a segment produced by the Ekindi campaign on 2 October, judging that the segment included "'vociferous attacks' against the CPDM and 'insulting and defamatory words against Paul Biya'". The National Communication Board reviewed this decision and decided to allow the segment to be aired on 7 October. Further messages from the Ekindi campaign on 9 October and 10 October were not allowed to be aired, however; according to the government, this was because Ekindi was "not respecting legal provisions".According to the official results of the 1992 election, <mask> received 0.79% of the vote (a total of 23,525 votes) and placed fifth. His best performance was in the Far North Province, where he won 9,903 votes. When Biya garnered the nickname "Lion Man" (l'homme lion) at the time of the 1992 presidential election, Ekindi in turn garnered the nickname "Lion Hunter" (chasseur du lion) for his fierce opposition to Biya. <mask>'s stance on the issue of federalism varied at the time. He backed the idea on 4 February 1992 and urged Biya to not ignore the Anglophone problem, arguing that concerns about the possibility of Anglophone secession were baseless because the Anglophone parties were not seeking secession. However, he said in April 1992 that a unitary state was preferable because it would be less expensive than federalism. Political activities since 2003
In late 2003, <mask> became the Chairman-in-Office of the Front of Alternative Forces, an opposition coalition.<mask> was briefly detained in Douala along with other members of the Front in January 2004 as they were about to launch a petition related to the forthcoming presidential election; among other things, the petition called for the electoral register to be computerized and for electoral lists to be revised. He was again detained on 17 August 2004 at a march in Douala. In a September 2004 interview, Ekindi expressed his disapproval of the large number of political parties in Cameroon, arguing that it was not useful to have so many and that it made the political landscape crowded and chaotic. He said that many parties were created by individuals seeking only personal gain and that the government used agents to create new parties in order to disrupt the existing opposition. According to Ekindi, Cameroon would ideally have only three parties, one of them in power and the other two in opposition, and he proposed merger agreements to make that happen. Again running as the MP's presidential candidate in the 11 October 2004 presidential election, Ekindi submitted a legal challenge to Biya's candidacy at the Supreme Court in September 2004, arguing that the constitution barred Biya from standing for re-election while also serving as the President of the CPDM. <mask> then announced his withdrawal from the election on 10 October in favor of John Fru Ndi, the candidate of the main opposition party, the SDF.His name nevertheless remained on the ballot, and he placed 13th out of 16 candidates with 0.27% of the vote; he received his best score in the Far North Province, where he took 0.62% of the vote. After the 2004 election, Ekindi filed two petitions at the Supreme Court seeking the annulment of the election. The first petition dealt with Ekindi's argument that Biya was not a valid candidate because was simultaneously President of the Republic and President of the CPDM, while the second focused on allegations of misconduct in the election itself. The Supreme Court rejected both of <mask>'s petitions, along with all ten of the other petitions filed by others seeking the election's annulment, on 22 October. In an interview with The Post on 2 January 2007, Ekindi said that he planned to stand as a parliamentary and municipal candidate in Douala in the election held later that year. Also in that interview, he sharply criticized Biya's 2007 New Year address, arguing that it was inappropriate for Biya to criticize corruption and other problems when he, as President for the previous 24 years, was the person most responsible for the state of the nation. According to Ekindi, Biya's criticisms of the country's problems actually represented an admission of his own failure.Furthermore, in response to Biya's assertion that 2006 had been a good year, Ekindi said that this indicated that Biya was divorced from the stark reality experienced by the people. In the 22 July 2007 parliamentary election, Ekindi was elected to the National Assembly as an MP candidate in the Wouri Centre constituency of Littoral Province, where the MP received 22.43% of the vote and one of the three available seats. <mask> was the only member of his party to win a seat in the 2007 election. During the campaign, he complained that the MP received only six seconds of airtime on television per day, giving it a total of one minute and 24 seconds for the whole campaign. According to Ekindi, this represented discrimination against small parties and was illegal. He also headed the MP list for the concurrent municipal election in Douala 1 and won a seat as a municipal councillor there. At the time of the election, the alliance between the MP and the SDF collapsed because, according to Ekindi, the SDF decided to run candidates in Wouri Centre and ignored the alliance.The MP instead formed an alliance with the Cameroon Democratic Union (CDU). During the re-election of Bureau of the National Assembly on 14 March 2008, Ekindi objected when Emilia Lifaka, the Vice-President of the CPDM Parliamentary Group, presented a "consensus" list of candidates for the Bureau. Ekindi said that he had not been consulted about the list and that it was therefore not based on a consensus. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, the President of the National Assembly, ignored <mask>'s objection. After three broadcasting stations were temporarily shut down and broadcasting equipment was subsequently withheld from one of them, Ekindi alleged on 4 July 2008 that Minister of Communications Jean Pierre Biyiti bi Essam was "guilty of abuse of power". Ekindi participated in political consultations with Prime Minister Ephraïm Inoni regarding the appointment of the members of Elections Cameroon (ELECAM), the national electoral commission. After Biya appointed the members of ELECAM on 30 December 2008, Ekindi said on 3 January 2009 that the appointments went beyond mere manipulation, which he had come to expect, and reached the level of blatant deception.According to Ekindi, he had not expected Biya to go so far as to appoint leading CPDM members to ELECAM, as the members of ELECAM were supposed to be neutral, independent individuals. Furthermore, he said that the consultations held prior to the appointments were useless because the proposals made during those consultations were completely ignored. The MP failed to win any seats in the September 2013 parliamentary election, and <mask> therefore lost his seat in the National Assembly. In April 2020, Jean-<mask> resigned from his party to join the CPDM. Personal life
<mask>'s wife, Else <mask>, died suddenly on 26 October 2007. References

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<mask> (born January 1, 1943) is an American professional wrestling manager, executive, composer, and musician currently signed with WWE in a Legends deal. He is best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where he used the nickname "The Mouth of the South". He has managed many professional wrestlers, including Hulk Hogan, <mask> (no relation) and Jim Neidhart (The Hart Foundation), Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, Jerry "The King" Lawler, "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase, Irwin R. Schyster, The Mountie, Earthquake, Typhoon, Dino Bravo, the Nasty Boys, The Giant, and The Honky Tonk Man. He was briefly the AWA Southern Heavyweight Champion in 1981. Before becoming involved with professional wrestling, <mask> was a member of rock band The Gentrys, best known for their 1965 top five Billboard Hot 100 hit, "Keep on Dancing". Professional wrestling career

Memphis Wrestling (1978-1985)
<mask> was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He was brought into wrestling by Jerry "The King" Lawler, who knew of <mask> because both had attended Memphis Treadwell High School.Having been asked to sing back-up with Lawler, <mask> later became Lawler's manager. After splitting from Lawler, <mask> created a stable known as the First Family of Wrestling to attack Lawler, which among others included Hulk Hogan, King Kong Bundy, "Ravishing" Rick Rude, "Leaping" Lanny Poffo, Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, Ox Baker, Kamala, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert, The Iron Sheik and Kevin Sullivan. In 1982, <mask> earned national headlines doing a program with comedian and television star Andy Kaufman. <mask>, Lawler and Kaufman would continue this feud for over a year. Around this time, <mask> became known as "The Wimp", a nickname given to him by Lawler and chanted by fans, and was the subject of the song "Wimpbusters," which was sung by Lawler to the tune of "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker, Jr.; a music video was also made featuring Lawler, announcer Lance Russell, and wrestlers such as Randy Savage, <mask>, Dutch Mantel, Tommy Rich, and Rufus R. Jones, along with footage of Lawler beating <mask> and his "First Family". In 1981 through 1984, <mask> led Austin Idol, Masao Ito, and Gilbert to NWA/AWA International titles. World Wrestling Federation (1985–1993)

In 1985, <mask>'s friend Hillbilly Jim recommended him to WWF owner Vince McMahon, who hired him.He was nicknamed "The Mouth of the South" due to his loose-lipped style, often augmented by his trademark megaphone, which he used to instruct and encourage his protégés, to discourage and annoy opponents and announcers (especially Gorilla Monsoon) and also as a weapon. <mask>'s first acquisition in the WWF was Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, then the Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion, whom <mask> managed at WrestleMania. After Valentine lost the Intercontinental Heavyweight Title to Tito Santana, <mask> briefly co-managed the Dream Team (Valentine and Beefcake), until he was phased out and gave full control to "Luscious Johnny" Valiant. At WrestleMania, <mask> also managed King Kong Bundy as he defeated S.D. Jones. <mask> later traded Bundy's contract to Bobby "The Brain" Heenan for The Missing Link and Adrian Adonis. He helped the latter to establish his "Adorable Adrian" gimmick.<mask> also managed Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart. 1985 also marked the appearance of the legendary Bret "Hitman" <mask>. <mask> teamed him up with Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart to form The Hart Foundation. On January 26, 1987, <mask> guided the Hart Foundation to the WWF World Tag Team Title, which they won from the British Bulldogs. Disgraced-referee-turned-wrestler Danny Davis also was managed by <mask>. In 1985, <mask> took the Funk Family under his wing. The Funks included Terry and Hoss Funk, as well as their kayfabe brother <mask> Funk.<mask> wrestled on house shows with the Funks. On July 12, 1986, <mask> won a battle royal to receive $50,000 at Madison Square Garden. When The Honky Tonk Man turned heel, <mask> became his manager. In this position, <mask> was nicknamed "The Colonel" in a reference to Colonel Tom Parker, the manager of Elvis Presley. With <mask> in his corner, the Honky Tonk Man captured the Intercontinental Heavyweight Title from Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat on June 2, 1987 and held it until August 1988. During that time, the Honky Tonk Man feuded with Randy Savage and his manager Miss Elizabeth. "The Colonel" moniker stuck with him for years, even after the Honky Tonk Man departed the company in early 1991.At WrestleMania III, <mask> was involved in three matches and took some incredible bumps during the show. His first appearance was with "Adorable Adrian" Adonis who fought Rowdy Roddy Piper. Then came the six-man tag match, pitting the Hart Foundation and Danny Davis against the Bulldogs and Tito Santana. <mask>'s third appearance on the show was when The Honky Tonk Man fought Jake "The Snake" Roberts who had rock legend Alice Cooper in his corner. Following that match, <mask> was left alone in the ring where Roberts and Cooper teamed up to terrorise him with Roberts' pet snake Damien. Also in 1987, <mask> managed the WWF Women's Tag Team champions Judy Martin and Leilani Kai, known as The Glamour Girls. Martin and Kai mostly feuded with Japanese team the Jumping Bomb Angels (Noriyo Tateno and Itsuki Yamazaki).<mask> was named Pro Wrestling Illustrateds Manager of the Year in 1987, an award he won again in 1994. At WrestleMania IV, <mask> received a haircut from Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, after interfering in the Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship match between Beefcake and the Honky Tonk Man, helping Honky Tonk Man retain the title by getting disqualified. When the Hart Foundation fired <mask> as manager (and turned face) in 1988, <mask> managed The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers to feud with his former team; the angle was that <mask> still retained the managerial rights to his former team and gave a portion of it to the Rougeaus, giving them the right to appear at ringside whenever the Hart Foundation wrestled. At SummerSlam 1988, <mask> accompanied Demolition and Mr. Fuji to help retain their WWF Tag Team title against the Hart Foundation. Ax used <mask>'s megaphone as a foreign object to strike Bret in the head and secure the victory. In 1989, <mask> brought Dino Bravo into his stable after the departure of Frenchy Martin. Then at a push-up contest between the Ultimate Warrior and Bravo, <mask> and Bravo invited a large 460-pound man from the audience – later known as Earthquake – into the ring to sit on the contestants' backs.Predictably the large man was planted in the audience by <mask> and Bravo and they eventually teamed up against the Warrior. In 1990, <mask> groomed Earthquake to be the man to beat Hulk Hogan. <mask> continued his war with his former tag team, the Hart Foundation. In 1990, he combined his protégés Honky Tonk Man and Greg Valentine into the short-lived team of Rhythm and Blues, though they had teamed previously as themselves when facing the Hart Foundation at WrestleMania V. In 1991, he managed The Nasty Boys to defeat the Hart Foundation for the WWF World Tag Team title at WrestleMania VII, this time using a motorbike helmet as a weapon. When the Nasty Boys lost the title to the Legion of Doom at SummerSlam 1991, <mask> sent The Natural Disasters, a team formed out of Earthquake and his former opponent Typhoon (formerly known as Tugboat), to depose the new champions. When the Disasters failed, <mask> formed a new team in early 1992: Money Inc., composed of <mask>'s protégé I.R.S. and "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase.Money, Inc. defeated the L.O.D. Their title win led to the split between <mask> and the Natural Disasters, who as faces feuded with Money Inc. and exchanged the tag team titles twice in 1992. Their biggest match came at WrestleMania VIII when Money Inc. retained their titles by leaving the ring and forcing a count-out. In 1991, <mask> had also brought in The Mountie, who had a short reign as Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion in early 1992 after defeating Bret <mask> on January 17, then losing it just two days later to Rowdy Roddy Piper at the Royal Rumble. The Mountie then went on to feud with the Big Boss Man over who was the "law and order" in the WWF. Their feud culminated in a match at SummerSlam where the loser (in this case The Mountie) had to spend the night in a New York jail. Late in 1992, Money Inc. regaining the tag team titles from the Natural Disasters led to the Nasty Boys turning on their manager, as he had repeatedly substituted them for Money Inc. in title matches.<mask> broke with Money Inc. early in 1993 and turned face when the team attacked Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake. In the storyline, <mask>, conscious of Beefcake's extensive facial injuries from a real-life parasailing accident three years prior which required extensive re-constructive surgery to Beefcake's face and all but ended his full-time career, felt that his team went too far, and tried to stop them. <mask> even went so far as to cover an unconscious Beefcake with his own body to stop them from doing more harm. Beefcake's long time friend Hulk Hogan came out the following week and expressed gratitude to <mask> for his uncharacteristically heroic actions. He managed both Beefcake and Hogan who at WrestleMania IX lost to Money Inc by disqualification. Later in the show, <mask> for the first time would be the manager of the WWF World Heavyweight Champion when Hogan accepted an impromptu challenge by Mr. Fuji, the manager of the new champion Yokozuna who had just defeated Bret <mask> for the belt. Hogan would defeat the  new champion in a short match.At King of the Ring, <mask> was in Hogan's corner as he lost the WWF World Heavyweight Title back to Yokozuna. This appearance was <mask>'s last in the WWF, as both he and Hogan departed the company. World Championship Wrestling (1994–2001)
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 from the WWF, Hogan and <mask> briefly toured Mexico. After their return, <mask> wrote music and occasionally appeared on Hogan's television show, Thunder in Paradise. Hogan then had <mask> manage him when they went to World Championship Wrestling (WCW). At Bash at the Beach in 1994, <mask> managed Hogan to win his first WCW World Heavyweight Title by defeating "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair. At Halloween Havoc in 1995, <mask> turned on Hogan to help The Giant.<mask> also became the manager of the evil faction, the Dungeon of Doom, created by Kevin Sullivan. During that era, he managed Ric Flair to a 12th world title victory over Macho Man Randy Savage at Starrcade '95. After the demise of the Dungeon of Doom, <mask> recreated The First Family. After the demise of the First Family, <mask> was placed in charge of booking TBS's WCW Saturday Night show prior to the program's cancellation. <mask> wrestled on April 18, 1999 to defeat Bubba the Love Sponge by disqualification at a house show. On November 15, he wrestled WCW Monday Nitro losing to Norman Smiley in a Hardcore match. <mask> was also the first Strapmaster for the Yapapi Indian strap match in which Hulk Hogan defeated Ric Flair on March 19, 2000, at the Uncensored PPV.At Spring Stampede in 2000, <mask> faced radio personality Mancow. The two had a rematch later in the year at Mayhem. In February 2001, <mask> joined WCW's booking committee. Independent circuit; Wrestlicious (2002–present)

After the sale of WCW to the then rival WWF, <mask> and a close consortium of wrestlers and investors decided to create a wrestling organization—the Xcitement Wrestling Federation (XWF)—that would replace WCW as well as take wrestling back to early 1990s style of fun, family-oriented entertainment with minimal story lines and more solid wrestling. In 2002, <mask> restarted his feud with Jerry Lawler by buying, for the XWF, part of the upstart Memphis Wrestling promotion. <mask> would wrestle for Memphis Wrestling from 2003 to 2005. He lost to <mask> in a Loser Eats Dog Food match on August 2, 2003.In 2007, <mask> appeared at the PMG Clash of Legends. On November 7, 2008, <mask> appeared at the Jerry "The King" Lawler 35th anniversary event. He also made a few appearances with Florida Championship Wrestling, WWE's developmental territory, as a color commentator in 2008. He made multiple appearances for WrestleMania Axxess during the week leading up to The 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania. In May 2006, <mask> traveled to The Funking Conservatory, owned by Dory Funk Jr and Marti Funk, to shoot promos with the students. His most notable ones being with Studio Sar Ah when he discusses his move from World Wrestling Entertainment to TNA Wrestling and as well as Wrestlicious. Both promos can be found on the Studio Sar Ah fan page on Facebook and as well as YouTube.<mask> continues to work at the school and shoot promos. On January 19, 2010, <mask> Piper. On January 12, 2012 he wrestled at PWS WrestleReunion VI in battle royal won by The Godfather. <mask> currently appears at various professional wrestling conventions and autograph signings around the United States. He is a staple at all of the Wrestlereunion shows, and also does various appearances as part of the VOC Nation wrestling radio program in Philadelphia on 1360 WNJC. <mask> is a regular guest on the VOC Wrestling Nation radio program on WNJC.Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2003–2011)
In October 2003 <mask> made his debut for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), hyping a match between Hulk Hogan and Jeff Jarrett, which was eventually scrapped as Hogan decided to return to WWE instead. On June 19, 2005, at Slammiversary pay-per-view, The Naturals were assisted in a title defense against Team Canada by <mask>, who ran to ringside and threw his megaphone to Chase Stevens, who hit Petey Williams with it and pinned him. <mask> acted as the manager of The Naturals until October 3, 2005. On February 14, 2010, at Against All Odds, <mask> made his return to TNA as a heel by helping The Nasty Boys defeat Team 3D in a tag team match. The alliance, however, was short-lived, as on March 29, 2010, news broke that the Nasty Boys had been released by TNA following an incident at a TNA function with Spike executives present. <mask> stayed with the company following the incident, but his role was unknown. <mask> was seen on the January 20, 2011, edition of Impact!, when Kurt Angle yelled at him to play his entrance music upon entering the Impact!Zone. Return to WWE (2011–present)

On March 1, 2011, it was reported that <mask> had left Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and re-signed with WWE to work on WrestleMania-related projects. <mask> has since hosted various house shows. On August 14, 2011, <mask> made an appearance at SummerSlam, teasing a managerial position with R-Truth during a backstage segment. On April 10, 2012, <mask> made an appearance on SmackDown: Blast from the Past, where he managed the team of Heath Slater and Tyson Kidd, but ended up getting the mandible claw from Mick Foley. As of April 30, 2014, <mask> was part-owner of "Hogan's Beach", a wrestling-themed tiki-bar in Tampa, Florida. As of April 2014, <mask> was a regular cast member on the WWE Network original reality show Legends' House.<mask> appeared on the August 11 edition of Raw for Hogan's birthday celebration. In April 2017, <mask> purchased a beachfront property in Daytona Beach, Florida, and opened “<mask>’s Hall of Fame Bar and Tiki Deck“, which is a beach bar featuring an abundance of autographed pictures, wrestling paraphernalia, and at times an intercontinental championship belt. On January 4, 2021 he made an appearance on the RAW Legends Night where he was involved in a segment with Hulk Hogan, Drew McIntyre and Sheamus. Other media
His book, The Mouth of the South, was released on November 18, 2004. <mask> has also appeared in "Life: for sale" a YouTube series created by Koncrete Inc., which has Benjamin Mallah as its lead. Music
Before wrestling, <mask>, as a teenager, was a vocalist in the 60s band The Gentrys, who had a million selling record with 1965's "Keep on Dancing". Before becoming The Gentrys, they were known as just "The Gents."Their production manager told them that if they did not change their name, then they would not succeed in the music industry. Later, after the leader of the group Larry Raspberry left, <mask> took over and they had a few minor hits, most notably "Why Should I Cry" and a cover of Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl", but were never able to match the success of "Keep on Dancing." <mask> and the band were successful in the Memphis area nightclub circuit. The group was under contract to Stax Records at the time of its bankruptcy, and Stax could not properly promote them. During his years in the professional wrestling business, <mask> composed many theme songs for wrestlers in the WWF and WCW. Some of the wrestlers for whom he composed music were Honky Tonk Man, <mask>ka, Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, The Rockers, The Hart Foundation, Crush, the Fabulous Rougeau Brothers, Dusty Rhodes, the Legion of Doom, the Nasty Boys, Ted DiBiase, the Mountie, Hulk Hogan, Sting, the nWo Wolfpac, and 3 Count. He also composed the themes for SummerSlam '88 (which was later reused as the theme for many early Royal Rumble events) and WrestleMania VI (which was later used for the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth events).One of <mask>'s most notable compositions is Shawn Michaels's entrance theme, "Sexy Boy." In the late 1980s, <mask> released a music album (also available on cassette tape) titled Outrageous Conduct. The release consisted of comical songs done in character; such as "Barbra Streisand's Nose" and "Eat Your Heart Out Rick Springfield." In 1995, Hulk Hogan released the album "Hulk Rules, on Select Records." <mask>, as well as Hogan's then wife Linda, were a part of the band The Wrestling Boot Band and helped write and sing many of the album's songs. Television appearances

In September 2007, <mask> appeared on an episode of The People's Court as a witness for a defendant. <mask> is a close friend of Hulk Hogan and is featured on many episodes of Hogan's VH1 reality series, Hogan Knows Best.<mask> was also a judge on Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling. <mask> also appears in hair restoration advertisements for Medical Hair Restoration, as a client. He also does a comedic women's wrestling show called Wrestlicious, which can be viewed at Wrestlicious.com. <mask> appeared on the WWE Legends' House. <mask> has appeared a few times in Hulk Hogan's TV-show Thunder in Paradise. He also sang the intro music for the episode "Deadly Lessons, Pt. 1".Movie appearances
In 1967, <mask> appeared in the film It's a Bikini World as a member of The Gentrys. In 2010, <mask> appeared in the Insane Clown Posse's film Big Money Rustlas. In 2011, <mask> appeared as himself in the Canadian movie Monster Brawl. <mask> played the announcer to a wrestling tournament of eight classic monsters that fight to the death. Championships and accomplishmentsAmerican Wrestling AssociationAWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (1 time)Cauliflower Alley ClubManager's Award (2015)Memphis Wrestling Hall of FameClass of 2017Pro Wrestling IllustratedManager of the Year (1987, 1994)World Class Wrestling AssociationHall of Fame (2006)World Wrestling EntertainmentWWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2005)Wrestling Observer Newsletter'''''
Manager of the Year (1983)
Best on Interviews (1984)
Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 2018)

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Rear Admiral <mask>,  (born 30 September 1950) is a non-executive Director/Trustee in the 'third sector', including appointments as: inaugural Chair of the Chelmsford Cultural Development Trust; as a member of the Board of Trustees of Good Things Foundation, the UK's leading digital inclusion charity; and The Heritage Alliance, a significant advocacy body for England's heritage. Formerly a Flag Officer in the Royal Navy, he has more than twenty years' experience as a museum director and in leadership and governance of cultural bodies. In April 2011 he was appointed director of the Auckland War Memorial Museum in New Zealand, replacing interim director Sir Don McKinnon. His contract was twice extended by the Museum's Trust Board, but he and his wife returned to the UK at the end of 2016 to be nearer family. His successor as Director was David Gaimster. Early life and naval career
<mask> was born in Hammersmith, London, on 30 September 1950. He moved with his family from London to Cape Town, South Africa, where he attended St George's Grammar School.<mask> joined the Royal Navy as a seaman at  in 1966, aged 15, and rose to become a rear admiral in 1999, serving in a NATO appointment before leaving the service voluntarily in 2000 to take up the role of Director of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. During his naval career he studied at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth (passing out in 1972 as the winner of that year's Queen's Sword of Honour), the Royal Naval Staff College, Greenwich, and the Royal College of Defence Studies (1993). He was Military Assistant to the Minister of State for the Armed Forces (1989–91) and the Assistant Director of Navy Plans (Ships) (1993–96). <mask> served at sea in , , , ,  and . His commands included the minehunter  the destroyers  (1987–89) and  (1991–92), and the aircraft carrier  (1996–97). He was captain of the Third Destroyer Squadron in 1991–92 and in 1998–99 was commodore of the Britannia Royal Naval College, where he was responsible for preparing new entrant officers for their careers. While Commodore at the college he founded the Britannia Museum, opening the college to public visitors for the first time.<mask> was a trustee of the historic vessel HMS Bronington between 1989 and 1999, after she was decommissioned from the Royal Navy; he was vice-president of the Bronington Trust in 1999 until the Trust ceased to exist in 2002. He edited the book HMS Bronington: A Tribute to One of Britain's Last Wooden Walls And a Celebration of The Ton Class, which was published in 1996. Museums career
<mask> was director of the National Maritime Museum between 2000 and 2007, during which time he oversaw a series of exhibitions, including Elizabeth, Skin Deep and Nelson & Napoleon. He instigated SeaBritain 2005, a partnership with Visit Britain and sixty other organisations to commemorate the bicentenary of Admiral Nelson's victory in the Battle of Trafalgar. <mask> also led a major re-structuring of collections management, including the creation of a comprehensive inventory, improved conservation facilities and a partnership project with Chatham Historic Dockyard to display and store models of ships. He initiated the £16 million Time and Space project to restore buildings at the Royal Observatory, create new galleries and education spaces, build a 120-seat planetarium – the Peter Harrison Planetarium – and generally upgrade the visitor facilities. The refurbished Royal Observatory was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in May 2007.During this time <mask> was also Director of Queens House, the Caird Library and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. From 2001 to 2007 he was chairman of a leadership working-group established by the National Museum Directors' Council. During that period he was a member of a maritime policy think-tank called the Greenwich Forum. Between 2005 and 2007 he was a member of the board of Creative and Cultural Skills (a Sector Skills Council for museums) and between 2009 and 2011 he was a member of the board of the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency. From 2007 <mask> was chief executive of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), of which he had been a board member during the previous year. During his tenure as chief executive the MLA was substantially restructured to improve effectiveness and reduce operating costs. The slimmed-down organisation was subsequently merged within Arts Council England.During that period <mask> was also chairman of Living Places, a grouping of UK cultural agencies which aimed to foster the benefits of cultural and sporting opportunities in the community. The five agencies involved in the project were the Arts Council England, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), English Heritage, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and Sport England. In April 2011 <mask> was appointed director of the Auckland War Memorial Museum in New Zealand, replacing interim director Sir Don McKinnon. In this role, he was responsible for leading a fundamental review of the museum's strategic vision, culminating in the publication of 'Future Museum' in 2012. Since then, guided by the published vision, the museum has invested substantially in its collections, professional capacities and digital resources; detailed plans for further capital investment are being laid. In October 2015 the Trust Board of the museum reported double-digit growth in audiences and high levels of customer satisfaction. In 2014 <mask> was elected to the Board of Museums Aotearoa (the association for New Zealand's museums); he was elected Chair of Museums Aotearoa in May 2015.He stepped down from the Board at the conclusion of a year as chair in May 2016. That month he announced that despite being urged to do so he had chosen not to accept the Trust Board's offer of a further extension to his contract as Director of Auckland War Memorial Museum. He and his wife returned to the UK at the end of December 2016, to rejoin their family who live in England. During a sabbatical in 2017 <mask> progressed a long-postponed maritime research project. He now has roles as a non-executive Director/Trustee in the 'third sector', social businesses, charities and not-for-profit organisations. He is a regular Guest Speaker onboard ships of the Noble Caledonia cruise line, where his subjects include maritime history, navigational practice, museum life and contemporary leadership. Recognition
<mask> was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2007 "for services to museums", and in the same year he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Greenwich.In 2018 <mask> was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant Deputy Lieutenant of Essex. He was awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977 and also the General Service Medal in 1977 and in 1989. He was made a Freeman of the City of London in 2001, of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights in 2002 and of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in 2004. In 2001 he became a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute; and he was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation between 2005 and 2008. Personal life
A keen yachtsman, <mask> was chief mate of the Royal Navy yacht Adventure in the first Whitbread Round the World Race. He and his wife Sarah (an Anglican Priest) have a son and two daughters and two granddaughters. Their home is in Essex on the Blackwater Estuary where they keep a sailing boat.He is a naval member of the Royal Yacht Squadron. Notes

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<mask> (born October 23, 1963) is a Canadian American author. <mask> has written over 80 children's and young adult fiction books. <mask> has sold more than 28 million books over a career spanning four decades and has appeared at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list. Early life
<mask> was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he lived until 1970. He grew up in Thornhill, Ontario (just north of Toronto) and attended German Mills Public School and public high school at Thornlea Secondary School. He moved to the United States to attend college at New York University where he studied film and film-writing. <mask> received a BFA from New York University in 1985; with a degree in dramatic visual writing and a minor in motion picture and television.Career

<mask> wrote his first book when he was 12 years old, as part of the English class in 7th grade. This became the manuscript for This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, the first book in his Macdonald Hall series. <mask> was the Scholastic Arrow Book Club monitor for the class; after completing the assignment, he mailed his manuscript to Scholastic. This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall was published by Scholastic Press in 1978 when Korman was only 14 years old. Before graduating from high school in Thornhill, Ontario, Korman wrote and published five books. <mask> has written more than 80 books which have sold more than 28 million copies in a career that has spanned four decades. Works

Non-series books

Honey We Best Thingy Our Neighborhood (1978)
I Want to Go Home!(1981)
Our Man Weston (1982)
No Coins, Please (1984)
Don't Care High (1985)
Son of Interflux (1986)
A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag (1987)
Radio 5th Grade (1989)
Losing Joe's Place (1990)
The Twinkie Squad (1992)
The Toilet Paper Tigers (1993)
Why Did the Underwear Cross the Road (1994)
 The Chicken Doesn't Skate (1996)
Liar, Liar Pants on Fire (1997)
The Sixth Grade Nickname Game (1998)

No More Dead Dogs (2000)
Maxx Comedy: The Funniest Kid in America (2003)
Jake, Reinvented (2003)
Born To Rock (2006)
Schooled (2007)
The Juvie Three (2008)
Pop (2009)
Slacker (2016)
Restart (2017)
What's His Face? (2018)
The Unteachables (2019)
Level 13: A Slacker novel (2019)
Notorious (2019)
War Stories (2020)
Unplugged (2021)
War Stories (2021)
Linked (2021)

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Macdonald Hall series

This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall (Scholastic-TAB Publications, 1978)
Go Jump in the Pool (1979)
Beware the Fish! (1980)
The War With Mr. Wizzle (1982)
The Zucchini Warriors (1988)
Macdonald Hall Goes Hollywood (1991)
Something Fishy at Macdonald Hall (1995)

Bugs Potter
Who is Bugs Potter? (1980)
Bugs Potter LIVE at Nickaninny (1983)

Jeremy Bloom
The D- Poems of Jeremy Bloom: A Collection of Poems About School, Homework, and Life (Sort Of) (1992)
The Last-Place Sports Poems of Jeremy Bloom: A Collection of Poems About Winning, Losing, and Being a Good Sport (Sometimes) (1996)

Monday Night Football
The Quarterback Exchange (1997)
Running Back Conversion (1997)
Super Bowl Switch (1997)
Heavy Artillery (1997)
Ultimate Scoring Machine (1998)
NFL Rules! Bloopers, Pranks, Upsets, and Touchdowns (1998)

Masterminds series
 Masterminds (2015)
 Masterminds:Criminal Destiny (2016)
 Masterminds:Payback (2017)

Slapshots series
The Stars From Mars (1999)
All-Mars All-Stars/The Dream Team (1999)
The Face-off Phony (2000)
Cup Crazy (2000)
4-in-1 Slapshots: The Complete Collection (2008)

Nose Pickers series
Nose Pickers from Outer Space! Swindle was adapted into a movie that aired on Nickelodeon in  2013. The Macdonald Hall series has a TV adaptation of one of the books, called "Bruno and Boots Go Jump in the Pool".It stars Jonny Gray, Callan Potter and Peter Keleghan. It aired April 1, 2016 on the Canadian network YTV. Two more adaptations aired there the following year, April 1, 2017. Other optioned books include No Coins, Please, I Want to Go Home, the Island trilogy and The Twinkie Squad.

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<mask> (born 1939, in Los Angeles, California) is an American abstract expressionist sculptor born in Los Angeles and currently living and working in Oakland, California. He attended Dartmouth College from 1957–59, and the University of California, Berkeley from 1959-62 where he earned his BA. Career
Beasley ranks among the most productive sculptors of the post- Henry Moore/David Smith generation of abstract sculptors. Today, <mask> is recognised as one of the most noteworthy and innovative sculptors on the American West Coast. His work can be found in the permanent collection of 40 art museums around the world, including: Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Guggenheim Museum, New York City; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the National Art Museum of China in Beijing; the Musee National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, DC; the Kunsthalle Mannheim in Germany; and the Islamic Museum in Cairo. 1960s
In the 1960s, <mask>'s first work consisted of welded sculptures made from broken cast iron. This work brought him national recognition when in 1961 one of his sculptures was included in the ground breaking exhibition The Art of Assemblage at the New York, Museum of Modern Art a piece which appeared in an exhibition which Philip Linhares, Chief Curator of Art of the Oakland Museum of California referred to as "seminal".The following year his assemblage sculpture "Chorus" was acquired by New York's Museum of Modern Art, making <mask> the youngest artist to have work in the permanent collection. In 1961, while a student at Berkeley, <mask> joined Peter Voulkos in building one of the first sculptor-built foundries, the storied Garbanzo Works that was instrumental in the Renaissance of bronze casting in American sculpture. Following an abstract esthetic, he began casting sculptures in bronze and aluminum. In 1963, he was one of eleven artists to represent the United States at the Biennale de Paris, where French Minister of Culture Andre Malraux awarded him the purchase prize. In 1968, <mask> began investigating the use of transparency as a sculptural medium. He was successful in creating small transparent sculptures in cast acrylic but experts at Dupont and Rohm & Hass were convinced that it was impossible to do castings as large as Beasley envisioned. That year, the State of California invited Beasley to participate in a competition for a monumental sculpture for the state.At first, the jury was unaware that <mask> was experimenting with transparency as a sculptural medium and invited him based on his work in cast metal. <mask> was determined to pursue transparency and proposed a monumental cast acrylic sculpture. Upon seeing <mask>'s proposal, they questioned the sculptor about its viability. He convinced them that creating what he envisioned was no problem but privately knew that he would have to invent a new process, which he did. His proposal for Apolymon, a transparent sculpture in cast acrylic won and he installed the piece in Sacramento in 1970. 1970s
Fascinated by the esthetics of transparency, <mask> worked in cast acrylic for the next ten years. In 1974, members of the undersea research community approached <mask> to see if he could adapt his technique to cast transparent bathyspheres for undersea exploration.He succeeded in creating the bathyspheres for Johnson Sea Link submersibles for Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. It was these submersibles that were deployed to locate the crew compartment on the bottom of the ocean after the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated upon liftoff in 1986. <mask> continued to make transparent sculpture for the next ten years. His transparent sculptures were exhibited widely both in the US and abroad including solo exhibitions in 1972 at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the San Diego Museum of Art, and group shows including the Salon de Mai in Paris and at Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan. 1980s
In 1980, <mask> turned back to metal, exploring a more formal geometry with a series of large sculptures produced in both stainless steel and aluminum. He created a number of monumental commissions for public institutions including the San Francisco International Airport, Stanford University; the State of California; the State of Alaska; the Miami International Airport; the City of Eugene, Oregon; and Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey. In 1987, he turned to a new direction of work involving cube-like intersecting polyhedra.While most of these were made in cast or fabricated bronze, he also created them in carved granite. This work has been exhibited worldwide in more than 100 exhibitions in Europe and Asia. Public commissions for this series have included the cities of Oakland, California; Dortmund, Germany; Mannheim, Germany; Bad Homburg, Germany; Monterrey, Mexico; Palo Alto, California; as well as the University of Oregon and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. In 2008, <mask> began sculpting a new series of intersecting stainless steel disks. One of this series, commissioned by the Chinese government for the Beijing Summer Olympics is 15 feet tall and remains permanently installed as part of the Beijing Olympic Park. The Expo 2010 in Shanghai also commissioned a large sculpture in this series for permanent installation in Shanghai. Publishing
<mask>ley: Skulpturen (<mask>ley: Sculpture) (The Stadtiche Kunsthalle Mannheim, 1994) monograph which includes articles by Peter Selz and Manfred Fath,
Sculpture by <mask> (The Oakland Museum of California, 2005), monograph which includes articles by Albert Elsen and Peter Frank,

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 Big Red (1974), Eugene, Oregon
 Encounter (2003–2004), Eugene, Oregon

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Documentary by KQED-TV's Spark on <mask>ley
KCBX-FM Public Radio, Part I, Interview with sculptor <mask>, (7 October 2009)
KCBX-FM Public Radio, Part II, Interview with sculptor <mask>, (14 October 2009)
KCBX-FM Public Radio, 6 July 2005 Interview with Phil Linhares, Chief Curator of Art, The Oakland Museum of California, discussing the sculpture of <mask>ly
<mask> website

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<mask> (born July 14, 1975) is an American former professional baseball pitcher of Major League Baseball (MLB). After spending his college years at Chattahoochee Valley Community College and Auburn University, <mask> played in the major leagues for the Oakland Athletics (1999–2004), the Atlanta Braves (2005–13) and the San Francisco Giants (2014–15). With the Giants, he won the 2014 World Series over the Kansas City Royals. During his 17-season career, <mask> established himself as one of baseball's most consistent pitchers and until 2014 had never had a season where he suffered more losses than wins. <mask> was also named an All-Star four times: twice with Oakland,  once with Atlanta, and once with San Francisco. Before retiring in 2015, <mask> was the winningest active Major League pitcher, as well as one of four active pitchers with at least 200 career wins. With a win against the Oakland A's on July 26, 2015, he has won a game against every team in the majors, the 15th pitcher to do so.<mask> is one of twenty-one pitchers in Major League history to win at least 200 games, strike out at least 2,000 batters and have a winning percentage above .600. Of those twenty-one, fourteen are in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. High school
<mask> attended Glenwood School in Phenix City, Alabama where in his senior season he led the team to the 1993 AISA state championship. He finished his high school career with a 12–1 record and a 1.78 ERA. Despite his record, <mask> was considered undersized by scouts at 6'0" tall and 160 pounds and was not drafted nor was he offered a scholarship to a major college. <mask> decided to attend a local two-year college, Chattahoochee Valley Community College (CVCC). College
In , his freshman year at CVCC, he earned First-team All American honors while leading his team to the AJCCC Division II championship.He also led CVCC team in batting average (.385), home runs (9), RBI (42), wins (10–2), strikeouts (76), and was second on the team with a 2.76 ERA. As a sophomore, he was named Second-team All American and set a school and conference record with 117 strikeouts which also led the nation. As a hitter, <mask> batted .345 with 5 home runs, and 29 RBI. His sophomore season ERA of 1.95 was the team and conference best. Prior to his junior year, <mask> transferred to Auburn University where he would play two seasons. He is still at or near the top of many school records. In , he played all 65 games for the Tigers while both pitching and playing outfield.That season, he hit .396 with 18 home runs and 95 RBI. As a pitcher, he finished 15–2 with a 2.97 ERA to earn SEC Player of the Year and consensus All-American honors. <mask> was the first player to be named First Team All-SEC at two positions (P,OF) in the same year. He was drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 6th round of the 1997 amateur draft. Professional career

Oakland Athletics (1999–2004)
<mask> was drafted by the Oakland Athletics twice, in the 35th round of the 1994 MLB Draft and again in the 6th round of the 1997 MLB draft, signing in 1997. He made his Major League debut with a five inning start on June 8, 1999 against the San Diego Padres, where he allowed three earned runs in a game the Athletics eventually lost 5–3. He recorded his first career win in his next start, on June 13 against the Los Angeles Dodgers.He allowed only one run in seven innings of the 9–3 victory. In his rookie season, <mask> had an 11–2 mark and finished 5th in the AL Rookie of the Year vote. He became a member of Oakland's so-called "Big Three", along with left-handed pitchers Mark Mulder and Barry Zito. In 2000, he posted a career-high 20 victories along with a 4.14 ERA for Oakland. He finished second in AL Cy Young Award voting behind Pedro Martínez. Over the course of the next three seasons, <mask>'s records were 18-9 in 2001, 15–9 in 2002 and 16–7 in 2003 with a career low 2.70 ERA. In 2004, <mask> failed to pitch 30 games due to injury.He went 12–6 in 27 starts. <mask>'s record while with the A's was 92–39, and an ERA of 3.30. Atlanta Braves (2005–13)
Before the  season, <mask> was traded to the Atlanta Braves in exchange for Charles Thomas, Dan Meyer, and Juan Cruz. On August 6, 2005, <mask> won his 100th career game, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 8–1. In January , <mask> was named to the Team USA roster for the 2006 World Baseball Classic. His second season with the Braves was disappointing. He posted career-highs in losses (12) and ERA (4.86) in 2006.He returned to his earlier form in  however, finishing with a 16–10 record and a 3.33 ERA. He was in the midst of a 9-game winning streak, the second of his career, at one point in the season. <mask> struck out a career-high 13 batters on April 25 against the Florida Marlins. <mask> is one of only 7 ballplayers who pitched in the NL in 2007 who won at least 12 games in each year from 2004–07, the others being Carlos Zambrano, Greg Maddux, Roy Oswalt, Jason Marquis, Derek Lowe, and Jeff Suppan. On August 2, 2008, <mask> revealed that he would undergo Tommy John ligament transplant surgery on his pitching elbow, and missed the remainder of the 2008 season. He started the  season on the 60-day DL, and did not play prior to the All Star break. On July 2, 2009, he threw a 90-pitch bullpen session and Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox said: "He's ready to go.... He's really come along. He's got major-league stuff right now, his normal stuff." But Cox added that the Braves would not rush the timetable on <mask>'s return, which was scheduled for mid- to late-August. <mask>'s first minor-league rehab start was tentatively scheduled for July 19 at Class A Myrtle Beach. After completing several minor league rehab sessions, <mask> returned to the Atlanta Braves starting pitching rotation on September 1, 2009. He gave up only two runs and earned his first win of the 2009 season.On November 12, 2009, <mask> signed a $28 million, three-year extension with the Braves with a $9 million option for a fourth year. On August 28, 2010 against the Florida Marlins, <mask> set a career high in strikeouts with 13. On October 5, 2010, <mask> was awarded the 2010 NL Comeback Player of the Year Award. On June 20, 2011, in Atlanta, <mask> hit his second career home run, a two-run home run which provided the only scoring of the game in a 2–0 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. On the same day, he got his 1,600th strikeout in the top of the fifth inning against J. P. Arencibia. On July 15, 2011, <mask> was the winning pitcher in the Braves' 10,000th win in franchise history. <mask> went 16–7 with a 3.62 ERA in 2012.On October 30, 2012, <mask> had his $9 million option exercised by the Braves. On April 30, 2013, <mask> became the 113th major league pitcher to reach 200 wins, with an 8-1 victory over the Washington Nationals at Turner Field. <mask> went 7 innings, giving up only 3 hits and 1 run while recording 6 strikeouts and 2 walks. <mask> also went 2 for 3 at the plate with a double and a home run. On July 24, 2013, <mask> was pitching a 4-hit shutout against the New York Mets when Eric Young, Jr., who was trying to beat a throw to first base, accidentally stepped on <mask>'s leg above the ankle. This resulted in an ankle fracture that ended <mask>'s 2013 season. After the season, <mask> became a free agent.His record with the Braves was 113–72 with an ERA of 3.56. San Francisco Giants (2014–2015)

On November 18, 2013, <mask> agreed to a two-year, $23 million contract with the San Francisco Giants. <mask> set a franchise record by pitching  innings in the season before issuing a walk. The streak was snapped on April 25 when he walked Carlos Santana. In his first year with the Giants, he was selected to participate in the All-Star Game. Accomplishing this feat, he has made the All-Star team at least once with every team he has pitched for. On August 27, 2014 in a 4–2 team win over the Colorado Rockies at Oracle Park (then called AT&T Park), <mask> recorded his 2,000th career strikeout.<mask> started game 2 of the 2014 NLDS, a game that went 18 innings; <mask> also started the only other postseason game to go longer than 16 innings while on the Braves in 2005. On October 29, <mask> became the oldest pitcher to start Game 7 of the World Series. The Giants went on to win the game, 3–2, and the series, 4–3, over the Kansas City Royals, giving <mask> the first and only World Series ring of his 16-year career. When <mask> started Game 3 in San Francisco, he became the oldest pitcher (age 39) to make a World Series debut. Prior to the 2015 season, <mask> stated it would likely be his last. Following a 4-3 win against the Oakland Athletics on July 26, 2015, <mask> became the 15th pitcher in MLB history to register at least one win against all 30 current teams. On September 26, 2015, <mask> started against Zito and the Athletics in a matchup that was arranged as a tribute to the A's "Big Three" of the early 2000s.Both pitchers received lengthy standing ovations from the sold-out Oakland Coliseum crowd (which included the third Big Three member, Mulder) upon leaving the game. Scouting report
<mask> was a sinkerballer, using that pitch about half the time and at a speed of 87-91 mph. His next-most used pitch was a cutter at 84–87. He expanded his repertoire to left-handers with a curveball (75-77) and splitter (78-81). He also had a four-seam fastball (88-91 mph). His favored pitch with two strikes to right-handed hitters was his cutter, while he stayed with the sinker to lefties. Achievements
 Professional
 2010 Hutch Award winner
 Received the Roberto Clemente Award nomination for the second year in a row on September 7, 2007.The award is given every year to a Major League Baseball player who gives outstanding performances both on the field and in the community. Major League record for the longest streak of 10 or more wins and 9 or fewer losses in a season (7 straight from 1999–2005)
 2010 Major League Baseball Comeback Player of the Year Award
 Four-time All-Star (2000, 2004, 2010, 2014)
 3-time Top 10 in American League Cy Young Award voting (2000–01, 2003)
 Led MLB in winning percentage (2000)
 Led AL in wins (20, 2000)
 Led AL in games started (35, 2001)
 Twice led AL in shutouts (2003–04)
 Twice second in AL in shutouts (2000, 2002)
 5-time 15-game winner (2000–03, 2007)
 3-time Athletics' Opening-Day starter (from 2001–04)
 Pitched three complete-game one-hitters: August 28, 2000, against the Chicago White Sox; May 1, 2006, against the Colorado Rockies; and May 4, 2011 against the Milwaukee Brewers. On April 30, 2013, <mask> won his 200th career game, pitching 7 innings of 1 run ball against the Washington Nationals. 2014 World Series Champion
 On July 26, 2015, <mask> became 15th pitcher to record a win against all 30 major-league clubs. College
 Won Rotary Smith Award (1997)
 Consensus All-American (1997)
 NCAA East Regional Tournament MVP (1997)
 SEC Player of the Year (1997)
 All-SEC, both pitcher and outfielder (1997)
 ABCA All-South Region, both pitcher and outfielder (1997)
 Letterman (1996–97)
 Led NCAA in winning games (15, 1997)

Personal life
<mask> is married to the former Kim Bruner, whom he met while a student at Auburn. The couple have two daughters, Kennedie and Tess, and one son, Kade. They currently live in Auburn, Alabama.<mask> and his wife are very active with their philanthropy for children, the Hudson Family Foundation. <mask> is a Christian. <mask> has spoken about his faith saying, "It's been one of those things, where anybody that's played a sport at the professional level there's always a lot of challenges. And the one thing that's always been a constant for me is Jesus Christ and my faith ... And not only that, but just being an example for other players, my teammates, my friends from home. You know I think it's one of those things where you need to be a beacon of light and just shine on people." On April 29, 2007, both <mask>'s grandmother and St. Louis Cardinals relief pitcher Josh Hancock, his college teammate at Auburn, died. He drew his grandmother's initials on the pitcher's mound before his next start, and wore them on his spikes.He also sewed Hancock's initials (JH) on his jersey. He pitched 8 innings, giving up 2 earned runs against the Philadelphia Phillies. He did not get a decision, but the Braves ultimately won, 5–2. In 2016, <mask> served as a guest instructor at both the Braves and Giants respective spring training camps. In 2016, <mask> joined Fox Sports South and Fox Sports Southeast as a part-time broadcaster for select Braves games. In 2017, <mask> returned as a spring training instructor for the Giants. He served in the same role for the Braves in 2018.In January 2020, <mask> was named the pitching coach for the Auburn Tigers baseball team. See also

 2021 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
 Atlanta Braves award winners and league leaders
 List of Auburn University people
 List of Major League Baseball annual shutout leaders
 List of Major League Baseball career games started leaders
 List of Major League Baseball career putouts as a pitcher leaders
 List of Major League Baseball career strikeout leaders
 List of Major League Baseball career Wins Above Replacement leaders
 List of Major League Baseball career wins leaders
 List of World Series starting pitchers
 Oakland Athletics award winners and league leaders

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