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 hired him for a small role. After some hesitation, <mask> moved to Hollywood in 1936 to pursue a career playing similar, often uncredited, bit and extra roles. His most notable of these was as a contestant-extra in the "ugly man competition" (which he loses to a heavily made up Charles Laughton) in the RKO production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.He had another supporting-character role as Gabe Hart, a member of the lynch mob in the 1943 film of The Ox-Bow Incident. Universal Studios attempted to exploit <mask>'s unusual features to promote him as a horror star after he played the part of The Hoxton Creeper (aka The Hoxton Horror) in its ninth Sherlock Holmes film, The Pearl of Death (1944). He made two films playing "the Creeper", House of Horrors (filmed in 1945, but not released until 1946, after his death) and  The Brute Man (1946, also released posthumously). Death
Around Christmas 1945, <mask> suffered a series of heart attacks, a direct result of his acromegalic condition. On February 2, 1946, he suffered a fatal heart attack at his home on South Tower Drive in Los Angeles. His body was transported to Florida and interred at the American Legion Cemetery in Tampa. Legacy
Hatton's name – and simple but brutish face – have become recurring humorous motifs in popular culture.In season 6, episode 4 of the 1970s television series The Rockford Files ("Only Rock-n-Roll Will Never Die, part 1"), Jim Rockford, exasperated at a friend who dismisses himself as unattractive, exclaims "You're no <mask> Hatton!" Hatton's physical likeness inspired the Lothar character in Dave

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 "The Wedding of River Song" features Mark Gatiss as a character whose appearance (achieved through prosthetics) is based on <mask>'s, credited under the pseudonym "<mask> Haxton" for his performance. A documentary being produced in 2017, Rondo and Bob, and released in 2020, looks at the lives of Hatton and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre art director Robert A. Burns, a self-described expert on Hatton. The full story of <mask>'s life is sensitively told in the Scott Gallinghouse book "Rondo Hatton: Beauty Within the Brute" (BearManor Media, 2019), which also includes exhaustive production histories of his Universal horror films.Rondo Hatton Awards; cultural references
Since 2002, the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards have paid tribute to Hatton in name and likeness. The physical award is a representation of <mask>'s face, based on the bust of "The Creeper", whom Hatton portrayed in the 1946 Universal Pictures film House of Horrors. Filmography

References

Further reading
 "Rondo Hatton". The Tampa Bay Times. September 29, 1923. <mask>, <mask>. "Newshounds, Once Doughboys, Describe First Armistice Day: Southeast of Sedan".The Tampa Bay Times. November 12, 1928. External links

 The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards
 <mask> <mask> as The Creeper in House of Horrors (TCM's Movie Morlocks)

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<mask> (1915–1984) (<mask>, <mask>) was an American poet, editor and cultural activist known for her poetic imagery and her celebration of African heritage and cultural forms. Early life and Chicago years
Born in 1915, <mask> came of age in Chicago during the Great Migration. Sources place her birth in Pryorsburg, Kentucky, in 1915, although she adamantly claimed Chicago as her birthplace. In eighth grade, she won first prize in a school contest for "The Violin", a poem describing Stradivarius and Guarnerius violins. Danner's college education included courses at Loyola University, Northwestern University, YMCA College, and the newly founded Roosevelt College. Perhaps equally significant was her education in the African-American cultural community of Chicago's South Side, which in the 1930s and 1940s harbored grassroots cultural institutions and informal circles devoted to politics, education, art and literature and often tied to the Communist Popular Front. Although Danner stayed detached from Communism and would eventually oppose all radical politics, she participated in various South Side groups, including Inez Cunningham Stark's poetry workshop at the South Side Community Art Center, along with Gwendolyn Brooks and <mask>, her "sometime friends (and rivals)."In 1946, Danner founded Art Associates to gather and promote Chicago's black writers and poets. She counted as friends the poet and critic Edward Bland, as well as Hoyt Fuller, who would head the revived Negro Digest (later Black World) beginning in 1951. Danner attracted mentors outside the South Side, including the poets Paul Eagle and Karl Shapiro. She also struck up a correspondence with Langston Hughes that would continue until his death. In 1945, she wrote to Hughes: "My life as a poet looks very bleak to me now.... Only last night I read one of mine and was told it was elusive, ethereal etc. Not much help for my people in

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 that sort of verse." She aimed "to inject some strength" into her work and to train her naturally delicate style to carry forceful messages of African-American pride and racial equality, what she called "the social conscious"

Poems such as "Etta Moten's Attic" and "Africa, Drifting Through Me Sings" demonstrate Danner's growing passion for black African arts, cultures and peoples in the 1940s and 1950s.She looked to National Geographic magazines, anthropology books and American museums for information and images. Professing "the power of the African pull to be stronger than Western Civilization in my psyche," Danner framed many of her poems around encounters with African art objects. She wrote in 1968, "I believe (and have tried for many years to do something positive about this conviction) that the Black should be awakened to his vast beauty." Danner joined the staff of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse as an editorial assistant in 1951 and in 1956 became the first African American to serve as a Poetry assistant editor. "Far From Africa: Four Poems," which would become one of <mask>'s most anthologized works, appeared in Poetry in 1951 and earned her a John Hay Whitney fellowship for a trip to Africa, which she delayed until 1966. June M. Aldridge notes that Danner "recall[ed] the association with Poetry as one of the most rewarding experiences of her life." However, by the late 1950s, according to James Edward Smethurst, "Danner's career as a poet seemed to her stalled... perhaps in part due to her proclivity for intense emotional and intellectual crushes on individuals and near-paranoid fears of plots against her career."Details of Danner's personal life are scarce. She first married Cordell Strickland, with whom she had one child, Naomi. Danner later remarried to Otto Cunningham. Detroit years and Boone House
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 <mask> took her long-desired trip to Africa through the John Hay Whitney Fellowship to join prominent African-American cultural figures at the First World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Senegal. The poem "At Home in Dakar" (also published as "At Home in Africa") recalls this trip. <mask>'s enthusiasm for the Black Arts Movement emerging in the mid-1960s apparently "blew hot and cold." She presented the spiritual orientation of the Baháʼí Faith in some of her work.Still, she participated in conferences and readings with younger poets and generally supporting the new literary generation. As Negro Digest acknowledged in 1968, Danner's "poetry long had reflected the now-fashionable 'black is beautiful' philosophy." During terms as poet-in-residence at Virginia Union University in Richmond and LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, both historically black institutions, Danner continued her lifelong dedication to young people and edited two anthologies of students' verse. In the late 1960s and 1970s, <mask> published her third and fourth volumes of poetry, Iron Lace (1968) and The Down of a Thistle: Selected Poems, Prose Poems, and Songs (1976). Her work continued to draw upon African (as well as Western) art, flora and fauna, relationships with her fellow poets and scenes from urban life. Several of her poems address or discuss her grandson, Sterling Washington, Jr., whom she calls "Muffin," and who seems to represent an African-American future. Danner continued to be visible promoting her religion.<mask> <mask> died on January 1, 1984, in Chicago. Her papers are held by the University of Chicago library. Reception
"A word conjuror and artisan, she provides her reader with well-crafted 'word sketches' that are impressionistic and expressionistic. Her poetry, the result of a dialectic between voices of her past, present, and future, reveals her role and relation to a tradition of Western

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 poetics; her artistic invention of poetry as a visual impression combines graphic social criticism and visual creation, that which is both didactic and mimetic, into an exciting synthesis of a new aesthetic; her verse makes her reader a viewer of art (synesthetic imagery) as well." Erlene Stetson

"One can perceive between the two covers of this one crafted volume, in its full imaginative scope, the web of intricate and brilliant imagery her pen has spun forth in the journey of a sensitive, independent and compassionate spirit across these turbulent times in this uncertain place." Samuel A. Allen

Bibliography

Poetry collections
 Impressions of African Art Forms, 1960
 To Flower, 1963
 Poem Counterpoem, with Dudley Randall, 1966
 Not Light, Nor Bright, Nor Feathery, 1968
 Iron Lace, 1968
 The Down of a Thistle: Selected Poems, Prose Poems, and Songs, 1976

Volumes edited
 Brass Horses, 1968
 Regroup, 1968

In anthologies (selected)
 Rosey E. Pool (ed. ), Beyond the Blues: New Poems by American Negroes.Lympne, Kent, UK: Hand and Flower Press, 1962. Arna Bontemps (ed. ), American Negro Poetry. Revised Edition. New York: Hill and Wang, 1974. King, Woodie, The Forerunners: Black Poets in America. Washington: Howard University Press, 1975.Erlene Stetson (ed. ), Black Sister: Poetry by Black American Women, 1746–1980. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981. Recordings
 Writers of the Revolution, with Langston Hughes (Black Forum; alternately Poets of the Revolution, Motown Records)

References

External links
 "<mask>ner + music, soul, poetry", Garlic & Greens, October 15, 2012. African-American poets
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Loyola University Chicago alumni
Northwestern University alumni
Roosevelt University alumni
American women poets
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<mask> (February 11, 1908 – June 2, 1992) was a Hollywood screenwriter, film director and producer, who worked prolifically from 1932 until 1965. He spent the majority of his career at 20th Century Fox crafting well regarded romantic and historical dramas, usually adapted from another medium. Dunne was a leading Screen Writers Guild organizer and was politically active during the "Hollywood Blacklist" episode of the 1940s–1950s. He is best known for the films How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), The Robe (1953) and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965). Dunne received two Academy Award nominations for screenwriting: How Green Was My Valley (1941) and David and Bathsheba (1951). He also received a Golden Globe nomination for his 1965 screen adaptation of Irving Stone's novel The Agony and the Ecstasy, as well as several peer awards from the Writers Guild of America (WGA), including the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement. Many notable directors worked with Dunne's screenplays, including Carol Reed, John Ford, Jacques Tourneur, Elia Kazan, Otto Preminger, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and Michael Curtiz, among others.Biography

Early life

Dunne was born in New York City, the son of Chicago syndicated columnist and humorist Finley <mask> and Margaret Ives (Abbott) <mask>, an Olympic champion golfer and the daughter of the Chicago Tribunes book reviewer and novelist, Mary Ives Abbott. Although a Roman Catholic, he attended Middlesex School (1920–1925) and Harvard University (1925–1929). Immediately after graduation, he boarded a train for Hollywood for his health and to seek work. First screenplays
Dunne was not initially interested in working in the film industry but that is the first place he got a job. Via a recommendation from a friend of his brother's he obtained work at Fox as a reader at $35 a week. Also among

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We got nothing but the worst stuff; all the good books and plays went through the New York readers’ department.We got the pathetic originals written by out-of-work screenwriters. I kept seeing ways that I thought I could improve them. I'd write a synopsis, and I'd make it better. I couldn't help it. It would be an obvious thing that the guy had missed. And when you learn to synopsize a story, you learn to construct it. At the same time, I was moonlighting writing short stories, so all these things came together."In 1931, <mask> was fired from Fox after less than a year at the studio in a cost-cutting move. He was briefly under contract at MGM, writing a comedy for them, but was unhappy with his work and resigned after hanging in his first draft. This script was subsequently filmed as Student Tour (1934), which Dunne never saw. Dunne aso worked uncredited on Me and My Gal (1932). Career progress
The first important screenplay of Dunne's career was The Count of Monte Cristo (1934), produced by Edward Small. Dunne was brought on to the project after the novel had been distilled to a treatment by director Rowland V. Lee and Dan Totheroh, and Dunne helped finesse the script into scenes and did the dialogue. Dunne later credited Lee as an important mentor for him.Small kept Dunne on to work on the script for The Melody Lingers On (1935). He was also credited for Helldorado (1935), the latter at Fox for Jesse Lasky, another early mentor. He did some minor uncredited work on Under Pressure (1935) and Magnificent Obsession (1935). Dunne received a lot of acclaim for his adaptation of The Last of the Mohicans (1936) for Small which he wrote with John L. Balderstone. Dunne claimed the script was hurt by later rewrites from another writer, but the script, rather than the original


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 novel, formed the basis of the 1992 film version. For Universal he wrote Breezing Home (1937) which he later said was the first of what he considered only four original screenplays he would write in his career. 20th Century Fox
After working for various studios, he moved to 20th Century Fox in 1937, where he would remain for 25 years (excepting 4 years civilian war service during World War II), scripting 36 films in total and directing 10.He also produced several of his later films. His first assignment at Fox was Lancer Spy (1937), with George Sanders. He then did three films in collaboration with Julien Josephson which established him as one of the leading writers at the studio: Suez (1938), Stanley and Livingstone (1939), and The Rains Came (1939). Alone Dunne wrote Swanee River (1939), and Johnny Apollo (1940) (rewriting Rowland Brown's draft). He wrote How Green Was My Valley (1941) originally developed with William Wyler then taken over by John Ford. He also wrote Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942). World War II
From 1942 to 1945, Dunne was the Chief of Production for the Motion Picture Bureau, U.S. Office of War Information, Overseas Branch.He wrote films such as Salute to France (1943). Notably, he produced the non-fiction short The Town (1944), directed by Josef von Sternberg, which has received some critical acclaim. Postwar career
Dunne returned to Fox after the war and quickly re-established himself as one of the studio's leading writers with credits including The Late George Apley (1947), and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947). He wrote Forever Amber (1947) in collaboration with Ring Lardner Jr and wrote Escape (1948) and The Luck of the Irish (1948). He revised Dudley Nichols' script for Pinky (1949). In 1949 he and Otto Preminger were working on a film The Far East Story which was never made. Dunne moved into


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 spectacles with David and Bathsheba (1951), based on the story in the Bible but which Dunne considered his second "original".It was a huge hit. Zanuck put <mask> on Queen of Sheba but it was never made. He also wrote Anne of the Indies (1951) and Lydia Bailey (1952). Producer
<mask> turned producer with Way of a Gaucho (1952) which he also wrote. As a writer only he worked on The Robe (1953), the first movie in CinemaScope and a huge success. Dunne had enjoyed writing David and Bathsheba but said working on The Robe was "a chore" which he only did "as a favor to Zanuck". He was announced for a film The Story of Jezebel which was not made.Dunne wrote the sequel to The Robe, Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954), his third original, which was also a hit. However another spectacle Dunne wrote (from a draft by Casey Robinson), The Egyptian (1954), was a box-office disappointment. Dunne says he acted as an unofficial producer on this film. Director
Dunne was assigned to produce Prince of Players (1955) from a script by Moss Hart. When he could not find a director he was happy with, Darryl F. Zanuck suggested Dunne to do the job himself. Dunne later said "I started directing too late and, no question, at the wrong time. Twentieth Century Fox, the studio system, were falling apart.The boat had sailed." Dunne wrote, produced and directed The View from Pompey's Head (1955). He wrote and directed Hilda Crane (1956). That was produced by Herbert Swope who also produced Three Brave Men (1957) which Dunne wrote and directed. He directed and did some writing on In Love and War (1958), a war time drama, featuring many of the studio's young contract players. Edward Anhalt wrote it and Jerry Wald produced. Dunne wrote and directed two films for producer Charles Brackett: Ten North Frederick (1958) with Gary Cooper, and Blue Denim (1959).Later films
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In addition to screenwriting, Dunne wrote syndicated newspaper articles and was a contributor to The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly magazines. He wrote speeches for various Democratic politicians such as Adlai Stevenson. He also wrote a stage play, Mr. Dooley's America (1976), based on his father's humor, and another, Politics (1980). His books include Mr Dooley Remembers (1963) and Take Two: A Life in Movies and Politics (1980).His short stories appeared in the New Yorker and his essays were regular features of ''Time magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and the Harvard Review. Awards
He was a winner of the Laurel Award (1962) and the Valentine Davies Award (1974). The week before he died he was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Writers Guild. Dunne has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in front of 6725 Hollywood Boulevard, just west of Las Palmas Ave. Politics
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Dunne was a key participant in the Hollywood Blacklist episode of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1947 he co-founded the Committee for the First Amendment with John Huston and William Wyler in response to hearings held by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). <mask>, Huston, and Wyler, along with fellow members Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Danny Kaye, and Gene Kelly, appeared before HUAC in Washington, D.C. in October 1947, protesting HUAC's activities and methods. <mask> was never subpoenaed or blacklisted himself, nor was he accused of any Communist Party affiliations. As a writer and director, Dunne frequently worked with others who either were, had been, or would become blacklisted, including Ring Lardner Jr., Clifford Odets, Albert Maltz, and Marsha Hunt. Additionally, Dunne was a character witness for Dalton Trumbo at the latter's trial for contempt of Congress. The original credits for The Robe (1953) gave Dunne the sole screenplay credit, when in fact Hollywood Ten member Albert Maltz had made significant contributions.In 1997, the WGA restored full writing credits to blacklisted writers whose names were left out of films they worked on. The following is from the WGA's "Blacklisted Writers Receive Credit" press release of April 2, 1997:

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 entitled to shared screenplay credit. In addition, <mask>e did not believe he deserved sole screenplay credit but it was not until many years later that he learned that a blacklisted writer had worked on the project. <mask>, <mask>'s widow, confirms that <mask> would have been happy to share screenplay credit with Maltz. Dunne's political stance was decidedly liberal and reformist, but he was also determinedly anti-Communist. His involvement in the Committee for the First Amendment can arguably be read as just that—support for Constitutional free speech against a government entity (HUAC) that, to Dunne, seemed determined to usurp those rights. At various times dating to before the Second World War, he clashed with fellow members of the Screen Writers Guild who he felt were "pro-Stalin" Communists.<mask>'s anti-Communist leanings would seem to be verified by his uninterrupted employment as a screenwriter on major Hollywood productions throughout the blacklist period, despite his quite vocal denunciation of HUAC. Personal life
Dunne married the former Amanda Duff (1914–2006) on July 13, 1939. They had three children, Miranda, <mask>a, and Jessica. In 1980, he published his memoirs, Take Two: A Life in Movies and Politics. <mask> died of cancer on June 2, 1992, in Malibu, California, aged 84. Quotes
"Never in all my years in this chancy and unstable profession did I ever realize that I was sleepwalking along a precipice. I ignored the fact that the rate of professional mortality among screen writers is extremely high...It wasn't courage or arrogance or insensitivity; I suspect it was the irascible Horatio Alger in my blood.If I had it to do all over again I would perish of sheer fright." "All over town the industrious communist tail wagged the lazy liberal dog." "Had I known it was the Golden Age of Hollywood, I would have enjoyed it

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<mask> (born 20 August 1996) is a German professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Career
Hopp reached the final of the 2011 WDF World Cup boys' singles, and won the boys' singles event at the 2012 WDF Europe Youth Cup. He also reached the last 16 of the 2012 Dutch Darts Masters, defeating Terry Jenkins and Steve Beaton before losing to Paul Nicholson. Hopp qualified for the 2013 PDC World Darts Championship by winning the Central European Qualifier in Bielefeld and in doing so became the second-youngest player ever to compete at the championships after Mitchell Clegg. Hopp played Charl Pietersen of South Africa in the preliminary round winning by 4 legs to 1 to set up a first round match against Denis Ovens. Hopp took the first and third sets to lead the match 2–1, but then lost six legs in a row to bow out of the tournament with a 2–3 defeat. Hopp entered Q School in an attempt to win a PDC Tour Card to play the full circuit in 2013, but could not get past the last 64 in any of the four days.He qualified for the second European Tour event of the year, the European Darts Trophy and beat Dragutin Horvat 6–1 in the first round, before losing 3–6 to Dean Winstanley. Hopp also qualified for the European Darts Open and the Austrian Darts Open, but lost in the first round in both. These results helped him to qualify for the European Championship for the first time through the European Order of Merit. He faced Paul Nicholson in the first round and led 3–1, but would lose 4–6. Hopp beat Mark Walsh 6–4 in the opening round of the German Darts Championship and was then defeated 6–3 by Jamie Caven. Hopp lost in the semi-finals of the German World Championship Qualify to Andree Welge, but reached the tournament anyway due to finishing the year eighth on the European Order of Merit which saw him claim the first of four spots available to non-qualified players. Hopp played ninth seed Robert Thornton in the first round and won the first set, before going on to be


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 defeated 3–1.Hopp began 2014 ranked world number 76, outside of the top 64 who guarantee themselves entry into every event for the year ahead. He entered Q School in an attempt to win a two-year tour card but was not successful and only had PDPA Associate Member status for 2014 which gave him entry to UK Open and European Tour qualifiers as well as the Challenge Tour. He qualified for six of the eight European Tour events losing in the first round in five of them, with the exception coming at the European Darts Grand Prix by eliminating Mike de Decker, but then lost 6–1 to Dave Chisnall. He also lost two finals on the Youth Tour and the final of the 10th Challenge Tour event 5–4 to Jay Foreman. 2015
In the German Qualifier for the 2015 World Championship, Hopp beat Sascha Stein 10–8 in the final but subsequently qualified through the Pro Tour Order of Merit to begin the tournament in the first round, instead of the preliminary round. He produced a superb performance against Mervyn King to beat him 3–2, sealing his place in the second round with a 161 finish. Hopp hit 10 180s during the match, the most of all the first round players in the event.He was comfortably defeated 4–0 by Vincent van der Voort in the second round. However, his play during 2014 and at the World Championship saw him rise 14 places in the rankings during the year to start 2015 62nd, the first time Hopp has been inside the top 64 who gain their PDC tour cards. At the first UK Open Qualifier he eliminated Kevin Painter, Ian White and Michael Smith to play in his first quarter-final in the PDC, where Brendan Dolan beat Hopp 6–5. This result helped him enter the UK Open at the third round stage where Kim Huybrechts beat him 9–7 after Hopp had been 7–5 up. Hopp played in his first World Cup of Darts this year. He partnered Jyhan Artut and they saw off India and Austria to make the quarter-finals, where they lost both their singles matches against England to exit the tournament. He was invited to play in the inaugural World Series of


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 Darts Finals and saw off Dimitri Van den Bergh 6–3, before losing by a reversal of this scoreline to Peter Wright in the second round.In the final of the 2015 World Youth Championship, Hopp was never ahead of his opponent Nathan Aspinall until the final leg when he sealed the title with a 6–5 win. 2016
Hopp lost 3–1 to Benito van de Pas in the first round of the 2016 World Championship. He couldn't qualify for the UK Open, but at the fourth Players Championship he reached his first quarter-final in a year by seeing off Mensur Suljović 6–2. <mask> then lost by a reversal of this scoreline to Gerwyn Price. He claimed the fifth Development Tour title with a 4–2 victory over Steve Lennon. At the European Darts Matchplay, <mask> beat Joe Murnan 6–5, Ian White 6–2 and Terry Jenkins 6–3 to progress through to his first European Tour quarter-final, where he was defeated 6–4 by Peter Wright. He got to the second round of the European Championship by eliminating Benito van de Pas 6–4, but was heavily defeated 10–3 by James Wade.His World Youth title qualified <mask> for his first Grand Slam of Darts where he was beaten 5–4 by Brendan Dolan and defeated Martin Adams 5–2, but a 5–1 loss to Michael van Gerwen would see him finish third in Group A and exit the tournament. 2017
After eliminating Vincent van der Voort 3–1 at the 2017 World Championship, Hopp lost 4–0 to Kim Huybrechts in the second round. He teamed up with Martin Schindler at the World Cup and they played the Netherlands in the quarter-finals after overcoming Northern Ireland and Brazil. The match went to a doubles game after Schindler lost to Michael van Gerwen and Hopp beat Raymond van Barneveld 4–3 and Germany lost 4–1. He was also given an invite to play in the 2017 US Darts Masters, but was knocked out in the first round by Canada's Dave Richardson 6–3. He also qualified for the 2017 German Darts Masters, but was again knocked out 6–3 in the first round, this time by Gary Anderson. 2018
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Following Gary Anderson's withdrawal from the 2019 Premier League, Hopp was selected as one of nine 'contenders' to replace him. He would play a one-off match against Raymond van Barneveld on night seven in Berlin.World Championship results

PDC

 2013: First round (lost to Denis Ovens 2–3)
 2014: First round (lost to Robert Thornton 1–3)
 2015: Second round (lost to Vincent van der Voort 0–4)
 2016: First round (lost to Benito van de Pas 1–3)
 2017: Second round (lost to Kim Huybrechts 0–4)
 2019: Third round (lost to Michael van Gerwen 1–4)
 2020: Third round (lost to Darius Labanauskas 2–4)
 2021: Second round (lost to Mervyn King 1–3)

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People from Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis
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<mask> (born 15 March 1966) is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) tournaments. Nicknamed The King, he has reached seven PDC major TV finals and reached a peak of No. 4 in the PDC Order of Merit. Early life
<mask> first took up the game at the age of 12, playing with an old rolled-cardboard dartboard given to him by his father. His father insisted that he played darts using competition distance and height. By the age of 13, he had ambitions to become a professional player as he was playing county darts at Superleague level. His first county A game was at the age of 14 and he won his local men's singles league at that age.Additionally, <mask> hit his first ever nine-dart leg of 501 aged 14 in a practice match with his father. BDO career
<mask> made his professional debut as a 28-year-old in the 1994 World Masters where he lost in the last 32 to Andy Fordham. His first title in the BDO came in the 1996 French Open where he beat Leo Laurens in the final. <mask> has won several Open titles since he came onto the darts scene in 1995, including the Dutch Open in 1997. He made his debut at BDO World Darts Championship in 1997 as a 30-year-old. He reached the semi final of the event beating Ronnie Baxter and Roland Scholten before losing to eventual champion Les Wallace. He won £8,700 for his performance.<mask> reached twelve major finals whilst playing in the BDO and converted only three of them into tournament victories. In 2004, he claimed his first BDO major title when he won the World Masters in Bridlington, defeating Tony O'Shea 7–6 in the final having trailed 3–5. His two other major victories to date have both taken place in the Netherlands. The first of these was the 2005 International Darts League, where he defeated O'Shea again in the final, this time by 13–11 in legs. Later the same year he added the Dutch Grand Masters beating Martin Adams 5–4 in the final. His first major final came in the 2000 World

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 prevailing against Tony O'Shea in a tight encounter which ended 7–6 in favour of <mask> handing him his first major title after his sixth final. In 2005, he had his worst World Championship performance in four years, as he made only the quarter-finals, losing out to André Brantjes 2 sets to 3. <mask> spoke of his poor form and prior to the 2005 BDO World Darts Championship. <mask>'s next tournament that year was the International Darts League.He beat Ted Hankey, Co Stompé and Simon Whitlock before facing Tony O'Shea for the second time in a major final, and won 13–11 to secure his second major BDO title. Also in 2005, <mask> made the final of the World Darts Trophy for the second time and on this occasion he was beaten again losing 4–6 against Gary Robson. This was to be <mask>'s last major final before his controversial switch to the Professional Darts Corporation. In 2006, <mask>'s form declined and his best result came in the 2006 World Darts Trophy where he made the quarter-finals narrowly losing to Michael van Gerwen 4–5. He also made only the second round in the 2006 BDO World Darts Championship whitewashing Brian Woods 3 sets to 0 before losing to eventual champion Jelle Klaasen 2–4. His last tournament as a BDO affiliated player came in the 2007 BDO World Darts Championship where he made the semi-finals before losing 4–5 against eventual champion Martin Adams. <mask> was surrounded by controversy during this tournament following speculation about his future and a possible switch to the PDC.This would prove to be his last tournament as a BDO player. PDC career

PDC switch and beginnings
<mask>'s switch from the BDO to rival organization the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) created much debate and controversy. During the 2007 BDO World Darts Championship there was much speculation that <mask> and three fellow BDO players (Michael van Gerwen, Jelle Klaasen and Vincent van der Voort) would be switching to the PDC after the World Championships.

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 <mask> was angry that rumours had surfaced and even threatened to quit the tournament as the speculation heightened even stating, "I'm really not happy with the treatment I've had today, not just from one person but from a lot of people who I have known for many years". Despite claiming to BDO press officer Robert Holmes that he would "rather pack up darts than play for the PDC" <mask> announced his switch to the PDC on 6 February 2007 in a bid to "further his career". Having reached the semi-final of the 2007 BDO World Championships losing to eventual champion Martin Adams, <mask> had signed a contract confirming he would play at the 2008 tournament due to a clause in all contracts of BDO players stating that if they reach the semi-finals of the World Championship they are obliged to return the following year, with champions committing themselves to three years. <mask>'s switch meant that the BDO threatened legal action against <mask>.<mask> made his PDC debut at a non-televised event, the Southern Regional Final of the UK Open on 4 March 2007. He reached the quarter-finals before losing to Wayne Mardle. During his first year in the PDC, he performed well on the 2007 PDC Pro Tour, reaching one final, two semi-finals and four quarter-finals. He also gained a place in the 2007 World Matchplay where he reached the quarter-finals before losing to eventual champion James Wade. His performances in his first year helped him steadily climb the world rankings and qualify for his first PDC World Championship. 2008
In his debut at the 2008 PDC World Darts Championship, he fell to Dutchman Roland Scholten in the second round. 2008 proved a successful year for <mask> as he reached two semi-finals in PDC premier events as well as his maiden PDC premier final in the inaugural 2008 Championship League Darts where he lost 7–5 to Phil Taylor.His first PDC title came at the Scottish Players Championship in Glasgow in April 2008 where he beat Taylor on his way to a 3–0

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<mask> went into 2009 competing in the 2009 PDC World Darts Championship, and this turned out to be his best result in the PDC World Championship to date. He beat Barrie Bates in the quarter-finals before falling to Phil Taylor 2–6 with Taylor averaging 103.44.His performance in the World Championship meant that he moved up to 6 in the PDC Order of Merit and therefore qualified automatically for the 2009 Premier League Darts. <mask> carried on his good form into the 2009 World Matchplay in July. He defeated Mark Dudbridge, Steve Beaton and Vincent van der Voort before meeting Phil Taylor in the semi-final. Taylor prevailed 17–6, averaging 106.54, and went on to win the tournament. In the next PDC Premier event of the 2009 season, the 2009 European Championship, he reached the quarter-final before losing to James Wade 6–10. This was after beating Colin Osborne in the second round 9–6 recording a 104.00 average. <mask>'s successful run in the 2008 Championship League Darts continued into the 2009 tournament as he reached the semi-final before losing to eventual champion Colin Osborne 1–6.Also in 2009, <mask> achieved his first televised nine dart finish. It came in September 2009 at the South African Masters against James Wade, and was the first ever televised nine dart finish outside of Europe. 2009 Premier League

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 victories on the bounce beating James Wade 8–1, John Part 8–2 and Jelle Klaasen 8–4. He then faced defending champion Phil Taylor in Newcastle, recording a 7–7 draw despite leading 7–5 with both players averaging over 100. <mask>'s form then dropped, only winning two more games in Birmingham and Glasgow against Mardle and Wade respectively. <mask> was also a controversial figure during the tournament, often letting the crowd get to him and affect his mood and darts.During a 2009 Premier League match with Taylor, he threw a dart over Taylor as he stooped down to pick up his flight. During the post-match interview, neither of them would look at each other. His final position of 4th in the league was influenced by the illness of Mardle, as he was withdrawn from the competition. Therefore, all results that included Mardle were annulled, including <mask>'s two victories over Mardle. <mask>'s fourth place in the overall league meant that he faced Taylor in the play-off semi-finals at the Wembley Arena. <mask> won 10–6 to end Taylor's winning streak in Premier League competitions. Despite this victory he was to finish runner-up as he lost the final 13–8 to Wade, who beat Raymond van Barneveld 10–8 in the other semi-final.Wade led <mask> 8–2 before a mini comeback from <mask> but Wade was able to see the game out to claim his maiden Premier League Darts title. 2010
<mask> went into the 2010 PDC World Darts Championship as number 5 in the PDC Order of Merit. Despite a poor performance in the Championship where he lost 2–4 in the second round to Co Stompé, he still qualified for the 2010 Premier League Darts <mask> reached his third PDC major final in the 2010 Players Championship Finals. Having beaten James Wade, Jelle Klaasen, Wayne Jones and Colin Osborne in earlier rounds, he narrowly lost in the final to Paul Nicholson 13–11. This was his third PDC Premier event final without victory. <mask> also reached the last 16 in the 2010 UK Open, losing 8–9 to Gary

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King started the 2010 Premier League with wins over James Wade and Adrian Lewis. His first loss of the season came in Belfast as he lost 6–8 to Ronnie Baxter. His rivalry with Phil Taylor continued in Manchester, where <mask> recorded a 7–7 draw. <mask> lost his last three round-robin matches to Taylor, Raymond van Barneveld and Simon Whitlock, but he still made it to the semi-finals for the second consecutive year, again finishing 4th in the table. He finished on the same number of points as Baxter, but qualified due to a better leg difference. Just like in the previous year, he played against Taylor in the semi-final. This time, Taylor resoundingly won 8–1, averaging 107.98 in the process Despite losing badly against Taylor, <mask> beat Whitlock in the third-place play-off.2011
<mask> went into the 2011 PDC World Darts Championship ranked 6th in the PDC Order of Merit. His 2011 World Championship were ended in the second round, where he was beaten 3–4 by Andy Smith. After the World Championship, <mask> dropped out of the automatic qualifying places for the 2011 Premier League Darts, and was not awarded a wildcard. His successful streak in the Players Championship Finals continued as he again reached the semi-final for the second consecutive year. He lost in the semi-final to Phil Taylor 8–10. He lost in the third round of the 2011 UK Open tournament, losing 9–5 to Mark Walsh. He qualified for the 2011 World Matchplay Darts as the 9th seed., but lost 6–10 against Justin Pipe in the first round, reporting a complaint of tennis elbow.At the 2011 European Championship, he beat Co Stompé 6–1 in the first round, before losing 3–10 to Taylor in the second round. He also qualified for the 2011 Championship League Darts winner's group by beating Simon Whitlock 6–3 in the final of group five. In the winner's group finished second in the table before losing to Paul


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<mask> played Geoff Kime in the first round of the 2012 World Championship and outplayed his opponent, winning 3–0 without dropping a leg.However, he was knocked out in the second round for the third successive year as he was beaten 1–4 by Michael van Gerwen. At the UK Open <mask> beat his old BDO rival Ted Hankey and Gareth Cousins, before losing 7–9 to van Gerwen in the last 32. Due to dropping out of the top 16 in the PDC rankings, <mask> was due to play seed Phil Taylor in the first round of the 2012 World Matchplay. Despite a strong performance where he hit eight maximums to Taylor's one, <mask> crucially missed three darts to lead the match 9–8 and instead lost 8–10. At the World Grand Prix in October, <mask> reached his first major final in two years. In his first round match against Terry Jenkins, <mask> survived five missed match darts from his opponent to edge the game 2–1 in sets, and then saw off Dave Chisnall (3–1) and Robert Thornton (3–0 in 31 minutes) to meet home favourite Brendan Dolan in the semi-finals. <mask> came back from 0–2 down in the first set to take it and from there was in control of the match as he won 5–2 and met Michael van Gerwen in the final.<mask> led 3–0 and 4–1 in the final, but from there on only won three more legs as he lost the match 4–6. <mask> afterwards admitted he was unhappy with the crowd, as they were loudly booing his starting and finishing doubles, but the £40,000 runner-up prize saw him climb to 13th in the world. <mask> won all three of his group games at the Grand Slam of Darts, but was defeated by Kevin Painter 5–10 in the last 16. After all 33 ProTour events of 2012 had been played, <mask> was 20th on

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<mask> lost in the first round of the PDC World Championship for the first time in its 2013 edition 2–3 to Dean Winstanley. The match has been described as a classic with both players missing darts to win before Winstanley took the deciding set 6–4.His first final of the year came at the eighth UK Open Qualifier in April, having won seven games including defeats over James Wade, Wes Newton and Robert Thornton, but he was then whitewashed 0–6 by Michael van Gerwen. He was the seventh seed for the UK Open itself. <mask> reached the final of the Austrian Darts Open by beating Joe Cullen 6–0 in the quarter-finals with an average of 103.66 and Steve Beaton 6–5 in the semis. He faced van Gerwen once more in the final and was defeated 3–6. He also played van Gerwen in the third round of the UK Open and was defeated 5–9. <mask>'s second European Tour final of the year came in September at the German Darts Masters where he edged past Peter Wright 6–5 in the third round, whitewashed James Wade 6–0 in the quarter-finals and beat Wayne Jones 6–4 in the semis. He faced Steve Beaton and with the final on throw with Beaton 4–3 ahead <mask> incredibly burst his score when on 134 as he hit a treble 20 with his last dart instead of a single to leave 40.Beaton replied by finishing 160 and, even though <mask> fought back to take the match into a deciding leg, he never had a dart for the title as Beaton won 6–5. <mask> could not replicate his performances at the World Grand Prix from last year as he was defeated 2–0 in sets by Wayne Jones in the first round. 2014
<mask> overcame Darin Young and Ricky Evans to face Adrian Lewis in the third round of the 2014 World Championship. He lost nine of the first eleven legs and could never recover as he was beaten 4–1 in sets. <mask>'s first final of the year came in

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 February at the Dutch Darts Masters, but he was defeated 6–4 by Michael van Gerwen whilst averaging 107.40. Despite playing with a bad sciatica in his back, <mask> reached the semi-finals of the UK Open for the first time in his career. He fell 3–0 down to Lewis and was denied a place in the final with a 10–6 defeat.In the first round of the World Matchplay, <mask> was 5–4 ahead of Kim Huybrechts and then won five legs in a row to advance 10–4 with an average of 101.06. He could not replicate his form in the next round however, as he averaged 89.59 in a 13–8 loss to Lewis. In September, <mask> ended a run of three defeats in European Tour finals to win the European Darts Grand Prix by beating Michael Smith 6–5. In a tight match in the quarter-finals of the World Grand Prix, <mask> was defeated in a final leg decider against Van Gerwen as he was unable to checkout 120. He went a stage further at the European Championship, but lost 11–8 to Terry Jenkins. <mask> continued his fine form at the Masters by beating Simon Whitlock and Justin Pipe and then produced a superb performance to exact revenge over Van Gerwen 11–9 with a 121 finish on the bull. He built on his momentum in the final against James Wade to lead 5–0 after the first session with an average of 110 and was also 9–2 in front.Wade rallied to trail 9–6 before a 158 finish from <mask> saw him stand one leg away from his first PDC major title. However, he would miss a total of eight championship darts as Wade completed his comeback with an 11–10 win. The misses didn't seem to affect him at the Grand Slam, as he punished every mistake from Gary Anderson in a second round 10–4 win and then beat Stephen Bunting 16–9 to face Phil Taylor in the semi-finals. <mask> couldn't keep pace with Taylor as he fell 12–2 down and, though he briefly rallied, was eliminated 16–9. Taylor also knocked <mask> out of the Players Championship Finals, 10–7 in the second round. 2015
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After edging out Russia's Aleksandr Oreshkin 3–2 in the first round of the 2016 World Championship, <mask> lost 4–2 to Jelle Klaasen in round two. He won through to the semi-finals of the Dutch Darts Masters, which included recovering from 5–0 down to Benito van de Pas in the quarters to win 6–5, and was beaten 6–2 by Michael van Gerwen. He lost 9–7 to Van de Pas in the third round of the UK Open.<mask> inflicted James Wade's first ever first round defeat at the World Matchplay by beating him 10–5 and then saw off Brendan Dolan 11–8 to play in the quarter-finals of the event for the first time in seven years. In an extremely tight match he narrowly lost 16–14 to Phil Taylor, with the 16-time world champion stating that it was the best he had seen <mask> play for two or three years. He lost in the opening round of both the World Grand Prix and Players Championship Finals and James Wilson edged out <mask> 10–9 in the second round of the European Championship. 2017
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At the 2018 World Championship, <mask> lost 3–2 in the first round to Zoran Lerchbacher. 2019
At the 2019 World Championship, <mask> lost 4–2 in the third round to Brendan Dolan. 2020
At the 2020 World Championship, <mask> lost 4–1 in the third round to Simon Whitlock. In November he reached his first major final in 6 years at the Players Championships Finals, where he eventually lost 11–10 to defending champion Michael van Gerwen. 2021
At the 2021 World Championship, <mask> lost 4–1 in the fourth round to eventual champion Gerwyn Price.At the Masters, he lost 11–8 in the final to Jonny Clayton. 2022
At the 2022 World Championship, <mask> had his best run since 2009 by beating Ryan Joyce, Steve Lennon and Raymond Smith, but was eventually whitewashed 5–0 in the quarterfinals by James Wade. World Championship performances
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<mask> has been the subject of controversy during his career. In 2003 following his semi-final defeat to Raymond van Barneveld, he subsequently blamed the air conditioning being on. The following year in his first round match against Rick Hofstra, when tied at 1–1 in sets, <mask> complained that the length of the oche was not right; the players were forced to leave the stage whilst officials measured, <mask> was incorrect. The players returned with the majority of the crowd against <mask>, though he went on to win the match 3–1. In the 2010 Grand Slam of Darts, <mask> played then-BDO player John Henderson in his last group game. Despite winning the game 5–4, he


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 exchanged heated words with Henderson towards the end of the match and was visibly unhappy.Whilst refusing to reveal the precise reason to his actions, it was understood through television analysis that <mask> felt Henderson, after having to move across the oche for a better shot with his third dart, had stepped across the oche line and thrown from a closer distance to the board, thus believing he had gained an unfair advantage. Personal life
<mask>'s father died in September 2010, which <mask> later admitted left him 'devastated', and this led to a loss of form. At the 2011 PDC World Darts Championship, <mask>'s wife cheered him on accompanied by a crown in remembrance of his father. <mask> is good friends with and lives close to fellow darts player Peter Wright and they often practice together. He lives in Bradwell in Norfolk. He is also a keen motor enthusiast and revealed that when younger he gave up his chance of becoming a racing driver to continue his fledgling darts career. <mask> currently travels and practices with upcoming darts player and 2012 Youth World Champion James Hubbard who <mask> has described as a player to watch in the future.During the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom in 2020, <mask> undertook work as a delivery driver for online retail company Amazon, and in 2021 set up a construction company. Awards
PDC Newcomer of the Year 2008. PDC Televised Performance of the Year 2009 (v Phil Taylor, Premier League Darts Semi-Final). Preliminary round; (DNQ) Did not qualify; (DNP) Did not participate; (NH) Not held

Performance timeline

Nine-dart finishes

References

External links
<mask> <mask> Official Website

Mervyn <mask> Profile on PDC.tv
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1966 births
Living people
Professional Darts Corporation current tour card holders
British Darts Organisation players
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<mask> (born October 22, 1969) is an American art photographer and artist from Des Moines, Iowa. She is best known for her photographic series that she calls "elliptical narratives" which are similar to the works produced by Cindy Sherman. Like Sherman, <mask>'s works are influenced by film and painting, rather than the typical conventions of photography. She lives and works in New York. Early life and education
<mask>'s mother was an evangelical Christian who brought <mask> and her brother along on "wild pilgrimages throughout the Midwest," where they would witness miracles being performed, acts of healing, people speaking in tongues, and other Charismatic Christian practices. She claims that she does not remember anything strange about these acts, "but more a feeling of excitement and a security in the faith that [she] felt from everyone there." <mask> says that her work revolves around a similar idea of faith, believing the possibility of the impossible and suspension of disbelief.After studying for two years at Bennington College, she received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1992. In 1995, she received her MFA from Yale School of Art, studying under Gregory Crewdson. Career

<mask> stages all of her scenes, using the style of "narrative photography," wherein each scene exists only to be photographed. <mask> pioneers a new discourse of contemporary photography where within each of her series, the narrative of her photographs is disrupted, "its fragments functioning like film stills excised from their context but suggesting a missing whole." There are gaps of space and time left between each photograph, evoking a "vivid and dreamlike world." In a 2002 interview with curator Matthew Drutt of the Menil Collection, <mask> describes her creative process and the inspiration she draws from other sources in the following way: "The stories and events that I choose to use as jumping-off points

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In haunting photographic scenes of preadolescent girls, <mask> alludes to well-known children's literature, such as Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which can be found in two of her series: wonder (1996–97) and override (1997). <mask> made her international debut with the twenty photograph series, wonder (1996–97), the first series <mask> created after receiving her MFA at Yale University School of Art. wonder, which draws the viewer in with stained-glass coloration intensified by lamination, features two identically dressed Alices photographed together and separately and at oblique angles that recall the disorienting experiences of Alice in Wonderland. For example, in Untitled #1 of wonder, one of the Alices is pictured treading in a pool of her tears, "her body grotesquely distorted by the refraction of light on the water" and in Untitled #2, one Alice leans over the other, plugging her nose, seemingly about to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. These two photographs also demonstrate how <mask> takes on the role of "unreliable narrator" within her series by her "use of photography as a format which invites the suspension of disbelief, with her codings and fragmentations of the frames exposing the viewer to the inconsistencies and assumptions that are held in place by realist photographic as well as narrative conventions.”  Through the use of different sized photographs, <mask> displays an instability in Alice by referring to the character's growth spurts and shrinking spells.1997

In the series override, allusions to Alice's

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 Adventures in Wonderland are made again, as in wonder, but in this series, the scenarios are drawn from <mask>'s own imagination. override features seven versions of Alice which alternate between roles of victim and aggressor. A description about the series written by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum curators states, "[The seven versions of Alice] try to control the changes to her body by literally, physically holding her in place — a potent metaphor for the anxiety and confusion experienced by children on the verge of adolescence." Color and chiaroscuro play a large role in <mask>'s work as they lead the viewer to the main source of action in each piece. While the wonder series features cool blue tones, the photographs featured in override were captured in the "golden hues of Twilight." The constantly changing scale of the photographs, the physical stretching and pulling actions performed by the models, and the range of size of the photographs themselves (6 x 7 1/4 inches to 60 x 90 inches) all relate to the central metaphor of Alice in Wonderland: change. <mask>'s film Floater repeats in a backwards sequence a scene of an Ophelia-like young woman in a pool of water, trying to decide whether she should drown or save herself.The theme of this cycle of indecision is seen again in her series half life in 2002. 1998

In her photographic series, hide, <mask> references a lesser-known Brothers Grimm tale, "The Magic Donkey." This series features young girls alone in a gothic mansion, creating a sense of dread and underlying sexual intrigue that takes its impetus from the tale of a young woman forced to hide beneath animal skins to hide from the matrimonial desires of her father. The name of the series is drawn from the children's game hide-and-seek, the dual personality of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the literal skin, or hide, that creates a boundary between the inside and the outside, the self and the other. 1999

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<mask>'s half life—drawn from stories such as Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, <mask>'s (no relation) "The Old Nurse's Story," and Henry James' The Turn of the Screw—began as an idea for a film installation and evolved into an exhibition combining still and moving images with ten photographs and a film installation. The unnamed central character of Rebecca, a tale from 1938 about an ingénue who goes abroad, marries a middle-aged patrician, and follows him back to his ancestral estate in Cornwall. There the young woman finds the house filled with the memory of the man's dead first wife, Rebecca, which torments the heroine to the brink of suicide. half life draws from the

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In her video, Acting Lessons, <mask> plays the protagonist, an actress who is performing a monologue and is continuously interrupted by an acting coach off screen.In this piece, <mask> adopts "a mundane living room as the setting for her portrayal of emotional power struggles." Aperture at 50, Aperture's Burden Gallery, New York
 Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2007
 Global Feminisms, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, The Brooklyn Museum, New York
2012
 Exquisite Corpses. Drawings and Configuration, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
 Ecstatic Alphabets / Heaps of Language, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Reception

Grace Glueck, writing in The New York Times in 2004, described <mask> as an established "maker of spooky, tension-filled feminine fictions", her work recalling Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca and the films of Alfred Hitchcock. In Glueck's view, <mask>'s method is "to create a narrative expectation without fulfilling it", each


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 Citigroup Private Bank Photography Prize (2000). Nancy Graves Foundation Grant (2002). Des Moines Art Center Artists Residency, Des Moines (2005)
 KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne, best film in the art category: Erasers (2005)
 NYFA Grant (2010)
 Artslink Grant (2010)
 Bohen Foundation Grant (2010)
 Recollects Residency, Paris (2011)

References

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1969 births
Living people
Photographers from Iowa
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<mask> (born 16 March 1959) is a South African politician who served  as Minister of Finance of South Africa in the government of President Cyril Ramaphosa from 2018 to 2021. <mask> was the eighth Governor of the South African Reserve Bank and the first Black South African to hold the post. He was sworn in as Minister of Finance on 9 October 2018, following Nhlanhla Nene's resignation. <mask> is a founding member of Mboweni Brothers Investment Holdings and a former international advisor of Goldman Sachs International. He has been appointed as a non executive Director for South Africa at the New Development Bank (BRICS Development Bank). Early life and career
The youngest of three children, <mask> was born on 16 March 1959. He grew up in Tzaneen in the then Transvaal Province.He attended the University of the North between 1979 and 1980, where he registered for a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He did not complete his studies there and left South Africa to go into exile in 1980. While in exile in Lesotho, <mask> joined the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa's current governing party, and was an activist for the party in many capacities. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in economics and political science from the National University of Lesotho in 1985. In 1988 he obtained a Master of Arts in Development Economics from the University of East Anglia in England. Political career
Prior to his appointment as Minister of Labour, <mask> was Deputy Head of the Department of Economic Policy in the ANC. He also represented the ANC on several domestic and international platforms.<mask> was a member of the ANC's National Executive and National Working Committees and was also Chairperson of the National Executive Committee's

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 Economic Transformation Committee, which coordinated the development of ANC economic policies. <mask> served as Minister of Labour from May 1994 to July 1998 in South African President Nelson Mandela's cabinet. While Minister of Labour <mask> was the architect of South Africa's post-Apartheid labour legislation, which allowed for collective bargaining and the establishment of labour courts. He became one of the World Economic Forums Global Leaders of Tomorrow in 1995. In 1997 <mask> was appointed head of the ANC's Policy Department which was responsible for managing ANC policy processes. Upon joining the South African Reserve Bank, he resigned all of his elected and appointed positions in the ANC. <mask> joined the South African Reserve Bank in July 1998 as Advisor to the Governor.On 8 August 1999 he succeeded Dr. Chris Stals as Governor of the Reserve Bank. As governor, he oversaw the launch of the inflation targeting policy to help the bank achieve price stability and dealt with the rand's plunge due to global and local events. During his tenure, <mask> was appointed honorary Professor of Economics at the University of South Africa for 2000 to 2003. The Governor was also elected Chancellor of the University of the North-West and was installed as Chancellor on 23 February 2002. The University of Stellenbosch appointed the Governor Professor Extraordinary in Economics for the period 1 April 2002 to 31 March 2005. Career in the private sector
In June 2010, <mask> was appointed an International Adviser of Goldman Sachs International, where he provided strategic advice to the firm on business development opportunities, with a particular focus on South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. He also served as chairman of bullion

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On 9 October 2018, <mask> was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa as the new Minister of Finance of the Republic of South Africa with immediate effect following Nhlanhla Nene's resignation. From the beginning of his tenure <mask> often found himself at odds with the ruling ANC policy and ideology. The ruling ANC has always inclined itself towards socialist policies, a stance which has been viewed as a form of appeasing its alliance partners, the South African Communist Party and COSATU. On the other hand, <mask> has continuously proffered liberal solutions such as his 2019 economic recovery growth plan which has been rejected by SACP and COSATU. His economic growth plan was widely criticised in the Public Sector. In an opinion piece, Telkom Group CEO Sipho Maseko slammed <mask>'s proposed reforms for the ICT sector, particularly plans related to the rollout of spectrum, as being "ill-thought-out". However the response was different in the private sector, CEO of Bridgement Daniel Goldberg during his Sage tour to Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban hailed the plan, saying "it will improve the rate at which big state owned enterprises pays its suppliers consequently increasing efficiency in the economy.Phumlani Majozi in his opinion piece on Finance 24 argued that "<mask>'s ideas on how to revamp this economy, presented in his recent paper, titled "Economic Transformation, Inclusive Growth and Competitiveness: Towards an Economic Strategy for South Africa", are what will get this country back on track." In June 2020, Mboweni proposed a new austerity policy, to cut the state's wage bill of R160.2 billion over three years and to

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 adopt a Zero-based budget system in order to avoid a sovereign debt crisis in 2024. On 5 August 2021, <mask> resigned as finance minister. He was succeeded in the post by Enoch Godongwana. Joining the private sector
On 31 January 2022, <mask> resigned as an ANC Member of the National Assembly to take up a position in the private sector. He has been appointed as chairman and independent non-executive director of Accelerate, a property fund company. Other activities
 World Bank, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2018–2021)
 Joint World Bank-IMF Development Committee, Member (2018–2021)
 Asia School of Business, Member of the Board of Governors (since 2015)

Recognition
 2015 – Honorary professor, School of Economic and Business Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand
 2001 – Honorary Doctorate of Economics, University of Natal

Controversy
In August 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa “strongly reprimanded” <mask> over comments he made on Twitter about the dismissal of Zambia’s central bank governor Denny Kalyalya.In a statement, the presidency explained that “in one of his tweets, Minister Mboweni is promising to mobilise if not given reasons why the Central (bank) Governor has been fired,” citing the need for central bank independence. References

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<mask> biography, at African National Congress site, retrieved 2008-08-20

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African National Congress politicians
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
AngloGold Ashanti
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Lee Sang-hyeok (; born May 7, 1996), better known as <mask> (), is a South Korean professional League of Legends player for T1. Formerly known as GoJeonPa () on the Korean server, he was picked up by LCK team SK Telecom T1 in 2013 and has played as the team's mid laner since. He is widely considered to be the best League of Legends player of all time. Lee is renowned for his high mechanical skill and extremely versatile champion pool. He is best known for playing LeBlanc, Zed, Syndra, Azir, Ahri, and Ryze. He is the first player to have reached 1,000 and 2,000 kills in the LCK, the second to have played 500 games, and the first to have played 600 games. Lee is one of the only two players to have won the League of Legends World Championship three times, having done so in 2013, 2015 and 2016.He has also won the All-Star Paris 2014, the Mid-Season Invitational tournament in 2016 and 2017, and the IEM World Championship in 2016. He owns three different League of Legends skins as a result of winning World Championship, which include SKT T1 Zed (2013), SKT T1 Ryze (2015) and SKT T1 Syndra (2016). Lee became a part owner of T1 Entertainment & Sports in early 2020. Early life
Lee was born in Seoul on May 7, 1996. He and his brother were raised by their grandparents and their father, Lee Kyung-joon, in Gangseo District, Seoul. Lee always loved puzzles and video games, often playing custom maps for Warcraft III and the MOBA Chaos during his teenage years. He discovered League of Legends in late 2011, and quickly became adept at the game.He attended Mapo High School, the same high school that Deft of DRX attended, but dropped out to join SKT T1 K and pursue a career in esports. Career

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In 2014, SK Telecom T1 K followed their success through in the OGN winter season, making the entire run without dropping a single game. They would then go on to win All-Star Paris 2014. However, their Winter season success did not follow through and during the Spring and Summer seasons, SKT T1 K failed to qualify for the 2014 World Championship.In the following offseason, Riot Games changed the team regulations so that each organisation can only have one team participating in each league. This led to the merger of SKT T1 K and SKT T1 S, and the subsequent departures of Impact and Piglet for the NA LCS. The new team would compete under the name SKT T1. Season 5
Between Seasons 4 and 5, many top Korean League of Legends players, including the entire world champion team, Samsung Galaxy, left Korea to play on Chinese teams for higher salaries. Lee on the other hand, declined an offer of over $1,000,000 by a Chinese team, preferring to stay in Korea on SKT. In November 2014 it was reported that Lee had declined contract offers from several Chinese companies including one offer of ₩500 million ($425,403 USD) for streaming. Throughout 2015, Lee shared the mid lane position with Lee "Easyhoon" Ji-hoon.Depending on the team composition SKT wanted to play,


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Lee and his team started off the 2016 Season by winning the LCK Spring Split. With this victory, SKT was guaranteed a spot in the 2016 Mid-Season Invitational. At that point in time, MSI was the only major international tournament they had yet to win.They were heavily favored coming into the tournament, but were initially unable to perform up to their usual standards, unexpectedly losing several games in the group stage. However, they managed to turn things around during the elimination round and eventually clinched the title by sweeping the North American team, Counter Logic Gaming, in the finals. On July 11, 2016, Lee became the first player to reach 1,000 kills in the LCK. His 1,000th kill was on MVP Beyond's Reksai, which he achieved on Malzahar. SKT placed third in the 2016 LCK Summer Split, but still qualified for the 2016 World Championship through circuit points. The team swept through the group stage and advanced towards the playoff round. In the semifinals they defeated the ROX Tigers in a close 3–2 series.In the finals they defeated Samsung Galaxy in another close 3–2 series, winning their third world championship title. Lee was voted as the Most Valuable Player of the tournament. Season 7
Lee renewed his contract with SKT with an "unprecedented offer", which was rumored to be over $2.5


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 million USD. On February 6, 2017, Lee recorded his first live stream on Twitch and had a peak viewership of 245,100, setting a record at the time for the most views for a single streamer in the history of the site. However, this record was broken in early 2018 by another League of Legends streamer named Tyler1. Lee and his team later won the 2017 LCK Spring Split, clean sweeping KT Rolster 3–0 in the finals. This win qualified them for the 2017 Mid-Season Invitational.At the 2017 Mid-Season Invitational, SKT topped the group stage with a 8–2 record. SKT swept Flash Wolves 3–0 in the semifinals and defeated G2 Esports 3–1 in the finals to become the first team to win the Mid-Season Invitational back to back. At the 2017 World Championship, SKT were still considered by many to be strong favorites to lift the cup for a third consecutive time despite not winning the LCK Summer Split. After a dominant group stage conceding just a single loss, SKT narrowly defeated Misfits and Royal Never Give Up in the quarterfinals and semifinals respectively, before having to face Samsung Galaxy in a repeat of the previous year's final. SKT's fate was sealed after Lee was caught by a flash Varus ultimate by Samsung's AD carry Ruler, resulting in Samsung Galaxy clean sweeping SKT 3–0, ending the SKT domination at the World Championship. Lee himself was shown to be visibly upset after the loss, and had to be consoled by his teammates to shake the Samsung Galaxy players' hands post-game. However, this caught the attention of many League of Legends fans throughout the world, with much support and many tributes being given to the team's legacy and Lee for his continued success.Season 8
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On November 20, 2018, it was announced that Lee had re-signed with SKT for another three years. He had been listed on Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2019, under the category of Entertainment & Sports. On April 13, 2019, SKT won the 2019 LCK Spring final, earning Lee his seventh LCK title. In May 2019, SKT represented the LCK at the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational.They finished the group stage in second place but lost 2–3 to G2 Esports in the semifinals. On July 7, 2019, SKT, along with three other LCK teams, won their league's first Rift Rivals championship title after defeating LPL teams by 3–1. After winning his first Rift Rivals title, Lee became the first and only player to have won all of the League of Legends international tournaments (Mid-Season Invitational, World Championship, Rift Rivals, All-Star) organized by Riot Games. Lee played his 500th match in the LCK on August 21, 2019, during the LCK Summer Playoffs. He won his 500th game against Afreeca Freecs with Qiyana, with a KDA of 7/1/14. He won his eighth LCK title along with his team members on August 31, 2019 in the 2019 Summer LCK Final. His team qualified as the LCK's first seed for the 2019 League of Legends World Championship.On October 27, 2019, Lee achieved his 100th international win after defeating Splyce at the 2019 World Championship. At the 2019 World Championship, SKT was once again defeated by G2 Esports in a semifinals series, losing 1–3. Season 10
On February 18, 2020, T1 announced that Lee had re-signed with them for three years, in which his


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 contract will last until the year 2022. He also became a part owner of T1 Entertainment and Sports. On March 5, 2020, Lee became the first player to have reached 2,000 kills in the LCK. The champion used when achieving his 2,000th kill was Zoe. On April 25, 2020, Lee claimed his ninth LCK title after he and his team defeated Gen.G at the 2020 LCK Spring finals.Season 11
On February 3, 2021, Lee played his 600th game in the LCK. He is the first to achieve the 600 game mark in the LCK. His 600th game was against NS RedForce, which he locked in Orianna and achieved a KDA of 2/0/6. He won the game, and was awarded as the MVP of the game. This was also his 399th win in the LCK. On February 6, 2021, Lee became the first player to achieve 400th win in the LCK. His 400th win was against Fredit Brion, and the champion picked was Sett.During the 2021 League of Legends World Championship, Lee was eliminated in the Semifinals in a 3-2 victory in a best-of-5 series against DWG KIA. His team qualified as the 3rd seed from the LCK via the LCK Regional Qualifier. His team had an overall record of 5-1 in their Group Stage, and 5-2 in the Brackets/Knockout Stage of the tournament. His team beat teams such as Edward Gaming, 100 Thieves and Hanwha Life Esports throughout the tournament to get to Semifinals. On November 19, 2021, T1 announced that they had re-signed with Lee. Season 12
On February 18, 2022, Lee played his 1,000th career game against KT Rolster. He was the second player to achieve the milestone.He locked in Leblanc and won the game. On February 20, 2022, Lee played his 700th LCK game. He is the first to achieve the 700 game mark in the LCK. The game was against NS RedForce in which he locked in Ahri


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Anthony M<mask> (; born 20 November 1952) is a former professional footballer who currently works as assistant academy director of Manchester United. He is responsible for the Under-9 to Under-16 player development programme. Early career
<mask> was born in Salford, Lancashire, and grew up as a Manchester City fan in Wythenshawe, South Manchester. He attended St Anthonys Sec Modern in Blackley, North Manchester for a short while then after the family moved to Partington, Whelan attended St Paul's Secondary Modern School in Urmston, where he captained his school team, as well as the local schoolboy representative team, Stretford Boys. Whilst playing for Stretford Boys, Whelan was spotted by Manchester United scout Joe Armstrong and invited to sign associated schoolboy forms in 1967. He signed apprentice professional forms upon leaving school in July 1968 and advanced through the various junior teams featuring in the FA Youth Cup team that reached the semi-finals in both 1969 and 1970. They also won the prestigious FC Blue Stars Youth Tournament in Zurich, Switzerland in May 1969.He signed as a full professional in December 1969 and, in May 1970, aged just 17, he was selected to go on the first team's three-week tour of Bermuda, Canada and the United States, where he played against Eintracht Frankfurt and the Bermuda national football team. The remainder of his tenure with the club was spent on the fringes of the first team, playing for the Reserves, for whom he was the leading scorer in 1971–72. Manchester City and Rochdale
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In 1976, coach Ron Newman brought Whelan across the pond to play for the American Soccer League's expansion Los Angeles Skyhawks. Whelan quickly became a fan favourite and earned the nickname "Wheels" for his speed and as a play on his last name. Splitting his time between midfield and forward, Whelan was the third leading scorer on the team as they won the ASL championship. North American Soccer League
After a brief stint back in England, Whelan went back to the United States in April 1977 to play for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in the North American Soccer League from 1977 to 1979, and from 1982 to 1983, during which time they won the Eastern Division title and reached the American Conference final in 1978. During his two spells with the club, he played over a hundred games and had the dual role of Director of Youth Development from 1982 to 1983. He also received the honorary citizenship of Plantation, Florida for services to the youth of the community (1978).Whelan was also selected for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "All Strikers Team" (1 December 1983) which included George Best, Gerd Müller, Teófilo Cubillas and


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Following the demise of the Atlanta Chiefs franchise in 1981, Whelan spent the 1981–82 season in the MISL playing for the Philadelphia Fever before they folded at the end of the season. Coaching career
Upon returning to England in November 1983, Whelan continued to coach young players part-time on Manchester City's Community Football Programme between 1987 and 1990. In September 1990, he was invited by Brian Kidd to join Manchester United's Centre of Excellence as a coach, and joined the full-time staff in September 1998 when the Academy was established.His time as a player included, Whelan has been involved with the club for over 20 years. Over the years, Whelan has gained several coaching qualifications, as well as a bachelor's degree in humanities from the Open University, and a master's degree in sociology from Manchester Metropolitan University. He also wrote the foreword to The First Black Footballer: Arthur Wharton 1865–1930 An Absence of Memory (1998) and is the author of The Birth of the Babes: Manchester United Youth Policy 1950–1957, which explores the impact of youth development and the building of the Busby Babes side at Manchester United. In March 2008, The Voice included him on a list of the 30 most influential black people in English football in recognition of his work developing elite young players. In October 2008, he received an award at the House of Lords from