title: Weng Weng

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Ernesto dela Cruz (September 7, 1957 – August 29, 1992), known by the stage name <mask> Weng, was a Filipino actor, stunt performer, and martial artist. He was a short person at 83 cm (2 feet, 9 inches) tall. Born in Baclaran, Parañaque, dela Cruz  studied karate. In the mid 1970s, dela Cruz played supporting roles in films, until his first starring role in Agent OO (1981). At the Manila International Film Festival, dela Cruz's starring role in the Agent OO's sequel For Your Height Only (1981) outsold every other local production on foreign sales. Following this, dela Cruz appeared in the D'Wild Wild Weng (1982), The Impossible Kid  (1982), as Agent OO, and The Cute... The Sexy n' The Tiny alongside Berting Labra and Pia Moran.Eventually, his managers Peter and Cora Caballes changed professional paths and dela Cruz never worked again in the media industry. Dela Cruz spent the rest of his life with his family in Baclaran and died at the age of 34 in 1992. With the passing of time, dela Cruz became a cult film icon. Online, some of his movies went viral. By the 2000s, a lot of information published about him was vague. Research about his life led to the making of two successful documentaries: Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010), and The Search for Weng Weng (2013).Early life
Dela Cruz was born to Felicito Jose dela Cruz, an electrician (1914–1968), and Rita DeGuzman dela Cruz, a laundry woman (1919–1989), the youngest of five brothers, on September 7, 1957. As described by dela Cruz's brother Celing, dela Cruz's early life went as follows. When his mother was pregnant, she didn't know until the doctor informed her, and when she gave birth, his size was "no bigger than a small Coke bottle". His premature state forced dela Cruz's parents to place him in a shoe box under a light as a rudimentary incubator, feeding him with a dropper. With a medical condition known as primordial dwarfism, it caused dela Cruz to reach the height of only 2 feet 9 inches (0.83 meters) tall. Being devout Catholics, dela Cruz's mother showed their devotion to their faith by dressing and parading a young dela Cruz as Santo Niño each year for the annual Baclaran parade. Dela Cruz became popular in the neighborhood and his mother Rita felt he should become an actor.In 1968, dela Cruz's father died after falling down a ladder at work. According to Celing, as a child dela Cruz was fascinated with action films and started to study them. Neighbours of dela Cruz began to notice him climbing on clothing lines doing acrobatics and pull-ups. Dela Cruz joined karate classes, where he learned quickly, and impressed his instructor, so much so that the instructor would perform demonstrations with dela Cruz to promote the school. During one of these demonstrations, dela Cruz was noticed by producer and actor Peter Caballes of Liliw Productions. Dela Cruz's mother, who had a hard time raising five boys, allowed him and his wife Cora to take dela Cruz under their helm for an acting career. Career

1975–1981: Early roles and breakthrough
Dela Cruz began to work almost exclusively with Liliw Productions.He began with an uncredited role in Silakbo, released October 17, 1975. In 1976, dela Cruz received his first billing as <mask> Weng, which would be his pseudonym for the rest of his career, when he co-starred in Silang Matatapang and Sila...Sa Bawat Bangketa. In 1978, dela Cruz shared the top billing with actor Ramon Zamora in Chopsuey Meets Big Time Papa. Comic actor Rodolfo Vera Quizon Sr., better known as Dolphy, was friends with Peter Caballes, who introduced him to dela Cruz. Quizon felt he could use dela Cruz in a comedy film and hired him to act for his company RVQ Productions. Their first collaboration was The Quick Brown Fox. Dela Cruz played Quizon's sidekick.The movie was released on November 6, 1980. On February 13, 1981, Stariray premiered. Dela Cruz plays a supporting role, in a comedy starring Quizon. On May 29, Agent 00 was released. In it dela Cruz plays the lead as Agent OO. On June 12, Da Best In Da West was released. Starring Quizon, with dela Cruz in a minor role.On the 2nd of July, the musical film Legs... Katawan... Babae! premiered. Dela Cruz makes a cameo. For Your Height Only was released on September 2, with dela Cruz returning as secret Agent OO. At the Manila International Film Festival, the film outsold every other local productions for international distribution. 1982–1986: action film star
On March 25, 1982, D'Wild Wild Weng was released, starring dela Cruz. On July 23, The Impossible Kid premiered, with dela Cruz returning in the role of Agent OO.On December 25, dela Cruz shared the top billing with Berting Labra and Pia Moran in The Cute... The Sexy n' The Tiny. During this time, dela Cruz was announced as one of the supporting actors in Tatak: Magnum (1983), but he is not in the finished film. No public appearance by dela Cruz are known after 1986. 1987–1992: return to obscurity and death
Peter and Cora Caballes retired from filmmaking circa 1987, and dela Cruz returned to his hometown, under the care of his family. 1993–present day: posthumous success and aftermath
After his death, Weng Weng films gained a cult status. Details on dela Cruz's life was vague, while some claims have a base in reality, some of it is myth.The discoveries about him led to the release of two documentaries Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010) which focuses on Philippine's film during his active years. The second one about him, The Search for Weng Weng (2013). Both films were well received. Research made showed that dela Cruz's films Agent OO  and The Cute... The Sexy n' The Tiny are lost. The U-matic master tape of ABS-CBN Dolphy's The Quick Brown Fox disintegrated upon its last screening.Death
On August 29, 1992, Ernesto dela Cruz, age 34, died in Pasay, of a heart attack due to hypertension. References

Works cited

 Leavold, Andrew. The Search for Weng Weng (Book). Australia: The LedaTape Organisation, 2017. External links

1957 births
1992 deaths
20th-century Filipino male actors
Actors with dwarfism
Filipino male film actors
Filipino martial artists
Male actors from Metro Manila
People from Parañaque
Sportspeople with dwarfism

masks: Weng Weng


title: Jacobus Ferdinandus Saey

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<mask> or <mask>s (1658 – after 1726) was a Flemish painter who specialized in architectural paintings depicting gallant companies amidst imaginary Renaissance and Baroque palaces and buildings. After starting his career in Flanders, he moved to Vienna, where he worked for the rest of his life. Life
<mask> was born in Antwerp. He was possibly a cousin of the art dealer <mask>. He became in 1672–73 an apprentice of the architecture and perspective painter Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg. Some sources state that van Ehrenberg was his uncle. He became a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in the guild year 1679–80.He was still recorded in the Antwerp Guild records in 1681. The last record about him in Flanders places him in Mechelen in 1684. The next record on the artist relates to his marriage with Maria von Risman in Vienna in 1694. He is known to have been active in Vienna for a number of years prior to his marriage. He lived in the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna. He seems to have kept in touch with members of the Flemish community in Vienna. The painter Peter Schubart von Ehrenberg, the son of Saey's master Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg, and the painter Johannes Erasmus de Crefft were the witnesses at his wedding.The Flemish painter Anthoni Schoonjans was one of the godfathers at the baptism of his daughter Antonia Catharina. He was still recorded in Vienna in 1726. The date and place of his death are not known. Work

General

<mask> <mask> <mask> was in his subject matter influenced by his teacher Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg who mainly painted architectural scenes of real and imaginary churches, Renaissance palaces and picture galleries. Unlike his master, who occasionally painted the interiors of real existing buildings, <mask> mostly concentrated on imaginary structures and outdoor settings with elegant companies congregating in an informal manner. <mask> was particularly skilled in the use of perspective and the realistic rendering of different materials, in particular the marble of columns. Characteristics of his work are the recurring checkered floors and his dramatic use of light.He regularly collaborated with other artists including Hieronymus Janssens who painted the staffage in his work. As <mask> rarely, in fact almost never, signed his paintings, it is difficult to differentiate his artistic production from that of two other even rarer Flemish painters who worked in almost exactly the same style: his contemporary Jacob Balthasar Peeters and a pupil of Peeters by the name of Jan Baptist van der Straeten. Subject matter
The work of <mask> seems to draw inspiration from the work of the Italian architectural painter Viviano Codazzi who had been influenced himself by the work of the Flemish and Dutch genre painters active in Rome known as the Bamboccianti who also painted architectural scenes with figures. There are some important differences with the works of these artists. Unlike them, Saey typically depicted imaginary buildings rather than the more realistic architectural or city views of Codazzi and the Bamboccianti. <mask>'s figures are not the common people of Rome going about their daily business preferred by the Bamboccianti, but rather elegant persons, often wearing exotic garb who are participating in some courtly or artistic activity. Some of <mask>'s architectural scenes appear to represent subjects from mythology or the bible while others may simply represent some entertainment or story involving fantastic figures imagined by the artist.For example, his Baroque palace with Hermes delivering a message (at Dorotheum sale of 12 December 2011, Vienna, lot 25) depicts a mythological scene while his Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (Lempertz sale of 20 May 2017, Cologne, lot 1103) depicts a biblical scene. Some works appear to be related to the extraordinary events in the life of Cleopatra. This could be the case with the Picnic in a palace courtyard (At Jean Moust in 2018), which possibly depicts a picnic of Cleopatra and Mark Antony. Other works, such as the ''Perspective view of an Italian palace animated with figures and gallant celebrations' (possibly 1690, Musee des beaux-arts de Valenciennes), do not appear to depict a specific story. The picture shows elegant figures on a terrace before a palatial building watching a dance performance by a black dancer holding a red macaw with open wings on his arm. He holds two dogs on a leash who appear to be running in step. Two musicians are playing string instruments on the terrace on the right while the spectators are sitting underneath a balustrade on the right.That his works are principally aimed at impressing the viewer through their technical feats of architectural perspective, the dramatic lighting and the mysterious scenes with fantastic figures is evident in the pair of paintings depicting palace architecture with nocturnal illumination and numerous figures (Auctioned at Hampel on 28 September 2017, Cologne, lot 739). Both compositions in large format (119 x 147 cm) depict a monumental portico in front of which an elegant company is gathered. They were designed as counterparts to be displayed side by side. The extremely lavish palace architectures are placed respectively on the left and right in each composition and disappear in the distance with foreshortening at the rear. The round fluted columns in stained marble with various capitals, cornices and balconies are illuminated by artificial light emanating from torches, which are held by stone statues and vases as well as persons holding lighted torches. The scene in the composition to be hung on the left may refer to the story of the arrival of the Queen of Sheba who is standing with her crown on the stairs while servants are carrying luggage and treasure boxes. The meaning of the second work is not yet understood.A composition by <mask>s in the collection of the Louvre referred to as the Hunting meal differs from his other work in that it depicts an elegant company in a landscape rather than in front of an imaginary palace. Notes

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title: Vladimir Dekanozov

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<mask> (; born Ivan Vasilyevich Protopopov; June 1898 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet senior state security operative and diplomat. Biography

Early life
According to the official biography, <mask> was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, to the family of Giorgi Dekanozishvili, founder of the Party of Georgian Social-Federalists. Dekanozishvili, in Georgian meaning Son of a Deacon, was said to have been a noble Georgian family belonging to the Georgian Orthodox Church. Some historians have concluded that he assumed the name <mask> and a Georgian ethnic identity in order to hide his true origin, something that was quite common among the Bolsheviks. According  to the  Lithuanian  writer Liudas  Dovydenas,    who  knew  him,  the blonde and blue-eyed Dekanozov was not Georgian, but rather a person from Estonia. Dovydenas asserted that <mask>'s  father  was  an ethnic Russian and  that his mother was from a Jewish family assimilated to Baltic German culture. This is also supported by a statement by J. Edgar Hoover, presumably based on Brittish intelligence, that <mask>  was  born  in  Estonia  and  that  his  real  name  was  Ivan  Vasilyevich  Protopopov.<mask>'s official biography states that he studied in the medical schools of Saratov University and Baku University. In 1918 he entered the Red Army, and in 1920 he joined the Bolshevik Party. From 1918 he allegedly worked as a secret agent in Transcaucasia, first in the People's Commissariat for Health of the short-lived Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, then in private oil companies. After the invasion of Azerbaijan by the Red Army, <mask> worked for the Cheka of Azerbaijan SSR, where he befriended Lavrenty Beria, who subsequently supported Dekanozov. In 1921–27 <mask> worked  for the Cheka in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Transcaucasia. In 1927 he became an instructor of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia. In 1928–1931 he worked as one of the leaders of the Georgian and Transcaucasian OGPU.In 1931 he became a secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia. From 1936 he was the Narkom of the food industry of Georgia, and from 1937 he simultaneously worked as the Chairman of Gosplan of Georgia and a deputy Chairman of Georgian Sovnarkom. He was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1937–50. He was transferred to the NKVD in November 1938, when Lavrentii Beria was appointed its head. <mask> was the deputy chief of GUGB and at the same time headed both its foreign intelligence and counterintelligence departments from 1938 to 1939. <mask> was responsible for purges of the Red Army as well as for purging Nikolai Yezhov's supporters from the NKVD. In May 1939 he was appointed deputy chief of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs (NKID).His sphere of responsibility before 1941 included Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Mongolia, and Xinjiang, as well as the consulates, cadres, and finances of NKID. Second World War

Incorporation of Lithuania into the USSR

Soviet military forces crossed the Lithuanian border on 15 June 1940, with the military of Lithuania being ordered not to resist. <mask> arrived on the same day to organise the incorporation of Lithuania into the Soviet Union. The Communist Party of Lithuania, headed by Antanas Sniečkus, was at his disposal. The Soviet military established a controlling presence that allowed <mask> to fulfill his function as representative of the Communist Party. The process creating the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic was <mask>'s work. He installed himself in the Soviet embassy and imposed on Lithuania the Soviet party-state structure in which the traditional governmental forms were of only secondary importance.<mask> restructured the Lithuanian government, naming Justas Paleckis, a Lithuanian leftist who was not yet a member of the Communist Party, as Prime Minister. Aided by specialists for Soviet administration and Soviet security organs sent in from Moscow, <mask> worked through the Lithuanian Communist Party, while the cabinet of ministers, headed by Paleckis, served an administrative function. <mask> and Paleckis brought a number of non-members of the Communist Party (but still pro-communists) into the first "people’s government", but in retrospect it is clear that they constituted window dressing for the Soviet takeover. For his part, <mask> pushed his program carefully, concentrating first of all on denouncing the Smetona regime in Lithuania, then promising to respect private property, assuring Lithuanians that agriculture would not be collectivized, and restraining any discussion of the possibility of joining the Soviet Union until mid-July. On 6 July <mask>’s government announced that on 14 July there would be elections for a new parliament, a so-called People's Seimas. The Lithuanian Communist Party announced the formation of the Union of the Toiling People of Lithuania, which offered a slate of candidates, including some ten non-members of the Communist Party, with as many people as there were seats in the new parliament up for election. On 11 and 12 July, the Soviet authorities reduced the possible points of opposition by arresting leading figures of the old regime and deporting some of them to the interior of the Soviet Union, although Lithuania was still formally an independent state.<mask> used the Lithuanian government, and the Communist Party of Lithuania, as his instruments to carry out the will of the Soviet party leadership. Throughout the process, Soviet propagandists insisted there was only one acceptable path for the country, and all were obliged to follow it. They concentrated on creating an image of mass support, and they called for determined measures against those who somehow opposed the new order and wanted to sabotage the elections of 14 July. Lithuania became a part of the Stalinist Soviet party-state, administered within the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) structure, long before it was formally incorporated into the governmental structure of the Soviet Union. By the time the new Soviet state structure in Lithuania had been formalized, <mask> had long since left Lithuania. In July 1940 he had returned to Moscow, his job completed, when the People's Seimas voted to ask for membership in the USSR. In barely more than a month, he had reorganized the Lithuanian state, set the social and economic development on Lithuania onto a new course, and contributed to the enlargement of the Soviet state.The Sovietisation of Lithuania started by <mask> was carried on by Nikolai Pozdniakov. Work in Berlin

From November 1940 <mask>, remaining the deputy chief of NKID, was also the Soviet ambassador to Berlin. In September 1943, he made a mysterious visit to Stockholm that was interpreted by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop as a sign of Soviet interest in making a separate peace with Germany. Adolf Hitler, however, refused von Ribbentrop's plea that he be allowed to dispatch an envoy to Sweden. After the Second World War

<mask> continued to be the deputy chief of NKID and then of the Foreign Affairs Ministry until 1947. He held other senior positions before being appointed the Interior Minister of Georgian SSR (after Beria became the Interior Minister of the USSR) in April 1953. A close associate of Beria, he was removed from state positions almost immediately after Beria's removal.<mask> was considered to be a member of the so-called "Beria gang". He was arrested in June 1953 and was sentenced to death on 23 December 1953. The sentence was carried out the same day. His case was reviewed both by the Soviet Union during the glasnost era and by the Russian Federation after the collapse of the USSR. In both cases he was ruled ineligible for rehabilitation. See also
Soviet-German relations before 1941

References

Nijolė Maslauskienė. The Purge of Civil Servants in Soviet Occupied Lithuania between June–December 1940

1898 births
1953 deaths
Bolsheviks
Commissars 3rd Class of State Security
Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Germany
Communist Party of Georgia (Soviet Union) politicians
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
Soviet colonel generals
Soviet diplomats
Soviet Georgian NKVD officials
Soviet Jews
Jews executed by the Soviet Union
Estonian Jews
Estonian people of Russian descent

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title: Väinö Valve

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<mask> (until 1915 Vähätupa; 28 December 1895 — 11 March 1995) was a Finnish general, navy commander and the last living member of the Royal Prussian Jägerbattalion 27 formed from Finnish volunteers. <mask> studied seven years in Lappeenranta and after completing middle school, he worked in apprenticeship, until went to study electrical engineering in Tampere. In 1916 he joined to Jäger Movement and travelled secretly to Germany. He was in military training until 1918 until he travelled as an officer to newly independent Finland and fought in the Finnish Civil War together with other jägers. In the 1920s <mask>'s military career was in upswing; he commanded first the coastal artillery and in 1933 he became commander of the Finnish Navy, including the coastal artillery. <mask> took part at developing military co-operation with Estonia. The Second World War interrupted Valve's masterminded navy development plan, which had been approved just shortly before.During the Second World War the coastal artillery performed well in the Winter War and in the Continuation War Valve organised navy co-operation with the German Kriegsmarine. After Finland made armistice with the Soviet Union, the navy took part in Lapland War in which the objective was driving off German troops from the country. <mask> was defence minister of Finland in 1944–1945. He left army in 1946 as lieutenant general and made career in banking. He took actively part in jäger association activities. <mask> was promoted general in 1992. He died in 1995 as the last Finnish jäger.Early life and studies
Valve was born in Lappeenranta as Väinö Vähätupa. His parents were from Finland Proper; the father, Matti Vähätupa, worked as farrier in Finnish Dragoon Regiment and later he started his own business in Lappee. Väinö had six siblings. He studied in Lappeenranta coeducational middle school until 17-year old. He was interested in electrical engineering and went for apprenticeship first to Helsinki City Electricity Works, then to Imperial Russian Navy in Katajanokka and after that to State Railways repair depot. In 1914 <mask> Vähätupa started electrical engineering studies in Tampere Technical School. Jäger Movement
In 1915 Vähätupa changed his surname to Valve, "awake".He interrupted his studies in late winter 1916, when he decided secretly to join to the Jäger Movement, following example of many of his fellow students. He skied over frozen Kvarken to Sweden and arrived in Lockstedt camp in Germany on 1 May. The Royal Prussian Jägerbattalion 27 was formed from the Finnish volunteers. <mask> was ordered to join artillery and in November he was sent to east front at Gulf of Riga. <mask> served in howitzer battery of the battalion in 1916–1917. Following the service at the front, he was sent to Libau for training and promoted to lieutenant. Subsequently, he returned to the newly independent Finland in February 1918.Military career in Finland

Return and early career
The returned jägers took part in the Finnish Civil War on the white side, and <mask> fought in battles of Tampere and Viipuri as an artillery officer. In spring 1918, after the war was over, <mask> started as trainer in newly founded Finnish Artillery School in Lappeenranta. In the same autumn he became commander of Heavy Artillery Battalion, from spring 1919 Heavy Artillery regiment, based in the same town. Still in 1918 <mask> was promoted captain, in 1919 he became major and lieutenant colonel in 1923. Rise to Navy commander
In 1924 <mask> started as commander of coastal artillery and in the following year, just at the age of 29, he was promoted colonel; in the 1920s <mask> was the fastest promoted member of the Jäger Movement. One reason for the quickly progressed career was the military leadership's aim to push aside the older officers served in the Imperial Russian Army, and place the jägers in the key positions. During 1925–1926 went through Commander Course in General Staff College.The coastal artillery and navy were put together into one organisation under the same military staff in 1927, and <mask> became commander of the entire coastal defence of Finland. He completed Naval Warfare Course in 1929. <mask>'s title was changed Navy Commander in 1933, and the then 37-year old Valve became major general. The coastal artillery was further enlarged and modernised both at sea coast and lake Ladoga. Valve took part at developing Finnish–Estonian defence co-operation. One part of it was a crisis plan of closing Gulf of Finland in artillery co-operation between the two countries, and as a part of this, Mäkiluoto island close to Porkkala peninsula was fortified. A large part of the Finnish fleet were vessels inherited from the Imperial Russian Navy and in the early 1930s the Navy was strengthened by five submarines and two Väinämöinen-class coastal defence ships; the decision about purchasing the two heavily armed floating fortresses was made without listening to Väinö Valve.After this, the Navy got just a narrow slice of the annual budget of national defence. The head of the Defence Committee, Field Marshal C.G.E. Mannerheim was not familiar with naval warfare. The situation changed in 1938 when Valve became member in the committee; new plans for the Navy development were in place in 1939, but they could not be executed before outbreak of the Winter War. Second World War
During the Second World War Valve led the Navy. Naval activity in the Winter War was low; the coastal artillery fought efficiently against the Soviet Navy and ground forces in Gulf of Viipuri. After the war ended to bitter Moscow Peace Treaty in 1940, Finland established close relationship with Germany.During the subsequent Continuation War the Finnish Navy co-operated with Kriegsmarine, managing to block the Soviet Navy into the eastern bottom of Gulf of Finland. <mask> was in a key role, because he had created good relations with the Kriegsmarine already before the war broke out. After signing the Moscow Armistice with the Soviet Union in autumn 1944, Finland was obligated to drive off the German army from its area. <mask> experienced the situation personally hard to bear; his troops took the first military action against Germany in Operation Tanne Ost in Suursaari island. This was the starting point of the Lapland War. Defence minister
Defence minister Rudolf Walden fell ill in late 1944. In the same December president Mannerheim called <mask>, whom he greatly respected, to take the place of Walden in J.K. Paasikivi's cabinet.Apolitical Valve, however, could not readjust himself to work efficiently in the government. After the end of his term in April 1945 he led demining of sea areas. He left the army as lieutenant general in spring 1946. Later career
Valve started a new career in banking sector. He worked as bank manager for KOP in Saarijärvi 1950–1954 and in Pitäjänmäki, Helsinki in 1954–1959. <mask> was promoted General in 1992. He died in 1995 as the last member of the Jägerbattalion 27.A street in Lappeenranta was named Väinö Valveen katu and in 2007 city of Helsinki named a park after him. Family
During 1921–1948 <mask> was married to Margareta (Greta) Helena née Cornér (1884–1968). The couple had three children: Mirja Margareta (b. 1922), Helena Mathilda (married Hänninen; 1925–2005) and Matti Sakari (1928–1975). In 1949 Valve married Aili Aune née Haahti (1907–1996).

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title: Jason Grilli

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<mask> (born November 11, 1976) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Florida Marlins, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Atlanta Braves, Toronto Blue Jays, and Texas Rangers. Taken as the fourth overall selection of the 1997 MLB draft by the San Francisco Giants, Grilli was one of the top starting pitcher prospects in all of Minor League Baseball, ranked 54th in 1998 and 44th in 1999. The Giants traded him to the Florida Marlins in 1999, for whom he debuted on May 11, 2000. In 2011, <mask>'s career took off as a relief pitcher with the Pittsburgh Pirates. That year, he carried a 2.48 earned run average (ERA) and 10.2 strikeouts per nine innings (K/9) rate in 32 innings pitched (IP), and further improved in 2012, when his strikeout rate climbed to 13.8. In 2013, <mask> made his first All-Star team and became Pittsburgh's closer at the age of 36.From 2011 to 2014, he compiled a 3.09 ERA with 11.9 K/9, 3.3 BB/9 and a 34.2 percent ground-ball rate in  IP. Amateur career
Although born in Michigan, Grilli moved to Central New York when his father, Steve, played for the Syracuse Chiefs beginning in 1978. Following Grilli's high school career at Charles W. Baker High School in Baldwinsville, New York, he was drafted in the 24th round of the 1994 Major League Baseball draft by the New York Yankees, but he chose not to sign. Instead, he opted to play college baseball at Seton Hall University, which he attended from 1995 to 1997. In his junior year, Grilli struck out 18 batters in a game to break Charles Nagy's Big East Conference record. He pitched to a 6–4 win-loss record and a 4.65 earned run average (ERA) with 125 strikeouts in  innings pitched. In 1995, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Cotuit Kettleers of the Cape Cod Baseball League, and returned to the league in 1996 to play for the Brewster Whitecaps.Professional career
The San Francisco Giants selected Grilli in the first round, fourth overall, of the 1997 Major League Baseball draft. Minor leagues
Grilli earned high reviews from scouts before the draft, who noted his good delivery, size and bloodlines. Milwaukee Brewers scout Russ Bove wrote that Grilli reminded him of Jim Palmer. As a high draft pick, Grilli was immediately considered to be a top prospect. Baseball America ranked him as the No. 54 prospect in 1998 and the No. 44 prospect in 1999.<mask> began his professional career in 1998 with the Double-A Shreveport Captains of the Texas League and the Triple-A Fresno Grizzlies of the Pacific Coast League. In 21 games for the Captains, Grilli went 7–10 with a 3.79 ERA with 100 strikeouts in 123 innings pitched. With the Grizzlies Grilli went 2–3 with a 5.14 ERA in eight games, all starts. <mask> was named a Texas League All-Star for the 1998 season. Florida Marlins
On July 25, 1999, the Giants traded <mask> and Nate Bump to the Florida Marlins to acquire Liván Hernández. Grilli made his major-league debut on May 11, 2000. Grilli missed the entire 2002 minor-league season following Tommy John surgery on his pitching elbow.He returned in 2003, pitching most of the season with the AAA Albuquerque Isotopes. Chicago White Sox
Grilli was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 2003 Rule 5 draft. He had previously been heavily scouted as an amateur by White Sox scout Doug Laumann. He spent 2004 in the White Sox organization after being selected. In January 2005, after the White Sox signed Tadahito Iguchi, Grilli was designated for assignment and eventually released. Detroit Tigers
In 2005, Grilli signed a minor league contract with the Detroit Tigers. Tigers scouts and GM Dave Dombrowski were familiar with his abilities, having previously traded for him while running the Marlins in 1999.After helping the Triple-A affiliate Toledo Mud Hens to the International League Championship (he clinched the deciding game), Grilli joined the parent club for a brief late-season audition. Grilli pitched for Team Italy in the 2006 World Baseball Classic. He also had a good spring training and earned a spot in the Tigers bullpen as a long reliever, leading to his first extended stint in the majors. During the 2006 season, Grilli went 2–3 with a 4.21 ERA. He helped the Tigers to the 2006 World Series where they lost to the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2007, Grilli posted career highs in almost every category, including games (57), innings (79), strikeouts (62), wins (5), and holds (11). However, Grilli heard boos at Comerica Park during the season, mostly due to his home ERA of 7.96.He was much more effective away from home, posting a 1.91 ERA in road games. Tigers manager Jim Leyland defended Grilli: "I like Grilli because he's got a resilient arm. ... There's a lot to be said for that." It was during his time with the Tigers that Grilli decided to abandon his big-breaking curveball in favor of a slider. The move coincided with a transition from starting games in the minor leagues to relief pitching in the major leagues. Tigers teammate Jeremy Bonderman, known for throwing a very effective slider, helped Grilli tweak his grip and delivery."I knew I could throw a slider because it's just a minor adjustment on how you release the ball", Grilli said." Colorado Rockies

On April 30, 2008, <mask> was traded to the Colorado Rockies for minor-league relief pitcher Zachary Simons. This move was made to clear a roster spot for incoming reliever Francisco Cruceta. In January 2009, <mask> announced that he would again pitch for Team Italy in the 2009 World Baseball Classic. On June 5, 2009, <mask> was designated for assignment by the Rockies. Texas Rangers
On June 9, 2009, <mask> was acquired by the Texas Rangers for cash considerations. In October 2009, <mask> was granted free agency.Cleveland Indians
On December 2, 2009, Grilli signed a minor-league contract with the Cleveland Indians with an invitation to spring training. Grilli suffered a severe knee injury in spring training while running sprints and would later undergo surgery for a torn quadriceps muscle. The injury and rehabilitation caused him to miss the entire 2010 season. Grilli filed for free agency on November 6, 2010. Philadelphia Phillies
On January 30, 2011, Grilli signed a minor-league contract with the Philadelphia Phillies. He pitched for the Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs, posting a 1.93 ERA in 32 innings, before being released on July 20. Pittsburgh Pirates

Grilli signed a minor-league contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates on July 21, 2011, and spent the rest of the season on the Pirates major-league roster.The signing reunited Grilli with Pirates manager Clint Hurdle, who had been Grilli's manager with the Rockies several years earlier. Grilli played in 64 games for the Pirates in the 2012 season, recording a 1–6 record and 2.91 ERA. His 32 holds were second-best in the National League, and his 13.8 strikeouts per nine innings was the fourth-best among NL relievers with 40 or more innings pitched. <mask>'s fastball averaged 93.6 mph that season, his top velocity since 2007. On December 12, 2012, the Pirates announced that they had re-signed <mask> to a two-year contract, the first multi-year deal of his career. Several sportswriters noted that <mask> turned down more lucrative offers from other teams to remain with the Pirates. Just two weeks later, the Pirates made a major trade by sending incumbent closer Joel Hanrahan along with infielder Brock Holt to the Boston Red Sox for infielder Iván DeJesús Jr., relief pitcher Mark Melancon, relief pitcher Stolmy Pimentel and outfielder Jerry Sands.The move opened up the Pirates closer role for the upcoming season, with <mask> as the presumed favorite. <mask> again pitched for Team Italy in the 2013 World Baseball Classic. <mask> opened the 2013 season as the Pirates closer. Before 2013, he had accumulated five career saves spanning 10 seasons. After the end of April in the 2013 season, <mask> was named the Delivery Man of the Month. He finished April 2013 with 12 game appearances, a 0.82 ERA and 10 saves in 10 save opportunities through 11 innings of work. <mask> became just the second Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher to save 10 games in the month of April since Mike Williams in 2002.<mask> tied Jim Johnson of the Baltimore Orioles, Sergio Romo of the San Francisco Giants and Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees for the most saves in the MLB that month. <mask> again was named the Delivery Man of the Month for May 2013. Grilli was named to the 2013 National League All-Star team, and pitched the ninth inning of the 2013 MLB All-Star Game. After giving up a leadoff triple to Prince Fielder, he retired the next three batters for a scoreless inning. On July 22, <mask> became the first Pirate since 1992 to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated; in that night's game, he injured his forearm and was placed on the 15-day DL, another victim of the magazine's cover jinx. His replacement at the closer position was Mark Melancon. Grilli was activated from the DL on September 3, resuming his role as closer.He helped the Pirates to the 2013 playoffs, the team's first postseason appearance since 1992. Grilli pitched a scoreless ninth inning in the Pirates win over the Cincinnati Reds in the 2013 National League Wild Card Game. He appeared in three games in the Pirates series loss to the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2013 National League Division Series. <mask> has not had a run charged against him in nine career playoff appearances spanning 6 innings. In his 54 appearances in 2013, Grilli went 0–2 with a 2.70 ERA going 33 for 35 in save opportunities, striking out 74 in 50 innings. In 2014, <mask> struggled with effectiveness and an oblique muscle injury. He lost the closer role to Melancon.Los Angeles Angels
On June 27, 2014, <mask> was traded to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in exchange for relief pitcher Ernesto Frieri. <mask>'s performance improved following the trade. Atlanta Braves
On December 23, 2014, <mask> signed a two-year contract with the Atlanta Braves. <mask>'s original intended role was to serve as Craig Kimbrel's setup man in the eighth inning of games. However, when Kimbrel was traded to the San Diego Padres on the day before opening day of the 2015 season, April 5, <mask> had to assume the closer's role. He had done well, earning 24 saves for the Braves during the first half of the season. On July 11, in a game against the Colorado Rockies, <mask> was covering first base on a ground ball when he tripped and ruptured his left Achilles, causing him to miss the rest of the season.Toronto Blue Jays
On May 31, 2016, the Braves traded <mask> to the Toronto Blue Jays for Sean Ratcliffe. <mask> earned his first save as a Blue Jay on June 12, closing out a 10–9 win over the Baltimore Orioles. On July 2, he recorded his first win as a Blue Jay in a 9–6 victory over the Cleveland Indians. In 42 regular season innings with the Blue Jays, Grilli posted a 6–4 record, 3.64 ERA, and 58 strikeouts. He made five appearances in the postseason, and allowed one hit in 3 total innings. On November 5, 2016, the Blue Jays picked up <mask>'s $3 million option for the 2017 season. In a June 3, 2017 game against the New York Yankees, <mask> gave up four home runs in a single inning of relief, becoming the first Blue Jays reliever to do so.On June 27, <mask> was designated for assignment. Return to Texas
On July 2, 2017, <mask> was traded to the Texas Rangers for minor league outfielder Eduard Pinto. Personal life
<mask>'s nickname is Grilled Cheese. He is the son of former major-league pitcher <mask>, who pitched for parts of four seasons in the late 1970s, including three with the Detroit Tigers. <mask> was born in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak after his father's second season with the Tigers. His father is also known for being the losing pitcher for the Rochester Red Wings in the longest professional baseball game on June 23, 1981. <mask> wore number 49 during his time with the Tigers in honor of his father, and the two spoke after every game in which <mask> appeared.<mask> and his wife, Danielle Hurt, had their first child in February 2008. Although the Pittsburgh Pirates traded him on June 27, 2014, <mask> and his wife decided to continue living in Pittsburgh all year round. In December that year, they purchased a home for $1.6 million in the suburb of Pine Township. Nearly one year after the trade, <mask> made his first appearance back at PNC Park, as a member of the Atlanta Braves. There he revealed to the Pittsburgh media his intention to continue residing in Pittsburgh. See also

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<mask> (17 September 1904 – 22 August 1936) was a Spanish writer and political militant. As a man of letters he is considered one of the first if not the very first and the only genuinely surrealist poet in Spain, counted also among members of Generation ‘27. As a politician he acted in ultra-conservative realm, holding Carlist jefatura in Málaga and building Andalusian structures of the Agrarian party. Following more than half a century of oblivion, his memory and especially the circumstances of his death became a counter-reference to these of Lorca and are subject to politically-charged discussions. Family and youth

According to the family legend the forefathers of <mask> descended from Moctezuma; according to historical records the Carvajals were first noted in Málaga province in the 16th century, having founded the town of Campillos. Along the strictly male paternal line the Hinojosas, another local family, throughout the centuries as wealthy landholders ensured their dominant position in the county. The list of Campillos’ mayors reads like the Hinojosa genealogical tree; also <mask>'s father <mask> (1869-1936) and his uncle held the alcaldia post in the late Restoration period; Salvador, influential within the local conservative realm, served also as diputado provincial.In 1893 he married Asunción <mask> Xuarez (1872-1932), descendant to another affluent landholder family from the nearby Estepa. The couple lived on family estates in Campillos and Alameda; they had 6 children, <mask> born as the second oldest son. Hinojosa and his siblings were brought up in luxury and under heavy religious influence, the latter mostly due to their mother. Certain scholars suggest that Asunción's strong Catholic conviction bordered on tyranny. From infancy, <mask> was described as serious, withdrawn, addicted to reading, and having a penchant for extravagance. In 1915 he entered the Colegio de San Fernando in Málaga and possibly also the Jesuit college of San Estanislao; he graduated in 1920. In 1921–1922 he attended preparatory law courses at the Universidad de Granada before moving to Madrid in 1923, where he enrolled at the Facultad de Derecho.After a 1925–1926 spell in Paris – either to improve his French or to prepare for diplomatic service – <mask> returned to Spain and completed his curriculum in 1926. He spent most of 1927 serving in the military as a soldier in the capital. He completed his service in 1928. The years of 1928–1930 were mostly bohemian in Málaga, combined with journeys across Andalusia and abroad. Apart from trips to France and England, Hinojosa visited Nordic countries and toured the USSR, perhaps the first of this sort permitted by the Soviet authorities. Partly living with his family, he also began to engage in the family business, which apart from landholdings also includes industrial exploration activities. Around that time, he fell in love with Ana Freüller Valls, an aristocrat, granddaughter to Juan Valera and a local aviation pioneer.Their relationship proved to be a complex and erratic one. Hinojoisa hoped for marriage and indeed Freüller later admitted that at one point they were about to marry; however, she also claimed that they were simply close friends. The affair went on until <mask>'s death; he was never married and had no children. Literary career

In the early 1920s, <mask> began his career in Málaga with Emilio Prados as his literary mentor. In 1923, he co-founded Ambos, a literary review. Vaguely anchored in Andalusian rural myths it embraced aspects of the eclectic avant-garde, including dadaism, futurism and expressionism; apart from juvenile poems contributed by its founders, the periodical also printed works of García Lorca, Laffón Zambrano and Salazar Chapela. With circulation limited mostly to acquaintances, Ambos stopped after just 4 issues.<mask>'s writing matured in Paris, where he joined the circle of young Spanish artists: apart from already befriended Prados and Lorca the group included Buñuel, Dalí and a number of later famous writers and painters. Though styled after Rimbaud, in terms of poetry <mask> was described as a surrealist; the poems he contributed to reviews like La Verdad or Verso y prosa, but especially the volumes he published in 1925–1927, are considered a stepping stone towards full literary maturity. <mask>'s writings climaxed in 1928 with the publication of further two volumes, considered the peak embodiment of his surrealism. In the late 1920s, he got involved in Imprenta Sur, a friendly Málaga publishing house and especially in the launch of Litoral, another Málaga-based avant-gardist literary review. He contributed as editor and poet, specifically involved in the 1929 commemorative issue dedicated to Góngora; at that time he also engaged financially and entered the board; later Hinojosa intended to launch a strictly surrealist periodical. Due to his poetry and bohemian lifestyle but also because of somewhat anti-religious if not nearly blasphemous motives of his writings, in the local Málaga milieu he was already enjoying the reputation of an extravagant iconoclast. Hinojosa reinforced this image by staging social provocations scandalizing both iconic intellectuals like Valle-Inclan and plain rural Andalusians; he was willingly assisted by acquaintances like Dalí and his new female partner Gala.Hinojosa's relations with his avant-garde group of companions remained ambiguous. Though admitted to their inner circle, behind his back and to some extent also up front he was ridiculed as a wealthy señorito and mocked as a poor author who fathered disastrous poetry, never really a genuine member of the group; Diego, Lorca, Dalí or Buñuel used to denigrate him. Many treated him as a sponsor rather than as a fellow writer; they stayed at his premises, travelled with him and dined at his cost, considering it useful to be on close terms with "bohemian with the current account"; some re-paid with own works, and this is how Hinojosa gathered a collection of paintings of Miró, Picasso, Gris, Dalí and Bores. Literary critique either ignored him or belittled him. It is not clear whether the complex setting contributed to the violent and apocalyptic tone of <mask>'s last poetic volume, to be published in 1930, withdrawn from print and issued in early 1931. It turned out to be his farewell to belles-letres; according to some the poet decided to dump literature, "commit literary suicide" and not to look back. Works

Hinojosa penned around 200 poems, mostly short and some very short ones; short prose is down to 14 texts evading typical categorization, while theatrical and novelist attempts did not survive until today.All works were written between 1923 and 1930; during his lifetime they were published in 6 limited-circulation volumes and few periodicals. His literary production is considered a curve, from early juvenile works to surrealist climax and a final descent. Another scholar singles out 4 phases: descriptive, transitory, autobiographical and catastrophic. Early poems, from these printed in Ambos to Poema del Campo (1925), are anchored in rural myths and set in capacity perceptive of an unspecified territory, largely bucolic and lyrical. In terms of style due to folk ambience some refer to "neopopulism", others mention also "purismo" and "cubismo". Scholars flag a synthesis of tradition and modernity, the latter represented by innovative if not already extravagant metaphor. Poesía de perfil (1926), published in Paris, offered poems inspecting an interior of the fantastic mixed with a real setting.The largely descriptive tone gave way to dominant lyrical expression and the monothematic perspective was replaced with a variety of themes, often organized around the motive of exploration. "Estética purista" was partially substituted by oneiric and surrealist approach, not clear yet already visible, and the entire volume was distinctively more expressive. La Rosa de los Vientos (1927), published again in Málaga, was a small collection of just 19 poems; they focused upon imaginary journeys to exotic locations and to the inner self. Providing a discourse on space, mystery, and wilderness the volume offered frequent references to ancient as well as popular culture and introduced heterodox erotic motives. Stylistically at times very sophisticated, blending various rhyme orders and syllable types, it is described as a mix of Hispanic Ultra, French surrealism and Chilean creationism. Two volumes from 1928 are thought to be the most mature of Hinojosa's works. Orillas de la luz contained mostly poems saturated with eroticism, its main theme.They were, to a large extent, within the surrealist framework, featuring its trademark motives like mutilations and fragmented body parts; the fact that this poetry retained classic metrum is thought to be demonstrative of Hinojosa's synthetic ambitions. La Flor de Californía, considered the first surrealist work in Spain, is his sole prosaic volume; it contains seven dream narratives and seven oneiric texts; the former retain some bizarre linear coherence, while the latter come close to so-called automatic writing. The prose explores typical surrealist imagery: antireligious motives, black humor, objective chance and subterranean dream-worlds, containing also a series of apocalyptic visions. Strictly auto-biographical in terms of perspective, it is viewed as an expression of his own identity in an increasingly desperate pursuit of fulfillment. La Sangre en Libertad (1931) was very much a repetition of La Flor but brought to extremes, with new levels of anti-religious ridicule, sexual references, motives of violence and apocalyptic scenery. Autobiographic features were embroiled in catastrophic premonitions; stylistically the volume shows an evolution towards free verse and far-reaching formal linguistic experiments. From iconoclast to Carlist

Until the early 1930s <mask> did not engage in politics, though his literary stand – especially anti-religious threads, but also social provocations aimed against perceived bourgeoisie mentality – was clearly suggesting left-wing preferences; reportedly he also considered collectivization of family estates and might have visited the USSR to gain familiarity with the Soviet scheme.His later about-face and engagement in right-wing politics remain a mystery and have not been satisfactorily explained. Some scholars speculate that the USSR journey commenced the change. Others note that getting engaged in family business, for decades plagued by rural strikes and social tension, might have also led to his transformation. It is underlined that a love affair with Ana Freüller, apart from being an aviation pioneer a fairly typical wealthy girl who loathed his poetry, might have contributed to this shift in political preference. It is not clear whether the ambiguous stance of Hinojosa's artistic companions convinced him that he belonged to another world and caused him to overreact. Finally, some claimed that his surrealism was merely the caprice of a bourgeoisie señorito, opinion shared also by a few scholars. <mask>'s biographers either claim that he started to embrace a right-wing mindset after 1928 or that the rupture took place sometime between 1925 and 1930.He was already highly skeptical – though not militantly averse yet – when the Republic was declared in 1931. In unclear circumstances he assumed the post of juez municipal in Campillos, the job which might have exposed him to cases of social violence. Starting July he was recorded as engaged in the establishment of a provincial landholders’ organization; later that year he became secretary of the newly

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 emergent Federación Provincial de Sindicatos Agrícolas de Málaga and started to write agriculture-centred and conservatism-flavored articles in the local La Unión Mercantil. At that time Hinojosa demonstrated interest in Partido Nacionalista Español of <mask> and his former surrealist colleagues agonized that he was about to found a provincial branch of "partido fascista". <mask> finally decided to opt for another right-wing organization. <mask> Lamamié de Clairac, a landholder and a friend of his father, was at the time combining syndicate activity in agrarian groupings with political engagement in Carlism; it was him who convinced Hinojosa to follow suit. Since January 1932 he was taking part in Comunión Tradicionalista gatherings; in July 1932 he was already recorded delivering a lecture which hailed Catholic virtues of patriotic women, who bravely confronted renegade liberalism, and in early August he organized Carlist meetings in Málaga himself.He resigned the juez municipal post. Gaining recognition in nationwide Traditionalist press Hinojosa was getting identified as a belligerent "derechista” by the authorities; though he had nothing to do with Sanjurjada, in its aftermath he was detained and spent 2 weeks in a local prison, locked up with other Andalusian Carlists genuinely involved in the coup. The experience has only exacerbated his militancy. Between Carlism and Agrarism

After his release from jail in late 1932, Hinojosa continued organizing Carlist gatherings across the province. In early 1933, he emerged among the most active Traditionalists in the area together with Arauz de Robles. In March he rose to the jefe of the local organization; in numerous addresses he saluted Carlist heroes, pledged to liberate Spain from a Liberal-Marxist revolution, and paid homage to Sanjurjo, who gallantly sacrificed himself for Spain; some addresses contained thinly veiled anti-Republican tones. In parallel Hinojosa hectically worked to build agrarian syndicates through meetings, speeches, and writings, and as a Carlist representative he animated the Málaga branch of Acción Popular.He represented all 3 groupings standing on broad right-wing alliance ticket during the 1933 electoral campaign; some papers referred to him as a Carlist, some as Agrarian and some as a candidate of AP; scholars name him a Carlist. With 21,662 votes he failed to make it to the Cortes during the inconclusive first round and withdrew shortly before the second one. He commenced the year of 1934 as a freshly appointed member of the board of Editorial Tradicionalista, a new publishing house intended as an engine of Carlist propaganda. From early 1934, there is no more information on Hinojosa's Carlist engagements. Instead, most sources point to his relations with Partido Agrario Español and its syndicates. He kept writing to La Unión Mercantil on average 3 times a month, kept co-administering family estates, and commenced the career of a lawyer. Some sources claim he defended Campillos peasants charged with assault and robbery yet the press noted that he called Guardia Civil against those who occupied his estates, an intervention which resulted in bloody confrontation.In late 1934 the Agrarian minister <mask> Cid appointed Hinojosa delegado del gobierno en los Servicios Hidráulicos del Sur de España; quoting new political circumstances, he resigned in April 1935, once the Agrarians withdrew from the government. At that time he was already the provincial jefe of Partido Agrario and as its candidate unsuccessfully stood in the 1936 elections. Following triumph of Frente Popular Hinojosa was hectically involved in agrarian syndicates, demanding re-introduction of public order and a revision of rural labor contracts. In May – still active as a lawyer - he was detained following disturbances in Campillos. During the July 18 coup in Málaga he might have been involved in assisting the military and together with his father and brother went into hiding the following day. They considered an escape to Gibraltar, but before taking action the three were captured on July 24. They spent the next month in provincial prison; on August 22 the workers’ militia stormed the building, dragged 43 prisoners out, shot them at the local cemetery and buried the bodies in the mass grave.<mask>'s corpse has never been positively identified. Following the Nationalist conquest of Málaga the remnants were exhumed and <mask> was recognized thanks to a handkerchief in his pocket; it was assumed that two mostly decomposed corpses of young males next to his body were these of Francisco and <mask>. Reception and legacy

<mask>'s writings went unnoticed, save for a limited avant-garde audience. Critics remained mostly indifferent; only few noted "excessive originality". A handful of reviews following the 1928 volumes denigrated the author; some dubbed his poetry "entelequia", others ridiculed "señorito andaluz" and noted that "having two cars does not allow too much". Following his death his works were almost completely forgotten, as to both sides of the war he was an "inconvenient dead". For the Republicans his life and death made a dangerously symmetrical parallelism to those of Lorca and might have harmed the exaltation of Lorca's fate as anti-Francoist cause célèbre.Hinojosa was denied surrealist credentials and patronized; his former companions like Alberti floated stories of a greedy bourgeoisie landowner killed by his own peasants and some denied knowing him. For the Nationalists, who consistently denied the existence of Spanish surrealism, his iconoclastic poetry made him ineligible for a martyr. The exiled and Spain-based historians of literature alike either ignored Hinojosa or relegated him to footnotes, though very sporadically some poems appeared in anthologies and his name was mentioned in the press a few times. In 1974 <mask>'s cousin Baltasar Peña took advantage of his position in the Diputación de Málaga to finance a re-edition of selected works; some press notes followed up noting a "deformación" of contemporary literature yet others insisted not to "desorbitar la importancia". In 1977 Julio Neira launched a campaign to revindicate Hinojosa, crowned with a 1981 PhD dissertation; a 1983 re-edition of 2 volumes of Litoral contributed to the process. In the 1980s Hinojosa was gradually making his way into encyclopedias, periodicals, textbooks etc. and 1995 brought another PhD thesis.Since then his presence in history of literature is considered obligatory, based mostly on his presumed status of the first Spanish surrealist; However, in some cases he is denied membership in Generación del 27. In 1998 he was declared hijo predilecto by Málaga province, the 2004 birth centenary produced several publications and events, and a 2012 study (instead of the typical "forgotten poet") referred already to "a well-known Spanish poet". In 2014 he was dedicated a literary work. A Málaga school has been named after him. <mask>'s memory remains politically charged. Some tackle the Hinojosa-Lorca parallelism declaring upfront that both were victims of "irrational hatred" produced by an "absurd war", yet among countless books discussing the civil war terror, almost all mention Lorca and almost none mention Hinojosa. Both right-wing and left-wing groups started to claim his legacy.Some Traditionalist sites honor him as "their man". Certain progressivist authors present him as a martyr who dedicated his life to fighting imperialism, nationalism and the church; others imply his homosexuality. The Málaga San Rafael cemetery, where Hinojosa was executed, was doted in 2014 with a monument-mausoleum to honor "those who gave their life in defense of freedom and democracy and whose remains rest here or in other sites". Hinojosa has never been mentioned in a spate of press notes related, some of which noted a construction recording "la barbarie de la represión franquista". See also

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Further reading

 Enrique Baena, La belleza convulsa. Soledad y voluntad en <mask> Hinojosa, [in:] Puertaoscura 6 (1988), pp. 31–34
 Geo Constantinescu, <mask> <mask> y el surrealismo español, [in:] Diacronia 6 (2010), pp.445–449
 Alfonso Canales, La muerte de Hinojosa, [in:] Jábega 1 (1973), pp. 89–91
 Rafael de Cózar, Algunas notas sobre la vanguardia y el Surrealsimo: A modo de introducción al andaluz <mask> <mask>, [in:] Juan Collantes de Terán (ed.) Andalucía en la generación del 27, Seville 1978, pp. 73–111
 Carmen Díaz Margarit, El surrealismo en "La flor de California" de <mask> Hinojosa, Madrid 2003,
 Nigel Dennis, <mask> Hinojosa y la cuestión del compromiso, [in:] El Maquinista de la generación 11 (2006), pp. 50–65
 Luis Teófilo Gil Cuadrado, El Partido Agrario Español (1934–1936): una alternativa conservadora y republicana [PhD thesis Complutense], Madrid 2006
 Luis Alonso Girgado, La Generación del 27 de nuevo en Litoral; reencuentro con <mask> Hinojosa, [in:] Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea 9 (1984), pp. 131–141
 Renata Londero, La Rosa de los Vientos di <mask> Hinojosa, scherzo avanguardista di un ‘minore’ della Generazione del 27, [in:] Il confronto letterario 19 (1993), pp. 127–146
 Matilde de Moreno Escobar (ed.), <mask> Hinojosa entre dos luces: 1904–1936, Málaga 2004,
 Matilde de Moreno Escobar, La sangre en libertad: una reelaboración surrealista del petrarquismo, [in:] Jaume Pont (ed. ), Surrealismo y literatura en España, Lleida 2001, , pp. 171–180
 Julio Neira, Introducción, [in:] <mask> <mask>, La Flor de Californía, Santander 1979, pp. 13–47
 Julio Neira, Introducción, [in:] <mask> <mask>, Poesias Completas, Torremolinos 1983, pp. 11–29
 Julio Neira, <mask> Hinojosa. Vida y obra [PhD thesis Universidad de Extremadura], Cáceres 1981
 Julio Neira, La religión en La flor de Californía, de José <mask>josa, [in:] Insula XLIV (1989), pp. 17–19
 Julio Neira, Surrealism and Spain: the Case of Hinojosa, [in:] Brian C. Morris (ed.), The Surrealist Adventure in Spain, Ottawa 1991, pp. 101–118
 Julio Neira, El surrealismo de José <mask>a. Esbozo, [in:] Víctor García de la Concha (ed. ), El surrealismo, Madrid 1992, pp. 271–285
 Jacqueline Rattray, A Delicious Imaginary Journey with Joan Miró and <mask> <mask>, [in:] Robert Havard (ed. ), Companion to Spanish Surrealism, Woodbridge 2004, , pp. 33–48
 Jacqueline Rattray, The Surrealist Visuality of <mask> Hinojosa: A Sight for Sore Eyes, London 2015,
 Rosa Romojaro, Acercamiento a lo imaginario en ‘La Sangre en Libertad’ de <mask> <mask>, [in:] Rosa Romojaro, Lo escrito y lo leído, Madrid 2004, , pp.101–120
 Rosa Ruiz Gisbert, <mask> Hinojosa, el gran olvidado, [in:] Isla de Arriarán: revista cultural y científica 29 (2007), pp. 181–200
 Alfonso Sánchez Rodríguez, <mask> Hinojosa: 1925–1936. Apuntes sobre la trayectoria de un surrealista, [in:] Litroral 174/175/176 (1987), pp. 138–140
 Alfonso Sánchez Rodríguez, <mask> Hinojosa; Ensayo bibliográfico, Málaga 1995,
 Alfonso Sánchez Rodríguez, La poesía de José María Hinojosa [PhD thesis Universitat de Lleida], Lérida 1995
 Mark Statman, Black Tulips: The Selected Poems of <mask> Hinojosa (translations, essay) University of New Orleans Press, 2012. External links
 Poesias del alma; website featuring some Hinojosa poems
 Poeticus; website featuring some Hinojosa poems
 A media voz; website featuring some Hinojosa poems
 Poesias completas online
 Hinojosa at Biblioteca Cervantes site
 calle Hinojosa, Malaga at GoogleMaps service
 Por Dios y por España; contemporary Carlist propaganda

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Pampa (), called by the honorific Ādikavi ("First Poet") was a Kannada-language Jain poet whose works reflected his philosophical beliefs. A court poet of Chalukya king Arikesari II, who was a feudatory of the Rashtrakuta dynasty king Krishna III, Pampa is best known for his epics Vikramārjuna Vijaya or Pampa Bharata, and the Ādi purāṇa, both written in the champu style around c.939. These works served as the model for all future champu works in Kannada. The works of Jain writers <mask>, Sri Ponna and Ranna, collectively called the "Three gems of Kannada literature", heralded the 10th century era of medieval Kannada literature. Early life

There are varying opinions about the early life and native language of Pampa. While it is commonly believed Pampa belonged to a Brahmin family that took to Jainism, their actual place of origin and native language (Kannada or Telugu) is debated. According to the trilingual inscription (in Sanskrit, Telugu and Kannada) installed by Pampa's younger brother Jinavallabha at Bommalamma Gutta in Kurikiyala village, Gangadharam mandal (in modern Telangana), his father was Abhimanadevaraya (also known as Bhimappayya) and mother was Abbanabbe.It also indicated that his grandfather was Abhimanachandra who belonged to the Brahmin caste and hailed from Vangiparru in Kammanadu, Guntur district, Andra Pradesh. According to the modern Jain scholar Hampa Nagarajaiah ("Hampana"), <mask> was born in Annigeri, spent his early childhood on the banks of the nearby Varada river and his mother Abbanabbe was the grand daughter of Joyisa Singha of Annigeri in the modern Dharwad district of Karnataka state. Frequent descriptions of the beauty of the Banavasi region (in the modern Uttara Kannada district) and even the sprinkling (abhishek) of water from the Varada river on Arjuna's head during his coronation in Pampa's epic Vikramarjuna Vijaya testifies to the poet's attachment to the Banavasi region. However, according to the Sheldon Pollock, Pampa is believed to have come from a Telugu-speaking family or region. Through the lines aarankusamittodam nenevudenna manam banvaasi deshamam and puttidirdode maridumbiyaagi men kogileyaagi nandanavanadol banavaasideshadol he has expressed his deep attachment towards Banavasi. It is very evident from his works that he had mastered Sanskrit and Prakrit and that he must have had a good all-round education including Vedic literature and Jain philosophy. He may have studied and mastered various subjects like music, philosophy, dance, economics, medicine, kamashastra (the science of sensual pleasure).He is said  to have studied under a guru by name Devendra Muni of Shravanabelagola. Sensitive, modest and imaginative, Pampa has earned a veritable place in the world of Kannada literature, which has remained unquestioned even today. Poetic life
A well-travelled man, he settled down as the court poet of King Arikesari II. Flattered by his knowledge and poetic abilities, Arikesari (who possessed the title Gunarnava) conferred on him the title Kavita Gunarnava. At the age of 39 he wrote his first masterpiece, Ādi purāṇa, in 941, and a little later he completed Vikramarjuna Vijaya popularly known as Pampa Bharata. These two works have remained unparalleled works of classic Kannada composition. Though there were several Kannada poets centuries prior to him, the quality of their works does not seem to have matched his.Such was the greatness of his literature that <mask>kavi "first/original poet" of Kannada literature. He is also first of "the three pearls" of Kannada poetry. A later poet Nagaraja says of him, pasaripa kannadakkodayanorvane satkavi pampan "the virtuous poet Pampa is the lone master of the famed Kannada." Adipurana
The Ādi purāṇa, written in the champu style, a mixed form of prose and verse, is a Kannada version of the Sanskrit work by Jinasena and details in sixteen cantos the life of the first Tirthankara of Jainism, Rishabha. The work focuses in his own unique style the pilgrimage of a soul to perfection and attainment of moksha. In the work, <mask> describes the struggle for power and control over the entire world of two brothers Bharata and Bahubali, sons of Rishabha.While Bahubali wins, he renounces the worldly pursuits in favour of his brother. Many Jain puranas of Middle Ages found a role model in this work. Vikramarjuna Vijaya

Vikramarjuna Vijaya, also known as Pampa Bharata, is a Kannada version of the Mahabharata of Vyasa. Several poets prior to Pampa had composed poetry based on parts of the epic but had not translated it in its entirety. Pampa's work was written in praise of his patron king Arikesari. He compares the king with Arjuna's character in the epic and centers his work around Arjuna. He says this himself in the 51st verse of the first chapter,
"."Vyasa's original work, however, does not portray any particular character as the hero of the epic. <mask> made several modifications to the original story. While some of his modifications seem absurd and even erroneous, some others seem to blend perfectly and add shine to the original story. In <mask>'s version, Arjuna is the only husband of Draupadi. As polyandry is not considered a virtue, this goes well with the story. On the other hand, to please his king, he refers to Arjuna with the titles of Arikesari at some places. The titles Chalukya Vamshodbhavam "of the Chalukyas" and Samanta Choodamani "jewel among the feudatories" among others to the greatest archer of the world from the Kuru clan does not seem to go well.After the war of Kurukshetra, it is not Yudhishthira who is crowned king but Arjuna, and his wife Subhadra becomes the queen royal. It is said that Bhima who played such a big role in Vyasa's epic and Draupadi who suffered much humiliation are not given much credit in Pampa's work. Further reading

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<mask>  <mask> (born <mask>, November 4, 1942) is a theoretically inclined electrical engineer specializing in advancement of the theory of statistical time-series analysis with emphasis on signal processing algorithm design and performance analysis. He is also an entrepreneur, a professor emeritus with the University of California, Davis, founder of the R&D firm Statistical Signal Processing, Inc. (SSPI), and former president, CEO, and chief scientist of this firm for 25 years (1986 to 2011) prior to sale of its IP to Lockheed Martin. <mask> has authored four advanced-level engineering books on statistical signal processing theory including Statistical Spectral Analysis: A Nonprobabilistic Theory, 1987, which has been cited over 1000 times in peer-reviewed journal articles. <mask>’s approach in this book is considered to be in keeping with the work of Norbert Wiener in his classic treatise Generalized Harmonic Analysis first published in 1930. In the literature, <mask> is referred to as an influential pioneer of cyclostationarity theory and methodology, on the basis of his being a contributor of seminal advances. <mask> has written more than 100 peer-reviewed original-research articles. His research papers and books have been cited in over ten thousand peer-reviewed journal articles.Biography
<mask> married Nancy Susan Lenhart in June 1966 and the following year completed his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology while employed as a member of technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1967 to 1969, and completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Massachusetts under the supervision of Lewis E. Franks in 1972, at which time he joined the University of California, Davis as an Assistant Professor. <mask> performed research and teaching there for nearly 30 years, becoming Professor Emeritus in 2001. In 1982, while at University of California, <mask> founded the R&D firm Statistical Signal Processing, Inc. (SSPI), an engineering research services company working primarily with the national security sector but also the cellular RF communications industry. He served as the president, CEO, and chief scientist of SSPI for 25 years. He also founded several entrepreneurial ventures during the latter 15 years of that period, including Gardner Technologies in 2001 for which he served as IP inventor and chief technology officer for five years. Work
After completing his Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Representation and Estimation of Cyclostationary Processes," in 1972, <mask> began working on developing a new theory for the class of cyclostationary and polycyclostationary random processes.In 1985, he wrote his first book, Introduction to Random Processes with Applications to Signals and Systems, which focused on the duality between the stochastic theory based on mathematical expectation and the nonstochastic theory based on time averaging, which theory he was developing. <mask> wrote "The book is an excellent introduction to the theory of random processes... I recommend everyone working in the areas of signal processing and communications to own a copy." Lawrence Marple wrote "The depth of coverage and the ease of readability can be compared to classic texts such as [<mask>ulis’s book which emphasizes theory and J Bendat & A Piersol’s book which emphasizes estimation in practice]. The two chapters on stochastic calculus and the theory of duality and ergodicity are two of the most accessible and easy to understand presentations of these topics in a textbook... The book covers all key aspects of second order statistics of random processes using many examples and without the theoretical trappings of other introductory texts on this subject." <mask> completed the fundamentals of his nonstochastic theory for stationary processes in 1984 and then reformulated all his research progress to date on cyclostationary stochastic processes within a nonstochastic framework: he developed the novel theory of Fraction-of-Time (FOT) Probability for Poly-Cyclostationary time-series data.<mask>'s 1987 book Statistical Spectral Analysis: A Non-probabilistic Theory presented his FOT theory of both stationary and poly-cyclostationary processes and/or time-series in Part I and Part II, respectively. Reviewing the book Statistical Spectral Analysis, Enders <mask> wrote "In this work Professor <mask> has made a significant contribution to statistical spectral analysis, one that would please the early pioneers of spectral theory and especially Norbert Wiener." James Massey wrote "I admire the scholarship of this book and its radical departure from the stochastic process bandwagon of the past 40 years." <mask> Yaglom wrote "It is important . . . that until <mask>'s . . . book was published there was no attempt to present the modern spectral analysis of random processes consistently in language that uses only time-averaging rather than averaging over the statistical ensemble of realizations [of a stochastic process] . . .Professor <mask>'s book is a valuable addition to the literature". <mask>’s contributions throughout the literature of the last 50 years are identified by <mask> in Cyclostationary Processes and Time Series. In the book, <mask>'s work has been cited over 500 tijmes.. <mask> provided the original definition and mathematical characterization of almost cyclostationary (ACS) stochastic processes, including poly-CS stochastic processes. He further gave the original definition and mathematical characterization of non-stochastic fraction-of-time (FOT) probabilistic models of CS, ACS, and poly-CS time-series. He also originated the extensions and generalizations of the core theorems and relations comprising the second order and higher-order theories of stationary stochastic processes and stationary non-stochastic time-series to CS, poly-CS, and ACS processes and times-series. In 1987, <mask> was invited by the Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine to write an introduction, for the signal processing community, to the recently discovered 1914 contribution of <mask> to time-series analysis. This introduction reveals the central role played by Professor <mask>'s just-published time-average theory in understanding the relationship between Einstein's and Norbert Wiener's (1930) contributions to statistical spectral analysis.<mask> won the international IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper award in communication theory in 1988 and the International EURASIP Best Paper of the Year Award in 1987; both papers treated his theory of cyclostationarity. <mask> and his students went on to further prove the uses of his theory of cyclostationarity in applications in communications and signals intelligence. Together with his doctoral student Chi Kang Chen, he wrote the book of mathematical problem solving, The Random Processes Tutor: A Comprehensive Solutions Manual for Independent Study in 1989. <mask>, with the assistance of his doctoral student Chad Spooner, also generalized his theory from second-order to higher-order cyclostationarity in the early 1990s, and provided insight into the statistical quantity called the cumulant. Later, he worked on cyclostationarity exploitation in the areas of enhanced radio reception for wireless communications and, more extensively, advanced RF signals intelligence. He was the editor and contributing author of the 1994 book, Cyclostationarity in Communications and Signal Processing.Douglas Cochran wrote “this book is a timely contribution that should be a valuable reference for academic and industrial R&D engineers in signal processing and communication systems." This book was an outgrowth of the first international Workshop on Cyclostationary Signals in 1992, which was funded jointly by the National Science Foundation and the Offices of Research of the US Army, Navy, and Air Force. <mask> served, by invitation of the NSF, as organizer and chair. His 2006 review paper, "Cyclostationarity: Half a Century of Research" received the Elsevier Most Cited Paper Award for multiple years. Applications of <mask>’s theory include his discovery and development of the fundamental operational principles of cyclostationarity—Insensitivity to Noise and Interference, and Selectivity/Separability of spectral correlation measurements and the signals themselves—as well as demonstration of applicability to design and analysis of signal processing methods and algorithms for communications, telemetry, and radar systems. This body of work has demonstrated that substantial improvements in system performance can be obtained in various signal processing applications, such as detection, estimation, and classification of signals, by exploiting cyclostationarity—that is, by recognizing and modeling the properties CS and ACS instead of using the stationary-process models which were the standard before <mask>. Major applications include cellular telephone, spectrum sensing—for cognitive radio—and signals intelligence for national security.Chapters 9 and 10 of the book survey fields of application of the cyclostationarity paradigm and identify on the order of 100 distinct areas of application and cite about 500 published papers addressing these applications. <mask> in 2016 developed the ad hoc concept of time de-warping into the basic theory of converting irregular cyclostationarity into regular cyclostationarity as a means for rendering the extensive and powerful tools of cyclostationary signal processing technology applicable to natural data exhibiting irregular cyclicity, which pervades essentially all fields of science as well as engineering. Other work
<mask> founded Gardner Technologies, Inc. and served as president and chief technical officer until 2006. Through Gardner Technologies, he ventured into more functional wine-packaging with patented wine bottle openers and closures. Upon terminating his brief cellular-telephone-technology venture with partner Stephen Schell, PureWave Technologies in 2001, he sold the IP to Apple. Awards and honors
1986 - International Best-Paper-of-the-Year award from the European Association for Signal Processing
1987 - Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award from the University of Massachusetts
1988 - International Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award in the Field of Communication Theory from the IEEE Communications Society.1991 - Life Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2005 - International DuPont Award for Innovation in Food Packaging Technology
2005 - National Frost & Sullivan 2005 Annual Award for Consumer-Product-Design Excellence-in-Technology. 2008 – International Most Cited Paper Award for the period 2005 – 2007 from Elsevier

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Introduction to Random Processes with Applications to Signals and Systems (1985); 2nd ed. (1990)
Statistical Spectral Analysis: A Non-Probabilistic Theory (1987)
The Random Process Tutor: A Comprehensive Solutions Manual for Independent Study (1990) re-release with errata, (2014)
Cyclostationarity In Communications and Signal Processing (Editor and Contributor) (1994)

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<mask> (born March 11, 1961, Springfield, Missouri, United States) is an, actor, writer and film director. Career

<mask> is an actor, director and writer. As a director, <mask> is known for films such as A Genie's Tail, It's a Rockabilly World, Chasing Beauty, Behind the Orange Curtain, Cat City, Welcome to Paradise, and 100 Mile Rule. As an actor, <mask> has appeared in over fifty feature films, including Falling from Grace, Killing Lazarus and The Perils of Gwendoline. In television, <mask> has had recurring roles in The Rookie, Shameless, Black Scorpion and Pensacola: Wings of Gold. He also guest starred in episodes of NCIS, Mad Men, Cold Case, JAG and The West Wing. <mask> is known for his authoritative on-screen presence and gravelly voice.<mask> is also adept at comedy. <mask> played the hapless character of Chet in the Microsoft spots, as Steve Balmer's "Life Coach". <mask> was the former "Voice" of E Entertainment. <mask>'s other voice-over work includes spots for Jack Daniels, Raytheon, Walmart, Buick, Visa, Nestle's and Arby's. <mask> was a theater major at the University of Missouri. <mask> begin his career as a model after signing with Ford Models in New York and Nina Blanchard in Los Angeles. <mask> has appeared in dozens of magazines, including GQ, Vogue and Glamour, while working with top fashion designers Gianni Versace, Giorgio Armani and Calvin Klein.During his days as a model, <mask> was based in Milan, Italy as well as New York. While modeling, he won the role of Willard, the rugged leading man opposite Tawny Kitaen in the French film, The Perils of Gwendoline (1983). <mask> won acclaim for his role in Girls' Night (1998) opposite Kris Kristofferson, Brenda Blethyn and Julie Walters. Other films include Beautiful, (2000) directed by Sally Field, I Spy Returns (1994),  Hot Boyz (1999), Hitman's Run (1998), Dead and Deader (2006) and the action film Kill Speed (2010). On stage, <mask> wrote and produced the play Actors and other Animals. The Los Angeles Times called <mask>'s performance in Susan Champagne's Honeymoon,  "masterful". <mask> has worked as an actor-director in numerous countries including France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Thailand, Philippines, South Africa, Morocco, Argentina and Brazil.<mask> appeared frequently in films directed by Bruno Mattei such as Strike Commando 2 (1988), Cop Game (1988) and Born to Fight (1989). <mask> also collaborated with director Worth Keeter in Hijack (1999) and Scorpio One (1998). <mask> played director <mask> in the television pilot Hollywood Confidential (1997) with Charlize Theron and Thomas Jane. <mask> directed his first feature film, We the People (1994; alternatively titled Final Justice) with his friend James Brolin. <mask> directed the dark comedy 100 Mile Rule (2002) with Jake Weber, Maria Bello, David Thornton, and Michael McKean, The Bad Pack (1997), starring Robert Davi and Roddy Piper, and the inspirational faith-based family drama titled Welcome to Paradise (2007), starring Crystal Bernard and Brian Dennehy. In 2007, <mask> directed the action film, Treasure Raiders in Moscow, Russia. Treasure Raiders is one of the most expensive films ever made in Russia and features Russian star Alexander Nevsky as well as David Carradine, Steven Brand and Sherilyn Fenn.In 2008, <mask> directed Michael Madsen and Mark Decascos in the political thriller Serbian Scars, which was shot on location in Belgrade, Serbia. <mask> wrote and directed the film-noir thriller Cat City in 2008. The film was selected to numerous film festivals and stars Rebecca Pidgeon, Julian Sands, and Brian Dennehy. In 2011, <mask> directed the legal thriller, Last Will, starring Tatum O'Neal, Tom Berenger, Peter Coyote and James Brolin, in Kansas City. In 2012, <mask> co-wrote and directed the hard hitting documentary film about teenage prescription drug abuse titled, Behind the Orange Curtain. Behind the Orange Curtain sold out four screenings at the Newport Beach Film Festival while winning the Orange County Filmmaker Award. The film was also named "Best Documentary" at the Metropolitan Film Festival in New York.In 2012, <mask> directed two short films, Helpless and Hero. Helpless won best short film at the San Diego "Indie-Fest" and Riverside International Film Festival. Hero won best short at the Pan Pacific Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival and Family Film Festival. In 2013, <mask>'s documentary Chasing Beauty was picked up for distribution by the LOGO Channel. Chasing Beauty is an inside look at the intriguing, complex, sometimes petty and often heartbreaking world of fashion models. <mask> secured access to the top models, agencies, make-up artist, designers, advertising executives and magazine editors in the world. Chasing Beauty was the #1 documentary and #1 independent film when is was released on iTunes.In 2016, <mask>'s documentary feature, It's a Rockabilly World wins the Audience Award at the Silicon Beach International Film Festival. This film also won Best Documentary at the Video Online Film Festival in 2021. In 2021, <mask> directed the family film, A Genie's Tail, featuring YouTube star Jake Paul and Laura Marano. In 2021, <mask> directed the documentary film, Purpose Found which chronicles a family juggling life with a daughter with Rett syndrome. In 2022, <mask> directed the documentary short, Creating Giants. Creating Giants profiles Harvard Professor Steve Jarding and his unlikely dismissal from the Kennedy School. After winning ""Professor-of-the-Year honors his students staged a protest rally.In 2022, <mask> directed the documentary feature, The Jackie Stiles Story. Many consider Jackie Stiles the greatest female basketball player of all time. Jackie broke the All Tine NCAA scoring record and won the WNBA Rookie-of-the-Year honor in 2001. Jackie's career was cut short by devastating injuries. <mask> lettered in track at the University of Missouri, where he high jumped 6'10". <mask> dated Sharon Stone and Tia Carrere. <mask> and Brad Pitt are members of the Kickapoo High School Theater Hall of Fame, in Springfield, Missouri.<mask> is married to actress <mask> (1989–present). <mask> and Shawn's daughter is fitness coach, Bailey Harris.

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