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Trịnh Trần Phương Tuấn (born April 12, 1997), he is a Vietnamese singer, songwriter, rapper, and actor. He rose to fame during his time in the hip-hop group G5R. Throughout his career, he has received many awards: three awards at the Green Wave Awards and four awards at the Zing Music Awards. In addition, he was awarded the "Best New Asian Artist of Vietnam" at the Mnet Asian Music Awards 2019 and Best Southeast Asian Act at the 2020 MTV Europe Music Awards. <mask> is recognized the highly prestigious award: the 26th Golden Apricot Blossom Award (2020) for Most Favorite Light Music Male Singer. He is also the first Vietnamese artist to win an Asian Television Awards for Best Music Video Act with "Hoa Hải Đường". Life and career

Early life and the beginning of career
<mask> was born on April 12, 1997, in Ngai Dang Commune, Mo Cay Nam District, Ben Tre Province.He graduated from the professional college in vocal major at the Department of Culture, Art and Tourism – Ben Tre College, and was a music teacher at Thanh Thoi A1 Primary School, Thanh Thoi A Commune, Mo Cay Nam. In an interview with VnExpress, he said:

<mask> used to be a member in the group G5R, an underground Vietnamese music group. He debuted in several music videos with this group, such as "Giai Dieu Mien Tay". He became popular within the underground Vietnamese music industry when he released the music video "Ve Ben Anh", however it was not as popular in V-pop. On February 19, 2019, <mask> released the song "Hong Nhan" with a music video on YouTube. Within its first week of release, the song debuted at No. 2 on Zing MP3, eventually reaching No.1. The song has more than 13 million streams on Zing MP3 and 10 million views on YouTube after one week. Due to the popularity of this song, <mask> was compared to Phan Manh Quynh and Den Vau. From there, he emerged as a music phenomenon. 2019: Cooperation with K-ICM
After the hit song "Sóng Gió", he departed from the group G5R. After that, he collaborated with music producer K-ICM and released the song "Bạc Phận" in April 2019. Together, they continued the story series of "Sống Gió" and it was widely received.Later, <mask> collaborated with producer Liam and performed the song "Sao Em Vô Tình". These ballad-oriented music products were well-received by the public. Continuing his collaboration with K-ICM, <mask> released the song "Song gio" and promoted it as the third part of "Hong Nhan". After its release, the song gained massive viewership on YouTube. The songs "Em gì ơi". Since then, his name has occupied a high position in the V-pop music scene. However, by the end of 2019, there was a rumor circulating on the Internet that he and K-ICM were at odds, and K-ICM exploiting <mask>'s labor.In response, he posted on his Facebook account that the release of "Hoa Vo Sac" was only a demo version. The song has just been recorded as a test without singing in parts. However, K-ICM voluntarily posted this song on his YouTube channel. After an interview with the content affirming "not exploiting <mask>", K-ICM received many negative reactions from the audience. 2020: Joined Nomad MGMT Vietnam
After his controversy with K-ICM, he is said to have collaborated with ViruSs to release a demo of the song "Đom đóm" on December 29, 2019. The demo reached No.1 of YouTube trending Vietnam within 4 hours. On February 17, 2020, <mask> officially announced his own YouTube channel called J97.After joining Nomad MGMT Vietnam, he released the song "La 1 Thang Con Trai" on March 10, 2020, on J97's YouTube channel in association with music producer Hoaprox. The song received positive reactions from artists and fans, with some saying that this is just the beginning of <mask>'s challenge with various types of music. In addition, he received the YouTube Silver Play Button within a few hours after he created his channel. Soon after, J97 quickly surpassed Ba Tan Vlog, becoming the fastest channel to receive the YouTube Gold Play Button in Vietnam within seven days of creating a channel. On September 22, 2020, <mask> officially released the music video of "Hoa Hai Duong". The song is mixed and mastered by <mask>. As soon as "Hoa Hai Duong" was released on YouTube, it reached 1 million views in 20 minutes.After 24 hours, "Hoa Hai Duong" became trending on YouTube in seven countries, including Taiwan, Canada, Australia, Germany, United States and South Korea, and it also led the sale of music on iTunes Vietnam. On October 6, 2020, MTV Vietnam officially announced the artists who would represent Vietnam to compete at MTV Europe Music Awards 2020 and the 2020 Asian Television Awards. <mask> overcame many singers as Duc Phuc, Hoang Thuy Linh, Han Sara, Binz, and more to become the winner of the domestic voting. On November 9, 2020, after over one month of voting process, MTV Europe called <mask> as the winner of the Best Southeast Asian Artist category by livestream, surpassing a series of names from Southeast Asia. Thus, <mask> is the fourth Vietnamese artist after My Tam (2013), Son Tung M-TP (2015) and Dong Nhi (2016) to win this award. On November 22, 2020, <mask> joined FWD Music Tour in Danang and release a demo of the song "Thứ anh cần là melody". On December 26, 2020, <mask> officially released the song Dom Dom.This was considered one of the most anticipated songs not only for <mask>'s fans but also for many V-pop followers. Dom Dom accumulated 295,556 premiere views on YouTube. The song quickly rose to No. 1 of Zing MP3 Chart within one hour and 4 minutes, setting a V-pop record in 2020. After two days of launch, Dom Dom has reaped great successes: reaching No 1 on trending of YouTube in Vietnam and entering the top trending in many other countries: top 9 in Taiwan, top 28 in Germany, top 24 of YouTube Trending worldwide and top 2 in iTunes Vietnam. At the Zing Music Awards 2020 held on January 7, 2021, <mask> won 2 awards, Most Popular Male Artist and Most Favorite Dance/Electronic Song with the song Hoa Hải Đường. On January 14, 2021, at the 26th Golden Apricot Blossom Awards (Mai Vang) Ceremony, <mask> was named as the winner of the Most Favorite Light Music Male Singer Act.This is the first Golden Apricot Blossom Award in his singing career. On January 16, 2021, the 2020 Asian Television Awards Organizing Committee named <mask>'s Hoa Hai Duong as the winning MV in the Best Music Video category. This is the second international award after the MTV EMA that <mask>
Tuan's stage name "<mask>" was inspired by his father's love to movie star <mask>. <mask>'s most prominent music products include "Hong Nhan", "Bac Phan" and "Sóng gió" which is a blend of pop, electronic music, and Vietnamese folk music. In an interview with Zing News, <mask> asserted that his songs are "a sadness of nostalgia combined by Chinese and Vietnamese music". Regarding his vocal, he is judged by the public to have a unique vocal.<mask> himself once admitted that he "can sing songs that he has in tune with in terms of genre, lyrics, melody or story." Writing on Vietnamnet, the journalist Le Thi My Niem evaluated about <mask>:

Zing News journalist Quang Duc evaluated about <mask>'s music in 2020:

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On September 23, 2020, Vivo Vietnam officially announced <mask> to become the brand ambassador for Vivo V20. <mask> said:

On October 5, 2020, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Mobile Vietnam officially announced that <mask> will be the brand ambassador in Vietnam. <mask> will cooperate with PUBGM to do meaningful things for his fan community in particular and the society in general, starting with a fundraising project for the Vietnam Children's Fund called "Road Running To Morning". This is also an affirmation of <mask> not to be only as a talented singer, but also a person who has a positive influence on society. On December 3, 2020, YouTube Vietnam announced 3 trending charts: Top 10 Most Featured Videos 2020, Top 10 Most Featured Music Videos 2020 and Top 10 Most Featured Videos Creators in 2020, in which, in the category of Top 10 Most Featured Music Videos, there were two of his music videos "Hoa Hai Duong" and "La 1 Thang Con Trai" respectively ranked at No.6 and No.2. On December 9, 2020, Google Vietnam announced The Google's Year in Search 2020 with many search topics.With two songs "Hoa Hai Duong" and "Song Gio" in the 'Top 10 Most Featured Songs of the Year', <mask> personally ranked 3rd in Top 10 Most Searched People of the Year. <mask> was the most prominent singer in 2020 with the great interest from the Vietnamese public. Other ventures

Philanthropy
On March 28, 2020, <mask>'s mother presented at the Cultural Center of Ben Tre to donate 100,000,000₫ for the COVID-19 prevention support. In addition, <mask> also transferred 50,000,000₫ to the fans' fund to support the fight against drought at his hometown. Then, on August 13, 2020, he donated for Da Nang 200,000 medical masks to support the COVID-19 prevention. Copyright controversies
The song released in 2019 in collaboration with his K-ICM, "Em Gì Ơi", was accused of plagiarizing a Thai children's song titled "ฝนเทลงมา" by channel พอดี ม่วน STUDIO on YouTube. Then, in 2021, this song continued to be accused of being similar to the first measures of the song "Vì ai em ra đi?"by Akira Phan. "Đom đóm" was believed to have been copied from the song "Blue and white porcelain" (青花瓷) by Jay Chou

Demo song "Thứ anh cần là melody" (now is the chorus of the song "LayLaLay") was suspected of plagiarizing the song "It Ain't Me" by Kygo featuring Selena Gomez and the chorus of the song "Read My Mind" by The Killers. Personal life
On August 7, 2021, a post along with many audio recordings and an image of a stamped birth certificate of a woman named Thúy Vy accused <mask> of having multiple sexual relationships and had a child with his ex-girlfriend Thiên An – who starred with him in music video "Sóng gió" in 2019, went viral online. The next day, Thiên An confirmed it on her Facebook account. On August 10, 2021, <mask> posted a status on his fan page, admitted having a voluntary relationship with Thiên An. He apologized to his fans and promised to take responsibility for this incident. Discography

Singles

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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 Official Youtube Channel
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Vietnamese idols
Vietnamese pop singers
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Vietnamese songwriters
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<mask> (born 1968 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian musician who emerged from the underground dance music scene in the early 1990s. He has performed and recorded under the stage name Puretone, and is also known as The Pagan and Bassliners. <mask> is a composer, producer, bass guitarist and electronica artist and has worked as a writer, music director and producer on albums and film soundtracks, and in television and theatre. His single, "Addicted to Bass", with singer Amiel Daemion, peaked at No. 15 in February 1999. Biography
<mask> was born in 1968 in Melbourne and started as a bass guitarist and singer in covers band Havana Moon in 1990. 1990-1995: Future Sound of Melbourne

In 1990, <mask> formed the techno group, Future Sound of Melbourne (FSOM) with drum and bass producer Davide Carbone and acid house DJ Steve Robbins.They released a number of singles and EPs on the Shock Records imprint, Candyline Records in Australian and released tracks on Belgium's underground dance-music label, Two Thumbs Records. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1996, Future Sound of Melbourne won the ARIA Award for Best Dance Release for their album, Chapter One. During this period, Abrahams also released several dance singles under various artist names including The Pagan and Bassliners. In 1995, Abrahams left Future Sound of Melbourne to become a solo artist,

1996-2001: solo career, "Addicted to Bass" and Sweet Distorted Holiday

In 1996, <mask> was signed to Carl Cox's label Ultimatum and released his debut album The Satyricon to critical acclaim. The album did not chart into the ARIA Top 50, although a track from the album, titled "The Joker", appeared on the soundtrack for the film Hackers. After briefly creating a pop band called The Edison Project and releasing the single "Don't Be Afraid", <mask> returned to solo work and signed to Festival Records in Australia in 1997. Film director Baz Luhrmann became interested in <mask>' work, and asked him to co-produce some tracks for Luhrmann's album Something for Everybody, one of which became the 1998 UK No.1 single, "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)". In 1998, <mask> released his second studio album, Sweet Distorted Holiday which included the song, "Addicted to Bass", with Amiel Daemion which was released in October 1998 and peaked at No. 15 on the ARIA singles chart. The third single, "Headroom", another collaboration with Daemion, peaked outside the ARIA Top 100. Abrahams also had top 50 chart success in New Zealand. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1999, Abrahams set the record for the number of ARIA nominations for an independent artist with six nominations, winning two. In 2000, Abrahams released "Rollin'", which peaked at number 58 in Australia.2001-2008: Puretone, and Film, television and theatre
In 2001, Abrahams produced songs for Daemion, including the platinum selling single "Lovesong" and the gold selling album Audio Out. In 2001, Abrahams collaborated with Baz Luhrmann and co-produced the Moulin Rouge film soundtrack. In 2002, Abrahams composed and produced original music for a feature film by Paul Currie called One Perfect Day, set in the Melbourne dance music scene

In 2002, Abrahams changed his stage name and began releasing music under Puretone, to avoid confusion with similarly named US record producer, <mask>. Puretone, released "Addicted to Bass" internationally, which peaked at No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart. Puretone released "Stuck in a Groove", once again featuring Daemion on vocals, which peaked at No. 26. in the UK.Both tracks were taken from Puretone's studio album, Stuck in a Groove. In 2003, <mask> wrote and produced the original music score for the movie One Last Ride, produced by Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee. He began composing music for television commercials, such as the 'Go for It Girl' campaign for Portmans clothing, a song entitled "Melt with You" for Baileys Irish Cream and the LG technology campaign. In 2005, TV jingles were Abrahams' main focus, along with writing more of his own original music. In 2007, he composed, arranged and recorded large-scale orchestral jingles for a series of three TV commercials for Ask Dot Com. In 2009, he arranged and recorded a version of "My Favourite Things" for a series of Dove TV commercials, and in 2010 he composed and recorded the theme song for the global Tourism Australia advertising campaign. <mask> was the music director and pianist in The Soubrettes' Cabaret Tingel Tangel at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2004.He spent July and August 2006 running the nightclub in the first Spiegeltent (a travelling European music and theatre venue) to tour in the USA, then returned to this venue as music director for the theatrobatic show Desir, premiering in the New York Spiegeltent in August 2008. In 2008, <mask> teamed up with Kaz James, co-writing and producing seven songs for his debut solo album If They Knew. 2009-present: S:amplify

In 2009, <mask> reunited with his friend Davide Carbone and together they formed the music production house s:amplify. Under this new moniker, <mask> and Carbone teamed with Carl Cox to co-write and co-produce Cox's album All Roads Lead to the Dancefloor, released in 2012. This trio also provided remixes for Moby, Miguel Bosé and Gilles Peterson, among others. As part of s:amplify, <mask> and Carbone provided complete sonic branding packages for Melbourne TV network Channel 31, and the Melbourne public transport company Metro Trains Melbourne, as well as composing music for Tourism Australia, Alienware, and the International Cricket Council. S:amplify have also produced several tracks for various artists including the recent cover version of "Wuthering Heights" by Robyn Loau.In 2011, s:amplify were featured on the front cover of the April issue of Music Tech magazine and released two sound design packs through Loopmasters which have received several positive reviews. S:amplify also provided the sound design for the Japanese synthesizer KDJ One and were appointed musical directors for the City of Sydney New Year's Eve fireworks show. The 2011/2012 12-minute NYE Fireworks show on Sydney Harbour showcased 24 Australian songs including original composition from Abrahams and Carbone. Since around 2015, <mask> has been working with Johnny "Galvatron" as part of the video game studio Beethoven & Dinosaur to compose music for The Artful Escape. Discography

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See also
List of number-one dance hits (United States)
List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart

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1968 births
Living people
ARIA Award winners
Australian dance musicians
Australian electronic musicians
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<mask>'Neal (born April 20, 1941) is an American actor and former boxer. O'Neal trained as an amateur boxer before beginning his career in acting in 1960. In 1964, he landed the role of Rodney Harrington on the ABC nighttime soap opera Peyton Place. The series was an instant hit and boosted O'Neal's career. He later found success in films, most notably Love Story (1970), for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations as Best Actor, Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? (1972) and Paper Moon (1973), Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975), Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Walter Hill's The Driver (1978). From 2005 to 2017, he had a recurring role in the Fox television series Bones as Max, the father of the show's protagonist.Early life
O'Neal was born in Los Angeles, California, the eldest son of actress Patricia Ruth Olga (née O'Callaghan; 1907–2003) and novelist and screenwriter Charles O'Neal. His father was of Irish and English descent, while his mother was of paternal Irish and maternal Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. His brother, Kevin, is an actor and screenwriter. O'Neal attended University High School in Los Angeles, and trained there to become a Golden Gloves boxer. During the late 1950s, his father had a job writing on a television series called Citizen Soldier, and moved the family to Munich, where O'Neal attended Munich American High School. Career

TV roles and early work
In Germany, O'Neal was struggling at school so his mother pulled some favors and got him a job as a stand-in on a show being shot in the area, Tales of the Vikings. O'Neal worked on it as an extra and stuntman and became interested in acting.O'Neal returned to the US and tried to make it as an actor. He made his first TV appearance guest starring on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis episode "The Hunger Strike" in 1960. He followed this with guest shots on The Untouchables, General Electric Theater, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, Laramie, Two Faces West, Westinghouse Playhouse (several episodes), Bachelor Father, My Three Sons, Leave It To Beaver episode "Wally Goes Steady" in 1961 and The Virginian. He was under contract to Universal but they let it lapse. 1962–1963: Empire
From 1962 to 1963, O'Neal was a regular on NBC's Empire, another modern-day western, where he played "Tal Garrett" in support of Richard Egan. It ran for 33 episodes. In 1963, the series was revived as Redigo but O'Neal turned down the chance to reprise his role.When the series ended, O'Neal went back to guest-starring on shows such as Perry Mason and Wagon Train. 1964–1969: Peyton Place and The Big Bounce
In 1964 he was cast as Rodney Harrington in the prime time serial drama Peyton Place. O'Neal said he got the role because "the studio was looking for a young Doug McClure". The series was a big success, making national names of its cast including O'Neal. Several were offered movie roles, including Mia Farrow, Rosemary's Baby (1968), and Barbara Parkins, Valley of the Dolls (1967), and O'Neal was keen to do films. During the series' run O'Neal appeared in a pilot for a proposed series, European Eye (1968). He was also signed to ABC for a recording contract.O'Neal's first lead in a feature came with The Big Bounce (1969), based on an Elmore Leonard novel. In 1969, he appeared in a TV version of Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963). 1970–1974: Love Story, What's Up, Doc? and Paper Moon
In 1970, he played an Olympic athlete in The Games. The film had been co-written by Erich Segal, who recommended O'Neal for the lead in Love Story (1970), based on Segal's novel and script. A number of actors had turned down the role including Beau Bridges and Jon Voight before it was offered to O'Neal. His fee was $25,000; he said he had an offer that paid five times as much to appear in a Jerry Lewis film but O'Neal knew that Love Story was the better prospect and selected that instead.Paramount studio head, Robert Evans, who was also married to the film's female lead, Ali MacGraw, said they tested 14 other actors but no one compared to O'Neal; he said the part was "a Cary Grant role – a handsome leading man with lots of emotion." "I hope the young people like it", O'Neal said before the film came out. "I don't want to go back to TV. I don't want to go back to those NAB conventions." Love Story turned out to be a box office phenomenon. It made O'Neal a star and earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor, although O'Neal was bitter he was never given a percentage of the profits, unlike co-star Ali MacGraw. In between the film's production and release, O'Neal appeared in a TV movie written by Eric Ambler, Love Hate Love (1971), which received good ratings.He also made a Western, Wild Rovers (1971) with William Holden for director Blake Edwards. Wild Rovers, badly cut by MGM, was considerably less popular than Love Story. O'Neal was going to make another film for MGM, Deadly Honeymoon (1974), from a novel by Larry Block. However, O'Neal pulled out. Peter Bogdanovich later said MGM head Jim Aubrey was "cruel" to O'Neal. O'Neal was also wanted by director Nic Roeg to appear opposite Julie Christie in an adaptation of Out of Africa that was never made. Instead, O'Neal starred in the screwball comedy What's Up, Doc?(1972), for Bogdanovich, and opposite Barbra Streisand. The film was the third-highest-grossing of 1972, and led to him receiving an offer to star in a movie for Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon. While that film was in pre-production, O'Neal played a jewel thief in The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1972) opposite Jacqueline Bisset and Warren Oates. Then he was reunited with Bogdanovich for Paper Moon (1973) in which he starred opposite his daughter Tatum O'Neal. Tatum won an Oscar for her performance in the popular movie and in 1973, <mask>'Neal was voted by exhibitors as the second-most-popular star in the country, behind Clint Eastwood. 1975–1980: Barry Lyndon, A Bridge Too Far and The Main Event

O'Neal spent over a year making Barry Lyndon (1975) for Kubrick. The resulting film was considered a commercial disappointment and had a mixed critical reception; it won O'Neal a Harvard Lampoon Award for the Worst Actor of 1975.Reflecting in 1985, O'Neal said the film was "all right but he [Kubrick] completely changed the picture during the year he spent editing it". The film's reputation has risen in recent years but O'Neal says his career never recovered from the film's reception. O'Neal had been originally meant to star in Bogdanovich's flop musical At Long Last Love but was replaced by Burt Reynolds. However he made the screwball comedy Nickelodeon (1976) with Reynolds, Bogdanovich and Tatum O'Neal, for a fee of $750,000. The film flopped at the box office. O'Neal followed this with a small role in the all-star war film A Bridge Too Far (1977), playing General James Gavin. O'Neal's performance as a hardened general was much criticised, although O'Neal was only a year older than Gavin at the time of the events in the film."Can I help it if I photograph like I'm 16 and they gave me a helmet that was too big for my head?" he later said. "At least I did my own parachute jump." The film performed poorly at the US box office but did well in Europe. O'Neal initially turned down a reported $3 million to star in Oliver's Story (1978), a sequel to Love Story. Instead he appeared in the car-chase film The Driver (1978), directed by Walter Hill, who had written The Thief Who Came to Dinner. This was a box office disappointment in the US but, like A Bridge Too Far, did better overseas.Hill later said he "was so pleased with <mask> in the movie and I was very disappointed that people didn't particularly give him any credit for what he did. To me, he's the best he's ever been. I cannot imagine another actor." O'Neal was meant to follow this with The Champ (1979), directed by Franco Zeffirelli, but decided to pull out after Zeffirelli refused to cast O'Neal's son Griffin opposite him. Instead he agreed to make Oliver's Story after all once the script was rewritten. However the film was a flop at the box office. "What I have to do now, seriously, is win a few hearts as an actor", he said in 1978."The way Cary Grant did. I know I've got a lot of winning to do. But I'm young enough. I'll get there..."

Around this time, O'Neal was meant to star in The Bodyguard, from a Lawrence Kasdan script, opposite Diana Ross for director John Boorman. However the film fell over when Ross pulled out, and it would not be made until 1992, with Kevin Costner in O'Neal's old role. There was some talk he would appear in a film from Michelangelo Antonioni, Suffer or Die, but this did not eventuate. O'Neal instead played a boxer in a comedy, The Main Event, reuniting him with Streisand.He received a fee of $1 million plus a percentage of the profits. The Main Event was a sizeable hit at the box office. Also in 1979, he produced a documentary about a boxer he managed, The Contender. A 1980 profile of O'Neal described him:

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However, in the early 1980s he focused on comedies. He received $2 million for the lead in So Fine. This was followed by Partners (1982), a farce written by Francis Veber in which O'Neal played a straight cop who goes undercover as one half of a gay couple. He then played a film director loosely based on Peter Bogdanovich in Irreconcilable Differences (1984); he received no upfront fee but got a percentage of the profits.It was a minor box office success. A 1984 profile called him "the Billy Martin of Hollywood, whether it's his love affair with Farrah Fawcett... his precocious actor daughter Tatum or fisticuffs with his son Griffin. He just can't seem to stay out of the news." O'Neal said he felt more like Rocky Marciano, "wondering why guys are always picking fights with me. If I'm in a good picture, they'll like me. If I'm not they'll hate me. Hey I'm mad too when I don't make good pictures."O'Neal said too many of the roles he had played were "off the beaten path for me". In particular he regretted doing The Thief Who Came to Dinner, A Bridge Too Far, The Driver, So Fine, Partners and Green Ice. He blamed this in part on having to pay alimony and child support. He also said agent Sue Mengers encouraged him to constantly work. "If I could get a good director to choose me for a picture, I was okay", he said. "But they stopped calling me in the mid-70s... I made a whole bunch of pictures that didn't make any money and people lost interest in me... Directors take me reluctantly.I feel I'm lucky to be here in the first place and they know it too. I'm a glamour boy, a Hollywood product. I have a TV background and they can point to the silly movies I've made." O'Neal tried something different playing a gambler in Fever Pitch (1985), the last movie for Richard Brooks. Even less conventional was Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987) for director Norman Mailer. Both movies flopped at the box office and received poor reviews. 1988–2009: Supporting actor and TV star
O'Neal had a support part in a Liza Minnelli TV special Sam Found Out: A Triple Play (1988), and also supported in the romantic comedy Chances Are (1989).He returned to TV opposite his then-partner Farrah Fawcett in Small Sacrifices (1989). He and Fawcett made a short-lived CBS series Good Sports (1991) which lasted 15 episodes. O'Neal co starred with Katharine Hepburn in the TV movie The Man Upstairs (1992) and had a cameo in Fawcett's Man of the House (1995). He had a good role in Faithful (1996) with Cher. It was directed by Paul Mazursky who later said of O'Neal:
He's sweet as sugar, and he's volatile. He's got some of that Irish stuff in him, and he can blow up a bit. One day he was doing a scene, and I said, 'Bring it down a little bit,' and <mask> said, 'I quit!You can't say "Bring it down" to me that loud!' I said, 'If you quit, I'm going to break your nose.' He started to cry. He's sort of a big baby at times, but he's a good guy, and he's very talented. He's had a strange career, but he was a monster star. O'Neal had a support part in Hacks (1997) and the lead in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1998). He had the third lead in Zero Effect (1999) and was top billed in The List (2000).O'Neal had a semi-recurring role in Bull (2001), and support parts in Epoch (2001), People I Know (2002) with Al Pacino, Gentleman B. (2002), and Malibu's Most Wanted (2003). O'Neal had a regular part on the TV series Miss Match (2003) with Alicia Silverstone which ran for 18 episodes. He guest starred on shows such as Desperate Housewives and 90210. He was a recurring character on Fox's Bones. 2010–present: Later career
In 2011, <mask> and Tatum attempted to restore their broken father/daughter relationship after 25 years. Their reunion and reconciliation process was captured in the Oprah Winfrey Network series Ryan and Tatum: The O'Neals, which O'Neal produced.It only ran nine episodes. O'Neal could be seen in Slumber Party Slaughter (2015) and Knight of Cups (2015) in a small role. In 2016, O'Neal reunited with Love Story co-star Ali MacGraw in a staging of A.R. Gurney's play Love Letters. In February 2021, O'Neal and MacGraw were honored with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, nearly 50 years after the release of Love Story. Other ventures
O'Neal said that in 2009 he "made a tremendous amount of money on real estate, more than [he] deserve[s]". Personal life

Relationships
O'Neal married his first wife, actress Joanna Moore, in 1963.They had two children before separating in 1966. Moore eventually lost custody of their children to O'Neal as a result of her alcoholism and drug abuse. His second marriage was to actress Leigh Taylor-Young, with whom he had a son. They remained friends after divorcing in 1973. "I could speak to parts of <mask> like temper and volatility and reactivity, but I deeply know his goodness", Taylor-Young said. O'Neal was in a relationship with actress Farrah Fawcett from 1979 to 1997. The relationship was tumultuous due to his infidelity and volatile behavior.Fawcett ended the relationship after she discovered O'Neal in bed with actress Leslie Stefanson. O'Neal and Fawcett reunited in 2001 and were together until her death in 2009. "I got married at 21, and I was not a real mature 21", said O'Neal. "My first child was born when I was 22. I was a man's man; I didn't discover women until I was married, and then it was too late." He had romances with Ursula Andress, Bianca Jagger, Anouk Aimée, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, and Anjelica Huston. According to his daughter Tatum O'Neal, he also had an affair with Melanie Griffith.In her 2014 memoir, Anjelica Huston claimed that O'Neal physically abused her. Children
O'Neal has four children: Tatum O'Neal and Griffin O'Neal with Moore, Patrick O'Neal with Taylor-Young, and Redmond James Fawcett O'Neal with Fawcett. For several years, O'Neal was estranged from his elder three children. "I'm a hopeless father. I don't know why. I don't think I was supposed to be a father. Just look around at my work—they're either in jail or they should be", he told Vanity Fair.In her autobiography, A Paper Life, Tatum wrote that she had suffered physical and emotional abuse as a result of her father's drug abuse. Griffin O'Neal also suggested their family's problems stemmed from <mask>. "My father gave me cocaine when I was 11 and insisted I take it", he said. Griffin added, "He was a very abusive, narcissistic psychopath. He gets so mad he can't control anything he's doing." In 2007, O'Neal was arrested for shooting at Griffin, which he claimed was in self-defense; charges were dropped. O'Neal refused to allow Griffin to attend Fawcett's funeral in 2009.He infamously hit on Tatum at Fawcett's funeral, not recognizing her as his daughter. But in 2011, Tatum reconciled with her father with a book and a TV show, Ryan and Tatum: the O'Neals. In August of that year, O'Neal, Tatum, and Patrick attended Redmond's court appearance on firearms and drug charges. Redmond has struggled with drug addiction for most of his adult life. In 2008, O'Neal and Redmond were arrested for drug possession in their Malibu home. In 2015, Redmond's probation was revoked and he was sentenced to three years in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. In 2018, Redmond was arrested and charged with attempted murder, robbery, assault and drug possession after he allegedly tried to rob a convenience store in Santa Monica.In an interview from jail he blamed his struggles on his parents. Health
In 2001, O'Neal was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). After struggling with leukemia, O'Neal was frequently seen at Fawcett's side when she was battling cancer. He told People magazine, "It's a love story. I just don't know how to play this one. I won't know this world without her. Cancer is an insidious enemy."In April 2012, O'Neal stated he had been diagnosed with stage IV prostate cancer. Filmography

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<mask> (1889–1954) was an American Abstract Expressionist artist associated with the New York School. Her first contact with the New York City avant-garde came in 1941 when she joined the Atelier 17, a famous printmaking workshop that the British artist Stanley William Hayter had established in Paris in the 1930s and then brought to New York when France fell to the Nazis. The great turning point in <mask>'s development occurred after the war, in 1948. She was 57 years old when she saw the collages of Kurt Schwitters at the Rose Fried Gallery, in New York City, in 1948. She right away dedicated herself to this newly discovered medium. Since <mask> was a poet, according to Deborah Solomon, in Kurt Schwitters’s  collages “she recognized the visual equivalent of her sonnets – discrete images packed together in an extremely compressed space.” When six years later <mask> died, her work in this medium numbered over 400 pieces. Biography
<mask> was born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1889.Both her parents died when <mask> was in her early teens, and she attended the Academy of Saint Elizabeth convent for both high school and early college. She left the school her junior year to marry attorney William McFadden; they separated in 1923. During this time she frequented art and literary circles in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood, and published a novel, Raquel, as well as a volume of poetry, Lost Hills. In 1931 and 1932 she lived in Majorca and then Paris. When she returned to the United States and settled on West Fourth Street in New York City, the cultural community there was rapidly galvanizing, attracting artists and writers of all backgrounds through the Works Progress Administration and generating new styles that challenged the Regionalism and Social Realism for which the U.S. was known. She began to paint in 1938 and had her first solo exhibition in 1941 at The Pinacoteca on Lexington Avenue. After seeing Kurt Schwitters' collages shown at the Rose Fried Gallery in 1948, she was struck by "the abstract form and tactile quality, at how much power and complexity there could be on so small a scale."She seized on the idea of debris and made her first collage from paper and fabric scraps that very evening, continuing mostly in this mode until her death in 1954 in Morristown, New Jersey. She was interred at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in East Hanover, New Jersey. Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster  Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson. Artistic and literary work
For <mask>, the relationship between artmaking and writing was very permeable, though she favored the latter for most of her life. She wrote a series of poems in the late 1930s and 40s called Lines to a Young Painter, and her circle of friends included artists and writers of all kinds. Her artistic work first took the form of printmaking—she made prints with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, a hub for the American and European avant-garde—followed by oil painting, and by the mid-1940s she was designing costumes and backdrops for ballet performances. It was in collage, though, that <mask> found her primary voice.She incorporated all kinds of papers and textiles into her collage compositions, including silk, netting, handmade rag paper, and Japanese rice paper. Most were small in scale, averaging roughly eight by six inches. Many of the works were mounted on handmade paper by Douglas Morse Howell, who frequently collaborated with New York artists in the 1950s and 60s and often made paper from re-purposed textile fibers like blue jeans, or from flax grown in his backyard. <mask>'s collages distilled and expanded upon this sensibility by juxtaposing small squares of different materials against one another to highlight the distinct textures and densities of each. Their small scale and her use of pastel colors provoked varying critical responses in the early 1950s; many writers commented on the works' "feminine" qualities. <mask> had three exhibitions of her work at the Betty Parsons Gallery in the 1950s that solidified her reputation in the art world. Parsons was well known for showing abstract artists like Barnett Newman and Agnes Martin.After her death in 1954, an exhibition of her collage was shown at the Brooklyn Museum and traveled to the National Collection of Fine Arts in Washington, DC; the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; and the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton. Her daughter Elizabeth McFadden is also an artist. Selected solo exhibitions:
 1941: The Pinacotheca, NY (paintings); Marquie Gallery, NY (prints)
 1942: New York School for Social Research, NY (prints)
 1946: The Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA (prints)
 1947: Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield, MI (prints)
 1948: Gallery Denise Severin, Paris (first European exhibition of prints)
 1950, 1954, 1970: Betty Parsons Gallery, NYC (collages)
 1955: Betty Parsons Gallery, NYC (Memorial exhibition, paintings and collages)
 1957: Kraushaar Gallery, NYC (Memorial exhibition, prints)
 1974: Marlborough Gallery, NYC
 1991: <mask>. Collages from Three Museums, Washburn Gallery, NYC
 1962-1963: New England preparatory schools and the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) - Boston, MA (circulating exhibition)
 1974: circ. 1965-1967: American Collages, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC circ. 1974: Brooklyn Museum, NY
 1975: Group Show: Collage, Betty Parsons Gallery, NYC
 1976: 30th Anniversary Show, Betty Parsons Gallery, NYC

Public collections
 Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass. Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
 College Art Gallery, State University College, New Paltz, N.Y.
 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
 Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.
 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
 Minneapolis Institute of Art
 Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
 Newark Museum, New Jersey
 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
 Palmer Museum of Art, State College, P.A.Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, R.I.
 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.
 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
 Williams College Museum of Art - Williamstown, Mass. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
 Museum of Modern Art, New York. See also
 Art movement
 Action painting

References

Bibliography
 Stuart Preston, Artists of Personal Vision, The New York Times, April 10, 1955 Section 2, p. 11
 Fairfield Porter, Reviews and Previews," Art News, vol. 56, Dec. 1957, p. 11 - <mask>, Darkest Leaf, Boteghe Oscure, vol. 22, 1958 (story published posthumously). Donald Windham, A note on <mask>, Boteghe Oscure, vol. 22, 1958, pp.267–271. Hilton Kramer, <mask>: Bigness on a Small Scale, New York Times, February 3, 1968, p. 25, ills. John Ashberry, A Place for Everything, Art News, vol.69, March 1970, p. 32
 Carter Ratcliff, New York, Art International, vol.14, Summer 1970, p. 141
 Piri Halasz, Trenton Exhibit Celebrates the Wonders of Collage," New York Times, Nov 17, 1974, p. 33, B&W of Ryan

Books
 Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.) . p. 18; p. 38; p. 318-321

External links
 <mask> papers, 1922-1968. Smithsonian Institution Research Information System; Archival, Manuscript and Photographic Collections. <mask> at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
 <mask> at the Collection of Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

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Burials at Gate of Heaven Cemetery (East Hanover, New Jersey)

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Metropolitan <mask> of Sourozh (, secular name Andrei Borisovich Bloom,  and commonly known as <mask>; 19 June 1914 – 4 August 2003) was best known as a writer and broadcaster on prayer and the Christian life. He was a monk and Metropolitan bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was founder and for many years bishop - then archbishop, then metropolitan - of the Diocese of Sourozh, the Patriarchate of Moscow's diocese for Great Britain and Ireland (the name 'Sourozh' is that of the historical episcopal see in Sudak in the Crimea). As a bishop he became well known as a pastor, preacher, spiritual director and writer on prayer and the Christian life. Early life
Andrei Bloom was born on 19 June 1914, in Lausanne, Switzerland, to Xenia and Boris Edvardovich Bloom. On his mother's side, he was the nephew of the composer Alexander Scriabin. He spent his early childhood in Russia and Iran.During the Russian Revolution the family had to leave Iran, and by 1923 they were settled in Paris, where he was educated. He graduated in physics, chemistry and biology, and took his doctorate in medicine at the University of Paris. By his own words, he met Christ, when he was a teenager:
"I met Christ as a Person at a moment when I needed him in order to live, and at a moment when I was not in search of him. I was found; I did not find him". "I was a teenager then. Life had been difficult in the early years and now it had of a sudden become easier. All the years when life had been hard I had found it natural, if not easy, to fight; but when life became easy and happy I was faced quite unexpectedly with a problem: I could not accept aimless happiness.Hardships and suffering had to be overcome, there was something beyond them. Happiness seemed to be stale if it had no further meaning". "As it often happens when you are young and when you act with passion, bent to possess either everything or nothing, I decided that I would give myself a year to see whether life had a meaning, and if I discovered it had none I would not live beyond the year..."--

Career
In 1939, before leaving for the front as a surgeon in the French Army, he secretly professed monastic vows in the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1943 he was tonsured and received the name of Antony. During the occupation of France by Nazi Germany he worked as a doctor, and took part in the French Resistance. After the war he continued practising as a physician until 1948, when he was ordained to the presbyterate and sent to Britain to serve as Orthodox Christian chaplain of the Fellowship of Saint Alban and Saint Sergius, a society established to foster understanding and friendship between the Russian Orthodox and Anglican churches. In 1950 he was appointed vicar of the Russian Patriarchal parish in London.In 1957 he was consecrated as bishop, and as archbishop in 1962 in charge of the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Sourozh. In 1963 he was appointed exarch of the Moscow Patriarchate in Western Europe, and in 1966 was assigned the rank of metropolitan bishop. In 1974 by mutual agreement he was released from the function of exarch, in order to devote himself more fully to the pastoral needs of the growing flock of his diocese. Between 1966 and 1986 he brought out six books on prayer. In mid 2003, Bloom resigned as diocesan bishop. He died on 4 August 2003. His grave in the Brompton Cemetery, London, is visited by Christians and many others.Honours
Metropolitan <mask> received honorary doctorates from the University of Aberdeen ('for preaching the Word of God and renewing the spiritual life of this country'); from the Moscow Theological Academy for his theological, pastoral and preaching work; from the University of Cambridge; and from the Kiev Theological Academy. Writings
His books were published in English in Britain. His texts were subsequently widely published in Russia as books and in periodicals. Note: dates are for British editions. Publications
1966 – Living Prayer
1970 – School for Prayer
1970 – Beginning to Pray (re-publishing of School for Prayer)
1971 – God and man
1972 – Meditations on a Theme: a spiritual journey
1973 – Courage to Pray
1986 – The Essence of Prayer (Contains Living Prayer, School for Prayer, God and Man, and Courage to Pray)

Posthumously published works
2005 – Encounter
2007 – The Living Body of Christ
2009 – Coming Closer to Christ: on Confession
2017 – Churchianity vs. Christianity

Posthumous works

The Metropolitan <mask> of Sourozh Foundation is a body of independent trustees who collect together and publish his writings. As of July 2011, the foundation undertakes this by managing the copyrights in his works and by commissioning new selections and approved translations. The foundation is also establishing the official archive of Bloom's papers and writings, together with related materials such as recordings of talks, broadcasts and sermons.The foundation is the legal owner of the worldwide copyrights and other intellectual property rights in Bloom's works. Its charity registered number is 1120395 and the chairman of the trustees is Protodeacon Peter Scorer. See also
Russian Orthodox Diocese of Sourozh

References

Further reading
 G. Crow, This Holy Man: Impressions of Metropolitan <mask> (2005). External links
The <mask> of Sourozh Foundation (old website)
The <mask> of Sourozh Foundation (new website)
Russian Orthodox Diocese of Sourozh
The Deanery of Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Great Britain and Ireland
Metropolitan <mask> of Sourozh (English)
Funeral of Metropolitan <mask> of Sourozh
Metropolitan <mask> of Sourozh Archive: Photos, Video, Audio, and Texts
Obituary in The Guardian

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Eastern Orthodox Christians from the United Kingdom
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<mask> (; November 1693 – 12 March 1738) was a London publisher and son of <mask>, Sr. Motte published many works and is well known for his publishing of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Background
<mask> was born in the parish of St Botolph (Aldersgate), London to <mask>. and Anne Clarke. He was born in early November 1693 and baptised soon after on 14 November. Some of his first mentions are of his early publications and when he took over <mask>'s publishing business. It was not under 7 February 1715 that <mask> was free from his publishing patrimony, and he took off as a bookseller in 1719. Motte's place of business in Fleet Street (London) was located in Middle Temple Gate. This space was passed to Motte by his predecessor, <mask>, and then passed to Motte's replacement, Charles Bathurst, in 1738 upon his death.Motte was then asked to become partners with the Tooke publishing firm after <mask>'s brother, Samuel Tooke, died in December 1724, and as he took the position, he became the only active member of the publishing firm. On 21 December 1725, <mask> married Elizabeth, the daughter of Rev. Thomas Brian, and had two children. Throughout his career, Motte had three apprentices: George Hall, Thomas Isborne, and Jonathan Russell. After taking over the Tooke publishing firm, he partnered with his brother, Charles, until 1731. Although he had no partner from 1731–1734, Motte took up his apprentice, Charles Bathurst, as his apprentice. In 1726, Jonathan Swift sent Motte a copy of Gulliver's Travels, to be printed anonymously.Motte took great care to protect the identity of the author and employed five publishing houses to speed production of the book and avoid pirating. In 1727, Motte formed his first direct contract with Swift and Alexander Pope to publish their Miscellanies. As part of the contract, Motte paid Tooke for the original copyright to the work. Motte's work with Jonathan Swift was complicated and risky; one, An Epistle to a Lady, brought about Motte's arrest in 1734. Edmund Curll, as was his habit, claimed that he had the rights to some of Swift's miscellanies. Curll had obtained the works illegitimately and had published them to spite Swift, and he used the controversy with Motte to attempt to generate publicity. Although Curll was unwilling to do anything about the reproduction, Pope turned from Motte as his publisher for a fourth edition of the Miscellanies over a payment dispute and other publication-related complaints.Pope finally bought out his contract with <mask> for twenty-five pounds. Near the end of his life, in 1735, Motte sued the printer George Faulkner of Dublin over Faulkner's importing into Britain of Swift's Works. In <mask> v. Faulkner, <mask> claimed that many of the works reproduced were under copyright held by <mask> from the purchase of the original copyright for many of Swift's writings from Tooke and from a contract directly with Swift to publish Gulliver's Travels. The London courts upheld <mask>'s claim and ordered that Faulkner's edition of Swift's Works to be kept from importation into England. Publications
Although <mask> is most known for his production of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, he produced other great works. Many of these works were published on his own, but he did work with many other printers including Samuel Ballard, Charles Bathurst, Bernard Lintot, William Mears, James Round, George Strahan, and Jacob Tonson. Andrew Tooke, R. Gosling and J. Pemberton
 Sallust's Works – Ballard
 Seneca's Epistulae morales ad Lucilium – Lintot, Strahan, and Tonson
 Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War – Lintot

Misc.contributions:
 Dan Brown's Oratio Dominica "The Lords Prayer in Above a Hundred Languages, Versions, and Characters." (1713) – <mask> was typographer for the various languages of the Lord's Prayer. He also wrote the preface and signed it "B. M. Typogr. Lond." The Royal Society's The Philosophical Transactions From the Year 1700 (Where Mr Lowthorp Ends) to the Year 1720 edited by Motte in 1721.

Notable publications
The 1728 The Last Volume of Swift and Pope's Miscellanies including Pope's Peri Bathous provoked many pamphlets to be produced against the books. <mask>'s edition of Isaac Newton's Principia (1729) was translated by <mask> (1696–1734), his brother a mathematician and very briefly the lecturer on geometry at Gresham College. This was the first English edition and the first translated edition that included the Scholium Generale found in the second Latin edition (1726).This edition was the most commonly taught version of Newton's Principia in English and was therefore considered the "authorized version". However, even when later revised by Florian Cajori this edition was deemed "awkward" and "inaccurate" in some locations since it was based on the second Latin edition. Motte's edition of William Giffard's Cases in midwifry is the earliest published record of using Chamberlen forceps during childbirth. Notes

References

 List of Motte's 1720 publications 3 May 2008
 Shapiro, Alan E. Physics Today Principia Review American Institute of Physics. 3 May 2008
 Fleet Street And The Press Reprinted by Old and Sold's Antiques Digest 3 May 2008

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Russell William "<mask><mask>. (born August 14, 1956) is an American former NASCAR racing driver. He has won the 1984 NASCAR Cup series Rookie of the Year and the 1989 NASCAR Winston Cup Championship. Over the years, <mask> has been inducted in the NASCAR Hall of Fame (2013), the International Motorsports Hall of Fame (2013), the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (2014) and the National Motorsports Press Association Hall of Fame (2010). Racing career

Early career
Prior to joining the NASCAR circuit, <mask> made a name for himself racing around in Florida, winning a pair of local track championships and more than 200 short track races. In 1979, he won United States Auto Club's (USAC) Stock Car Rookie of the Year honors, finishing third in points behind A. J. Foyt and Bay Darnell. In 1981, he finished second in the USAC Stock Cars championship standings, behind Joe Ruttman. In 1983, he won the American Speed Association (ASA) championship while competing against some of NASCAR's future stars like Mark Martin, Alan Kulwicki, and Dick Trickle.NASCAR career

In 1980, <mask> made his NASCAR debut at Atlanta, driving the No. 16 Chevrolet for Roger Penske. He ended up finishing second in the race after qualifying seventh. He made nine NASCAR appearances over the next three years, finishing inside the Top 10 in only one more race. In 1984, <mask> joined the Winston Cup circuit full-time, winning NASCAR Rookie of the Year honors and finishing 14th in the final points standings. He drove the No. 88 Gatorade-sponsored Pontiac for Cliff Stewart with a best finish of fourth, along with two fifth-place finishes and four further Top 10s.<mask> stayed with Cliff Stewart for 1985 but this time, he drove the No. 2 Alugard-sponsored Pontiac. In 29 races, <mask> had two Top 5s and eight Top 10s. Blue Max Racing
In 1986, <mask> switched teams to the No. 27 Alugard-sponsored Pontiac for Raymond Beadle's Blue Max Racing team. His first win came at Bristol Motor Speedway on April 6, 1986. He also won at Martinsville on September 21.He finished the year with two wins, four Top 5s, and 16 Top 10s in 29 races. He finished sixth in the points, making this his first Top 10 finish in the standings. In 1987, <mask> gained sponsorship from Kodiak tobacco, establishing the No. 27 Kodiak-sponsored Pontiac livery his early career is most remembered for. He scored victories at Watkins Glen and Riverside, as well as his first series pole at Michigan in June. These results were backed up with nine Top 5s and 16 Top 10s in 29 races. He finished fifth in the final points standings.During practice at Bristol on August 27, 1988, <mask>'s car lost control and slammed on the turn 4 wall before barrel rolling five times on the straightaway. It took rescue officials - including Dr. Jerry Punch - 15 minutes to extract him from the wrecked car. According to <mask>, he nearly choked to death from a ham sandwich he ate before practice. Despite this near-death experience, <mask> developed his career further in 1988, scoring six victories (including four of the final five races of the year). His wins were at Michigan, Charlotte, North Wilkesboro, Rockingham, the final race ever at Riverside, and the season finale at Atlanta. With these six wins as well as 19 Top 5s and four further Top 10s, he finished second to Bill Elliott by 24 points. In 1989, <mask> won the NASCAR Winston Cup Championship with crew chief Barry Dodson, by finishing 15th at the Atlanta Journal 500 at Atlanta to beat out close friend and fierce rival Dale Earnhardt (the race winner) by 12 points.<mask> also won The Winston in a controversial fashion, by spinning out Darrell Waltrip on the last lap. In 1990, Raymond Beadle switched sponsors, to Miller Genuine Draft. The four-year sponsorship deal was tied specifically to <mask>, meaning it went to whichever team <mask> went. The 1989 championship year was reportedly marked with acrimony between him and Beadle. However, <mask> was stuck with the team for 1990 due to his contract. <mask> had 18 wins for Beadle. Penske Racing
In 1991, <mask> took the Miller sponsorship with him to Penske Racing, and he continued in the No.2 Miller Genuine Draft-sponsored Pontiac. He also won the 1991 IROC championship. While 1992 only carried him one win, the win at the Miller 400 was satisfying;  it was the first win for <mask> in a car which arguably was his best known chassis for his career, one affectionately known as "Midnight" after the win. With this nickname, the car raced for six seasons, carrying various race wins before being taken out of the fleet in 1997. The 1993 season was arguably his most successful season despite two major accidents at Daytona and Talladega, in which his car went airborne and flipped several times. He won the second race of the season on February 28, 1993, at North Carolina Motor Speedway. The season was also a sad one, as <mask>'s friend and reigning NASCAR Champion Alan Kulwicki was killed flying into Bristol in April 1993.Because of this, when <mask> won the race at Bristol, in respect to Alan Kulwicki, he did a "Polish victory lap"—turning his car around and driving around the track the wrong way, as made famous by Kulwicki. In every race <mask> won that year he performed a "Kulwicki victory lap". He won all three races in April (Bristol on April 4, North Wilkesboro on April 18, and Martinsville on April 25). Also, he won the first ever race at the New Hampshire Speedway, starting 33rd, on July 11. In 1993, he won 10 of the 30 races, but finished second in the final points standings, 80 points behind Earnhardt. He ended the season strong, finishing in the Top 3 in all but two of the final 10 races of the season. Penske switched to Fords in 1994.In 1996, sponsorship changed from Miller Genuine Draft to Miller beer sponsorship. In 1997, Miller changed the team's sponsorship to Miller Lite, replacing the black and gold with a blue and white scheme. In 1998, <mask> won the Bud Shootout at Daytona, a non-points race for the previous years pole winners and past winners of the race. It was the first win for Ford's new Taurus, and <mask>'s only victory at NASCAR's premier track (as well as his only victory in any restrictor plate race) in a Cup car. In 2000, he secured his 50th career win at Bristol, becoming the 10th driver in NASCAR to win 50+ races. He is also the only driver in NASCAR history to win his 1st and 50th career victories at the same track, and in the same race. He would also score 3 more wins at Pocono, Michigan, and the night race at Bristol (season sweep at Bristol).He finished seventh in the final points standings after some inconsistency in the championship race. The next year, he won at California for his 54th career win. He won on what would have been Dale Earnhardt's 50th birthday and paid tribute to him with an Earnhardt flag. <mask> almost won the 2002 Sharpie 500 after being bumped out of the way by his rival Jeff Gordon. In 2003, Penske Racing switched to Dodge and appropriately, in 2004, <mask> won his 55th (and final) race on a short track: the 2004 spring Martinsville Speedway race. It was also the last win for the track under the ownership of the H. Clay Earles Trust; the death of Mary Weatherford (matriarch of the trust) forced the Trust to sell the track a month later. On August 30, 2004, <mask> announced that the 2005 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup season would be his last as a full-time driver.Although at the time the possibility remained that he may have continued to run a limited schedule after the 2005 season—as semi-retirees Bill Elliott and Terry Labonte also have done, <mask>'s current broadcasting contract forbids him from doing so. Kurt Busch would replace <mask> in the number 2 Miller Lite-sponsored Dodge in 2006–2010. In 2011, Brad Keselowski began driving the number 2. In 2006, <mask> returned to his General Motors roots when he raced a Crawford-Pontiac sportscar, painted black and carrying the familiar stylized No. 2. The car was sponsored by Callaway Golf, in the Rolex 24 at Daytona, teamed with Danica Patrick and Allan McNish, In 2008, his Nationwide Series cars switched from Dodge to Chevrolet. To date, <mask> has had 55 NASCAR Cup wins, which is tied for 8th on NASCAR's all-time wins list.They include victories at Charlotte as well as the series' last three road courses (Riverside, Infineon and Watkins Glen), but none at Daytona, Darlington, Indianapolis or Talladega. He has the most short track wins in NASCAR history with 34, and therefore he is considered among the best short track drivers in NASCAR history. He retired after the 2005 season with a 14.4 career average finish. In 2014, <mask> ran at Daytona for testing before the 2014 Daytona 500 as part of a promotion for Miller Lite's 40th anniversary, marking the first time a NASCAR Hall of Famer has driven in a NASCAR test. When asked about the testing, <mask> stated, "It all started at Homestead. I was standing between the 48 (Jimmie Johnson) and 2 (Brad Keselowski) cars joking around and those guys were egging me on to get back in a car and when Brad got wind of it, he called me up two weeks later and was serious about it and Roger (Penske) was all for it. Everyone in the world has been on me to test.‘Why haven’t you been back in a car?’ This here kind of got me." Major crashes
<mask>'s legacy, besides being a close rival of Dale Earnhardt, was a number of severe wrecks he endured, especially at restrictor plate racetracks. The first one happened in 1983, when <mask> was attempting the Daytona 500 through the Gatorade Twin 125's. He was tapped by Rick Wilson, got airborne, and went on a spectacular series of flips that left him hospitalized. His next flip came at Bristol Motor Speedway in 1988. What started it was unclear, but <mask> somehow managed to climb the wall and did a barrel roll. The roof of his car caved in.ESPN commentator Dr. Jerry Punch was the first responder, and possibly saved his life. In 1993, <mask> had two massive flips – both at plate tracks. The first was at the 1993 Daytona 500, where he was tapped by the crashing cars of Michael Waltrip and Derrike Cope, and barrel rolled multiple times in the grass on the back straightaway several feet in the air. Months later, at Talladega, racing to the checkered flag, <mask> was tagged from behind by Dale Earnhardt, turned backwards, and flew into the air before violently flipping in the grass past the start-finish line, breaking a wrist (the area where <mask>'s car wrecked has since been paved over). Earnhardt was visibly shaken by the incident and did make sure <mask> was okay by checking on him after the race had concluded. <mask> finished 80 points behind Earnhardt in the final points for 1993. He also had an airborne crash in his last Gatorade Twin in 2005 when Dave Blaney clipped his right rear tire and sent his car off the ground.The car never turned over though. Other racing
On April 1, 2015, <mask> tested a Stadium Super Truck owned by former NASCAR driver Robby Gordon, and the following day, he announced he would race in the series' X Games round in Austin. After finishing last in his heat race, he was relegated to the last-chance qualifier. During the LCQ, <mask> rolled his truck, but continued running; he finished sixth in the event but failed to qualify for the feature. In 2016, <mask> returned to racing when he competed in the Ferrari Finali Mondiali at Daytona. Driving for "Ferrari of Houston", <mask> finished tenth overall and third in the Professional, North America class. Broadcast career

On January 25, 2006, it was announced that <mask> would cover auto racing events for ESPN and ABC.Despite <mask>'s lack of open-wheel racing experience, his assignments began with the IndyCar Series and included the Indianapolis 500 (in a perhaps forgivable lapse, he described a thrilling battle on the last lap as "The most exciting Daytona 500 ever!"). He joined the NASCAR broadcasting team for both networks when they started coverage of the sport in 2007. He signed a six-year deal with ESPN in 2006. He returned to commentate for the 2007 Indianapolis 500 won by Dario Franchitti. He co-hosted NASCAR Angels with Shannon Wiseman. <mask> worked with ESPN from 2007-2014 until their contract with NASCAR expired. Since the 2015 Daytona 500, <mask> has worked with Motor Racing Network as a booth announcer.Car owner

Up until 2012, <mask> owned and operated Rusty Wallace Racing, which fielded the No. 62 Pilot Flying J Toyota Camry driven by Michael Annett and the No. 66 5 Hour Energy Toyota Camry driven by his son <mask>. This operation was temporarily suspended due to the loss of sponsorship. However, <mask> confirmed on his Twitter account that the team would return for the Nationwide Series race at Richmond in May 2012 in a former Roush Fenway Racing Ford Mustang, powered by a Roush-Yates engine in the No. 4 sponsored by LoanMax Title Loans. Due to lack of sponsorship in 2013, <mask>'s team ran one race in a No.66 entry finishing 25th at Charlotte, then closed at the conclusion of the season. <mask>'s brothers, Kenny and Mike, also used to race on the NASCAR circuit. He and his wife Patti have three children — Greg, Katie, and Steven. Stephen raced full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and made his Cup Series debut during the 2011 Daytona 500, making him the fourth member of his family to compete in the Daytona 500 and in NASCAR, behind the Bodines (Geoff, Brett, and Todd), Pettys (Lee, Richard, and Kyle), Earnhardts (Dale, Kerry and Dale Jr.), and the Allisons (Bobby, Donnie, and Davey). <mask>'s father, <mask> Sr., died on October 30, 2011, at age 77. Iowa Speedway
In late 2005, <mask> broke ground on his "Signature Design Speedway" in Newton, Iowa. Iowa Speedway had its first race on September 15, 2006, and hosted many races in 2007 including an IndyCar race.The track is noted for its structural similarity to Richmond International Raceway, where <mask> has won six times. Iowa Speedway hosted its first NASCAR Nationwide Series race in 2009. Endorsements
2003 – Callaway Golf – Callaway Golf Signs NASCAR Driver <mask> to Multiyear Endorsement and Licensing Agreement. 2009 – U.S. Fidelis – USfidelis TV Campaign Debuts, Featuring NASCAR's Steve and <mask>. The March 2010 bankruptcy of US Fidelis lists Rusty Wallace Racing as a creditor owed $535,439. 2009 – Lista International Corporation – Legendary NASCAR Driver <mask> Endorses Lista Products in New Online Video

Other media
<mask> made a cameo appearance in the movie Days of Thunder. He and his brothers all appeared in the Electronic Arts video game NASCAR Rumble.Mike was featured as a Craftsman Truck Series driver, driving the No. 2 ASE Dodge (no specific car makes for the Trucks;  the real truck was a Dodge at the time), Kenny was featured in the game driving the No. 55 Square D Chevrolet (although the game's commercial showed him driving the No. 81 Square D Ford) & <mask> was featured in the game driving his No. 2 Ford, with the exception that the Miller Lite stickers are replaced by Penske Racing stickers similar to current Penske Championship Racing driver Brad Keselowski, whose sponsor is censored by NASCAR's ban on wireless telephone advertising. In the video for “Nowadays” by Lil Skies featuring Landon Cube, Cube can be seen wearing a vintage <mask> jacket. Career achievements

Awards and honors
 1988, 1993 Richard Petty Driver of the Year
 2005 NASCAR Illustrated Person of the Year Award recipient
 2005 Myers Brothers Award recipient
 2014 Inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America

Records and milestones
With 55 career points-paying victories, <mask> is ranked ninth among the all-time NASCAR Cup Series winners; he is ranked seventh (in a tie with Bobby Allison) among those who have competed during the sport's modern era (1972–present).Motorsports career results

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External links

 <mask> at NASCAR.com
 <mask> at ESPN
 June 2005 interview with <mask>
 <mask> Fans Club

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<mask><mask> (born June 20, 1971) is an American author, political analyst, and social commentator. During his academic career, <mask> was a visiting scholar with the Barbara Jordan - Mickey Leland School Of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University. <mask> has been a visiting fellow at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and the Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim, Germany. <mask> is a member, by donation, of the College Sports Research Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has authored several financial advice books, including Financial Lovemaking 101: Merging Assets with Your Partner in Ways that Feel Good, Black American Money, as well as What if George Bush were a Black Man?. His work has also appeared in such publications as the Journal of Small Business Management and the Journal of Economics and Business. In addition to publishing scholarly articles on finance and investing, <mask> is an advocate for education, economic empowerment, and social justice, and has made regular appearances in various national media outlets, including CNN, Good Morning America, MSNBC, Fox News, BET, NPR, Essence, USA Today, Today, ESPN, The Tom Joyner Morning Show, and CBS Sports.He was also a frequent guest on The Wendy Williams Experience radio program, and remains a frequent contributor to the Grio and TheLoop21.com. Early life

<mask> was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to a teen mother. His father left shortly after his birth and only spoke to his son three times. <mask>' mother, Robin Couch, married when <mask> was 3 years old to <mask>, a young Vietnam veteran from Louisville. The family struggled for years but worked hard for economic advancement. <mask>' mother encouraged her children to be the best they could be at anything they did. Larry, who would become <mask>' adopted father, was a tough, stern head of the household who joined the local police force at the age of 30.<mask> struggled in school, earning very poor grades all throughout. His teachers placed him in special education and told him he was not smart enough to go to college. "When I look back on those years as a black boy in a racist state like Kentucky, I get angry", says <mask>. "I almost lost the future that God had in store for me." In high school, <mask> was captain of his track team. He also had a job working for Taco Bell, along with other fast food restaurants. <mask>' teenage years were tough.His father was a good provider, but very tough, leading him to feel abandoned and unloved. His uncle, eight years his senior, was regularly sent to prison, which only added to his feelings of abandonment. "Those were tough years for me", says <mask>. "I honestly think my mind has blocked them out." <mask> received a small scholarship to the University of Kentucky, from a group called "Black Achievers", based in Louisville, which was just enough to pay his tuition. Early adulthood and education

During his senior year in high school, <mask> met his first girlfriend. Six months after high school graduation, she gave birth to their first and only child.He was a freshman in college at the time, and the child was born during winter break. The pressure of fatherhood further motivated <mask> to work hard in school. It was during his first semester at the University of Kentucky that he earned straight As for the first time in his life. <mask> went on to win several honors in college, including Freshman of the Year, Sophomore of the Year, and numerous scholarships including The Wall Street Journal Outstanding Graduating Senior in Finance. In 1993, <mask> completed a Bachelor of Science in economics and Bachelors of Arts in finance and business management (a triple major). After graduation, <mask> continued at the University of Kentucky, where he completed a Master of Science in mathematics in 1998. It was during his time as a graduate student at the University of Kentucky that <mask> became more involved with political activism.The racist language used in his campus newspaper, The Kentucky Kernel, led <mask> to begin writing columns himself. In his work, he challenged the racially divisive foundations of his campus. <mask> also battled with the university president at the time, Charles T. Wethington Jr., referring to him as "Chuck" and claiming that he was racially insensitive and unqualified to be a campus president. Eventually, he went on to pursue his Ph.D. at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. At Ohio State University, <mask> enrolled in the business administration doctoral program, concentrating in finance. He finished his Ph.D. in 2002. The title of <mask>' dissertation was Investor Sentiment, Trading Patterns and Return Predictability, while working under René M. Stulz, David Hirshleifer, and G. Andrew Karolyi.His first academic position was on the finance faculty at Syracuse University. Career beginnings and social activism

In 2004, <mask> completed his first book, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about College: A Guide for Minority Students. The book was a success and began his work in public scholarship. "I wrote this book for all the young kids like me who were told they can't go to college", said <mask>. A few months later, <mask> created his second book, What if George Bush were a Black Man?, a satirical discussion of President George W. Bush and what he perceives as the presence of white privilege in America. <mask> explores the criminal justice system, the educational system, and the economic systems of America, using statistics and anecdotes to describe likely fates for President Bush and other privileged individuals if they were poor and Black. <mask>' next books were Financial Lovemaking 101: Merging Assets with Your Partner in Ways that Feel Good, The Parental 411: What Every Parent should Know about Their Child in College, and Quick and Dirty Secrets of College Success: A Professor Tells It All.Bill O'Reilly and Juan Williams

<mask> has an ongoing feud with Bill O'Reilly from Fox News. <mask> referred to O'Reilly and Sean Hannity as "UnAmerican borderline Klansmen who graduated from the Rush Limbaugh School of Arrogant Self-righteousness". During one CNN episode, after O'Reilly made controversial statements about African Americans during his visit to Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem, <mask> referred to Juan Williams as "Bill O'Reilly's happy little Negro", in reference to Williams' insistence that O'Reilly did nothing wrong. In response, Williams wrote a scathing piece about <mask> in Time. O'Reilly spent a week on his show calling for <mask> to be fired from his post at Syracuse University. <mask> referred to O'Reilly, Hannity, and Limbaugh as "The Axis of Ignorance" for what <mask> believed were racist attacks against the Black community. Later in the spring of 2008, <mask> formed an online protest through his website YourBlackWorld.com.In response to Fox News criticism of Senator Barack Obama and Pastor Jeremiah Wright, <mask> asked his supporters to write to Bill O'Reilly's corporate sponsors and complain about O'Reilly's behavior. <mask>' protest led O'Reilly to call for <mask> to be fired and to seek interviews with the chancellor of Syracuse University, Nancy Cantor. He also sent reporters to question Cantor and ask her why she had not challenged <mask> for his words. In his comments, O'Reilly claimed that <mask> had accused him of wanting to lynch Michelle Obama, the wife of then Senator Barack Obama, and that <mask> was "smearing the good name of Syracuse University by spreading these kinds of lies". O'Reilly had made the following remark about Michelle Obama and lynching on February 21, 2008: "I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels. If that's how she really feels — that America is a bad country or a flawed nation, whatever — then that's legit." He later apologized, saying, "I'm sorry if my statement offended anybody", on his February 22, 2008, program.Challenge to the NCAA

<mask> is an advocate for the rights of college athletes. In his work as a faculty affiliate for the College Sport Research Institute at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, <mask> has challenged the NCAA on its refusal to compensate college athletes, stating that the NCAA exploits Black families by using young men for their athletic ability and refusing to share the wealth with their families. In his work, <mask> has appeared on several national media outlets, including CNN, ESPN, Fox, and CBS Sports explaining why athletes should be compensated. He has also challenged the tax exempt status of the NCAA, stating that the United States Congress should step in and conduct an anti-trust investigation into the NCAA. In op-ed pieces opposite NCAA President Myles Brand, <mask> has argued that students' rights are being violated on a regular basis by the NCAA and that a fairer compensation model should be used by the league. He cites that the revenues from NCAA March Madness exceed that of the Super Bowl and the World Series combined. <mask> also cites the fact that many coaches are made into millionaires by a system designed to keep star athletes and their families in poverty.At the conference for the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS), <mask> cited the work of sociologist Harry Edwards during the 1968 Olympics as a springboard for Black athlete activism. "Like hookers kept dazed on drugs, the Black athlete is kept ignorant by his coaches so they can continue to rob him blind", said <mask>. "Coaches in college are given little incentive to increase graduation rates, and even choose the classes for the athletes. It's a sham." Financial activism

Through his position at Syracuse University and YourBlackWorld.com, <mask> also provides regular financial advice to a largely African-American audience. He argues that African Americans should consider their financial independence to be part of their spiritual and social independence. He also argues that African Americans should find a way to "own the land on which you stand", in order to be truly liberated in America.BET and Lil Wayne

<mask> has been highly critical of hip-hop, Black Entertainment Television and rap artist Lil Wayne. After reading the lyrics to Wayne's song, "We Be Steady Mobbin'", <mask> said that he was "ditching Lil Wayne completely" and that Wayne had "positioned himself as an enemy of the black community" who can be linked to "the holocaust occurring within the black community today". He has also said that Black Entertainment Television has an agenda similar to that of the Ku Klux Klan. Adidas and the "Slave Shoes"

<mask> slammed the sportsgear firm Adidas for its JS Roundhouse Mid shoe created with a shackle design. In an op-ed, <mask> dubbed the design as "slave shoes". Before canceling the shoe, Adidas wrote a statement in support of the designer and the design, indicating: the shoe "is nothing more than the designer Jeremy Scott's outrageous and unique take on fashion and has nothing to do with slavery." Civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson agreed with <mask>, stating: "The attempt to commercialize and make popular more than 200 years of human degradation, where blacks were considered three-fifths human by our Constitution is offensive, appalling and insensitive".Russell Simmons and the war on drugs

<mask> joined hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons to co-author a letter urging President Barack Obama to put an end to Ronald Reagan's war on drugs. The letter acquired more than 175 signatures from celebrities, activists, business and thought leaders, and scholars. Simmons and <mask> outlined specific programs the president could enforce to put an end to the war on drugs, including supporting the Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, and Education (Youth PROMISE) Act; forming a panel to review requests for clemency that come to the Office of the Pardon Attorney; and increasing transitioning programs for released inmates. Following the release of the letter, President Obama declared an end of the war on drugs with strategies to treat addictions and diverting non-violent drug offenders into treatment instead of prisons. Mountain Dew; Tyler, the Creator; and Lil Wayne

<mask> criticized Mountain Dew for approving what he dubbed to be "the most racist commercial in history", created by Tyler, the Creator. He also slammed the beverage company for paying rapper Lil Wayne a lucrative endorsement deal following his derogatory lyrics about civil rights icon Emmett Till. As a result of a call for the ad to be pulled and calls to be made to Clear Channel by the Mamie Till Mobley Foundation as well as a petition created by other activists and spearheaded by Reena Walker, Mountain Dew was forced to pull the series of commercials created by Tyler, the Creator and pull the plug on Lil Wayne's lucrative endorsement deal.<mask> and Tyler, the Creator engaged in an exchange of Twitter messages, in which <mask> stated he had an "altered perspective" after listening to Tyler, the Creator's music. Media outlets ran with <mask>' statement, claiming he had recanted his initial stance. <mask> later clarified the nature of his Tweet in a YouTube video, stating he does not approve of the commercial. Controversies

<mask> drew controversy on Twitter after condemning Kamala Harris for marrying a white man despite having attended an HBCU, and later for making comments about singer Lizzo that were widely interpreted as fat-shaming. References

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