June Mathis

June Mathis (born June Beulah Hughes, January 30, 1887 – July 26, 1927) was an American screenwriter. Mathis was the first female executive for Metro/MGM and at only 35, she was the highest paid executive in Hollywood. In 1926 she was voted the third most influential woman in Hollywood, behind Mary Pickford and Norma Talmadge. Mathis is best remembered for discovering Rudolph Valentino and writing such films as "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" (1921), and "Blood and Sand" (1922).
Early life.
June Mathis was born June Beulah Hughes in Leadville, Colorado, the only child of Virginia Ruth and Dr. Philip Hughes. Her parents divorced when she was seven and her mother remarried to William D. Mathis, a widower with three children whose name she would eventually adopt as a stage name.
She had been a sickly child and believed she healed herself through her sheer force of will. She believed everything was mental and everyone had certain vibrations, stating, "If you are vibrating in the right place, you will inevitably come in contact with the others who can help you. It's like tuning in on your radio. If you get the right wave-length, you have your station."
Mathis was educated in Salt Lake City and San Francisco. It was while in San Francisco she gained her first stage experience, dancing and doing imitations in vaudeville. At the age of 12 she joined a traveling company and at 17 became an ingenue, performing with Ezra Kendall in "The Vinegar Buyer".
Later she appeared in several Broadway shows and toured for four seasons with the female impersonator Julian Eltinge in the widely popular show "The Fascinating Widow". Supporting her now twice-widowed mother, she would continue to perform in theatre for the next 13 years.
Career.
Screenwriting.
Mathis was determined to become a screenwriter and, accompanied with her mother, she moved to New York City, where she studied writing and went to the movies in the evenings. She entered a screenwriting competition; but despite not winning, her entry was so impressive it did bring job offers.
Her first script, "House of Tears", would be directed by Edwin Carewe in 1915 and led to a contract in 1918 with Metro studios, later to be merged into MGM. As one of the first screenwriters to include details such as stage directions and physical settings in her work, Mathis saw scenarios as a way to make movies into more of an art form. Much of the standard screenwriting styles can be attributed to her. Mathis later credited her success to a strong concentration on plot and theme: "No story that did not possess a theme has ever really lived... Occasionally one may make money and perhaps be popular for a time. But in the end it dies."
By 1919 Mathis and her mother had moved to Hollywood. After only a year of screenwriting, she had advanced to the head of Metro's scenario department. She was one of the first heads of any film department and the only female executive at Metro.
During her early years, she had a close association with silent star Alla Nazimova. Their films together can be said to be marked by over-sentimentality; what little praise these films received was due to Nazimova's acting rather the conventional romantic stories.
"The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse".
In 1921, Richard Rowland, the head of Metro, paid $20,000 and 10% of the gross earning for Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's novel "The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse". The epic bestseller had been considered unadaptable by every major studio but Rowland handed the book to Mathis for adaptation and was so impressed with her screenplay that he asked her input on director and star. Mathis had seen Rudolph Valentino in a bit part in "Eyes of Youth", and she exerted her influence to cast Valentino. Studio heads resisted hiring an unknown actor for a lead role. Despite her many other accomplishments, this "discovery" would grow to be her best-known act. For the same movie she also insisted the studio hire Rex Ingram as director.
"The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" was one of the first films with an anti-war theme. Mathis also injected some early depictions of alternative lifestyles; it featured a scene with German officers coming down the stairs in drag. Of the scene, Mathis later told the "Los Angeles Times": "I had the German officers coming down the stairs with women's clothing on. To hundreds of people that meant no more than a masquerade party. To those who have lived and read, and who understand life, that scene stood out as one of the most terrific things in the picture."
Valentino.
"The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" was a success, grossing $4,500,000 domestically, thus becoming one of the most commercially successful silent films ever made and launching Valentino into stardom. Even before it was released, Valentino was receiving offers from other studios. Taking Mathis' advice, he remained with Metro to get another solid role or two under his belt.
Mathis and Valentino remained friends after "Four Horsemen". The older plain-looking Mathis doted on the talented, beautiful young man. Accounts state that Valentino regarded Mathis in a motherly way, calling her "Little Mother". Nita Naldi, who worked with them on "Blood and Sand", said: "She mothered Rudy, and my dear she worshiped him and he worshiped her." "She discovered me, anything I have accomplished I owe to her, to her judgment, to her advice and to her unfailing patience and confidence in me", said Valentino on Mathis in a 1923 interview with Louella Parsons.
Mathis looked after Valentino's welfare during his time at Metro, making sure he gained the best parts and was taken care of. When Valentino showed up on the set for "The Conquering Power", another Mathis script with Rex Ingram at the helm, his new-found stardom went to his head, along with resentment at working for the same wage of $350 a week.
 The friction between him and Ingram, and his need for more money to support mounting debts, led Valentino to sign with Famous Players-Lasky (later known as Paramount Pictures) for $1,000 a week.
Mathis was also one of the people who helped bail Valentino out of jail when he was arrested for bigamy, having married Natacha Rambova without finalizing his divorce to Jean Acker. Though the two were inseparable, their relationship became strained during Valentino's marriage to Rambova. When Mathis submitted a script for "The Hooded Falcon", one of Valentino's pet projects, the couple deemed it unacceptable and asked to have it rewritten. Mathis took it as a great insult and broke off all contact with Valentino.
Executive.
Mathis' position with Metro was called by the "Los Angeles Times", "The Most Responsible Job ever Held by A Woman". She was arguably one of the most powerful women in Hollywood, even said to be almost as powerful as Mary Pickford. Mathis had influence over casting, choice of director and many other aspects of production. Her strength lay in careful preparation of the shooting script along with the director, cutting out waste in production while at the same time sharpening narrative continuity.
After she had spent seven years at Metro, Famous Players-Lasky was able to lure her away with the promise that she could continue to write for her protégé Valentino. When Valentino moved to Goldwyn Pictures, she did as well, this time gaining sovereign control.
"Greed".
Mathis continued to survive in Hollywood despite being involved in two of the greatest financial fiascoes of the 1920s. When Erich von Stroheim presented Goldwyn Pictures with his masterpiece "Greed" (1924), following Frank Norris's novel "McTeague" very closely, it was 42 reels and 10 hours long. Stroheim himself realized the original version was far too long, so he reduced it to 24 reels (6 hours), hoping the film could be screened with intermissions in two successive evenings. But Goldwyn executives demanded further cuts. Stroheim allowed his close friend Rex Ingram to reduce it to 18 reels (4½ hours).
However, in the middle of production, Goldwyn had merged with Metro and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. MGM took "Greed" out of Stroheim's hands and gave it to Mathis, with orders to cut it even more, which she assigned to a routine cutter, Joseph W. Farnham. The film was then reduced to 13 reels (2½ hours) long. In the process, many key characters were cut out, resulting in large continuity gaps.
There is speculation on whether Mathis took part in the actual cutting. However, for contractual reasons, her name was listed in the credits as a writer, and it was she who would be blamed for what Stroheim and his fans would call "tampering with his genius". In fact, Mathis had worked with Stroheim before and had been fond of his themes, and thus it is thought unlikely she would butcher his film unnecessarily.
"Ben-Hur".
For the original production of "Ben Hur" (1925), Mathis fought the studio over the casting and production for many months. It was her idea to film the $1 million script in Italy; the film would eventually come in just under $4 million. When she arrived the original director Charles Brabin, in his words, refused to let her "interfere". The production troubles were numerous, and due to political troubles engulfing Italy at the time, resulted in disputes and delayed permissions. When the sea battle was filmed near Livorno, Italy, many extras had apparently lied about being able to swim. The first attempt to film the chariot race was on a set in Rome, but there were problems with shadows and the racetrack surface. One of the chariots' wheels came apart and the stuntman driving it was thrown in the air and killed.
MGM inherited the production when it took over control of Goldwyn studios; with the film over budget and getting out of control, the studio halted production and relocated the shoot from Italy to California, under the supervision of Irving Thalberg. Before they had even returned from Italy, MGM would fire Mathis, Brabin, and stars George Walsh and Gertrude Olmstead; MGM replaced them with director Fred Niblo, screenwriters Bess Meredyth and Carey Wilson, and stars Ramon Novarro and May McAvoy.
After her return, First National hired her as editorial director. She also scripted several successful Colleen Moore pictures including "Sally", "The Desert Flower", and "Irene". Mathis remained at First National for two years, but left over limitations and signed with United Artists; with her husband she made one picture for them, "The Masked Woman". "The Magic Flame" (1927) would be her last picture, and one of her best, due in part to Ronald Colman's performance and Henry King's direction.
Personal life.
A short woman with untamed brown hair and a love of Parisian fashion, she was also one of the first "writer-directors" and laid the groundwork for the later development of screenwriters becoming producers. A spiritualist with mystical bents, her scripts featured many heroes with a Christ-like demeanor. A believer in reincarnation, she always wore an opal ring when she wrote, convinced it brought her ideas.
Mathis had been romantically linked to George Walsh and Rex Ingram; however, she returned from Italy engaged to an Italian cinematographer named Silvano Balboni. The couple married on December 20, 1924, at the Mission of St. Cecilia, in Riverside, California.
Death.
After Valentino's marriage to Rambova ended in 1925, the two reconciled at the premiere of "Son of the Sheik" when Valentino spotted Mathis with friends. When Valentino unexpectedly died in August 1926, Mathis offered up what she thought would be a temporary solution; she lent him her spot in the family crypt she had purchased in Hollywood Memorial Cemetery (now called the Hollywood Forever Cemetery). However, when Mathis herself died the following year, the arrangement became permanent.
On July 26, 1927, during the third act of the Broadway show "The Squall" at the 48th Street Theatre while accompanied by her 84-year-old grandmother Emily Hawkes, Mathis suffered a fatal heart attack. Her last words were reportedly, "Mother, I'm dying!"
Her ashes were returned to California: instead of "evicting" Valentino, Mathis' husband, Sylvano Balboni, moved Valentino to the crypt beside hers, sold the remaining crypt to Valentino's family and returned to Italy. Mathis and Valentino repose side by side to this day.


DJ Clue

Ernesto Shaw (born January 8, 1975), better known as DJ Clue, is an Panamanian-American disc jockey (DJ), record producer, and radio personality.
Early life.
DJ Clue was born in Queens, New York to Panamanian and Jamaican immigrants.
Career.
DJ Clue has his own program, every Monday to Friday 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm, on Power 105.1 in New York entitled "Desert Storm Radio". Prior to this, until 2006, he disc-jockeyed at Hot 97.
DJ Clue founded Desert Storm Records, a record label, in 1998 with his childhood friends Skane Dolla (Manager) and Duro, famed recording engineer.
In 1999 DJ Clue took part in the Hard Knock Life Tour, including a stop in Toronto at the Air Canada Centre.


Mario Caldato Jr.

Mario Caldato Jr. (born February 24, 1961), also known as Mario C., is a Brazilian-American record producer and studio engineer best known for his work with Beastie Boys and Jack Johnson in the US, and with Marcelo D2 and Seu Jorge in Brazil. He is the winner of three Latin Grammys to date, along with several nominations and multi-platinum and gold records to his credit.
Biography.
Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Mario Caldato Jr. is the son of Italian father Mario, Sr. and Brazilian mother Guiomar. In 1963 Mario and his family moved to the United States, settling in Los Angeles. As a young boy, Caldato received a Sears Silvertone organ as a gift from his father, and then a piano a few years later. Soon after he began taking classical music lessons. These lessons came to an abrupt end when he was slapped by his teacher for not practicing. The incident did not however deter Caldato's budding interest in pop music. He was further inspired by a 1970 performance by Duke Ellington at El Camino College in Torrance, California.
As a teenager Caldato played keyboards and percussion in various local bands including Soul Sticks, Wake, Sa-Fire, Phaze, Phaze II, and The Jungle Bugs. In 1979 he purchased a cassette deck and recorded the band of his friend "Money" Mark Nishita at Harbor College in Wilmington CA. After building a home recording studio with Nishita and then visiting Jamaica for 1983's Reggae Sunsplash Festival, he then produced The Jungle Bugs' 7" single and then an EP for Alice I Wonder with the help of Brian "Sly" Foxworthy.
In 1985, Caldato started a PA and DJ rental company with Mike Nishita, brother of "Money" Mark Nishita. A year later he met DJ Matt Dike at legendary downtown L.A. nightclub Power Tools. At Dike's request, Caldato built a recording studio in Dike's Hollywood apartment, transforming a closet into a vocal booth. It was at Dike's home studio that Caldato engineered and helped co-produce Tone Loc and Young MC's hit singles and albums for Dike and Mike Ross' label Delicious Vinyl. It was also at Dike's apartment that Caldato first met the New York rap group Beastie Boys and the duo the Dust Brothers.
Work with Beastie Boys / Grand Royal.
In 1988-89 Caldato engineered the Beastie Boys second album "Paul's Boutique". Caldato is visible in footage of the album's release party atop the Capitol Records building. Deemed a commercial failure at the time, "Paul's Boutique" is now considered an unimpeachable cult classic. The album began Caldato's long-term professional association with Beastie Boys, co-producing their multi-platinum classics "Check Your Head", "Ill Communication" and "Hello Nasty". His name became well-known to Beastie fans via the shout-outs "that's a record 'cause of Mario" on the song "Root Down", "Mario C likes to keep it clean!" on the hit single "Intergalactic", ""Ed Norton is chillin' with Mario" and "Me and Ad and Adam and the Mario C"" on the song "Three MC's and One DJ" and "at the boards is the man they call Mario" on Sure Shot. During his early association with the Beastie Boys, Caldato also produced DJ Hurricane's 1st album "The Hurra" for Grand Royal. With Adam Horovitz, he produced two albums for the hardcore punk band D.F.L. for Grand Royal. Caldato also toured extensively worldwide with Beastie Boys during "Check Your Head" and "Ill Communication" mixing their sound live (sometimes in a quadrophonic setting), his style inspired in part by legendary dub reggae pioneers King Tubby and Lee "Scratch" Perry.
Work with other artists in North America / Europe / Australia.
Caldato's long-standing friendship with Money Mark has resulted in Mario's engineering, producing and mixing much of Mark's solo output, including the albums Push The Button (Mo' Wax, 1998), Change Is Coming (Emperor Norton, 2001), and Brand New By Tomorrow (Brushfire, 2007). Caldato has also produced three Jack Johnson albums "On & On", "In Between Dreams" and Johnson's fourth Billboard Number One album "From Here to Now to You". He has also worked with Beck, Björk, Blur, Cibo Matto, The Cult, Day One, Los Lobos & John Lee Hooker, Manu Chao, Mother Tongue's self-titled debut, Molotov, Super Furry Animals, Gruff Rhys, The John Butler Trio and Yoko Ono. In 2008, he mixed the self-titled debut EP of One Day as a Lion, a project comprising Zack de la Rocha (of Rage Against the Machine) and Jon Theodore (previously of The Mars Volta). In 2008, he produced the 2nd album of Joseph d'Anvers, a talented French songwriter, called Les Jours Sauvages, featuring appearances by Money Mark, Vanessa da Mata, Moreno Veloso and Kassin & Domenico. In 2012 he mixed the debut by Kids These Days, "Traphouse Rock," recorded by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy. Also produced Ethan Tucker debut LP 2015, also Mala Vita, So Far So Good LP from Holland 2016, Willie Bobo Dig my Feeling LP and Con Brio debut LP Paradise in 2016 from San Francisco.
Work with artists in South America.
The Portuguese-speaking Caldato spends significant time in Brasil, where his personal heritage infuses his music projects. He has produced many Brazilian artists, including Planet Hemp, Marcelo D2, Seu Jorge, Nação Zumbi, Bebel Gilberto, Marisa Monte, Vanessa da Mata, and Mallu Magalhães. In 2008 he mixed the debut album of the Argentinian group Banda de Turistas titled "Magico Corazon Radiofonico", one of the new revelations of the Latin scene. In 2010 Caldato mixed and co-produced the Seu Jorge and Almaz self-titled album released by Now-Again Records. Caldato organized, recorded and produced a charitable album with Anglo-Brazilian collaboratory supergroup, The Bottletop Band. In 2014 he was responsible for mixing Criolo second album Convoque seu Buda and also Filipe Ret, Revel LP and Ana Cañas To Na Vida LP in 2015. Also produced Aymoréco debut LP 2016, Santiago Cruz, Trenes, Aviones y Viajes Interplanetarios LP from Colombia, also mixed Alvinho Lancellotti, Canto de Marajó LP and FingerFingerrr, MAR LP in 2016.


Charles Lloyd Barnhouse

Charles Lloyd Barnhouse (March 20, 1865 – November 18, 1929) was a 19th-century American music publisher. Barnhouse started a music publishing firm in 1886 that exists today as the C. L. Barnhouse Company, selling band music around the world.
Barnhouse was born and raised in Grafton, West Virginia where he became an expert cornet player and went upon the road with a theatrical company, later taking charge of a band at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, for three years and at Burlington, Iowa, for one year. In 1891 he moved to Oskaloosa, Iowa and took charge of the Iowa Brigade Band, of which he was leader for fifteen years.
In 1888, he had begun publishing music for bands, orchestras and miscellaneous musical organizations. He entered upon this work at Mount Pleasant and continued in the business in Burlington and Oskaloosa. He had a well-equipped printing plant and conducted a successful business. He also sold his own compositions and his arrangements of music are for bands and orchestras.
In 1886, he was married to Miss Josephine B. Scott, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1868 and was a daughter of J. H. and Mary E. (Hare) Scott. They had four children: Jamie M., Lloyd, Dorothy, and Irene.


Breckin Meyer

Breckin Erin Meyer (born May 7, 1974) is an American actor, musician, writer and producer, known for his roles in films such as "Clueless" (1995), "Road Trip" (2000), "Rat Race" (2001), and "" (2004), he’s also known for providing voices for the television series "Robot Chicken" (2005–present) and for voicing Joseph Gribble in "King of The Hill" (2000–2010).
Early life.
Meyer was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Dorothy Ann (née Vial), a travel agent and former microbiologist, and Christopher William Meyer, a management consultant. He has lived in California, Texas, West Virginia, and New Jersey. He has an older brother, Frank, and a younger brother, Adam. Meyer attended elementary school with Drew Barrymore (and was apparently her first kiss) and also attended Beverly Hills High School. Through his elementary school, he came into contact with Barrymore's agent, who signed Meyer. As a little boy, he was mostly seen in television advertisements, and also appeared as a child participant in the game show "Child's Play". He also slept in a closed coffin for several years in high school.
Career.
Meyer played several roles as a druggie, starting with his debut in "" (1991), in which he was dispatched in a video game. His breakthrough screen role was in the teen hit "Clueless" (1995) as the skateboarding stoner. Meyer offered similar characterizations in "The Craft" and John Carpenter's "Escape from L.A." (both 1996). He played the best friend of an Olympic hopeful in the biopic "Prefontaine" (1997) and as a high-school student yearning to leave his hometown in "Dancer, Texas Pop. 81" (1998).
In "54" (also 1998), a look at life in the famous '70s nightspot Studio 54, the actor was cast as a busboy married to the coat check girl (Salma Hayek) and pursued by a bartender (Ryan Phillippe). Meyer is close friends with Phillippe, with whom he and Seth Green share a production company.
Meyer would subsequently appear in films including "Go" (1999) and "The Insider" (1999) before graduating to a full-fledged leading role in the DreamWorks hit "Road Trip" (2000), in which he again played a character travelling cross country, a college student hoping desperately to retrieve a videotape of himself having sex with another girl, which was accidentally mailed to his long-distance girlfriend. "Road Trip" marked the first indication that Meyer's well-developed slacker sidekick persona had matured and could be tweaked to make him a full-fledged leading man.
He was reteamed with Amy Smart in yet another racing cross country film, this time as part of the multi-plot ensemble of "Rat Race" (2001), a sort-of homage to the all-star screwball chase films of the 1960s, such as "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World." Meyer put in a supporting turn as Meg Ryan's character's brother in the whimsical fantasy-comedy "Kate & Leopold" (2001). Meyer also took on the role of Jon Arbuckle, the hapless owner of the famed comic book cat in the film adaptation of "Garfield" (2004).
Meyer also starred in "Blue State" with Anna Paquin in which he plays a passionately liberal guy on the campaign trail for John Kerry in the 2004 elections. He drunkenly pledges to move to Canada if Bush wins the election, and on his journey meets a mysterious young woman, played by Paquin. He co-starred with Matthew McConaughey in "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" (2009). In (2021) Meyer starred opposite Emily Kinney and Giselle Eisenberg in the independent dark comedy The Enormity of Life about a suicidal man struggling with life and love.
Meyer regularly does writing and voice work on "Robot Chicken", and was nominated for an Emmy for his writing on the "" specials. He also voiced the adolescent Joseph Gribble on the animated series "King of the Hill" and starred on the Adult Swim series "Titan Maximum".
Meyer is also a musician, playing drums in the punk band The Street Walkin' Cheetahs and with Tom Morello's The Nightwatchman, as well as Ben Harper, Cypress Hill, Slash and Perry Farrell at L.A.'s Hotel Café.
Meyer is the drummer for Tom Morello's alter ego The Nightwatchman's back-up band The Freedom Fighter Orchestra. He toured with Morello on The Nightwatchman's 2008 Justice Tour. He appears in Street Sweeper Social Club's video for "100 Little Curses" and "Promenade".
Personal life.
Meyer married screenwriter and film director Deborah Kaplan on October 14, 2001, and has two daughters with her. The two separated several times before they finally divorced in 2014.
His brother, Frank Meyer, is a staffer and producer of Fresh Ink Online at G4tv.com.


Rory Bourke

Rory Michael Bourke (born July 14, 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio is an American country music songwriter and music publisher.
Bourke moved to Nashville in 1964 and worked for a period in the promotional department of Mercury Records.
His songwriting career took off in the early 1970s and he soon racked up tracks recorded by Charlie Rich, Elvis Presley, Lynn Anderson, Billy Crash Craddock, Olivia Newton-John, and many others. His most successful song was "The Most Beautiful Girl", cowritten with Billy Sherrill and Norro Wilson, recorded by Rich and a number-one record in both the country and pop fields. He co-wrote "Patch It Up" with Eddie Rabbitt and wrote "Your Love's Been A Long Time Coming," both of which were recorded by Elvis Presley.
Bourke's other hit songs include "A Little Good News," (Anne Murray), "You Look So Good in Love" (George Strait), "I Know a Heartache When I See One" (Jennifer Warnes), and "Come Next Monday" (K. T. Oslin). Most of his songs were written in collaboration with other songwriters. Charlie Black is a frequent writing partner and he has also written hits with Oslin, Mike Reid, Eddie Rabbitt, Deborah Allen, and a number of others.
Bourke was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1989. His awards include three times as ASCAP's "Writer of the Year" (1975, 1979, 1983) and three Grammy nominations for Best Country Song. He has also won 11 BMI performance award and over 45 ASCAP performance awards.


Simon Franglen

Simon Franglen (born Westminster, London, England) is an English composer of classical and film music. He is also an award winning record producer and former musician. His credits include four of the list of top grossing films and six of the list of best-selling albums of all time.
His film work includes a number of well-known movies, including "Avatar", for which he received Golden Globe and Grammy nominations for the theme song, and for being the producer of "My Heart Will Go On" from "Titanic", for which he won a Record of The Year Grammy Award. Other film credits range from David Fincher's "Seven"," The Amazing Spider-Man", "The Magnificent Seven", to arranging music for the James Bond films "Skyfall" and "Spectre".
Music career.
Franglen has worked with Michael Jackson, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Quincy Jones, David Foster, Toni Braxton, The Corrs, Monica, Bee Gees, Luciano Pavarotti. Currently there are over four hundred music credits to Franglen on AllMusic.
Early career.
After showing skill with synthesizers whilst working in London recording studios as a student, Franglen was hired by Trevor Horn as a Synclavier programmer, working on Yes, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Godley and Creme. He left Sarm West Studios to become an independent producer for acts like The Associates and a composer for commercials and TV. He composed the famous Direct Line jingle.
Pop work.
Franglen was persuaded by engineer/producer Humberto Gatica to move to the US, where he became a top Los Angeles session musician and programmer. Alongside his career on film music, Franglen has been involved in a huge number of singles and albums that have charted highly, since the early 1990s. These include:
"Un-Break My Heart" (Toni Braxton)
"Change The World" (Eric Clapton)
"For You I Will" (Monica)
"I Swear" (All 4 One)
"I Have Nothing" (Whitney Houston)
"No Matter What" (Boyzone)
He has produced a wide variety of material, from UK grime rappers such as Ironik and Chip to classical tenors including Rolando Villazon.
Film score work.
Franglen moved into film music when he was introduced to the composer John Barry late in the production of the score for "Dances with Wolves" and collaborated on the soundtrack album. He continued to work with Barry for a number of years, including on "Chaplin". Other long-term collaborations were with the film composers Alan Silvestri, James Horner, and Howard Shore, for whom he created the trademark dystopian electronica for "Seven" by David Fincher, "Crash" by David Cronenberg.
He worked with producer David Foster on the soundtrack for "The Bodyguard" and later, produced Nicole Kidman and Ewan MacGregor's "Come What May" with Foster for Baz Lehrmann's "Moulin Rouge!", he separately acted as vocal producer for the film songs. In 1997, he worked for the first time with James Horner on the score for "Titanic", for which he won a Grammy Award as producer of "My Heart Will Go On". He reconnected with Horner for "Avatar", spending almost 11 months working on the score; he acted as Electronic Music Arranger and also co-write and co-produced the Golden Globe and Grammy nominated theme song. Horner and Franglen continued to work closely together from 2009 on films such as "The Amazing Spider-Man", Franglen initially acting as arranger, then moving to score producer.
Recent work.
In 2016, after the tragic death of his friend, James Horner, Franglen co-composed the score to "The Magnificent Seven", which Horner had commenced. He won an ASCAP award for his work. 2016 also included original music for director Terrence Malick's film "Voyage of Time".
In December 2016, he premiered a new fifteen minute 3-dimensional orchestral immersive work in what CNN called 'The World's Highest Art Space' - a 240 speaker immersive experience featuring four separate complete orchestral parts, Chinese Solo instruments, choir and bells on the 2000 ft high 126th floor of the Shanghai Tower, Shanghai, China.
In early 2017, he worked with Pink Floyd at Abbey Road Studios, producing 3D mixes of some of their best known tracks for an immersive installation room at the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition, . Over 400,000 people visited the exhibition and the installation will tour around the world.
Franglen was responsible for the production and further composition of the music throughout Pandora–The World of Avatar which opened at Walt Disney World in Florida in May 2017, taking over duties from James Horner in 2015. In 2018, an album of selected music from the park was released by Walt Disney Music album.
He scored "Together" - a new immersive film by director Terrence Malick which premiered at SXSW in late 2017 and at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival
. In 2018, he composed the scores to "Peppermint" directed by Pierre Morel, the MGM TV series "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair" by director Jean-Jacques Annaud.
In 2019, he premiered a new large scale orchestral and choral work for live performance, the oratorio "The Birth of Skies and Earth", based on the great Chinese creation myths. A ninety-minute work, with libretto in Mandarin Chinese, it premiered in Shanghai, with 176 musicians on stage, featuring a 90 piece orchestra, 80 voice choir, and six soloist singers. Subsequently, it toured around China.
In late 2019, he composed the score to Xiaolong Zheng's "Turandot, The Three Bracelets", a large-budget Chinese historical action fantasy for release in 2021.
In late 2020, he composed the score to the documentary film about the saving of the Timbuktu Manuscripts from Jihadists - 'The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu' directed by Otto Bell.
In early 2021, he will be composing the score to the mythological epic, "Brahmastra", directed by Ayan Mukerji. In late 2022, he will premiere a new opera. He has been hired to write new songs for "Avatar 2" and "Avatar 3".
Other work.
Franglen accompanied Barbra Streisand for her first live performance in 27 years at the Inauguration of President Bill Clinton in Washington DC. He also toured with her for the subsequent come-back tour.
Family.
The composer and producer Nick Franglen is his brother. The musician and writer Hans Keller was his great uncle.


Alan Aisenberg

Alan Aisenberg (born March 18, 1993) is an American actor and television producer. He is best known for his role as Baxter Bayley on the Netflix original series "Orange Is the New Black".
Life and career.
Aisenberg was raised in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey and picked up acting at a Jewish Community Center in Tenafly, New Jersey at a very young age. While attending college at the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, he co-founded a production company known as Deverge.
Aisenberg made his screen debut in the 2007 horror film "Unholy". He later made his television debut in 2008 with a minor role in the Nickelodeon series "The Naked Brothers Band" before landing roles in a number of films, as well as television series such as "Mozart in the Jungle" and "Inside Amy Schumer". In June 2015, Aisenberg began his recurring role as correctional officer Baxter "Gerber" Bayley on the Netflix comedy-drama series "Orange Is the New Black".
On January 29, 2017, Aisenberg and the rest of the cast of "Orange Is the New Black" won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. In October 2017, it was announced that Pop ordered a pilot for "Sebastian Wakes Up", an improv comedy series co-created by Aisenberg and produced by Deverge, Aisenberg's production company. Aisenberg co-starred in "Second Act", a comedy which was released on December 21, 2018.


Bob Stapleton

Bob Stapleton (born April 1, 1958, in Riverside, California) is an American entrepreneur and the former team owner of cycling team . Stapleton was previously the team manager of when it was known as . The transition to owner occurred on November 28, 2007 when German telecom company Deutsche Telekom ended its sponsorship after numerous doping allegations surfaced throughout 2007.
Stapleton began his relationship with T-Mobile when his communications company VoiceStream Wireless was bought in 2000 by Deutsche Telekom for $50 billion. The original purchase price of Voicestream was $50B. At closing, DT stock had gone down and the value was less. VoiceStream was renamed T-Mobile USA. He later became involved with cycling by founding High Road Sports Inc., which managed T-Mobile Team (both men's and women's) until 2007.
After the "Operación Puerto" scandal touched big names of the men's team such as Jan Ullrich and Óscar Sevilla, and following disputes among riders and managing staff, there were major changes in both the team's roster and management, and Stapleton was appointed team manager.


Albert Aley

Albert Aley (April 25, 1919 - January 1, 1986) was an American producer, screenwriter, script doctor and story editor.
Career.
Aley began his career, as an actor on the radio series "Let's Pretend".
Later in his career, Aley worked on radio and wrote for two episodes for the television series "Treasury Men in Action". He later was an producer, screenwriter and script editor for "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet". His other credits includes, "Ironside", "The Paper Chase", "Hawaii Five-O", "Quincy, M.E." and "Rawhide".
In 1971, Aley was nominated for an Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Series - Drama. He retired his career, in 1981.
Death.
Aley died in January 1986 at the Seattle Hospital in Seattle, Washington, at the age of 66.
Return to WWE.
Singles competition (2006).
Haas returned to WWE in 2006, appearing on the April 17, 2006, episode of "Raw" as Rob Van Dam's handpicked opponent for his former partner, Shelton Benjamin. Haas defeated Benjamin in the ensuing match. Haas continued to wrestle on the lower midcard spot, becoming a regular fixture on "Heat".
On the June 5, 2006 episode of "Raw", Haas inadvertently knocked Lilian Garcia off the ring apron as he was entering the ring. It was announced on WWE's official website that as a result, Garcia suffered a sprained wrist. As a result of the legitimate accident, Haas began a feud with Garcia's onetime storyline love interest Viscera. Haas made advances towards Garcia, at one point forcefully kissing her and then dropping her to the ground. Haas and Viscera continued to fight for Garcia's affection in the ring, until she told them both that she wanted to be "just friends". Haas gave Viscera an eye rake in anger, and a blinded Viscera accidentally gave Garcia a Samoan drop. Though it was unintentional, when both Haas and Viscera had seen what had happened to their now former love interest, they simply had a laugh about it, thus making Haas a villain. After that, Viscera and Haas became a tag team, competing on both "Raw" and "Heat" until splitting in December 2006.
Return of The World's Greatest Tag Team (2006–2007).
After Shelton Benjamin won a match against Super Crazy on the December 4, 2006, edition of "Raw", Haas came out to celebrate his win with a bewildered Benjamin. Haas and Benjamin announced the return of The World's Greatest Tag Team on the December 11, 2006 edition of "Raw", and they defeated The Highlanders in their return match. They then started a feud with Cryme Tyme. They continued to compete on "Raw" through the start of 2007, facing teams including John Cena and Shawn Michaels and Ric Flair and Carlito. In mid-2007, The World's Greatest Tag Team feuded briefly with The Hardys in storyline; at the One Night Stand pay-per-view on June 3, 2007, they challenged The Hardys for the World Tag Team Championship in a ladder match but were unsuccessful. The team broke up once again when Benjamin moved to the ECW brand on November 20, 2007.
Various gimmicks and departure (2008–2010).
Early in 2008, Haas developed a gimmick in which he would go under the ring in the middle of his matches and re-emerge wearing a mask. In this "alter-ego", Haas would sometimes perform luchador-esque maneuvers in a comical fashion (such as attempting a diving splash, but instead landing on his feet and hitting a standing splash). The opponent would often unmask Haas mid-match, returning him to his normal demeanor. During this persona, Haas usually competed in dark matches before the live broadcast of "Raw" or on "Heat".
Beginning in late August, Haas turned into a face and began a storyline in which he began to impersonate other wrestlers, a concept created by John Laurinaitis, a WWE executive. His first match on August 25, 2008 under this gimmick was a loss to Carlito's real-life brother Primo Colón, while Haas was parodying Carlito with the name "Charlito". He has portrayed such superstars as John Cena, John "Bradshaw" Layfield, Jim Ross, The Great Khali, Montel Vontavious Porter, legends such as Stone Cold Steve Austin, Bret Hart, "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig, Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, Rowdy Roddy Piper, the Undertaker, Hulk Hogan and even WWE Diva Beth Phoenix for which he won a Slammy Award.
On April 15, 2009, Haas was drafted to the SmackDown brand as part of the 2009 Supplemental Draft. On the May 8, 2009 episode of "SmackDown", Haas made his in-ring return to the brand as a heel, abandoning his persona of imitating other wrestlers, and losing to John Morrison in a match where he was accompanied by his former World's Greatest Tag Team partner, Shelton Benjamin. The following week on the May 15, 2009 episode of "SmackDown", Benjamin and Haas unofficially reunited and competed against John Morrison and CM Punk in a losing effort, but Benjamin was traded to the ECW brand in June.
On July 24, 2009 episode of "SmackDown", Haas competed against R-Truth in a losing effort. The following week, on July 31, 2009 episode of "SmackDown", he competed against The Great Khali, ending in a no-contest due to Kane being involved in the match by attacking Ranjin Singh at Khali's corner.
After an absence of several months, Haas made his return to television by teaming with Mike Knox in a losing effort against Cryme Tyme on the December 31, 2009 episode of "Superstars". This marked Haas’ last match in WWE.
Release from WWE (2010)
On February 28, 2010, WWE announced that Haas had been released from his contract.
Return to the independent circuit (2010–present).
On March 20, 2010, Haas made a surprise return to Jersey All Pro Wrestling and defeated Devon Moore for the JAPW New Jersey State Championship. On May 22 Haas and JAPW Heavyweight Champion Dan Maff put their titles on the line in a tag team match against the Hillbilly Wrecking Crew (Brodie Lee and Necro Butcher). In the end, Maff turned on Haas and hit him with a chair, after which Lee pinned him to win the JAPW New Jersey State Championship.
On September 10, 2010, Haas won the NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship by defeating Michael Faith in Amarillo. In May 2011, Haas took part in New Japan Pro-Wrestling's first tour of the United States, the Invasion Tour 2011. In their opening show on May 13 in Rahway, New Jersey, Haas teamed with Rhyno in a tag team main event, where they defeated IWGP Heavyweight Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi and Togi Makabe. The following day in New York City, Haas unsuccessfully challenged Tanahashi for his title. On August 20, 2011, Haas became the inaugural Family Wrestling Entertainment (FWE) Heavyweight Champion by defeating Jay Lethal and Eric Young. He held the championship for four months before losing it to Young on December 17.
After he retired from pro wrestling, Haas returned on August 17, 2013, where Haas defeated Jax Dane to win the NWA Branded Outlaw Wrestling championship.
At JAPW 18th Anniversary Show, Haas, Benjamin, and Angle reunited, as Team Angle, for the first time in 11 years. In the main event, Benjamin and Haas defeated Chris Sabin and Teddy Hart.
At NWA Parade Of Champions 2K16 Haas was defeated by the NWA World Heavyweight Champion Jax Dane
In 2020, after a 2 year retirement, Haas began to work with SWE Fury. He would defeat Tim Storm for the SWE Heavyweight Championship on February 6, 2021 in Irving, Texas.
Ring of Honor (2010–2013).
On September 11, 2010, Haas and Shelton Benjamin made their debut as Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team in Ring of Honor (ROH) losing to The Kings of Wrestling at the Glory By Honor IX pay-per-view. They returned to ROH at the "Ring of Honor Wrestling" television tapings on December 9, where they defeated the Bravado Brothers (Harlem and Lance). The following day, at the second set of television tapings, Haas and Benjamin defeated the All-Night Xpress of Kenny King and Rhett Titus, and participated in an eight-man tag team match, teaming with the Briscoe Brothers against the Kings of Wrestling and the All-Night Xpress, which ended in a no contest. At the Final Battle 2010 pay-per-view on December 18, Haas and Benjamin announced they would be wrestling regularly for ROH in 2011. At the following pay-per-view, 9th Anniversary Show, on February 26, 2011, Haas and Benjamin defeated the Briscoe Brothers in the main event of the evening to earn another shot at the Kings of Wrestling and the ROH World Tag Team Championship. On April 1, at the first night of the Honor Takes Center Stage pay-per-view, Haas and Benjamin defeated the Kings of Wrestling to win the ROH World Tag Team Championship. On June 26 at Best in the World 2011, Haas and Benjamin successfully defended the ROH World Tag Team Championship in a four-way match against the Briscoe Brothers, the Kings of Wrestling and the All-Night Express. The following day ROH announced that both Haas and Benjamin had signed contracts with the promotion. At Final Battle 2011, Haas and Benjamin lost the ROH World Tag Team Championship to the Briscoes despite severely attacking them before the match started, turning them into villainous characters. On May 12, 2012, at Border Wars, Haas and Benjamin regained the ROH World Tag Team Championship from the Briscoe Brothers. On June 24 at Best in the World 2012, Haas and Benjamin lost the title to Kenny King and Rhett Titus. Shortly after their loss, Benjamin was suspended in storyline, to explain his absence while wrestling in Japan. Benjamin returned at the Death Before Dishonor X pay-per-view, accompanying Haas and Rhett Titus in a tag team championship match. Following Death Before Dishonor, Haas and Benjamin would continue to feud with Titus and his new tag team partner B.J. Whitmer defeating them at Glory By Honor XI. They defeated them again in a street fight at , where Haas won the match after sent BJ against a table. On February 2, 2013, Haas turned on Benjamin during an ROH World Tag Team Championship match against the Briscoe Brothers. He continued his feud with BJ, fighting in the 11th Anniversary Show in a No Holds Barred Match. BJ won the match when the referee stopped the match.
Retirement and semi-retirement (2014-present).
On March 30, 2013, Haas announced his retirement from professional wrestling, which coincided with him leaving Ring of Honor. However, a few months later Haas returned to the ring and has continued to compete in various promotions in his home state of Texas, Oklahoma and in Canada.
Personal life.
Haas married fellow professional wrestler Jackie Gayda in 2005. The couple have four children: Kayla (born 2006), Taylor (born 2008), Thomas (born 2010), and Charles (born 2012). In December 2020, Haas announced that he and Gayda were divorced.
Haas competed in amateur wrestling during high school, and for Seton Hall University, where he attended on a wrestling scholarship. He also has various other awards for wrestling from high school. Haas was a two-time Big East Champion at Seton Hall and graduated with a degree in economics and business. He then became a stockbroker with Goldman Sachs. According to Haas via the Q&A section on his website, he is a devout Christian. Following the death of his brother, Haas has wrestled with Russ (his brother's name) written on his wrist tape as a tribute. Since 2002 he has maintained a close friendship with his longtime tag team partner Shelton Benjamin, who he often refers to as his "brother." Benjamin served as Haas's best man at his wedding to Gayda and was the godfather to Haas' oldest daughter.
His grandfather Hugh Devore, was an assistant with the Houston Oilers and a former Head Coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Haas' brother Russ was also a professional wrestler, until his death in 2001 due to a heart attack.
In 2008, Haas and Gayda opened the "Custom Muscle Nutrition and Smoothie Shop", a nutritional store, in Frisco, Texas.


Amelia Boone

Amelia Boone (born September 27, 1983) is an American obstacle racer. She used to be an attorney for the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, but now works for Apple Inc. in San Jose, California.
As one of the most accomplished obstacle course racing (OCR) athletes in the history of the sport, she has won both the Spartan Race World Championship (2013) and World's Toughest Mudder (three times 2012, 2014 and 2015). In 2014, she won the WTM title eight weeks after major knee surgery.
She is sponsored by Reebok, BeetElite, RockTape, Sufferfest Beer Company, and Ultimate Direction, and has been featured in a Tough Mudder commercial for Oberto Jerky, alongside sportscaster Stephen A. Smith.
Boone appeared on the cover of the August 2015 issue of "Runner's World" magazine, which included the article "The Obstacle Course Race Superstar: How Amelia Boone went from hating running to dominating races".
Boone has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book "Tools of Titans".
Education.
In 2002 Boone graduated from Lakeridge High School in Lake Oswego, Oregon. In 2006 she graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, with a degree in anthropology and political science. Then in 2009 she graduated from University of Washington School of Law with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree.
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Harvey Smith (game designer)

Harvey Smith (born 1966) is an American video game designer and writer, working at Arkane Studios.
Smith has lectured in various places around the world on topics such as level design, emergent gameplay, leadership, game unit differentiation, future trends and interactive narrative. At the Game Developers Conference in 2006, Smith won the Game Designer's Challenge: "Nobel Peace Prize", for his design featuring a mobile video game that facilitates political social action.
Early life.
Smith was born and raised on the Texas Gulf Coast. He grew up playing games like "Pong" as well as "Dungeons & Dragons". He read books by Ursula K. Le Guin, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Roger Zelazny, among others. After six years in the U.S. Air Force, Smith moved to Austin at the behest of a friend to try his hand at video game design.
Career.
Early in his career, Smith worked in quality assurance (QA) at the Austin-based Origin Systems, where he became the QA lead for "System Shock". In 1995, Smith became an associate producer for "Ultima VIII", working with co-founder of Origin, Richard Garriott. After leaving Origin in 1996, Harvey Smith went to work at Multitude where they released "FireTeam".
After Multitude, Smith's game development career continued in Austin, Texas working with Warren Spector at Ion Storm as lead designer on "Deus Ex" as well as its sequel, "Deus Ex: Invisible War". Smith left Ion Storm to work at Midway Games as lead designer on "BlackSite: Area 51". On November 29, 2007, Harvey Smith, as designer of "BlackSite: Area 51", came out publicly to announce how unrealistic the game's development schedule was and through mutual agreement left Midway a day later. He claimed the schedule caused the low reviews due to the fact they were not able to test the game properly.
In 2008, Smith became partner and co-creative director of Arkane Studios in Austin alongside the company's president, Raphael Colantonio. They went on to release the stealth-action game, "Dishonored" in 2012, which won many Game of the Year and Best Action/Adventure accolades including the 2013 BAFTA award for Best Game and 2012 SPIKE VGA for Best Action/Adventure Game.
Smith's novel, "Big Jack is Dead", was released on April 2, 2013 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. That same year it was on Kirkus Review's list of "Best Indie General Fiction".


Tim Cockerill

Tim Cockerill FRES is an zoologist, broadcaster and photographer in the UK, he is Senior Lecturer at Falmouth University and has a particular interest in Insects.
Education and career.
Cockerill grew in Hull in Yorkshire, he studied a Zoology BSc and MRes at the University of Leeds and then a PhD in Insect Ecology and Biodiversity at the University of Cambridge; he moved to the Natural History Museum to do postdoctoral research and then did a Masters in Science Media Production at Imperial College London. He was a Senior Lecturer at the University of South Wales where he taught natural history before moving to Falmouth University in 2018 where he teaches natural history photography.
Broadcasting.
Cockerill is a regular on BBC Radio Science programmes such as Science in Action, Inside Science and Crowd Science.
He was on the Natural Histories episode '"Fleas'" with Brett Westwood in 2015 and the Infinite Monkey Cage episode "'Will insects inherit the earth"' in 2017 with Brian Cox, Robin Ince and Amoret Whitaker. In 2014 he was on the BBC Four television programme Spider House.
In 2017 he presented a series of BBC World Service The Evidence episodes with Claudia Hammond about the relationships between humans and animals, this included a live event at the Wellcome Collection,
He contributed to the Guardian podcast episode '"Challenge of taxonomy and defining species"' in 2018.
Flea Circus.
Cockerill has an interest in the history of flea circuses and he has spoken about them on radio and in videos. In 2010 he recreated a working flea circus for the 2010 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and in 2021 he exhibited a flea circus at the virtual Insect Fear Film Festival.
Honours and awards.
Cockerill was awarded a Science Media Studentship from the Wellcome Trust in 2012–2014,
He was runner up in the British Ecological Society's photography competition in 2013 for his image of an oil palm plantation in Borneo. In 2014 his image of Wallace's beetle "Cyriopalus wallacei" won first prize in the Royal Entomological Society's National Insect Week photography competition category 'Small is Beautiful' and in 2020 he became chair of the judging panel, working with Ashleigh Whiffin.
Cockerill is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and is a current Trustee of the society.


Jan Hatzius

Jan Hatzius (born December 17, 1968) is the chief economist of investment bank Goldman Sachs. Notable for his bearish forecasts prior to the Financial crisis of 2007–2008, he is a two-time winner of the Lawrence R. Klein Award for the most accurate US economic forecast over the prior four years. He has also won a number of other forecasting awards, including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Institutional Investor annual forecaster rankings.
Born in Heidelberg, Hatzius attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in economics from the University of Oxford in 1995 (advisor: Stephen Nickell). He has also worked as a research fellow at the London School of Economics.
Hatzius joined Goldman Sachs in 1997 as an associate economist in the Frankfurt office and moved to New York in 1999. He became a managing director in 2004, and succeeded former chief US economist William Dudley in 2005. In 2008, Hatzius was named to Goldman Sachs′ list of partners. In 2011, Hatzius became the firm's chief economist. He is also the head of both the Global Economics group and Americas Macro Research.
Hatzius is married with three children, and resides in New York City's Upper West Side.


Laurence Fitton

Laurence Fitton (died 29 March 1434) was the member of the Parliament of England for Marlborough for the parliament of May 1421.
In 1426 he was made bailiff of the episcopal manors of Sonning and Eye for life for which he received pay of 10 marks per annum, a robe at Christmas and the means to stable two horses.
He was buried at Sonning church.


William Thomas Calman

Dr William Thomas Calman (29 December 1871 – 29 September 1952) was a Scottish zoologist, specialising in the Crustacea. From 1927 to 1936 he was Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum (Natural History) (now the Natural History Museum).
Life.
He was born in Dundee, the son of Thomas Calman, a music teacher, and Agnes Beatts Maclean.
He studied at the High School of Dundee.
In the scientific societies in Dundee, he met D'Arcy Thompson. He later became Thompson's lab boy, which allowed him to attend lectures at University College, Dundee for free. A. D. Peacock, one of Thompson's successors to the chair of Natural history at Dundee, believed this appointment came about following a letter sent by Calman in 1891 asking Thompson's advice as to applying for a post in Edinburgh. After his graduation with distinction in 1895, he took on a lecturership at the University, where he remained for eight years. When Thompson died, Calman, along with Douglas Young, wrote his obituary notice in the Royal Society of Edinburgh Yearbook.
He later worked at the Natural History Museum, where he was appointed assistant curator of Arachnida in 1904 (replacing Pocock), became assistant curator of Crustacea and Pycnogonida and Keeper of Zoology. In 1909, he wrote the Crustacea section in Lankester's "Treatise on Zoology", where he introduced the superorders Eucarida, Peracarida and Hoplocarida as well as the concept of the "caridoid facies", a hypothetical ancestral malacostracan. He wrote several of the entries about crustacea for the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition. He also established the current division of the Branchiopoda into the four orders Anostraca, Notostraca, Conchostraca and Cladocera. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1921, being the first graduate of the University of Dundee to be so. Calman retired to Tayport in 1936, but returned to teaching during the Second World War at Queen's College, Dundee and St Andrews. He was president of the Quekett Microscopical Club from 1926 to 1928, president of the Linnean Society from 1934 to 1937, and was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1946.
He was awarded CB in 1935. St Andrews University awarded him an honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1937.
He died in Coulsdon in Surrey on 29 September 1952.
Taxa named by Calman.
Taxa named by W. T. Calman include:


Safra Catz

Safra A. Catz (Hebrew: צפרא כץ, born December 1, 1961) is an Israeli-American billionaire banker and technology executive. She is the CEO of Oracle Corporation. She has been an executive at Oracle since April 1999, and a board member since 2001. In April 2011, she was named co-president and chief financial officer (CFO), reporting to founder Larry Ellison. In September 2014, Oracle announced that Ellison would step down as CEO and that Mark Hurd and Catz had been named as joint CEOs. In December 2019, Oracle stated that Catz would be the sole CEO after Hurd's death.
Early life.
Catz was born in Holon, Israel, to Jewish parents. Her father was an immigrant from Romania. She moved from Israel to Brookline, Massachusetts at the age of six.
Catz graduated from Brookline High School. She earned a bachelor's degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1986.
Career.
Catz was a banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, serving as a managing director from February 1997 to March 1999 and a senior vice president from January 1994 to February 1997 and previously held various investment banking positions since 1986. In 1999, Catz joined Oracle as senior vice president. She has been a non-executive director of Oracle subsidiary Hyperion Solutions since April 2007. She has been a member of the executive council of TechNet since March 2013. She was a director of PeopleSoft Inc since December 2004 and Stellent Inc. since December 2006.
Catz joined Oracle Corporation in April 1999. Catz became a member of the company's board of directors in October 2001 and president in early 2004. She is credited for having driven Oracle's 2005 efforts to acquire software rival PeopleSoft in a $10.3 billion takeover. Catz is also the company's CFO, serving temporarily in that role from November 2005 to September 2008, and from April 2011 to the present. Mark Hurd joined her as co-president in 2010. In December 2019, Oracle stated that Catz would be the sole CEO after Hurd's death.
In 2009 she was ranked by "Fortune" as the 12th most powerful woman in business. In 2009 she was ranked by "Forbes" as the 16th most powerful businesswoman. In 2014, she was ranked 24th. According to an Equilar analysis published by "Fortune", she was in 2011 the highest-paid woman among Fortune 1000 companies, receiving an estimated US$51,695,742 in total remuneration.
Catz is a lecturer in accounting at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Catz was a director of HSBC Group from 2008 to 2015.
After the election of Donald Trump, Catz was one of several high-profile CEOs, including Tim Cook, Sheryl Sandberg and Jeff Bezos, invited to talk with the then president-elect about potentially taking up a position in the incoming administration. According to Bloomberg, she was considered for the post of U.S. Trade Representative or Director of National Intelligence.
Catz is the highest paid female CEO of any U.S. company as of April 2017, earning $40.9 million after a 23% drop in her total compensation relative to 2016.
Catz was elected to the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in December 2017, effective February 2018.
Political involvement.
During the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, Catz donated to the campaign of Marco Rubio. She later served on President Trump's transition team, and media outlets frequently mentioned her as a potential official in the Trump administration. During the 2018 election cycle, Catz donated over $150,000 to Republican-aligned groups and individuals, including Congressman Devin Nunes. Catz donated $125,000 to Donald Trump's re-election campaign in May 2020.
Personal life.
Catz is married to Gal Tirosh and they have two sons.


Bill Smith (Motorola engineer)

William B. Smith, Jr. (1929 – 1993) was the "father of Six Sigma". Born in Brooklyn, New York, Smith graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1952 and studied at the University of Minnesota School of Management (now known as the Carlson School of Management). In 1987, after working for nearly 35 years in engineering and quality assurance, he joined Motorola, serving as vice president and senior quality assurance manager for the Land Mobile.
Biography.
In the late 1970s, as John F. Mitchell was on the ascendancy to being named President and COO in 1980, he was joined by other senior managers, notably, CEO Bob Galvin, Jack Germain, and Art Sundry who worked in John F. Mitchell's pager organization to set the quality bar 10 times higher. Sundry was reputed to have shouted "Our quality stinks" at an organizational meeting attended by Galvin, John F. Mitchell and other senior executives; and Sundry got to keep his job. But most importantly, the breakthroughs occurred when it was recognized that intensified focus and improved measurements, data collection, and more disciplined statistical approaches John F. Mitchell's untiring efforts, and support from Motorola engineers and senior management, prevailed and brought Japanese quality control methods back to the USA, and resulted in a significant and permanent change in culture at Motorola. "We ought to be better than we are," said Germain, director of Quality Improvement. The culmination of Motorola quality engineering efforts occurred in 1986, with the help of an outside quality control consultant who joined Motorola, Bill Smith when the Motorola University and Six-Sigma Institute was founded. Two years later, in 1988, Motorola received the coveted Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which is given by the president of the United States. Smith died of a heart attack in the Motorola cafeteria in 1993.


J. Hicks Lanier

John Hicks Lanier (born c. 1941) is an American heir and businessman. He served as the chief executive officer of Oxford Industries from 1981 to 2012, and as its chairman from 1981 to 2015.
Early life.
J. Hicks Lanier was born circa 1941. His father, Sartain Lanier, was the co-founder Oxford Industries. He graduated from Vanderbilt University and received an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School in 1964.
Business career.
Lanier became an executive director of his family business, Oxford Industries, in 1969, and was its chairman from 1981 to 2015. He also served as its CEO from 1981 to 2012.
Lanier served on the boards of Crawford & Company from 1976 to 2010, Genuine Parts Company from 1995 to 2013 and SunTrust Banks from 2003 to 2012. He has also served on the boards of Shaw Industries and Urban Realty Partners.
Civic activities.
Lanier has served on the boards of the American Apparel Manufacturers Association and the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. He is the chair of his family foundation, the Sartain Lanier Family Foundation.
Lanier is a former trustee of the Piedmont Medical Center, Westminster Schools of Atlanta, the Henrietta Egleston Hospital for Children, and his alma mater Vanderbilt University.
Personal life.
Lanier is married with three children.


S. Parker Gilbert

Seymour Parker Gilbert III (November 15, 1933 – May 27, 2015) was Chairman of Board and President of Morgan Stanley from 1983 until 1990.
Career.
While Gilbert was the Chairman of Board and President of Morgan Stanley from 1983 until 1990, the number of employees at the firm grew from 2,600 to 6,800. Equity grew from $207 million to more than $2 Billion. Gilbert led the company through an initial public offering in 1986. Gilbert joined Morgan Stanley in 1960 and became a partner in 1969. He became a Managing Director in 1970. In 1974, he became a member of the Management Committee.
Group of eight.
In 2005, Gilbert joined with seven other former partners of Morgan Stanley to form the 'Group of Eight'. The Group of Eight is widely credited with forcing the ouster of Philip J. Purcell and his replacement with John Mack.
Board of Directors and Trustees activity.
Gilbert served on the board of directors of: Burlington Resources (1990–2001), ITT Corporation (1991–1995), ITT Industries (1995–1999), Morgan Stanley Group, Inc.. (1986–1997), the New York Stock Exchange (1986–1990), Taubman Centers, Inc. (1992-2004), and Bessemer Securities. He also served on the board of trustees of: the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation.
Personal life.
Gilbert was the son of diplomat Seymour Parker Gilbert. Following the death of his father, Gilbert's mother married Harold Stanley, one of the founders of Morgan Stanley. Henry Sturgis Morgan, the other founder, was Gilbert's godfather.
Gilbert attended Buckley School and Hotchkiss School and graduated from Yale University in 1956 and served in the United States Army until 1959. With his wife Gail Auchincloss, he had three children. His son, S. Parker Jr., known as Parker; a daughter, Lynn Tudor; and another son, the writer David Gilbert; as well as eight grandchildren. On May 27, 2015, Gilbert died in New York City at the age of 81 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.


Burrell Smith

Burrell Carver Smith (born December 16, 1955) is an American engineer who, while working at Apple Computer, designed the motherboard (digital circuit board) for the original Macintosh. He was Apple employee #282, and was hired in February 1979, initially as an Apple II service technician. He also designed the motherboard for Apple's LaserWriter.
Burrell was working in Apple's service department when he helped Bill Atkinson add more memory to an Apple II computer in an innovative fashion. Bill recommended him to Jef Raskin, who was looking for a hardware engineer to help him with his newly formed Macintosh project. As a member of the design team, Burrell designed five different motherboards during the course of Macintosh development, all of which used techniques based on Programmable Array Logic (PAL) chips to achieve maximum functionality with a minimal chip count.
Burrell left the company before releasing Apple's "Turbo Mac" design platform, which included an internal hard drive and a further simplified chipset.
He was later a co-founder of Radius Inc..
Personal life.
Smith is retired and lives in Palo Alto.
He reportedly suffered from schizophrenia during the 1990s. In 1993, he was accused of breaking windows, throwing a firecracker and leaving letters at the house of Steve Jobs. Actor Lenny Jacobson portrayed him in the 2013 film "Jobs."


Samuel McGuffin

Samuel McGuffin (1863–1952) was Labour Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast Shankill in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1922, and Ulster Unionist MP in the Parliament of Northern Ireland for Belfast North from 1921 to 1925.


Calum Kerr

Calum Robert Kerr (born 5 April 1972) is a Scottish National Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk from 2015 to 2017. During his tenure in Parliament, he was the SNP's Environment and Rural Affairs spokesperson in the House of Commons.
Early life.
Kerr was born in Galashiels. He attended Peebles High School where his father was the head teacher. Kerr read History at St Andrews University. Prior to politics, he worked in sales for IT companies; including Avaya.
Political career.
The seat, and its predecessors Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale and Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles, had been held by the Scottish Liberal Democrats and the Scottish Liberal Party since 1965.
Kerr was elected in the May 2015 general election, He was the SNP's Environment and Rural Affairs spokesperson in the House of Commons.
He is stood for re-election at the 2017 general election, but was defeated by John Lamont of the Conservative Party, who won a majority of 11,060 votes; the largest Conservative Party majority gained in a Scottish seat at that election. He stood again in 2019 but was defeated, although he reduced the Conservative majority.


Cowman (surname)

Cowman is an occupational surname of Norman origin. from "cowman". A rare surname throughout the world today, Cowman is most common in Ireland. Notable persons with that surname include:


Randall M. Fort

Randall M. Fort (b. July 4, 1956, Richmond, Indiana) is currently Director of Programs Security, Cyberdomain Team, Raytheon Corporation. He was formerly the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research in the United States Department of State from November 2006 through January 2009, as part of the Bush Administration.
After high school, Fort attended George Washington University (1974-1978), graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He also attended the University of Cincinnati and Ohio State University, where he studied Japanese.
During his time in college, beginning in 1976, Fort worked for Rep. Bill Gradison (R - Ohio 1), including work on Gradison's campaign for reelection in 1976 and 1978. After his graduation, he continued working for Gradison as a Legislative Aide, and as District Representative in Gradison's district office in Cincinnati.
In 1980, Fort was named a Henry Luce Scholar for 1980-81. As such, he spent 1980-81 working as a Research Assistant for a member of the Diet of Japan.
Fort returned to the United States in 1982, taking a job as Assistant Director at the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB). He was subsequently promoted to Deputy Executive Director, before leaving PFIAB in 1987.
In 1987, Fort became Special Assistant to the Secretary for National Security, as well as Director of the Office of Intelligence Support at the United States Department of the Treasury. He held both posts until the end of the Reagan Administration.
Fort joined the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the United States Department of State in 1989, as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Functional Analysis and Research, a post he held for the rest of the presidency of George H. W. Bush.
With the arrival of the Clinton Administration, in 1993, Fort departed government for the private sector, taking a position as Director of Special Projects at TRW in two of its Space and Defense operating groups. In 1996, he moved to Goldman Sachs to become its Director of Global Security (he was in charge of firm-wide security), and then as chief of staff to the President and co-Chief Operating Officer of the firm.
In 2006, Fort rejoined the government, becoming Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research. His term ended with the ending of the presidency of George W. Bush in 2009.


Still Open All Hours

Still Open All Hours is a British sitcom created for the BBC by Roy Clarke, and starring David Jason and James Baxter. It is the sequel to the original sitcom "Open All Hours", which both Clarke and Jason worked on throughout its 26-episode run from 1973 to 1985, following a 40th Anniversary Special in December 2013 commemorating the original series. The sitcom's premise focuses on the life of a much older Granville, who now runs his late uncle's grocery shop with the assistance of his son, continuing to sell products at higher prices alongside seeking to be with his love interest.
Unlike the original series, the cast for "Still Open All Hours" included a more regular group of characters and additional side-plots, and featured the return of Lynda Baron, Stephanie Cole, and Maggie Ollerenshaw as their respective characters from "Open All Hours". Although the special garnered less than favourable reviews, it attracted positive viewing figures, with the sitcom airing a total of 41 episodes across six series to date.
Premise.
Like "Open All Hours", the sitcom is set within a small grocer's shop in the suburb of Balby, within Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and focuses on the life of Granville (David Jason) - now much older and the shop's owner, having grown into the same sort of person his late uncle Arkwright was by learning from him his many ways of selling to customers. Assisting him with the running of his shop is Leroy (James Baxter), Granville's son by one of his previous girlfriends, who maintains a rather robust love life with several girls but struggles to cope with the work and sales approach of his father, much like Granville did with Arkwright.
Like his late uncle, Granville maintains a love life with the sweet but absent-minded Mavis (Maggie Ollerenshaw) who loves him in return, but finds his path to her often blocked by her sister Madge (Brigit Forsyth), a miserable woman who does not like men and chooses to keep Mavis from following a relationship with Granville. Both are regular customers of the shop, alongside others from the neighbourhood onto whom Granville tries to offload products which he has bought and had little success selling on under their original identity and price.
Characters.
Granville.
Since "Open All Hours", having lived his youth as a nice but shy and awkward man who struggled with shop life, Granville has changed into a more toned-down version of his uncle Arkwright. Thanks to his uncle's training he now exhibits a similar habit of selling goods at inflated prices, fabricating stories to sell useless and/or unsaleable items to hapless customers, and keeping a close watch on the money he spends – often through employing the use of a special money belt that causes slight issues and embarrassment at times. During his uncle's training Granville engaged in relationships with several girlfriends, in which a fling in Blackpool resulted in the procreation of his son Leroy, whom he was left in charge of by the boy's mother. Following his uncle's death Granville inherited the shop, which he runs alongside Leroy, often teasing his son over the identity of his mother – secretly concealing the fact that he knows who it is – while subjecting him to practical jokes and teaching him some of the tricks that Arkwright taught him. In "Still Open All Hours" he maintains a belief that his uncle lives on through the shop's till, often referring to it as Arkwright in later episodes, because of its propensity to open or close suddenly at times for various reasons (such as when there is mention of spending considerable money on something). Arkwright's framed photo on the wall sometimes tilts when spoken to. One episode had Arkwright's ghost turning lights on and off (Series 1, Episode 6).
Like his uncle, Granville has a love interest of his own in Mavis, a woman he met during his youth and whom he still fondly loves. Unlike his uncle, Granville must struggle to be with Mavis since the end of her previous marriage, due to her sister Madge desiring to keep them apart. To try to distract Madge and hopefully remove her as an obstacle, Granville spends his time grooming one of his regulars, Gastric, into becoming Madge's love interest. In later episodes he also finds himself trying to stop the advances of widower Delphine Featherstone, one of his uncle's customers to whom he accidentally sent a love note that was meant for Mavis, by persuading fellow widower Wilburn Newbold to enter a relationship with her and maintain it, despite Mrs Featherstone's presence unnerving him.
Leroy.
Leroy was born to a mother whom his father met during a fling in Blackpool, but whom he does not know about, despite Granville secretly knowing who she is; although his mother is talked about during the first series, including a visit by her to see Leroy, references about her become rare and non-existent in later episodes. Left in his father's care by his mother at a young age, Leroy suffers similar issues to those that Granville faced in his youth, such as having to be up early to open the shop, being on the receiving end of his father's practical jokes, and handling the deliveries of purchases to customers. Unlike his father Leroy maintains an active social life with many young women, most having boyfriends that they don't mind ignoring to spend time with him (much to his father's dismay) while displaying a firm dislike of his father's penchant for unloading products he buys cheaply but cannot sell. By the fourth series, Leroy becomes committed to winning the affection of a local librarian, despite her values and her vegan lifestyle.
Episodes.
Forty-one episodes of "Still Open All Hours", all written by Roy Clarke, have been produced for the BBC. The show began airing on 26 December 2013 with an anniversary special of original series, "Open All Hours" All episodes had a running time of 30 minutes. Between "Open All Hours" and "Still Open All Hours", there have been a total of 67 episodes and ten series broadcast between 1973 and 2019.
Production.
Series development.
"Still Open All Hours" was first broadcast on 26 December 2013, with Jason reprising his role of Granville from "Open All Hours". The new one-off episode written by Clarke showed Granville now running the shop with his son Leroy (played by James Baxter), after inheriting it from Arkwright. Clarke wrote the script in two weeks, and production began in October 2013. The exterior scenes were filmed at the original location at Lister Avenue in Doncaster from 18 to 20 November 2013. The interior scenes were recorded on 3 December 2013 at dock10 studios in Salford in front of a studio audience. A 30-minute documentary accompanying the show's return, entitled "Open All Hours: A Celebration", aired on 27 December 2013, the day after the new episode was broadcast, on BBC One.
On 30 January 2014, the BBC commissioned "Still Open All Hours" for six new episodes beginning on 26 December 2014. The controller of BBC comedy commissioning, Shane Allen, said: "The resounding success of the Christmas revival showed the huge and enduring audience affection for this much-loved classic. Roy has done a terrific job of updating the characters whilst keeping what was warm-hearted and enjoyable about the world of the original series."
Production for series one began in August 2014, exterior filming started on 15 September and location work was completed on 26 September 2014. Interior scenes were recorded in front of a studio audience from 10 October until 21 November 2014 at Teddington Studios.
The show later returned for a second series, beginning on 26 December 2015. with production starting in September 2015. Exterior scenes were shotb on location from 14–24 September 2015. Interior scenes were recorded before a studio audience at Pinewood Studios from 9 October until 20 November 2015.
In January 2016, David Jason said a third series would be produced during the year.The series began airing on 26 December 2016. Production started in September 2016 with on location for exterior scenes being shot in Balby Doncaster from 12 September 2016. Lynda Baron could not reprise her role as Nurse Gladys Emmanuel as the scheduled production dates clashed with Baron's current contract with "EastEnders".
David Jason announced that a fourth series would be produced in 2017. Recording began in September 2017 with David Jason seen on location in Doncaster with co-star Tim Healy. The series began airing on 28 December 2017. Interior scenes were recorded at Pinewood Studios in front of a live studio-audience on 7, 14, and 21 October and on the 4, 11, 18, and 24 November 2016.
In early 2017 a fourth series was commissioned with production beginning in August 2017. On location exterior scenes for the fourth series commenced on 11 September 2017 in Doncaster. For the original special and the first three series, all episodes were filmed in front of a studio audience. Series 4 was, by contrast, filmed on a closed set and screened to an audience for recording of a laughter track, due to cast availability problems.
Series 5 and 6 continued in this vein.
In January 2018, it was announced the show will return for a fifth series late 2018. The fifth series was officially confirmed on 2 May 2018, with filming due to commence in the summer. On 21 December 2018, the BBC confirmed a sixth series that was commissioned for transmission in late in 2019.
Filming locations.
The exterior shots reused the original shop from the series, on Lister Avenue in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster. The shop had to be extensively redressed (for both programmes) to resemble a traditional corner shop, as it has been a hair salon since 1962. This process took two days, before filming on location for three consecutive days.
The studio recordings for the 2013 special were recorded at Dock10 at MediaCityUK. For the first series, Teddington Studios were used and the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth series were all recorded at Pinewood Studios.
Broadcast and reception.
The special was broadcast on BBC One on 26 December 2013 and received 9.43m (39.9% of the audience) viewers according to overnight figures and was the most watched programme on that day. Final viewing figures showed that it was watched by 13.07m and was the most watched programme for that week. It received generally poor reviews from critics. Will Dean of "The Independent", referencing Arkwright's trademark stutter, called it "a w-w-worthy effort" but criticised the attempt to revive the show without Ronnie Barker, who had died in 2005. Ben Lawrence of "The Telegraph" said it "felt like a relic of another era" criticising the jokes and Jason's performance. Jacob Mason, writing on the "Radio Times" website, described the show as "warmly nostalgic", whilst others noted it as "a fitting tribute to Ronnie Barker".
DVD releases.
Although filmed and broadcast in High-definition, no Blu-ray releases have been announced. Series 1 and the 2013 Christmas Special was released on DVD on 2 February 2015 by 2 entertain. Series 2 was released on 1 February 2016. Series 3 was released on 13 February 2017. Series 4 was released on 19 February 2018. Series 5 was released on 7 January 2019. Series 6 was released on 6 January 2020.


Michelle Wolf

Michelle Wolf (born June 21, 1985) is an American comedian, writer, producer, and television host. She worked as a contributor and writer for "Late Night with Seth Meyers" and "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah". She spoke as the featured performer at the 2018 White House Correspondents' Dinner. She hosted the Netflix comedy talk show series "The Break with Michelle Wolf" and performed in the 2019 stand-up comedy special "Joke Show".
Early life and education.
Wolf was born in Hershey, Pennsylvania, where she grew up with two older brothers. She graduated from Hershey High School in 2003. She graduated from the College of William & Mary in 2007, where she majored in kinesiology and was a member of the cardiovascular physiology lab. She was on the track and field team while in high school and college, competing in the high jump and 400 meter and 800 meter runs before an injury caused her to stop competing. Wolf continues to run, and took part in a marathon in 2005 (Las Vegas), and a ultramarathon in 2018 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
Career.
Wolf was employed at Bear Stearns from 2007 to 2008, later at JPMorgan Chase, working for almost four years in mutual funds and managing accounts between the two banks. Around the time of the buyout by JPMorgan, Wolf started improv classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade and the Peoples Improv Theater (PIT). Her frustration with the imperfect and ephemeral nature of improv and the encouragement from classmates got her to audit a stand-up class at the People's Improvisational Theater aka The PIT. Her first appearance on late-night television was in July 2014, when she went on "Late Night with Seth Meyers". She re-appeared on numerous segments on "Late Night", often as her fictional persona, "Grown-Up Annie", an adult version of Little Orphan Annie. She later held additional positions on the same show, including, most recently, as writing supervisor.
In November 2015, Comedy Central released the entirety of "Now Hiring", a web series hosted by Wolf, on YouTube. Wolf is a regular at the Comedy Cellar in New York City. In April 2016, she joined "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" as a contributor. Wolf has said that she learned a lot about comedy working for Seth Meyers and Trevor Noah.
In August 2016, she performed her stand-up show "So Brave" at the Edinburgh Festival, which was her first performance outside North America.
Wolf's television work in the United Kingdom also includes an appearance on "Live At The Apollo" in late 2016 and an appearance as a panelist on the UK comedy game show "8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown" in early 2017, partnering with team captain and British stand-up comedian Jon Richardson. She appeared on the same show later on in the year, this time partnering with Sean Lock. On November 20, 2016, Wolf appeared as a guest on "Frankie Boyle's American Autopsy" on BBC2, reflecting on the result of the 2016 United States presidential election. She also appeared on an episode of "8 Out of 10 Cats" in January 2017, partnering with English footballer Jermaine Jenas and team captain Rob Beckett, and partnered with David Mitchell on "The Big Fat Quiz of the Year" 2018.
On December 2, 2017, Wolf made her HBO stand-up debut, "Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady", which was taped at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in New York City in mid-August 2017.
2018 White House Correspondents' Dinner appearance.
On April 28, 2018, Wolf was the featured entertainer at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. U.S. President Donald Trump did not attend the dinner for the second consecutive year, sending Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House Press Secretary.
Wolf delivered a 19-minute comedy routine and was both praised and criticized for her "harsh and stinging" jokes aimed at the Trump administration—most notably at Sanders—and at the media itself. Wolf's criticism of journalism was called by one commentator "the most consequential monologue so far of the Donald Trump era." The management of C-SPAN radio considered the monologue so risqué that they stopped broadcasting it half-way through, worrying that she might violate FCC indecency guidelines and that they might get fined. Wolf's joke about Sanders using the ashes of facts to create her perfect eye makeup became the most controversial issue among the criticisms aimed at Wolf's presentation:I actually really like Sarah. I think she's very resourceful. She burns facts, and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Like maybe she's born with it, maybe it's lies. It's probably lies.
Journalists including Maggie Haberman of "The New York Times", Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC, and Andrea Mitchell of NBC News, criticized Wolf on Twitter for targeting Sanders. Ed Henry of Fox News stated that "[i]t was disgusting, despicable." CBS News executives reportedly considered ending its participation in future dinners, but later changed its stance after the network was assured that the Correspondents' Association would "seriously consider changes to the dinner's format." Former press secretary Sean Spicer tweeted, "Tonight's #WHCD was a disgrace" to which Wolf replied, "Thank you!" The next day, Trump called several outside advisors to criticize the comedian, and he sent a series of tweets saying that the "so-called comedian" and the "filthy 'comedian' totally bombed." and called for the dinner to be discontinued or "start[ed] over."
Wolf questioned her critics from the media: "Why are you guys making this about Sarah's looks? I said she burns facts and uses the ash to create a *perfect* smoky eye. I complimented her eye makeup and her ingenuity of materials." In an interview with Terry Gross on NPR, Wolf said that the joke was not about Sanders' looks at all, it was about her lies, and there is not really a need to defend it in the first place. She said she did not attack any of the women's physical appearances unlike some male politicians such as Mitch McConnell's neck or Chris Christie's weight, but "as a woman, I have access to hit women in a way that men might not be able to hit them with jokes." Talking about her performance, "I wouldn't change a single word that I said. I'm very happy with what I said, and I'm glad I stuck to my guns."
Other journalists, including Jacob Soboroff of NBC News, Joan Walsh of CNN, Amanda Hess of "The New York Times", and Wesley Lowery of "The Washington Post", tweeted their support for Wolf and took the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) to task for the statement issued by its president, Margaret Talev. Talev wrote that the program "was meant to offer a unifying message about [the WHCA's] common commitment to a vigorous and free press while honoring civility, great reporting and scholarship winners, not to divide people," and that Wolf's "monologue was not in the spirit of that mission." James Poniewozik, writing for "The New York Times," criticized the WHCA for disavowing Wolf, saying that she was "defending the mission of the White House press: sticking up for the truth. Michelle Wolf had the WHCA's back Saturday night, even if it didn't have hers the day after." "The New Yorker"'s Masha Gessen was particularly impressed with Wolf's criticism of journalism, praising her for how she "exposed the obscenity of the fictions" of "The Age of Trump".
Many comedians came to Wolf's defense, including Jimmy Kimmel, Trevor Noah, Seth Meyers, Adam Conover, Dave Chappelle, Kathy Griffin, Guy Branum, Anthony Atamanuik. and Jimmy Dore. Stephen Colbert, who was the featured entertainer at the 2006 edition of the event, joked on "The Late Show", "This is the correspondents' dinner, celebrating the freedom of speech. You can't just say whatever you want!" Nell Scovell writing for "Vulture" criticized journalists Haberman, Brzezinski, and Mitchell for what Scovell called a "manufactured catfight" between Wolf and Sanders. Describing the ensuing controversy, Scovell wrote, "[w]omen, comedians, and the media all grabbed each other's hair and threw each other to the floor while men watched and cheered."
Wolf's last line in her speech was “Flint still doesn’t have clean water”, referring to the long-running man-made water crisis in the city of Flint, Michigan.
"The Break with Michelle Wolf".
Wolf hosted a weekly Netflix talk show, "The Break with Michelle Wolf", which premiered May 27, 2018 and was discontinued on August 18, 2018. Before the show premiered, it was announced that it would "take a break from the seriousness of late-night comedy" and "instead of making the news fun, she'll make fun of everything and everybody. There will be no preaching or political agenda—unless it's funny." She was also an executive producer for the show. Netflix released the trailer to coincide with her appearance at 2018 White House Correspondents' Dinner. Netflix ordered a 10-episode season that premiered in May 2018 and aired over 10 weeks, with the series finale on July 29, 2018. The show was cancelled after one season, having not drawn enough of a viewership to secure a renewal.
"Joke Show".
In December 2019, Netflix released "Joke Show", a stand-up comedy special written and performed by Wolf.


John LeFevre

John LeFevre (born 1980) is a former Salomon Brothers and Citigroup investment banker and bond syndicate executive. LeFevre is known for creating the anonymous Goldman Sachs Elevator (@GSElevator) Twitter handle. The account purported to reflect and satirize banking culture, and accumulated considerable followers and press coverage. Goldman Sachs and Citigroup launched internal investigations in an attempt to identify the source(s) of the tweets.
Life.
LeFevre attended Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut and Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. LeFevre joined Salomon Brothers in 2001, serving in its New York, London, and Hong Kong offices. The Asset magazine referred to LeFevre as "one of the most prolific syndicate managers in Asia." He later worked for Amias Berman & Co., a capital markets and private equity boutique founded by two former Citi bankers. In 2010, LeFevre signed paperwork with Goldman Sachs to run its Asian bond syndicate desk, but ultimately was prevented from joining Goldman Sachs over a non-compete clause. LeFevre left the industry in 2012 to write his memoir, which was published in 2015 which and became a "New York Times" Bestseller. The book was optioned by Paramount as a movie with Zac Efron set to star.
GSElevator.
LeFevre created the @GSElevator Twitter in August 2011 as an "homage" to an earlier account called @CondeElevator, which shared supposedly overheard snippets from publisher Condé Nast. He would later describe his goal as "to illuminate Wall Street culture in an entertaining and insightful way". The account proved immediately successful and within a couple weeks, LeFevre (anonymously) was interviewed by Kevin Roose at "The New York Times." By 2014, the account had over 600,000 followers.
LeFevre later began writing articles and banking guides for Business Insider under the name "Goldman Sachs Elevator".
"Straight to Hell".
In 2014, LeFevre began shopping around a book proposal based on his life as a banker, to be released under a pseudonym and marketed as by the man behind @GSElevator. The proposed title, under which it was eventually published, was "Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery and Billion Dollar Deals."
Barron's called the book "a classic of the genre."


Mike Morasky

Mike Morasky is an American composer, animator/visual effects artist, director and programmer. He is best known for his work at Valve composing the scores for "Team Fortress 2", the "Left 4 Dead" series, "Portal 2", ' and '. He is also known for his visual effects work on "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Matrix" trilogies as well as founding the underground art bands Steel Pole Bath Tub, Milk Cult and DUH.
Biography.
For Valve, Morasky composed the music for "Team Fortress 2", "Portal" (with Kelly Bailey), "Left 4 Dead", "Left 4 Dead 2" (including composing and playing the guitar, keyboard and bass for the fictional hard rock band "Midnight Riders"), "Portal 2", ', and '.
He also worked as a senior visual effects artist and technical director on "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Matrix" film trilogies.
Morasky was part of the now-defunct hardcore punk/noise rock band Steel Pole Bath Tub, which he founded in 1986 with Dale Flattum. S.P.B.T. disbanded in 2002.
On Valve's official website, his function was described as follows: "Morasky's life and career sounds a lot like one of the post-modern audio collages he is so fond of creating. Teenage guitar player in a bar band in Montana; award-winning experimental composer in Tokyo; audio hardware programmer in Silicon Valley; underground art rocker touring the world; 3D animator and director for television; electronic audio collage artist in France and Japan; visual fx artist on The Lord of the Rings and Matrix trilogies; AI animation instructor at an art college. These days, Mike is doing some combination of all these things at Valve."