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    American scientist (1894''1956)
    Alfred Kinsey
    Kinsey in Frankfurt, November 1955
    BornAlfred Charles Kinsey
    ( 1894-06-23 ) June 23, 1894DiedAugust 25, 1956 (1956-08-25) (aged 62)CitizenshipUnited StatesAlma materBowdoin College Harvard UniversityKnown forSexology and human sexuality: Kinsey Reports, Kinsey scale, Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and ReproductionScientific careerFieldsBiologyInstitutionsIndiana UniversityAlfred Charles Kinsey (; June 23, 1894 '' August 25, 1956) was an American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist who, in 1947, founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University,[1] now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. He is best known for writing Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), also known as the Kinsey Reports, as well as the Kinsey scale. Kinsey's research on human sexuality, foundational to the field of sexology, provoked controversy in the 1940s and 1950s. His work has influenced social and cultural values in the United States as well as internationally.
    Early life and education [ edit ] Alfred Kinsey was born on June 23, 1894, in Hoboken, New Jersey, the son of Sarah Ann (n(C)e Charles) and Alfred Seguine Kinsey.[2] He was the eldest of three children. His mother received little formal education; his father was a professor at Stevens Institute of Technology.
    Kinsey's parents were poor for most of his childhood, often unable to afford proper medical care. This may have led to a young Kinsey receiving inadequate treatment for a variety of diseases including rickets, rheumatic fever, and typhoid fever. His health records indicate that Kinsey received suboptimal exposure to sunlight (often the cause of rickets, before milk and other foods were fortified with vitamin D) and lived in unsanitary conditions for at least part of his childhood. Rickets led to a curvature of the spine, which resulted in a slight stoop that prevented Kinsey from being drafted in 1917 for World War I.
    Kinsey's parents were devout Christians. His father was known as one of the most devout members of the local Methodist church. Most of Kinsey's social interactions were with other members of the church, often as a silent observer, while his parents discussed religion.[3] Kinsey's father imposed strict rules on the household, including mandating Sunday as a day of prayer and little else.
    At age 10, Kinsey moved with his family to South Orange, New Jersey.[2] Also at a young age, he showed great interest in nature and camping. He worked and camped with the local YMCA throughout his early years, and enjoyed these activities to such an extent that he intended to work for the YMCA after completing his education. Kinsey's senior undergraduate thesis for psychology, a dissertation on the group dynamics of young boys, echoed this interest. He joined the Boy Scouts when a troop was formed in his community. His parents strongly supported this (and joined as well) because the Boy Scouts was an organization that was based on the principles of Christianity. Kinsey worked his way up through the Scouting ranks to earn Eagle Scout in 1913, making him one of the earliest Eagle Scouts.[4] Despite earlier disease having weakened his heart, Kinsey followed an intense sequence of difficult hikes and camping expeditions throughout his early life.
    In high school, Kinsey was a quiet but hard-working student. While attending Columbia High School, he devoted his energy to academic work and playing the piano. At one time, Kinsey had hoped to become a concert pianist, but decided to concentrate on his scientific pursuits instead. Kinsey's ability to spend immense amounts of time deeply focused on study was a trait that would serve him well in college and during his professional career. He seems not to have formed strong social relationships during high school, but earned respect for his academic ability. While there, Kinsey became interested in biology, botany and zoology. Kinsey was later to claim that his high school biology teacher, Natalie Roeth, was the most important influence on his decision to become a scientist.
    Kinsey approached his father with plans to study botany at college. His father demanded that he study engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology instead. At Stevens, he primarily took courses related to English and engineering, but was unable to satisfy his interest in biology. Kinsey was not successful there, and decided engineering was not a field he was good at. At the end of two years at Stevens, Kinsey gathered the courage to confront his father about his interest in biology and his intent to continue studying at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he majored in biology.[5]
    Initial research on entomology [ edit ] In the fall of 1914, Kinsey entered Bowdoin College, where he studied entomology under Manton Copeland, and was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, in whose house he lived for much of his time at college.[6][7] In 1916 Kinsey was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society and graduated magna cum laude, with degrees in biology and psychology.[8] Alfred Seguine Kinsey did not attend his son's graduation ceremony from Bowdoin, possibly as another sign of disapproval of his son's choice of career and studies.
    Kinsey continued his graduate studies at Harvard University's Bussey Institute, which had one of the most highly regarded biology programs in the United States. It was there that Kinsey studied applied biology under William Morton Wheeler, a scientist who made outstanding contributions to entomology. Under Wheeler, Kinsey worked almost completely autonomously, which suited both men quite well.
    Kinsey did his doctoral thesis on gall wasps, zealously collecting samples of the species. He traveled widely and took 26 detailed measurements of hundreds of thousands of gall wasps; his methodology was itself an important contribution to entomology as a science. In 1919, Kinsey was awarded a Sc.D. degree by Harvard University. In 1920 he published several papers under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, introducing the gall wasp to the scientific community and describing its phylogeny. Of the more than 18 million insects in the museum's collection, some 5 million are gall wasps collected by Kinsey.[9]
    Kinsey wrote a widely used high-school textbook, An Introduction to Biology, which was published in October 1926.[10][11] The book endorsed evolution and unified, at the introductory level, the previously separate fields of zoology and botany.
    An Introduction to Biology was unlike any other textbook on the market... Kinsey's textbook was noteworthy for the strong position it took on evolution...In his textbook Kinsey laid out the basic facts of evolution in a manner-of-fact matter, as though he were discussing the life cycle of the fruit fly. ... The chapter called "Further Evidence of Change" was especially blunt...Kinsey defined evolution as "the scientific word for change", and while he acknowledged that there are some people who "think they don't believe in evolution", he tried to show his students the folly of such reasoning. To find proof of evolution, students had only to look at things they used daily...Kinsey ridiculed the man who denounced evolution but owned a new breed of dog or smoked a cigar made from a recently improved variety of tobacco, saying, "When he says he doesn't believe in evolution, I wonder what he means."[12]
    Kinsey co-authored Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America, published in 1943, with Merritt Lyndon Fernald. The original draft of the book was written in 1919''1920, while Kinsey was still a doctoral student at the Bussey Institute, and Fernald was working at the Arnold Arboretum.[13]
    Sexology [ edit ] The Kinsey Reports [ edit ] Kinsey (center) with staff of the Institute for Sexual Research, later renamed the
    Kinsey InstituteKinsey is widely regarded as the first major figure in American sexology; his research is cited as having paved the way for a deeper exploration into sexuality among sexologists and the general public, as well as liberating female sexuality.[14][15] For example, Kinsey's work disputed the notions that women generally are not sexual and that female orgasms experienced vaginally are superior to clitoral orgasms.[14][15] He initially became interested in different forms of sexual practices in 1933, after discussing the topic extensively with a colleague, Robert Kroc. Kinsey had been studying the variations in mating practices among gall wasps. During this time, he developed a scale measuring sexual orientation, now known as the Kinsey scale, which ranges from 0 to 6, where 0 is exclusively heterosexual and 6 is exclusively homosexual; a rating of X for "no socio-sexual contacts or reactions" was later added.
    In 1935, Kinsey delivered a lecture to a faculty discussion group at Indiana University, his first public discussion of the topic, wherein he attacked the "widespread ignorance of sexual structure and physiology" and promoted his view that "delayed marriage" (that is, delayed sexual experience) was psychologically harmful. Kinsey obtained research funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, which enabled him to further study human sexual behavior.[16] He published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948, followed in 1953 by Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, both of which reached the top of the bestseller lists and turned Kinsey into a celebrity. These publications later became known as the Kinsey Reports. Articles about him appeared in magazines such as Time, Life, Look, and McCall's. The Kinsey Reports, which led to a storm of controversy, are regarded by many as a precursor to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s.
    Controversial aspects [ edit ] Kinsey's research went beyond theory and interview to include observation of and participation in sexual activity, sometimes involving co-workers. Kinsey justified this sexual experimentation as being necessary to gain the confidence of his research subjects. He encouraged his staff to do likewise, and to engage in a wide range of sexual activity, to the extent that they felt comfortable; he argued that this would help his interviewers understand the participants' responses.[17][18] Kinsey filmed sexual acts which included co-workers in the attic of his home as part of his research;[19] Biographer Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy explains that this was done to ensure the films' secrecy, which would have caused a scandal had it become public knowledge.[20][21] James H. Jones, author of Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life, and British psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple, among others, have speculated that Kinsey was driven by his own sexual needs.[22]
    Some of the data published in the two Kinsey Reports books is controversial in the scientific and psychiatric communities, due to Kinsey's decision to interview volunteers who may not have been representative of the general population.[23] University of Chicago sociology professor Edward Laumann also argued that Kinsey's work was focused on the biology of sex and lacked psychological and clinical information and analysis.[23]
    Kinsey collected sexual material from around the world, which brought him to the attention of U.S. Customs when they seized some pornographic films in 1956; he died before this matter was resolved legally.[19] Kinsey wrote about pre-adolescent orgasms using data in tables 30 to 34 of the male volume, which report observations of orgasms in over three-hundred children aged from two months up to fifteen years.[24] This information was said to have come from adults' childhood memories, or from parent or teacher observation.[25] Kinsey said he also interviewed nine men who had sexual experiences with children, and who told him about the children's responses and reactions. Little attention was paid to this part of Kinsey's research at the time, but where Kinsey had gained this information began to be questioned nearly 40 years later.[26] It was later revealed that Kinsey used data from a single pedophile and presented it as being from various sources. Kinsey had seen the need for participant confidentiality and anonymity as necessary to gain "honest answers on such taboo subjects".[27][28] Years later, the Kinsey Institute said that the data on children in tables 31''34 came from one man's journal (started in 1917) and that the events concerned predated the Kinsey Reports.[28][29]
    Jones wrote that Kinsey's sexual activity influenced his work, that he over-represented prisoners and prostitutes, classified some single people as "married",[30] and that he included a disproportionate number of homosexual men, which may have distorted his studies.[17][18] While he has been criticized for omitting African-Americans from his research,[31] his report on the human male includes numerous references to African-American participants. Historian Vern Bullough writes that the data was later reinterpreted, excluding prisoners and data derived from an exclusively gay sample, and the results indicate that it does not appear to have skewed the data. Kinsey may have over-represented homosexuals, but Bullough considers that this may have been because homosexual behavior was stigmatized and needed to be better understood.[17][18] Paul Gebhard, who was Kinsey's colleague from 1946 to 1956 and who also succeeded Kinsey as Director of the Kinsey Institute following his death,[33] attempted to justify Kinsey's work in the 1970s by removing some of the suspect data where Kinsey allegedly showed a bias towards homosexuality.[33] After Gebhard recalculated the findings in Kinsey's work, he found only slight differences between the original and updated figures.[34]
    Bailey et al., in their 2016 review of the sexual orientation literature, stated that Kinsey's survey likely overestimated the frequencies of nonheterosexual attractions and expressions.[35]
    Personal life [ edit ] Kinsey, an atheist,[36][better source needed ] married Clara McMillen in 1921. Their marriage ceremony, like his college graduation, was avoided by Alfred Sr. The couple had four children. Their first son, Donald, born in 1922, died from the acute complications of juvenile diabetes in 1927, just before his fifth birthday. Their first daughter, Anne, was born in 1924, followed by Joan in 1925, and then by their second son Bruce in 1928.
    Kinsey was bisexual[37] and, as a young man, would punish himself for having homoerotic feelings.[38][39][40] He and his wife agreed that both could have sex with other people as well as with each other. Kinsey had sex with other men, including his student Clyde Martin.[41]
    Kinsey designed his own house, which was built in the Vinegar Hill neighborhood of Bloomington, Indiana, at 1320 First Street. There he practiced his deep interest in gardening.[42]
    Kinsey died on August 25, 1956, at the age of 62. The cause of his death was reported to be a heart ailment and pneumonia.[43] The New York Times ran the following editorial on August 27, 1956:
    The untimely death of Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey takes from the American scene an important and valuable, as well as controversial, figure. Whatever may have been the reaction to his findings'--and to the unscrupulous use of some of them'--the fact remains that he was first, last, and always a scientist. In the long run, it is probable that the values of his contribution to contemporary thought will lie much less in what he found out than in the method he used and his way of applying it. Any sort of scientific approach to the problems of sex is difficult because the field is so deeply overlaid with such things as moral precept, taboo, individual and group training, and long-established behavior patterns. Some of these may be good in themselves, but they are no help to the scientific and empirical method of getting at the truth. Dr. Kinsey cut through this overlay with detachment and precision. His work was conscientious and comprehensive. Naturally, it will receive a serious setback with his death. Let us earnestly hope that the scientific spirit that inspired it will not be similarly impaired.[44][45]
    Kinsey was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Bloomington, Indiana.[46][47]
    Legacy [ edit ] The popularity of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male prompted widespread media interest in 1948. Time magazine declared, "Not since Gone With the Wind had booksellers seen anything like it."[48] A character called "Dr. Kinsey" appeared on the September 15, 1953 television episode of The Jack Benny Program as a bow-tied man interviewing a young woman on board a cruise ship that has left Hawaii. When "Dr. Kinsey" identifies himself to Jack Benny, Benny steps away in embarrassment.[49] The first pop culture references to Kinsey appeared not long after the book's publication; Martha Raye [sold] a half-million copies of 'Ooh, Dr. Kinsey!'"[50] Cole Porter's song "Too Darn Hot", from the Tony Award''winning Broadway musical Kiss Me, Kate, devoted its bridge to an analysis of the Kinsey report and the "average man's favorite sport." In 1949 Mae West, reminiscing on the days when the word "sex" was rarely uttered, said of Kinsey, "That guy merely makes it easy for me. Now I don't have to draw 'em any blueprints...We are both in the same business...Except I saw it first."[51]
    The publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female prompted even more intensive news coverage. Kinsey appeared on the cover of the August 24, 1953 issue of Time.[52] The national news magazine featured two articles on the scientist, one focusing on his research, career and new book,[53] the other on his background, personality, and lifestyle.[54] In the magazine's cover portrait, "Flowers, birds, and a bee surround Kinsey; the mirror-of-Venus female symbol decorates his bow tie."[55] The lead article concluded: "'Kinsey ... has done for sex what Columbus did for geography,' declared a pair of enthusiasts ... forgetting that Columbus did not know where he was when he got there.... Kinsey's work contains much that is valuable, but it must not be mistaken for the last word."[53] On September 15, 1953, Kinsey appeared as a character on the Jack Benny TV program. Kinsey and his research were written into a sketch about Benny's 'fantasy' about Marilyn Monroe, a guest on the program.[56]
    The early 2000s saw a renewed interest in Kinsey. In 2003 Theatre of NOTE produced the Steve Morgan Haskell play titled Fucking Wasps which followed Kinsey's life from childhood until death. Matt Sesow's paintings adorned the theater along with David Bickford playing piano live. Written and directed by Steve Morgan Haskell, Fucking Wasps received many accolades, including a Playwriting of the Year nomination from Backstage West. Premiering in 2003, the musical Dr. Sex focuses on the relationship between Kinsey, his wife, and their shared lover Wally Matthews (based on Clyde Martin). The play had a score by Larry Bortniker, a book by Bortniker and Sally Deering, and won seven Jeff Awards. It was produced off-Broadway in 2005. The 2004 biographical film Kinsey, written and directed by Bill Condon, stars Liam Neeson as the scientist and Laura Linney as his wife. In 2004 T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel about Kinsey, The Inner Circle, was published. The following year, PBS produced the documentary Kinsey in cooperation with the Kinsey Institute, which allowed access to many of its files. Mr. Sex, a BBC radio play by Steve Coombes concerning Kinsey and his work, won the 2005 Imison Award.[57]
    In 2012 Kinsey was inducted into the Legacy Walk in Chicago, an outdoor public display which celebrates LGBT history and people.[58]
    In June 2019, Kinsey was one of the inaugural fifty American ''pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes'' inducted on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor within the Stonewall National Monument (SNM) in New York City's Stonewall Inn.[59][60] The SNM is the first U.S. national monument dedicated to LGBTQ rights and history,[61] and the wall's unveiling was timed to take place during the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.[62]
    Significant publications [ edit ] "New Species and Synonymy of American Cynipidae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 42: 293''317. 1920. hdl:2246/1148 . Retrieved October 22, 2010 . "Life Histories of American Cynipidae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 42: 319''357. 1920. hdl:2246/1149 . Retrieved October 22, 2010 . "Phylogeny of Cynipid Genera and Biological Characteristics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 42: 357a''c, 358''402. 1920. hdl:2246/1150 . Retrieved October 22, 2010 . Alfred C Kinsey (1926). An Introduction to Biology. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company. OCLC 2901872. Austin, Andrew; Dowton, Mark (1929). "The Gall Wasp Genus Cynips: A Study in the Origin of Species". Indiana University Studies. 84''86: 1''517. ISBN 9780643066106. New Introduction to Biology. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. 1938 [1933]. Kinsey, Alfred C (1936). The Origin of Higher Categories in Cynips. Indiana University. Merritt Lyndon Fernald; Alfred Charles Kinsey (1996) [First published 1943 by Idlewild Press, Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y.]. Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications (reprint of Harper 1958 edition). ISBN 0-486-29104-9 . Retrieved October 22, 2010 . The Kinsey Reports:Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948, reprinted 1998)Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953, reprinted 1998)See also [ edit ] Judith Reisman, "the founder of the modern anti-Kinsey movement"[63]Notes [ edit ] ^ "Learn our history". The Kinsey Institute . Retrieved July 1, 2017 . ^ a b "American Experience | Kinsey | Timeline". PBS . Retrieved April 15, 2014 . ^ "American Experience | Kinsey | People & Events". PBS . Retrieved December 4, 2013 . ^ "Alfred Charles Kinsey (1894''1956)". American Experience: Kinsey. PBS. Archived from the original on December 21, 2006 . Retrieved November 9, 2006 . ^ Newton, David E. Sexual Health: A Reference Handbook page 133 ^ Weinberg, Martin S. (1976). Sex Research: Studies from the Kinsey Institute. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 25. ^ Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan (2000). Sex, the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. pp. 37''38. ISBN 0-253-33734-8. ^ Christenson, Cornelia V. (1971). Kinsey: A Biography. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. p. 29. ^ Yudell, Michael (July 1, 1999). "Kinsey's Other Report". Natural History. 108 (6). ISSN 0028-0712. Archived from the original on May 16, 2008. ^ Christenson, Cornelia V. (1971). Kinsey, A Biography. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. p. 57. ISBN 0-253-14625-9. ^ "If Kinsey's Textbook Could Talk '...". Textbook History. March 28, 2010 . Retrieved December 4, 2013 . ^ Jones, James H. (2004). Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life. New York: W. W. Norton and Co. pp. 188''189. ^ Del Tredici, Peter. "The Other Kinsey Report." Natural History, ISSN 0028-0712, July 1, 2006, vol. 115, issue 6. ^ a b Irvine, Janice M. (2005). Disorders of Desire: Sexuality and Gender in Modern American Sexology. Temple University Press. pp. 37''43. ISBN 978-1592131518. ^ a b Charles Zastrow (2007). Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare: Empowering People. Cengage Learning. pp. 227''228. ISBN 978-0495095101. ^ , Jones, James H. Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life WW Norton New York, New York pages 441''445 ^ a b c Bullough, Vern L. (August 1, 1999). "Book Review "Alfred C. Kinsey: Sex the Measure of All Things; A Biography " ". Journal of Sex Research. 36: 306''315. doi:10.1080/00224499909552001. ^ a b c Bullough, Vern L. (March 1, 2006). "The Kinsey biographies". Sexuality & Culture. 10 (1): 15''22. doi:10.1007/s12119-006-1002-8. S2CID 144490686. ^ a b "Kinsey Establishes the Institute for Sex Research". American Experience: Kinsey. PBS. Archived from the original on January 21, 2008 . Retrieved January 3, 2008 . ^ "The Kinsey Institute '' [Publications]". Indiana.edu . Retrieved December 4, 2013 . ^ "The Kinsey Institute '' [Publications]". Indiana.edu. November 3, 1997 . Retrieved December 4, 2013 . ^ Jones, James H. (1997). Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life (1. ed.). New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-04086-0. ^ a b Boothe Cosgrove-Mather (January 27, 2003). "50 Years After The Kinsey Report". Associated Press, CBS News . Retrieved April 4, 2014 . ^ Kinsey, Alfred Charles; Clyde Eugene Mart (1998) [1948]. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Indiana University Press. pp. 178''180. ISBN 0-253-33412-8. ^ "Kinsey Institute statement denies child abuse in study". Kinseyinstitute.org. Archived from the original on January 23, 2013 . Retrieved December 4, 2013 . ^ Brown, Mick (November 2004). "The bedroom and beyond". Telegraph magazine. Archived from the original on December 2, 2009 . Retrieved December 7, 2009 . ^ Welsh-Huggins, Andrews (September 1995). "Conservative group attacks Kinsey data on children". Herald-Times. 'There couldn't have been any research if we turned them in,' he said. "Of course we knew when we interviewed pedophiles that they would continue the activity, but we didn't do anything about that.' Providing such absolute assurances of anonymity was the only way to guarantee honest answers on such taboo subjects, said Gebhard. ^ a b Pool, Gary (September''October 1996). "Sex, science, and Kinsey: a conversation with Dr. John Bancroft '' head of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction". Humanist. Archived from the original on March 27, 2008 . Retrieved January 7, 2008 . ^ "Kinsey Institute director denies allegations by Reisman". Kinseyinstitute.org. Archived from the original on February 12, 2014 . Retrieved December 4, 2013 . ^ Jones, James H. (1997). Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life. New York: Norton. ^ Reumann, Miriam (2005). "American Sexual Character: Sex, Gender, and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports". Archives of Sexual Behavior. University of California Press, Berkeley: Springer Netherlands. 36 (5): 294. doi:10.1007/s10508-007-9230-z. S2CID 189871726. ^ a b New River Media. "NEW RIVER MEDIA INTERVIEW WITH: PAUL GEBHARD Colleague of Alfred Kinsey 1946''1956 Former Director of the Kinsey Institute". PBS.org . Retrieved October 27, 2014 . ^ Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan (2005). Kinsey: A Biography, p 285. London: Pimlico ^ Bailey, J. Michael; Vasey, Paul; Diamond, Lisa; Breedlove, S. Marc; Vilain, Eric; Epprecht, Marc (2016). "Sexual Orientation, Controversy, and Science". Psychological Science in the Public Interest. 17 (2): 45''101. doi:10.1177/1529100616637616 . PMID 27113562. ^ "Kinsey was also shown to be an atheist who loathed religion and its constraints on sex." 'Kinsey' critics ready, Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times. Retrieved February 2, 2007. ^ Baumgardner, Jennifer (2008). Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 48''. ISBN 978-0-374-53108-9. ^ "Father of the Sexual Revolution". New York Times. November 2, 1997. ^ "Alfred's brush with pleasure". Times Higher Education Supplement. November 17, 1997. ^ James H. Jones (2004). Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 610. ISBN 0393327248. ^ Ley, David J. (2009). Insatiable Wives: Women Who Stray and the Men Who Love Them. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 59''. ISBN 978-1-4422-0032-6. ^ Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory. City of Bloomington Interim Report. Bloomington: City of Bloomington, 2004-04, 90. ^ "Dr. Kinsey is Dead; Sex Researcher, 62". The New York Times. August 26, 1956. ^ Quoted in Pomeroy (1972). ^ "Dr. Kinsey". The New York Times. August 27, 1956. ^ "A Walk Through the Rose Hill Cemetery: Historic Tour Guide No. 12" (PDF) . City of Bloomington, Indiana. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 12, 2017 . Retrieved April 14, 2017 . ^ Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 25719-25720). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition. ^ "How to Stop Gin Rummy". Time. March 1, 1948. Archived from the original on October 17, 2007 . Retrieved September 11, 2007 . ^ "The Jack Benny Show from September 15, 1953" . Retrieved November 6, 2011 . ^ Rich, Frank (December 12, 2004). "The Plot Against Sex in America". The New York Times . Retrieved September 11, 2007 . ^ "People". Time. March 7, 1949. Archived from the original on October 17, 2007 . Retrieved September 11, 2007 . ^ "TIME Magazine Cover: Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey '' Aug. 24, 1953 '' Sex '' Health & Medicine". Content.time.com. August 24, 1953 . Retrieved April 15, 2014 . ^ a b "5,940 Women". Time. August 24, 1953. Archived from the original on October 9, 2007 . Retrieved September 11, 2007 . ^ "Dr. Kinsey of Bloomington". Time. Content.time.com. August 24, 1953 . Retrieved April 15, 2014 . ^ Reinisch, June M. (1990). The Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex. New York: St. Martin's. ISBN 0-312-05268-5. p. xvii. ^ "The Jack Benny Show from September 15, 1953". ^ "Imison Award 2005". Society of Authors . Retrieved September 12, 2007 . ^ 2012 INDUCTEES. Legacyprojectchicago.org (June 2, 2013). Retrieved on June 30, 2015. ^ Glasses-Baker, Becca (June 27, 2019). "National LGBTQ Wall of Honor unveiled at Stonewall Inn". www.metro.us . Retrieved June 28, 2019 . ^ SDGLN, Timothy Rawles-Community Editor for (June 19, 2019). "National LGBTQ Wall of Honor to be unveiled at historic Stonewall Inn". San Diego Gay and Lesbian News . Retrieved June 21, 2019 . ^ "Groups seek names for Stonewall 50 honor wall". The Bay Area Reporter / B.A.R. Inc . Retrieved May 24, 2019 . ^ "Stonewall 50". San Francisco Bay Times. April 3, 2019 . Retrieved May 25, 2019 . ^ Radosh, Daniel (December 6, 2004). "The Culture Wars: Why Know?". The New Yorker . Retrieved November 14, 2010 . Bibliography [ edit ] Christenson, Cornelia (1971). Kinsey: A Biography. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.Drucker, Donna J. (2014). The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-6303-5Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan (1998). Alfred C. Kinsey: Sex the Measure of All Things. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 0-253-33734-8Hegarty, Peter (2013). Gentlemen's Disagreement: Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and the Sexual Politics of Smart Men. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-226-02444-8Jones, James H. (1997). Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life. New York: Norton. ISBN 0-7567-7550-7Pomeroy, Wardell (1972). Dr. Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research. New York: Harper & Row.Reisman, Judith A. (2000). Kinsey: Crimes & Consequences [of] the Red Queen & the Grand Scheme. Second ed., rev. & expanded. Crestwood, Ky.: Institute for Media Education. 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    American businesswoman and activist
    Christie Ann Hefner (born November 8, 1952) is an American businesswoman and activist. Hefner served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Playboy Enterprises from 1988 to 2009. Hefner is the daughter of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.
    Early life [ edit ] Hefner was born in Chicago, Illinois.[1] She is the daughter of Mildred (Williams) and Hugh Hefner. Her parents had separated by the time she was five. When her mother remarried, she moved to Wilmette, Illinois. There she graduated from New Trier High School.[1] She attended the National Music Camp at Interlochen during the summers from 1964 to 1969.[2]
    She graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University with a bachelor's degree in English and American literature in 1974. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year.[3]
    Career [ edit ] After college, she free-lanced for the Boston Phoenix for a year, writing movie reviews. Thereafter, she moved back to Chicago and started working at Playboy.
    In 1982, she became president of Playboy Enterprises, and was made chairman of the board and CEO in 1988. She was the longest serving female CEO of a publicly traded company. She extended its magazine franchise overseas, to 25 localized foreign editions and also developed the company's profitable pay television business '-- the first time a magazine successfully leveraged its brand into a television network. The company also acquired adult-oriented businesses such as Spice Network and ClubJenna.[4][5] Continuing the company's electronic expansion, in 1994 Christie led the Company onto the Internet with the launch of Playboy.com, the first national magazine to launch a web site, and built an international, profitable, multi-revenue stream business including premium content, e-commerce, advertising and gaming, both online and mobile. She also built a highly profitable direct marketing, catalog and e-commerce business in film and music through both acquisition and organic growth. And, she greatly expanded the leveraging of the Playboy brand via licensing. In her last year as CEO, Playboy generated close to $1 billion in global retail sales, 80% of the sales to women. When she left over 40% of her executives were women. For three years, she was named to FORTUNE's list of ''Most Powerful Women.''
    In 2008, she released a memo to employees about her efforts to streamline the company's operations, including eliminating its DVD division and laying off staff.[6]
    On December 8, 2008, she announced her plans to step down as CEO of Playboy.[7] Hefner said that the election of Barack Obama as the next U.S. president had inspired her to give more time to charitable work, and that the decision to step down was her own. "Just as this country is embracing change in the form of new leadership, I have decided that now is the time to make changes in my own life as well," she said.[8] She stepped down from her position at Playboy on January 30, 2009.[9]
    In May 2011, Hefner was named executive chairman of Canyon Ranch Enterprises, a resort company that operates six premier spa destinations and an online website providing health and wellness advice.[10]
    As of 2015, Hefner was chairman of the board of Hatchbeauty Brands [11][12] and served on the board of the D.C. based Center for American Progress Action Fund,[13] a progressive public policy think tank. Christie also serves on the advisory boards of the R.D. Offutt company, an international, multi-billion dollar family owned agricultural conglomerate and Edge Beauty, the world's leading direct-to-consumer company in creating, designing, manufacturing and marketing unique, culturally relevant niche fragrance brands.
    Philanthropy [ edit ] Hefner created the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in honor of her father, and has helped to raise $30 million to build the CORE Center in Chicago, the first outpatient facility in the Midwest for people with AIDS.[14]
    Personal life [ edit ] Hefner married former Illinois state senator William A. Marovitz, a real estate developer and attorney in 1995. They divorced in 2013 and have no children. Marovitz was sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly using inside information to trade illegally in shares of Playboy. In 2011, he settled out of court for $168,352.[15][16]
    She lives in Chicago and has one brother, David, a computer systems analyst. She also has two half-brothers, Cooper and Marston, from her father's marriage to Kimberley Conrad.
    References [ edit ] ^ a b "Executive profile: Christie Hefner, executive chairman, Canyon Ranch Enterprises". Chicago Tribune. 26 Nov 2012. ^ "Cristie Hefner, Daughter of the Revolution". Washington Post. 4 Dec 1983. ^ "Christie Hefner". Forbes . Retrieved 7 March 2013 . ^ Adult.com ^ Adult Video News Article Archived 2007-10-15 at the Wayback Machine ^ Playboy Enterprises Does Restructuring; Shutting DVD Division For Online Focus; 80 Positions Will Go [permanent dead link ] Yahoo! Finance October 15, 2008. Accessed October 30, 2008 ^ Spain, William (December 8, 2008). "Christie Hefner to depart Playboy". MarketWatch . Retrieved Dec 8, 2008 . ^ Hefner's daughter Christie walks away from Playboy Enterprises ^ Luscombe, Belinda (January 24, 2009). "Playboy Shows Signs of Withdrawal". TIME magazine. Archived from the original on January 30, 2009 . Retrieved May 18, 2009 . ^ "Ex-Playboy CEO Hefner joins Tucson-based Canyon Ranch" . Retrieved 3 November 2014 . ^ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140926005311/en/Fuel-Keynote-Expo---Whats-Minds-C-Suite#.VFg7iclnBb4 ^ Johnson, Mary (2 July 2015). "With Hugh Hefner's daughter at the helm, Playboy was able to do what most tech companies can't (Video)". bizwomen . Retrieved 2015-07-03 . ^ https://freebeacon.com/politics/playboy-fundraiser-for-russ-feingold/ ^ "goodmagazine.com profile". Archived from the original on 2009-01-08 . Retrieved 2007-09-05 . ^ http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-08-04/business/ct-biz-0804-marovitz-playboy-20110804_1_playboy-stock-hefner-and-playboy-playboy-enterprises. ^ Yue, Lorene (August 3, 2011). "Marovitz career spans politics, real estate, restaurants, even baseball". Crain's Chicago Business. Bibliography [ edit ] Reed, Cheryl, L. "Career built on guts, family ties -- and skin" 2004.Watts, Steven (2008). Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-69059-7External links [ edit ] Christie Hefner at IMDbAppearances on C-SPAN[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxJo-t2YVrYhttps://www.thechicagonetwork.org/herstories/business-strategist-political-activist/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn4eF8QMHTs
  White Rabbit (song) - Wikipedia
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    1967 single by Jefferson Airplane
    "White Rabbit" B-side "Plastic Fantastic Lover"ReleasedJune 24, 1967 ( 1967-06-24 ) RecordedNovember 3, 1966 ( 1966-11-03 ) StudioRCA, Hollywood, California, U.S.GenrePsychedelic rock[1]Length 2 : 31 LabelRCA Victor Songwriter(s) Grace Slick Producer(s) Rick Jarrard White Rabbit on YouTube, by Jefferson Airplane with Grace Slick on vocals. RCA Records 74-160269, stereo, single (1967). (2:31 minutes, HQ) White Rabbit on YouTube, by Jefferson Airplane with Grace Slick on vocals. From the album Surrealistic Pillow, stereo (1967). (2:32 minutes, HQ with lyrics) White Rabbit on YouTube, by Jefferson Airplane with Grace Slick on vocals. From the album Surrealistic Pillow (1967). (2:38 minutes, 8D Audio "multidirectional", with lyrics) White Rabbit on YouTube, by Jefferson Airplane with Grace Slick on vocals. Live from The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967). (2:29 minutes) White Rabbit on YouTube, by Jefferson Starship with Cathy Richardson on lead vocals, Paul Kantner, David Freiberg, Donny Baldwin, Slick Aguilar, Chris Smith, Marty Balin. Live from the 2012 PBS Special, My Music: 60s Pop, Rock and Soul. (2:45 minutes)"White Rabbit" is a song written by Grace Slick and recorded by the American rock band Jefferson Airplane for their 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow. It was released as a single and became the band's second top-10 success, peaking at number eight[2] on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was ranked number 478 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time[3] and Number 116 on Rate Your Music's Top Singles of All Time[4] and appears on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
    History [ edit ] "White Rabbit" was written and performed by Grace Slick while she was still with the Great Society. Slick quit them and joined Jefferson Airplane to replace their departing female singer, Signe Toly Anderson, who left the band with the birth of her child. The first album Slick recorded with Jefferson Airplane was Surrealistic Pillow, and Slick provided two songs from her previous group: her own "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love", written by her brother-in-law Darby Slick and recorded under the title "Someone to Love" by the Great Society.[5] The Great Society's version of "White Rabbit" was much longer than the more aggressive version of Jefferson Airplane. Both songs became top-10 hits[6] for Jefferson Airplane and have ever since been associated with that band.[7]
    Lyrics and composition [ edit ] 1967 trade ad for the single
    "White Rabbit" is one of Grace Slick's earliest songs, written during December 1965 or January 1966.[8] It uses imagery found in the fantasy works of Lewis Carroll'--1865's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass'--such as changing size after taking pills or drinking an unknown liquid.
    Slick wrote the lyrics first, then composed the music at a red upright piano she had bought for US$50 with eight or 10 keys missing'--"that was OK because I could hear in my head the notes that weren't there"[9]'--moving between major chords for the verses and chorus. She said that the music was heavily influenced by Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain, particularly Davis' treatment of the Concierto de Aranjuez. She later said: "Writing weird stuff about Alice backed by a dark Spanish march was in step with what was going on in San Francisco then. We were all trying to get as far away from the expected as possible."[8]
    Slick said the composition was supposed to be a slap to parents who read their children such novels and then wondered why their children later used drugs.[10] She later commented that all fairytales read to little girls have a Prince Charming who comes and saves them. But Alice did not; she was on her own in a very strange place, but she kept on going and followed her curiosity '' "that's the White Rabbit". A lot of women could have taken a message from that story about how you can push your own agenda. The line "feed your head" is about reading, as well as psychedelics feed your head by paying attention: read some books, pay attention.[9]
    Characters Slick referenced include Alice, the White Rabbit, the hookah-smoking caterpillar, the White Knight, the Red Queen, and the Dormouse.[11] Slick reportedly wrote the song after an acid trip.[12]
    For Slick, "White Rabbit" "is about following your curiosity. The White Rabbit is your curiosity."[13] For her and others in the 1960s, drugs were a part of mind expansion and social experimentation. With its enigmatic lyrics, "White Rabbit" became one of the first songs to sneak drug references past censors on the radio. Even Marty Balin, Slick's eventual rival in Jefferson Airplane, regarded the song as a "masterpiece". In interviews, Slick has related that Alice in Wonderland was often read to her as a child and remained a vivid memory well into her adulthood.[3]
    In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Slick mentioned that, in addition to Alice in Wonderland, her other inspiration for the song was Ravel's Bol(C)ro. Like Bol(C)ro, "White Rabbit" is essentially one long crescendo. The music combined with the song's lyrics strongly suggests the sensory distortions experienced with hallucinogens, and the song was later used in pop culture to imply or accompany just such a state.[14]
    The song was first played by the Great Society in a bar in San Francisco in early 1966, and later when they opened the bill for bigger bands like the Grateful Dead. They made a series of demo records for Autumn Records, for which they were assisted by Sly Stone. Grace Slick said: "We were so bad that Sly eventually played all the instruments so the demo would sound OK." When Slick joined Jefferson Airplane later in 1966, she taught the song to the band, who recorded it for their album Surrealistic Pillow.[8] ¨White Rabbit¨ is written in the key of A major.[15]
    Chart history [ edit ] Weekly charts [ edit ] Year-end charts [ edit ] Chart (1967)RankCanada[20]48US Billboard Hot 100[21]81US Cash Box[22]60Cashbox[23] (11 weeks): 59, 45, 23, 14, 12, 11, 8, 6, 7, 22, 41
    Personnel [ edit ] Grace Slick '' vocalsJorma Kaukonen '' lead guitarPaul Kantner '' rhythm guitarJack Casady '' bassSpencer Dryden '' drumsCovers [ edit ] Many artists have covered the song. Among the more notable examples are:
    Guitarist George Benson's jazz version from 1971, featuring an electric piano solo by Herbie Hancock.A single released in 1980 by punk/gothic rock band The Damned.The 1985 cover by the Zarkons, a new name at the time for the Southern California punk bank The Alley Cats.[24]The 1987 cover by American metal band Sanctuary on their 1987 debut album Refuge Denied.The 1993 cover by industrial rock group Death Method for the various artists compilation album Shut Up Kitty.A 1996 version by Icelandic singer-songwriter Emil­ana Torrini, used on the soundtrack for the 2011 film Sucker Punch.Born For Bliss covered the song in 1997 on their album Flowing with the Flue.The 2002 album Don't Know When I'll Be Back Again: A Compilation Benefiting American Veterans of the Vietnam War contains a cover by the band Enon.Blue Man Group used the song in their stage production and put it into their 2003 album, The Complex.Shakespear's Sister covered the song on their 2004 album "The Best of Shakespear's Sister".Patti Smith covered the song in 2007 on her album Twelve.Collide contributed a DnB-remix version for the soundtrack of Resident Evil: Extinction in 2007.Ladyhawke performed a cover on Triple J's "Like a Version" radio show in 2012.[25]Paul Kalkbrenner used the lyrics in his 2015 remix of the song named "Feed Your Head".Joe Hawley of the band Tally Hall covered the song for his solo album Joe Hawley Joe Hawley in 2016.Pop-rock singer Pink has covered the song in 2016 for the Disney movie Alice Through the Looking Glass without the version appearing on the soundtrack. Instead, her version appeared as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of her 2017 album, Beautiful Trauma.Haley Reinhart covered the song on her 2017 album What's That Sound?.Swedish artist Loreen used to perform the song live.Grace Potter and the Nocturnals covered the song on the concept album Almost Alice.[26]References in pop culture [ edit ] Jefferson Airplane's version of White Rabbit is used in the "Underworld" bunker smoking scene in Platoon, written and directed by Oliver Stone, which was released in 1986.[27]
    In the 1998 film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dr. Gonzo, high on LSD, is listening to "White Rabbit" in the bathtub. He asks Raoul Duke to throw the tape player into the bathtub when the song "peaks" but Duke refuses and throws in a grapefruit instead.
    In the 1999 Futurama episode "A Head in the Polls" Richard Nixon sings an alternate version of "White Rabbit". In 1969, Nixon hosted a tea party for graduates of Finch College, and Slick was invited under her former name of Grace Wing. She brought a known political protester as her guest, and planned to spike Nixon's tea with 600 micrograms of LSD. He comments that he is meeting those 'stupid hippies' halfway by singing a song about an LSD trip written by a woman who attempted to drug him with it.
    A remixed version of Jefferson Airplane's version was used as main menu theme for the 2004 game Battlefield Vietnam.
    The song is also used in the 2016 game Mafia III, it can be heard on one of the game's three radio stations.
    It is heard in Kong: Skull Island (2017) when Randa and Hawkins enter a bar in Saigon where Conrad is playing billiards.
    Featured in a full-length commercial for the Xbox 360 game Lost Odyssey.
    Jefferson Airplane's version appears in a 2020 TV commercial for Celebrity Cruises and in a 2015 feature film documenting the life of American chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer titled Pawn Sacrifice.
    Appears in "American Dad" Season 5, episode 1, when Steve is on his way to rescue his father Stan in a Vietnam war reenactment.
    The song appears in "The Sopranos" season 1, episode 7, "Down Neck", over the ending credits and while Tony remembers his childhood after taking Prozac.
    Used in the 1997 David Fincher film The Game starring Michael Douglas during the scene where Nicholas Van Orton (Douglas) comes home to find his mansion vandalized by CRS and photos and police reports of his father's suicide in the clown's mouth.
    Jefferson Airplane's version was featured in a scene in the first episode of the Netflix show Stranger Things.
    It was used in an episode of "Warehouse 13" on the SyFy network. Pete and Myka go to Las Vegas to fetch an artifact, the Jubilee Grand Casino Chip, that is helping a married couple to win at the Casinos, but the mission goes awry because the real Myka is trapped in Lewis Carroll's Looking Glass with some help from Studio 54 Disco Ball.
    The song is also featured in The Handmaid's Tale (TV series) in season 1, episode 8, "Jezebels".
    The song appears in an episode of Big Little Lies when Ziggy is suspended from school and spends the day with his mom at the Monterey Aquarium.
    The song is also featured in the episode "Blue Scorpion" in Season 1, Episode 9 of the 2019 remake of The Twilight Zone.
    The song is used in the beginning of the 10th episode of the 2nd Season of Supernatural, "Hunted".[28]
    The song is used in episode 6 of the HBO documentary miniseries "Q: Into the Storm" in a scene depicting the January 6, 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.
    The song was also used in the 2020 Netflix movie The Babysitter: Killer Queen. It can be heard playing in the cassette player in Phoebe's rabbit hole.
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  Bush, Kerry & Hefner: Odd Cousins - CBS News
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    By David Paul Kuhn,CBSNews.com Chief Political Writer
    President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry are related. Well, sort of. They're ninth cousins, twice removed. So what's a little competition between family?The two presidential contenders also share a widely known common relative, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who is the ninth cousin of both men (the number nine is a coincidence). Twice removed from Mr. Bush, Hefner is a slightly closer relation to Kerry, only once removed.
    "Well I feel closer to Senator Kerry," Hefner chuckled, over the phone from the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles.
    "You know I'm an 11th generation direct descendent of William Bradford, who came over on the Mayflower, a direct descendent of a puritan," Hefner continued proudly, finding no irony in the fact. "I suppose that it is not a big surprise but it is certainly unique to be a relation to both candidates."
    Previous research released last month found that Mr. Bush and his de facto Democratic challenger were 16th cousins. Now the two candidates expected to compete in one of the bitterest and certainly longest general elections in decades are nearly twice as close as first thought. Like brothers, more or less; well, more less than more.
    "You never know, they may be closer, this is only what has been connected so far," said Bruce Harrison, who heads a group called Millisecond Publishing which puts out a line of ancestral history CDs from Waimea, Hawaii. "I hope it means that people will be nicer to each other and you always hope for a nicer campaign."
    Millisecond Publishing's massive database collects family trees of notable figures. According to their research, the shared ancestors of both men are Thomas and Welthian Richards of Weymouth, Mass., early 17th century Plymouth Colony residents who were some of the original Pilgrims, emigrants from England.
    The Richards' daughter Mary married Thomas Hinckley, governor of the Plymouth Colony, and through their son, Samuel, they are the ancestors of President Bush. Their daughter Anna married Captain Ephraim Hunt, and through their son Thomas they are the ancestors of Kerry.
    Through the same lineage, both men are linked to Gen. Douglas MacArthur and President Franklin D. Roosevelt; even infamous traitor Benedict Arnold and attempted presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr., have thick enough blue-blood roots to call themselves relations. The two candidates also have very distant links to Princess Diana and President George Washington.
    Kerry's most quirky relation is Johnny Appleseed. Yes, there really was a Johnny Appleseed. Kerry and Appleseed are sixth cousins. Appleseed, whose real name was John Chapman, was born in 1774 and made a name for himself as a naturalist traveling the country for 50 years, growing, of course, apple trees among other things.
    "You have your first cousin and you share the same grandparents; your second and you share the same great grandparents. So when you get back to your ninth cousins that means you share the ancestor 11 generations ago," explained Tony Burroughs, a genealogist at Chicago State University.
    "Bush and Kerry might find it odd. They might not even like that they do share a common ancestor and I don't think they consider themselves relatives '' only a genealogist would," Burroughs said. "But it is a really good piece of trivia."
    Hefner, who also said he found his relationship to the two men interesting if not necessarily relevant, finds his link to Mr. Bush and Kerry through Major William Bradford. One of the Richards' daughters, Alice, married Bradford, and it's through their son, Lieutenant Thomas Bradford, that Hefner is descended.
    The Playboy magnate, who said he is keeping up with the election, finds it all very funny. Neither candidate has recognized the other as a relation, but Hefner thinks they should and that the link would lead to a less combative election year.
    "I hope they have a campaign that deals with the real issues and not personalities," Hefner said, adding that he would do his best to help Kerry raise money.
    Nonetheless, Hefner still had good words for Mr. Bush, his unbeknownst cousin until Thursday.
    "I wish him well, he's our president," Hefner said, hoping both men would visit him at the Playboy Mansion for a little rest and relaxation. "I would be delighted to invite both President Bush and Senator Kerry for a family reunion," Hefner added, laughing to himself.
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  Methaqualone - Wikipedia
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    Sedative''hypnotic drug withdrawn due to recreational abuse
    Methaqualone Pronunciation Trade namesBon-Sonnil, Dormogen, Dormutil, Mequin, Mozambin, Pro Dorm, Quaalude, Somnotropon, Torinal, TuazolonaMethaqualone hydrochloride: Cateudyl, Dormir, Hyptor, Melsed, Melsedin, Mequelon, Methasedil, Nobadorm, Normorest, Noxybel, Optimil, Optinoxan, Pallidan, Parest, Parmilene, Pexaqualone, Renoval, Riporest, Sedalone, Somberol, Somnifac, Somnium, Sopor, Sovelin, Soverin, Sovinal, Toquilone, Toraflon, Tualone, TuazolATC codeLegal statusProtein binding70''80%Elimination half-life Biphasic (10''40; 20''60 hours)2-Methyl-3-o-tolyl-4(3H)-quinazolinone;3,4-Dihydro-2-methyl-4-oxo-3-o-tolylquinazoline;2-Methyl-3-(2-methylphenyl)-4-(3H)-quinazolinone
    CAS NumberPubChem CID DrugBankChemSpiderUNIIKEGGChEMBLCompTox Dashboard (EPA) ECHA InfoCard 100.000.710 FormulaC 16H 14N 2O Molar mass 250.301 g·mol''13D model (JSmol)Melting point113 °C (235 °F)O=C1C2=C(C=CC=C2)N=C(C)N1C3=C(C)C=CC=C3
    InChI=1S/C16H14N2O/c1-11-7-3-6-10-15(11)18-12(2)17-14-9-5-4-8-13(14)16(18)19/h3-10H,1-2H3
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    Y (verify) Methaqualone is a sedative and hypnotic medication. It was sold under the brand names Quaalude and Sopor among others, which contained 300 mg of methaqualone, and sold as a combination drug under the brand name Mandrax which contained 250 mg methaqualone and 25 mg diphenhydramine within the same tablet, mostly in Europe. Commercial production of methaqualone was halted in the mid 1980s due to widespread abuse and addictiveness. It is a member of the quinazolinone class.
    The sedative''hypnotic activity of methaqualone was first noted in 1955. In 1962, methaqualone was patented in the United States by Wallace and Tiernan.[1] Its use peaked in the early 1970s for the treatment of insomnia, and as a sedative and muscle relaxant.
    Methaqualone became increasingly popular as a recreational drug and club drug in the late 1960s and 1970s, known variously as "ludes" or "disco biscuits" due to its widespread use during the popularity of disco in the 1970s, or "sopers" (also "soaps") in the United States and "mandrakes" and "mandies" in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. The substance was sold both as a free base and as salt (hydrochloride).
    Medical use [ edit ] Methaqualone is a sedative that increases the activity of the GABA receptors in the brain and nervous system, similarly to benzodiazepines and barbiturates. When GABA activity is increased, blood pressure drops and breathing and pulse rates slow, leading to a state of deep relaxation. These properties explain why methaqualone was originally mainly prescribed for insomnia.[2]
    Methaqualone was not recommended for use while pregnant and is in pregnancy category D.[3]
    Overdose [ edit ] An overdose can lead to nervous system shutdown, coma and death.[4]Additional effects are delirium, convulsions, hypertonia, hyperreflexia, vomiting, kidney failure, coma, and death through cardiac or respiratory arrest. It resembles barbiturate poisoning, but with increased motor difficulties and a lower incidence of cardiac or respiratory depression.The standard single tablet adult dose of Quaalude brand of methaqualone was 300 mg when made by Lemmon. A dose of 8000 mg is lethal and a dose as little as 200 mg could induce a coma if taken with an alcoholic beverage.[5][better source needed ]
    Pharmacology [ edit ] Methaqualone peaks in the bloodstream within several hours, with a half-life of 20''60 hours. While the salt methaqualone hydrochloride is typically used clinically, methaqualone free-base was also marketed, namely as the methaqualone component of Mandrax, a combination drug which contained 250 mg methaqualone and 25 mg diphenhydramine within the same tablet. Oral dosage forms of methaqualone hydrochloride were manufactured as capsules, whereas oral dosage forms of methaqualone free-base were manufactured as tablets.
    Regular users build up a physical tolerance, requiring larger doses for the same effect.
    History [ edit ] Methaqualone was first synthesized in India in 1951 by Indra Kishore Kacker and Syed Husain Zaheer, who were doing research to find a new antimalarial medication.[5][6][7] By 1965, it was the most commonly prescribed sedative in Britain, where it has been sold legally under the names Malsed, Malsedin, and Renoval. In 1965, a methaqualone/antihistamine combination was sold as the sedative drug Mandrax in Europe, by Roussel Laboratories (now part of Sanofi S.A.). In 1972, it was the sixth-bestselling sedative in the US,[8] where it was legal under the brand name Quaalude. Quaalude in the United States was originally manufactured in 1965 by the Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, based pharmaceutical firm William H. Rorer, Inc. The drug name "Quaalude" combined the words "quiet interlude" and shared a stylistic reference to another drug marketed by the firm, Maalox.[9]
    In 1978, Rorer sold the rights to manufacture Quaalude to the Lemmon Company of Sellersville, Pennsylvania. At that time, Rorer chairman John Eckman commented on Quaalude's bad reputation stemming from illegal manufacture and use of methaqualone, and illegal sale and use of legally prescribed Quaalude: "Quaalude accounted for less than 2% of our sales, but created 98% of our headaches."[5] Both companies still regarded Quaalude as an excellent sleeping drug. Lemmon, well aware of Quaalude's public image problems, used advertisements in medical journals to urge physicians "not to permit the abuses of illegal users to deprive a legitimate patient of the drug". Lemmon also marketed a small quantity under another name, Mequin, so doctors could prescribe the drug without the negative connotations.[5] The rights to Quaalude were held by the JB Roerig & Company division of Pfizer, before the drug was discontinued in the United States in 1985, mainly due to its psychological addictiveness, widespread abuse, and illegal recreational use.[10]
    Society and culture [ edit ] Brand names [ edit ] It was sold under the brand name Quaalude and sometimes stylized "QuÄÄlude"[11] in the United States and Mandrax in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia.
    Regulation [ edit ] Methaqualone was initially placed in Schedule I as defined by the UN Convention on Psychotropic Substances, but was moved to Schedule II in 1979.[12]
    In Canada, methaqualone is listed in Schedule III of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and requires a prescription, but it is no longer manufactured. Methaqualone is banned in India.[13]
    In the United States it was withdrawn from the market in 1983 and made a Schedule I drug in 1984.[14]
    Recreational [ edit ] A variety of methaqualone pills and capsules.
    Methaqualone became increasingly popular as a recreational drug in the late 1960s and 1970s, known variously as "ludes" or "sopers" (also "soaps") in the United States and "mandrakes" and "mandies" in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
    The drug was more tightly regulated in Britain under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and in the U.S. from 1973. It was withdrawn from many developed markets in the early 1980s. In the United States it was withdrawn in 1982 and made a Schedule I drug in 1984. It has a DEA ACSCN of 2565 and in 2013 the aggregate annual manufacturing quota for the United States was 10 grams. Mention of its possible use in some types of cancer and AIDS treatments has periodically appeared in the literature since the late 1980s; research does not appear to have reached an advanced stage. The DEA has also added the methaqualone analogue mecloqualone (also a result of some incomplete clandestine syntheses) to Schedule I as ACSCN 2572, with zero manufacturing quota.
    Gene Haislip, the former head of the Chemical Control Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), told the PBS documentary program Frontline, "We beat 'em." By working with governments and manufacturers around the world, the DEA was able to halt production and, Haislip said, "eliminated the problem".[15][16][17] Methaqualone was manufactured in the United States under the name Quaalude by the pharmaceutical firms Rorer and Lemmon with the numbers 714 stamped on the tablet, so people often referred to Quaalude as 714's, "Lemmons", or "Lemmon 7's". Methaqualone was also manufactured in the US under the trade names Sopor and Parest. After the legal manufacture of the drug ended in the United States in 1982, underground laboratories in Mexico continued the illegal manufacture of methaqualone throughout the 1980s, continuing the use of the "714" stamp, until their popularity waned in the early 1990s. Drugs purported to be methaqualone are in a significant majority of cases found to be inert, or contain diphenhydramine or benzodiazepines.
    Illicit methaqualone is one of the most commonly used recreational drugs in South Africa. Manufactured clandestinely, often in India, it comes in tablet form, but is smoked with marijuana; this method of ingestion is known as "white pipe".[18][19] It is also popular elsewhere in Africa and in India.[19]
    See also [ edit ] Bill Cosby sexual assault casesDrug-facilitated sexual assaultThe Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film)References [ edit ] ^ US granted 3135659, Vithal SB, Campanella LA, Hays EE, issued 2 June 1964, assigned to US Filter Wallace and Tiernan Inc ^ "methaqualone reference". Enotes. Archived from the original on February 23, 2012. ^ "Methaqualone in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding". TheDrugSafety.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-02 . Retrieved 15 August 2012 . ^ "recreational drugs tranquilizers". Drug Library EU. Archived from the original on 2013-03-02. ^ a b c d Linder L (28 May 1981). Simons Jr DC, Mayer B, Nordyke R, Torrey A (eds.). "Quaalude manufacturer: Image hurt by street use". Lawrence Journal-World. 123 (148). Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America. Associated Press. p. 6 . Retrieved 16 August 2013 '' via Google Newspapers. Eckman/Fisher ^ van Zyl EF (November 2001). "A survey of reported synthesis of methaqualone and some positional and structural isomers". Forensic Science International. 122 (2''3): 142''9. doi:10.1016/S0379-0738(01)00484-4. PMID 11672968. ^ Kacker IK, Zaheer SH (1951). "Potential Analgesics. Part I. Synthesis of substituted 4-quinazolones". J. Ind. Chem. Soc. 28: 344''346. ^ Foltz RL, Fentiman AF, Foltz RB (1980). GC/MS Assays for Abused Drugs in Body fluids (PDF) . National Institutes on Drug Abuse. 32. Washington, D.C: United States Department of Health and Human Services. p. 39. PMID 6261132. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-10-22. ^ "Dividends: Dropping the Last 'Lude". Time. 28 November 1983. Archived from the original on December 22, 2008 . Retrieved 16 August 2013 . ^ Silverstein S. "Quaaludes Again". Captain Wayne's Mad Music.com. ^ Rile K (1983). Winter Music (First ed.). Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 41, 59. ISBN 978-0-316-74657-1. ^ Sandouk L. "green-lists". www.incb.org. Archived from the original on 2017-09-18 . Retrieved 2017-09-06 . ^ "Drugs banned in India". Central Drugs Standard Control Organization, Dte.GHS, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Archived from the original on 2015-02-21 . Retrieved 2013-09-17 . ^ PubChem. "Methaqualone". pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov . Retrieved 2021-05-19 . ^ "The Meth Epidemic '' Haislip discusses parallels to current Methamphetamine epidemic". ^ Ferns, Sean, "Lecture: Gene Haislip : The Chemical Connection: A Historical Perspective on Chemical Control" Archived 2014-03-31 at the Wayback Machine, Drug Enforcement Administration Museum Lecture Series, Arlington, Virginia, October 25, 2007 ^ Piccini, Sara, "Drug Warrior: The DEA's Gene Haislip '60, B.C.L. '63 Battled Worldwide Against the Illegal Drug Trade '' and Scored a Rare Victory", William & Mary Alumni Magazine, College of William & Mary, Spring 2010 ^ "Mandrax". DrugAware. Reality Media. 2003 . Retrieved 2009-08-13 . ^ a b External links [ edit ] Erowid Vault '' Methaqualone (Quaaludes)2015 Molecular Pharmacology article on functional properties and mechanism of action of QuaaludesAlcoholsBarbituratesBenzodiazepinesCarbamatesFlavonoidsImidazolesKava constituentsMonoureidesNeuroactive steroidsNonbenzodiazepinesPhenolsPiperidinedionesPyrazolopyridinesQuinazolinonesVolatiles/gasesOthers/unsorted3-HydroxybutanalÎ±-EMTBLAA-29504AlogabatAvermectins (e.g., ivermectin)Bromide compounds (e.g., lithium bromide, potassium bromide, sodium bromide)CarbamazepineChloraloseChlormezanoneClomethiazoleDEABLDihydroergolines (e.g., dihydroergocryptine, dihydroergosine, dihydroergotamine, ergoloid (dihydroergotoxine))DS2EfavirenzEtazepineEtifoxineFenamates (e.g., flufenamic acid, mefenamic acid, niflumic acid, tolfenamic acid)FluoxetineFlupirtineHopantenic acidLanthanumLavender oilLignans (e.g., 4-O-methylhonokiol, honokiol, magnolol, obovatol)LoreclezoleMenthyl isovalerate (validolum)MonastrolNiacinNiacinamideOrg 25,435PhenytoinPropanididRetigabine (ezogabine)SafranalSeproxetineStiripentolSulfonylalkanes (e.g., sulfonmethane (sulfonal), tetronal, trional)Terpenoids (e.g., borneol)TopiramateValerian constituents (e.g., isovaleric acid, isovaleramide, valerenic acid, valerenol)Unsorted benzodiazepine site positive modulators: Î±-PineneMRK-409 (MK-0343)TCS-1105TCS-1205
  The rise and fall of Quaaludes - BBC News
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    By Harry Low and Tom HeydenBBC News Magazine
    Quaalude was popular in the US in the 1970s. Now, the drug is back in the headlines after the revelation that comedian Bill Cosby admitted getting them to give to women he wanted to have sex with.
    The admission was made in 2005, but the court papers were only released this week.
    They refer back to a period when Quaalude was taken as a recreational drug - so much so that the sedative pill has been banned in the US for over 30 years.
    Anyone who has seen Leonardo DiCaprio's depiction of a Quaalude binge in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street - in which he can barely speak, can't walk and certainly can't drive - may well wonder what why anyone would take it intentionally.
    Quaalude is a tradename for methaqualone, which was first synthesised in 1951 in India. Germany and Japan were the first big markets, where the drug racked up an extensive record of addiction and abuse. In the UK it was known as Mandrax, a name still used in South Africa.
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    image caption Law enforcement officers confiscating Mandrax pills in South AfricaBy the time it reached the US in the 1960s, it was being used to treat insomnia and anxiety. However, it didn't take long for the drug's potent features to be misused.
    "Doctors were essentially giving them out like candy," says Justin Gass, author of a book about the drug. "It was very easy to obtain Quaaludes in the mid-late 1970s and early 1980s."
    People could buy them in semi-legal "stress clinics" without needing to visit a GP. They were pseudo-medical centres that would hand out the maximum legal prescription. These tactics would often be the clinics' eventual downfall, says David Herzberg, professor of history at the University at Buffalo.
    At its height during the 1970s, Quaalude could be found across the US and earned the nickname "disco biscuits".
    "America in the 1950s and 1960s was having a sedative boom," Herzberg explains, "so there was this wonderful market for them." As the barbiturates popular in the 1950s became stigmatised, drug companies introduced newer sedatives such as Librium and Valium, which claimed to be significantly different.
    Quaalude was part of that new wave. And although unpatented, meaning any pharmaceutical company could produce methaqualone, Quaalude was the name that stuck.
    Herzberg says people found it more pleasant to take than other sedatives.
    The main consumers - at least recreationally - were young people. "[They'd] decided that all the drugs their parents took were these soul-killing corporate things that would turn you into a conformist robot," Herzberg says.
    Musicians sang about them. David Bowie's Time references "Quaaludes and red wine" while Frank Zappa speaks of "Quaalude moonlight"
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    image caption David Bowie sang about QuaaludesQuaalude had a novelty but also a distinct selling point. "It got the reputation of relaxing people so that they can have freer sex," Herzberg says, which made them catch on across college campuses. Bay City Rollers lead singer Les McKeown has said he was raped by another man at the height of their fame after being given Quaaludes.
    It provides users with a "really powerful high", says Gass, now a professor of neurosciences at the Medical University of South Carolina. It takes just 30 minutes to start having an effect, which can last up to six hours.
    But it could be dangerous, particularly when mixed with alcohol, as it often was. "People would lie down to go to sleep and just not wake up," says Gass. "That was quite common."
    In the UK, methaqualone was sold under the name Mandrax and became popular too. Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards admitted possessing the drug in October 1973.
    Earlier that year, a tribunal heard testimony that a Mandrax addict had taken between 10 and 12 tablets before driving a car into a bus, killing two and injuring four others, the Times reported. "A further trend of misuse is mixing Mandrax and alcohol, with disastrous results," said a Church of Scotland committee report on moral welfare.
    They increasingly drew negative attention. "There's no doubt we've lost a considerable amount of business because of this substitution of the trade name for the generic name," Elliot Fisher, lawyer for Lemmon, who made the drug, told Associated Press in 1981. He said he was writing up to 50 letters a week to newspapers and police forces complaining about the use of the word "Quaalude" and finding many respondents were surprised it was a trademark.
    Regulators eventually stepped in. By 1984, the drug was listed as Schedule I in the US and a Class B drug in the UK, which makes its production and distribution illegal altogether.
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    Rohypnol, a drug commonly cited in rape cases, which is part of the Valium family, has sometimes been referred to as the Quaaludes of the 1990s. It has many of the same effects, says Gass. It's quick to work, erases memory and is a muscle relaxant.
    Methaqualone is no longer legitimately manufactured but it's still possible to find people claiming to sell Quaaludes on the streets, explains Gass.
    "But they are generally nothing more than a combination of different barbiturates which they hope would create the same effect but it certainly does not."
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  New Information About Dead Playboy Playmate Reveal Life as a Beta Kitten Slave | The Vigilant Citizen
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    Paige Young was the November 1968 Playboy Playmate of the Month and, after years of being used by powerful Hollywood men, she shot herself in the head. She was found dead laying on an American flag, next to a pentagram laid out on the ground, in a room full of pictures on which were written ''Hugh Hefner is the devil''.
    The flurry of abuse allegations against Bill Cosby lead to a closer look at the long forgotten story of Paige Young, a Playboy Playmate in 1968. The woman briefly ''dated'' Cosby and was passed around by Hugh Hefner and ''dozens of Hollywood leading men''. A recent article in the Daily Mail describes Paige Young's life in Hollywood and the gruesome details of her suicide. Many details in that article provide clear indications that the Playmate was a Beta Kitten Monarch slave who was handled by the Hollywood elite. (If you've never heard of Monarch Mind Control, read this article first)
    Like most Playboy models, Paige Young was young and naive when she became the Playmate of the Month in November 1968. She was soon swept up in the disgusting world of the Hollywood elite, where she became a literal sex slave. Ex-model Tamara Green Young while she was ''dating'' (''servicing'' would be a more accurate word) Bill Cosby in 1970.
    'I was there seeing my boyfriend and Paige called me and said Bill was on tour and she was travelling with him.
    'They picked me up at my friend's house and I remember sitting in the back of a stretched black limo with them both and Bill wanted to score some drugs.
    'I called around and found a bag of pot some place on the edge of El Paso.
    'Paige was in to her drugs and Bill wanted to get her some, she was along on the trip like his pet dog, she was a very subdued person, more like moon on the water in terms of her personality.
    'They were clearly well acquainted with each other, it didn't seem like a new thing. As far as I know they dated for a while.
    'Paige always seemed in a stupor, a daze, like he was controlling her. All I remember is that their relationship wasn't healthy.'
    'Paige was a young thing who was very much taken advantage of by the men of Hollywood, she was intelligent and talented, it's a tragedy what happened to her.'
    The sentence 'Paige always seemed in a stupor, a daze, like he was controlling her' is significant as it perfectly describes the mind state of an MK slave.
    Hugh Hefner and Bill Cosby.
    Page Young's friend Richard Sample explains how she was passed around and manipulated by Hollywood elite.
    'She told me about all the men who had abused her. She said she had an affair with John Huston, and that he had done things to her, abused her.
    'I remember one incident in which John hid her shoes to make her think she had gone crazy. It was only a small thing but she was really bothered by it.' ('...)
    In another story Paige confided in Melanie that a relative of a major celebrity had made a sex tape of her.
    'She was terrified of it coming out, in that day you knew your career was going to be over once it got round.
    'For weeks all she could think about was getting hold of that tape, she thought it was going to ruin her.'
    Young was also a regular at the Playboy grotto where star-studded orgies were known to occur.
    At the age of 30, which is about the age where most MK slaves start to break down, Young was found dead in an apparent suicide. The details of her death are symptomatic of the mind state of a Monarch programming victim.
    Former model Melanie Myers, who still lives in Hollywood, remembers that fateful day clearly.
    'Paige had the whole thing planned out down to the last detail,' she said.
    'It was Palm Sunday and she came to tell me she was going to kill herself.
    'She stayed in the back house of the duplex where we lived and I was at the bathroom window.
    'She comes up to the window and calls out to me, ''I want to show you something.''
    'I was like, ''What are you up to now Paige?'', I couldn't be bothered with any more of her drama.
    'But she was like ''No you've gotta come and see it''. So I go to her apartment and she gave me a guided tour of her suicide scene in her bedroom.'
    Myers says that what she found still haunts her today.
    'It was chilling,' she recalls. 'There was a large American flag draped across her bed and there was a pentagram laid out on the wooden floor.'
    Myers added: 'I remember her showing me around it because it was somehow important, but I didn't know what it meant.'
    But it was the bedroom wall that shocked Myers the most.
    'It was covered floor to ceiling with photos of Hugh Hefner,' she said.
    'There were news clippings, magazine articles, everything you could think of. Written across it was something like: ''Hugh Hefner is the devil''.
    'The whole wall was a shrine saying, ''I hate Hugh Hefner'', the crux of her anger was against him.
    The description of Young's suicide room contains several revealing details. First, dark occultism is a integral part of Monarch Programming which leads MK slaves to become obsessed with occult symbols. This probably explains why a pentagram, a symbol that is used in ritual magick, was laid out on the floor of her room.
    MK slaves also develop an obsession with their handler/programmer whom they often end up referring to as ''the devil'' or ''Satan''. Not only do MK handlers force their slaves to undergo horrific torture to induce trauma, they subject them to all kinds of Satanic rituals. Some accounts describe slaves being forced in to a ''black wedding'' with Satan himself (played by the handler) in a ritual designed to cause intense trauma.
    Friends of Young believe that the elaborate setup of her suicide room was an attempt to bring mass media attention to the sick ways of the Hollywood elite. Like most MK-related deaths, mass media either ignored or spread disinformation about her life and death. All facts pointing to the dark side of Hollywood have been swept under the rug. To this day, most sources still wrongly state that Young died of an ''overdose'' '' the usual official cause of MK-related deaths '' despite the fact that police reports clearly state that her death was due to a gunshot to the head.
    ''Memorial site findagrave.com wrongly claims that she passed away from an overdose of sleeping tablets, as does the site whosaliveandwhosdead.com.
    And website allstarpics.net, which features several glamour shots of the brunette, incorrectly claims she committed 'suicide by barbiturate overdose'.'''' Ibid.
    One can even wonder if she was actually ''suicided'' by those who controlled her, as she was increasingly talking about ''leaving it all'' '' a sign of her programming wearing off. Whatever the case may be, the life and death of Paige Young provide yet another glimpse at the dark side of Hollywood '' one that is filled with powerful sadistic men and helpless slaves who suffer for years until they disappear '... forever.
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  Lark Voorhies - Wikipedia
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    American actress
    Lark Voorhies (born Lark Holloway; March 25, 1974)[3] is an American actress, singer, spokeswoman and model. Voorhies rose to fame playing Lisa Marie Turtle on the NBC sitcom Saved by the Bell (1989''1993). Voorhies was nominated for the Young Artist Award six times, winning in 1990 and 1993 for her work on the show.
    Early life [ edit ] Born Lark Holloway to Wayne and Tricia Holloway in Nashville, Tennessee, she later adopted "Voorhies" as a stage name.[4][5] Her mother named her "Lark" after the character in the 1972 film Cool Breeze, played by Margaret Avery.[6] By the time Voorhies was two years old, the family had moved to Pasadena, California. During this period, her mother took her to a talent agent, because of her belief that Voorhies was "a natural-born ham."[7] However, her first audition ended poorly when she froze up.[7] She appeared in a national television commercial for Universal Studios Tour at age 12, advertising its upcoming King Kong attraction. She said of the experience: "I was on this tram screaming with all these other people. I had such a great time doing that."[6][8]
    Entertainment career [ edit ] Acting [ edit ] Voorhies made her acting debut at the age of two. Though photogenic, she was shy, and her mother put Voorhies' acting career on hold until she was more comfortable in front of the cameras. Later, at the age of fourteen, Voorhies reappeared on an episode of Small Wonder in 1988. In June of that same year, she landed the role of Lisa Turtle in Disney Channel's television series Good Morning, Miss Bliss[9] and appeared in thirteen episodes from 1988 to 1989. She remained as the same character, as did Zack, Screech, and Mr. Belding, after Disney dropped the series and it was picked up and retooled by NBC and renamed Saved by the Bell.
    Voorhies has since appeared in several television sitcoms and soap operas. She played the role of single mom Wendy Reardon on Days of Our Lives in 1993.[10] On The Bold and the Beautiful Voorhies played the role of amiable intern fashion-designer, Jasmine Malone beginning in September 1995. She was released from her contract in November 1996 when her role required her to act in sex scenes, which the actress refused to do citing her religious beliefs as a Jehovah's Witness.[citation needed ] She returned in April 2004 when Jasmine Malone returns to LA when Eric and Stephanie hire her to work as a designer in the basement at Forrester Creations. She decided to renew her contract when the show offered to sign her to a one-year deal and departed the show again in July 2004 when her character Jasmine took a job at Forrester International in Europe, courtesy of Eric Forrester.
    In 1995, Voorhies guest-starred in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Life Support". During the same year, Voorhies guest-starred in the Family Matters season six episode "Home Sweet Home", as Eddie's upstairs dream girl. She has continued to act in various roles since then, such as In the House, in which she played the girlfriend-turned-wife of Alfonso Ribeiro's character, Dr. Max Stanton. Previously, she played Ribeiro's love interest twice on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Besides sitcoms, Voorhies also appeared in movies and direct-to-video films. In 2001, Voorhies played a major role in the film How High as Lauren, a Harvard student. She was involved in a 1990 movie adaptation of the book The Black Man's Guide to Understanding Black Women[11] and played Ana Smith in the 2008 movie The Next Hit. Although she only has two acting credits since 2008, and none since 2012, Voorhies' representatives cited a busy work schedule when she did not appear in a SBTB-based mini-reunion sketch on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" alongside Gosselaar, Lopez, Thiessen, and Dennis Haskins in 2015. Voorhies publicly stated in 2020 that she was "hurt" that she was not invited to participate in the Saved by the Bell sequel series on Peacock.[12][13] Later that year, however, NBC announced that Voorhies would in fact reprise her role as Lisa Turtle for the new show.[14]
    Music [ edit ] Voorhies has appeared in several music videos. She plays Kenny Lattimore's love interest in his debut video "Never Too Busy", from his 1996 self-titled debut album. In Boyz II Men's music video "On Bended Knee", she plays Wanya's girlfriend. She is featured in Montell Jordan's "Somethin' for the Honeyz" and in Dru Hill's "These Are the Times". In 1994, Voorhies was in a group originally called the X-Girls (now known as Geneva) with Stacee and Yashi Brown (the daughters of singer and oldest Jackson family sibling, Rebbie Jackson). Voorhies founded and was the lead singer in Third Degree, an alternative band.[citation needed ]
    Writing [ edit ] Over 2010 and 2011, Voorhies self-published three books she authored: Reciprocity, Trek of the Cheshire, and A True Light.[15][16][17][18]
    Personal life [ edit ] Voorhies dated her Saved by the Bell co-star Mark-Paul Gosselaar for three years[19] during the show's run. Voorhies was engaged to actor Martin Lawrence in 1993 but it was later called off in 1994.[20] Voorhies married Miguel Coleman in 1996. They separated in 2001, and divorced in 2004.[21][22] Voorhies met music engineer Jimmy Green at a networking event in 2014. After a year of dating, Voorhies and Green married on April 30, 2015, at a chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada.[23] Voorhies filed for divorce in October 2015 after six months of marriage.[24]
    Voorhies has schizoaffective disorder.[25][26]
    Dealings with media [ edit ] On May 30, 2006, Voorhies filed a lawsuit against The National Enquirer for libel over an article that included claims published in June 2005 that she had a drug problem.[27] The case was dropped in less than two months.[28]
    Books authored [ edit ] Voorhies, Lark (2010). Reciprocity. New York, New York: iUniverse. ISBN 978-1450200660. Voorhies, Lark (2011). True Light. New York, New York: iUniverse. ISBN 978-1450243544. Voorhies, Lark (2011). Trek of the Cheshire. Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse. ISBN 978-1462025985. Filmography [ edit ] Television [ edit ] Film [ edit ] Awards and nominations [ edit ] [citation needed ]
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    Even his former TV co-star Jimmie ''JJ'' Walker is now calling Bill Cosby ''the O.J. Simpson of the comedy world '' he's Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde.''
    But for decades, Cosby got away with his sick and twisted double life thanks to a high-priced team of Hollywood enablers.
    Here, The National ENQUIRER reveals the men responsible for helping to hide his criminal history.
    THE AGENT: Tom Illius According to the newly revealed court deposition, Cosby testified that he called his William Morris Agency rep, Illius, and asked him to send money to one accuser. He testified Illius didn't ask why, and he wasn't sure whether he asked him to send money to more women. He died at age 83 in 2011.
    THE DOCTOR: Mark Saginor Saginor, 77, is one of Hollywood's best-known ''Dr. Feelgoods.'' While he denied to The ENQUIRER that he ever provided drugs to Cosby, his daughter, Jennifer Saginor, has alleged her father was instrumental in providing drugs at the Playboy Mansion, where Cosby was a regular guest.
    THE PAL: Hugh Hefner In 1974, an ex-Playboy employee claimed Cosby raped her and up to a dozen other Playboy bunnies. Hef, 89, told The ENQUIRER: ''Bill has been a good friend for many years and the mere thought of these allegations is truly saddening. I would never tolerate this kind of behavior, regardless of who was involved.''
    THE FLUNKIE: Frank Scotti Former NBC exec Scotti, 91, said Cosby engaged him to deliver monthly payments to at least eight women in 1989 and 1990. Scotti claimed he has copies of money orders in his name. ''These reports are beyond our knowledge or comprehension,'' said ''Cosby Show'' producers Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner.
    THE PUBLICIST: David Brokaw Publicists earn their pay by speaking for their clients, and Cosby's longtime mouthpiece Brokaw, 65, regularly denied Cosby did anything wrong. Recently he has served him by issuing ''no comment'' statements to almost every new accusation. Brokaw is now Cosby's only rep outside of his legal team.
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    American media conglomerate
    Emmis Communications is an American media conglomerate based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Emmis, based on the Hebrew word for Truth, Emet[1] was founded by Jeff Smulyan in 1980. Emmis has owned many radio stations, including KPWR and WQHT, which have notoriety for their Hip Hop Rhythmic format as well as WFAN, which was the world's first 24-hour sports talk radio station. In addition to radio, Emmis has invested in TV, publishing, and mobile operations around the United States.
    History [ edit ] 1980s [ edit ] In 1980, Emmis Broadcasting founder Jeffrey Smulyan purchased his first radio station, WSVL-FM Shelbyville, Indiana. In July 1981, Smulyan changed the format from country music to adult contemporary and renamed the station WENS and later to WLHK.
    In 1982, Emmis acquired WLOL in Minneapolis, MN and quickly became a top contender for ratings.[2]
    Around 1984, the company bought Magic 106 in Los Angeles, California; at the time, L.A. Lakers player "Magic" Johnson was an early spokesperson for the station. Emmis also bought KSHE in St. Louis in the same year.
    In early 1986, Emmis changed Magic 106, which focused on traditional top 40 rock, to Power 106 KPWR, which would focus on dance, top40, and shock-jock talk.[3]
    In 1987, Emmis made a series of purchases including WQHT, WYNY, and WNBC in New York, WKZX-FM in Chicago, WJIB in Boston, WKUU and KXXX in San Francisco, and KKHT-FM in Houston. They also acquired WAVA-FM in Washington, D.C. from the Doubleday Broadcasting Company. Both KPWR and WQHT would pioneer the urban contemporary rhythmic format.[citation needed ] Emmis transformed WHN into the world's first all-sports radio station, WFAN.[citation needed ]
    In 1988, Emmis entered the world of publishing. Emmis purchased Indianapolis Monthly and added WKQX in Chicago to its radio portfolio. Also, Emmis acquired five NBC radio stations in 1988.[4]
    Chairman and CEO Jeff Smulyan purchased the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball team in 1989.[5]
    1990s [ edit ] Emmis kicked off the 1990s by selling KKHT-FM in Houston to Nationwide Communications in May 1990.[citation needed ]
    In 1991, Emmis sold two more stations: WLOL to Minnesota Public Radio[6] and KXXX, San Francisco, to Alliance Broadcasting. Also in 1991, KMGG became KPWR, "Power 106" and became the first rhythmic contemporary-focused top 40 formatted outlet.[7][8]
    In 1992, Emmis sold WFAN, New York, to Infinity for $70M,[9] which was one of the highest prices ever paid for an AM radio station. Emmis also sold WAVA-FM, Washington D.C., to Salem Broadcasting[10] and WJIB, Boston, to Greater Media.[11] In the same year, Jeff Smulyan sold the Seattle Mariners to Nintendo.[12]
    Emmis grew its publishing portfolio by adding Atlanta Magazine in 1993.[13] In the same year, Emmis launched its second hip hop station in America, Hot 97.[14] Emmis' Q101 in Chicago moved into an Alternative Rock Format.[citation needed ]
    In 1994, the company purchased WIBC (now WFNI) and WKLR (now WIBC (FM)) in Indianapolis from the Horizon Broadcast Corporation and WRKS in New York City from the Summit Communications Group. WKLR was changed from an oldies format to a classic hits format with the call letters of WNAP-FM in September 1994.[15] Emmis became a public company, EMMS on NASDAQ, with an IPO on March 4, 1994.[16]
    The following year, 1995, WQHT and KPWR were among the top rated radio station in each of their markets.[17] This resulted in a record-breaking accomplishment where Emmis was the first company to own top rated radio stations in the top 2 markets.[17] Later in 1996, WHHH (formerly WTLC-AM/FM) became top rated for Urban Adult Contemporary.[18]
    Emmis entered the world of international radio in 1997 when the company was awarded a license to operate in Hungary, Slger Radio, which debuted #1 nationwide and remained the country's most popular national radio station until the Hungarian government revoked the license in 2009.[19] Emmis added Cincinnati Magazine to its publishing group, as well as KIHT-FM and KPNT-FM in St. Louis to its rock collection.
    In 1998, Emmis Broadcasting changed its name to Emmis Communications[20] and moved into its current headquarters on Monument Circle in Indianapolis.[21] Emmis acquired a lot of media in the same year including Texas Monthly,[22] WRXP in New York, WTHI and WWVR in Terre Haute, and six television stations in Honolulu, New Orleans, Green Bay, and Mobile, Alabama, from SF Broadcasting and in Terre Haute, Indiana, and Ft. Myers, Florida, from Wabash Valley Broadcasting[23] RadioNow was launched in Indianapolis as a Top 40 format.
    To round out the century, Emmis purchased Country Sampler Magazine in 1999[24] and Liberty Media purchased 2.7 million shares of Emmis for approximately $150M.[25]
    2000s [ edit ] In 2005, Emmis changed the format of its first radio station from its long-term adult contemporary format to country, and the call letters were changed from WENS to WLHK. Emmis was also named one of Fortune ' s 100 Best Companies to Work For.[citation needed ] In March of that year, Emmis Communications and 98.7 KISS-FM, New York, celebrated Women's History Month by introducing their first annual salute to Phenomenal Women (also referred to as the Phenomenal Woman Awards).[26]
    n 2006, Emmis flipped KZLA Los Angeles to Adult Rhythmic Contemporary as "KMVN, Movin' 93.9". The move gave Emmis a companion station to complement KPWR. However, on April 15, 2009, KMVN switched to Spanish-language programming, KXOS, under a seven-year Local Marketing Agreement with Grupo Radio Centro of Mexico City.[27]
    On June 9, 2009, Emmis announced it had formed a strategic alliance with StreamTheWorld, the radio industry's streaming technology and services company, to put all Emmis radio stations on a new streaming platform.[28]
    2010s [ edit ] On January 12, 2011, the share price of Emmis stock surged 42% as insiders speculated that the company could be close to selling off several of its radio stations. In its January, 2011 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company reported that it had the necessary cash to survive through February, 2011. "Absent asset sales, which the company is actively pursuing," Emmis attorneys stated in the regulatory filing, "the company believes it is unlikely it will be able to maintain compliance with the financial covenants after Sept. 1, 2011".[29]
    On August 16, 2013, Emmis launched the NextRadio smartphone app on HTC One Android phones from Sprint.[30][31] A deal struck between the radio industry and Sprint facilitated the launch[32] which subsequently enabled FM radio support for the app on additional Android devices available on the Sprint wireless network.[33]
    On October 12, 2016, Emmis announced that it would sell its radio stations in the Terre Haute cluster to Midwest Communications and DLC Media. Midwest Communications would acquire WTHI-FM and the intellectual property of WWVR while DLC Media would acquire WFNF, WFNB and the broadcast license for WWVR. Midwest Communications would also sell WDKE to DLC Media to stay under FCC ownership limits. The sale was consummated on January 27, 2017.[34][35][36]
    On March 1, 2017, Emmis announced it had sold four of its magazines (Atlanta, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and Orange Coast) to Hour Media Group, LLC for $6.5 million. It also sold Texas Monthly to Genesis Park, LP for $25 million.[37]
    On May 9, 2017, Emmis announced that it ould sell KPWR to The Meruelo Group for $82.75 million. The announcement came after Emmis made a deal in April with its lenders to seek $80 million worth of divestments by January 2018 to amend its credit agreement. The Meruelo Group began operating the station under an LMA on July 1, 2017, until the sale was consummated on August 1, 2017.[38][39][40]
    On January 30, 2018, Emmis announced it would leave the St. Louis market, selling KSHE and KPNT to Hubbard Broadcasting, and KFTK and KNOU to Entercom.[41]
    In June 2019, Emmis announced that it would sell its controlling stake in its Austin stations to its minority partner Sinclair Telecable Inc. (d/b/a Sinclair Communications, unrelated to Sinclair Broadcast Group).[42]
    On July 1, 2019, Emmis announced that it would sell its New York City stations WQHT and WBLS to Mediaco Holding'--an affiliate of Standard General'--for $91.5 million, a $5 million promissory note, and a 23.72% stake in the new company. Mediaco Holding will be a public company, and Emmis will continue to manage the stations.[43] The sale was completed November 27, 2019.[44]
    On April 24, 2020, Emmis announced that it would voluntarily delist from the Nasdaq, citing cost-saving concerns.[45]
    Company portfolio [ edit ] Emmis Interactive, Inc. [ edit ] Current clients include: Astral Media, Corus Entertainment, Emmis Radio, Greater Media, Lincoln Financial Media, and Renda Broadcasting,
    Emmis Interactive was sold to Marketron in October 2012.[46][47]
    Magazines [ edit ] Indianapolis MonthlyFormer Emmis-owned magazines [ edit ] AtlantaCincinnatiLos AngelesOrange CoastTexas Monthly [ edit ] The NextRadio smartphone app was developed by Emmis, with support from the National Association of Broadcasters, to take advantage of mobile devices with activated internal FM receivers.[48] NextRadio allows users of select FM-enabled smartphones to listen to live broadcast FM radio while receiving supplemental data such as album art, program information, and metadata over the internet.[49][50] Launched in August 2013 through a radio industry agreement with Sprint Corporation,[51] the app was preloaded on select devices and was also available for download in the Google Play Store.[52]
    The NextRadio app is powered by TagStation, an Emmis-developed cloud data service for enhanced radio broadcasting.[53][54] TagStation allows broadcasters a web-based platform for managing supplemental content for delivery to the NextRadio app,[55] HD Radio receivers,[56] and connected car dashboards.[57]
    During the quarter ended November 30, 2018, Emmis decided to dramatically reduce the scale of operations in TagStation, LLC and NextRadio, LLC. In connection with this decision, the company recognized $1.2 million of severance related to the termination of 35 employees.[58] Emmis Chairman and CEO Jeff Smulyan said on the company's second quarter earnings call that Emmis was ''unwilling and unable'' to continue funding the NextRadio and TagStation businesses.[59]
    Radio [ edit ] Currently owned stations '' Europe [ edit ] Rdio Expres in SlovakiaSlger Rdi" in Hungary. Emmis Communications' Hungarian national radio station, Slger, was taken off the air on November 18, 2009 because of the expiration of its broadcasting license. The license were given to another radio station, but Emmis went to court and won the trial on July 14, 2010.[citation needed ] Currently owned stations '' United States [ edit ] Operated by ESPN Radio/LMA by the Walt Disney Company under a local marketing agreementFormer Emmis-owned radio stations [ edit ] Now owned by The Meruelo GroupLos Angeles, California-KPWR[61]Sold to Merlin MediaChicago-WKQX;Q101 Chicago, the intellectual property of the station during Emmis's ownership, operated online by Broadcast Barter Radio Networks. WKQX currently owned by Cumulus Media.WLUP-FM-Sold with WKQX; now owned by Educational Media Foundation as of 2018.Now owned by EntercomNew York City '' WFAN-FM '' managed by Emmis from 1996 to 2001. Owned by Emmis 2001''2011. Was WQCD CD 101.9 playing Smooth Jazz/AC from August 1988 to February 2008. Became Modern Rock/Triple A hybrid WRXP in 2008. Sold to Merlin in 2011 '' flipped to All News WEMP in July. Reverted to Rock as WRXP in the Summer of 2012. Sold To CBS and flipped to Sports WFAN-FM simulcasting WFAN November 2012WHN/WFAN '' 1986''1988 '' bought the station as WHN which played Country and Southern Pop daytime and sports at night. Emmis expanded the Sports format to full-time on July 1, 1987 and dropped the WHN calls in favor of WFAN. Sold only the station license and transmitter (excluding building, contents, and intellectual WFAN Unit) to Spanish Broadcasting System to buy the 660 AM WNBC license and transmitter (and again excluding the WNBC Intellectual unit, building space, and contents such as equipment) to move the intellectual WFAN unit there. In October 1988 when WFAN's Unit moved to 660, 1050 took a Spanish AC format and became WUKQ. SBS swapped the station to Jewish Forward for 97.9 FM. The Spanish AC format went to 97.9 FM as WSKQ and the Jewish/Ethnic/Brokered programming from the WEVD unit moved to AM 1050 making that station WEVD. WEVD became an affiliate of ESPN Radio in 2001 and sold to ABC soon after becoming WEPN. When the ESPN Radio format went to 98.7 as WEPN-FM, AM 1050 took the Spanish feed of ESPN radio as WEPN.WFAN '' 1988''1992 '' The WFAN All Sports unit moved from 1050 to 660 October 1988. Neither Emmis or CBS claim history of AM 660 prior to 1988 when the station was WNBC playing a mix of talk, AC, Sports, and oldies (Was Hot AC and Top 40 in the late 1970s until about 1985) while Emmis does claim 1050's history. Emmis kept Imus In The Morning but otherwise 660 was WFAN's Intellectual unit. Emmis sold WFAN to Infinity Radio in 1992 which in a corporate deal became owned by CBS in 1997.St. Louis '' KNOU '' 96.3St. Louis '' KFTK-FM '' 97.1Now owned by Midwest CommunicationsTerre Haute, Indiana WTHI-FM '' 99.9Now owned by DLC MediaTerre Haute, Indiana WFNB '' 92.7Terre Haute, Indiana WFNF '' 1130Terre Haute, Indiana WWVR '' 105.5Now owned by Salem Media GroupWashington, D.C. '' WAVA-FM 105.1Washington, D.C. '' WAVA-AM 780Now owned by Hubbard BroadcastingSt. Louis '' KSHE '' 94.7St. Louis '' KPNT '' 105.7Sold to former minority shareholder Sinclair Telecable (unrelated to television broadcaster Sinclair Broadcast Group)Austin - KLBJ-AM - 590Austin - KLBJ-FM - 93.7Austin - KBPA-FM - 103.5Austin - KLZT-FM - 107.1Austin - KROX-FM - 101.5Austin - KGSR-FM - 93.3WorldBand Media HD Radio deal [ edit ] Emmis announced on September 9, 2008 that it had teamed up with digital radio network WorldBand Media and would be using the "HD-3" subchannels to produce programming for the South Asian communities in Chicago (on WLUP), Los Angeles (on KPWR), and New York (on WQHT), and would include a combination of local and international content that should be available by mid-October 2008.[62]
    Television [ edit ] In May 2005, Emmis announced its intent to sell some or all of the 16 television stations they owned at the time. In August 2005, the company announced the sale of nine television stations, as well as four more in October, an additional station in May 2006, another station in February 2007, and its final station in May 2008. Emmis no longer owns any television stations.[63]
    Former Emmis-owned television stations [ edit ] Stations are arranged alphabetically by state and by city of license.
    Notes:
    (##) '' Indicates a station owned by Silver King Broadcasting prior to its acquisition by Emmis in 1998.(¤¤) '' Indicates a station owned by Lee Enterprises prior to its acquisition by Emmis in 2000.City of license / MarketStationChannelTV (RF)Years ownedCurrent ownership statusMobile - Gulf Shores, AlabamaWALA-TV ##10 (9)1998''2005Fox affiliate owned by Meredith Corporation (sale to Gray Television pending) WBPG55 (25)2003''2006The CW affiliate, WFNA, owned by Nexstar Media GroupTucson, ArizonaKGUN ¤¤9 (9)2000''2005ABC affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps CompanyCape Coral - Fort Myers - Naples, FloridaWFTX-TV36 (35)1998''2005Fox affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps CompanyClermont - Orlando -Daytona Beach, FloridaWKCF18 (17)1998''2006The CW affiliate owned by Hearst TelevisionHonoluluKHON-TV ##2 (8)1998''2006Fox affiliate owned by Nexstar Media GroupKGMB ¤¤9 ( now 5 (23))2000''2007CBS affiliate owned by Gray TelevisionTerre Haute, IndianaWTHI-TV10 (10)1998''2005CBS affiliate owned by Allen Media BroadcastingTopeka, KansasKSNT ¤¤27 (27)2000''2006NBC affiliate owned by Nexstar Media GroupWichita - Hutchinson, KansasKSNW ¤¤3 (45)2000''2006NBC affiliate owned by Nexstar Media GroupGreat Bend, KansasKSNC ¤¤ (Satellite of KSNW) 2 (22)2000''2006NBC affiliate owned by Nexstar Media GroupGarden City, KansasKSNG ¤¤ (Satellite of KSNW) 11 (11)2000''2006NBC affiliate owned by Nexstar Media GroupMcCook, NebraskaKSNK ¤¤ (Satellite of KSNW) 8 (12)2000''2006NBC affiliate owned by Nexstar Media GroupNew Orleans, LouisianaWVUE-DT ##8 (29)1998''2008Fox affiliate owned by Gray TelevisionGrand Rapids - Battle Creek - Kalamazoo, MIWXMI17 (19)1998 1Fox affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps CompanyOmaha, Nebraska - Council Bluffs, IowaKMTV ¤¤3 (45)2000''2007 2CBS affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps CompanyManchester, New HampshireWMUR-TV9 (9)2000''2001 3ABC affiliate owned by Hearst TelevisionAlbuquerque - Santa Fe, New MexicoKRQE ¤¤13 (13)2000''2005CBS affiliate owned by Nexstar Media GroupPortland, OregonKOIN ¤¤6 (40)2000''2006CBS affiliate owned by Nexstar Media GroupTacoma - Seattle, WashingtonKTZZ22 (25)1998 1MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated (O&O), KZJOHuntington - Charleston, West VirginiaWSAZ-TV ¤¤3 (23)2000''2005NBC affiliate owned by Gray TelevisionGreen Bay, WisconsinWLUK-TV ##11 (11)1998''2005Fox affiliate owned by Sinclair Broadcast GroupLegend:
    1 Was bought by Emmis, but it was later swapped to Tribune Broadcasting for Tribune's WQCD New York City.2 In 2005, Journal operated KMTV under a local marketing agreement, until it was acquired outright in 2007.3 Was swapped in 2001 for Hearst-Argyle's KKLT, KMVP and KTAR-AM Phoenix; all three of which were subsequently sold to Bonneville International.Board of directors [ edit ] Jeff Smulyan '' Chairman of the Board, President and CEO; former owner of Major League Baseball's Seattle MarinersSusan Bayh '' Visiting Professor, Butler UniversityGary Kaseff '' Executive Vice President and General CounselRichard Leventhal '' President & Majority Owner of LMCS, LLC.Peter Lund '' Media Consultant and former President & CEO of CBS Television.Greg Nathanson '' former Television Division PresidentLawrence Sorrel '' Tailwind Capital PartnersPatrick Walsh '' Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial OfficerSee also [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ "Hebrew Word of the Week - Emet". www.hebrew4christians.com . 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  Hannibal Buress - Wikipedia
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    American comedian
    Hannibal Buress
    Buress in July 2019
    BornHannibal Amir Buress
    ( 1983-02-04 ) February 4, 1983 (age 38) OccupationComedianactorwriterproducerYears active2002''presentComedy careerMedium Stand-up comedyfilmtelevisionGenresSubject(s)African-American cultureAmerican politicscurrent eventseveryday lifehuman sexualitypopular culturerace relationsracismfoodreligionself-deprecationThe streetsWebsite hannibalburess.com Hannibal Amir Buress ( BURR -iss, born February 4, 1983) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He started performing comedy in 2002 while attending Southern Illinois University. He has starred on Adult Swim's The Eric Andre Show since 2012, and was featured on Comedy Central's Broad City from 2014 to 2019.
    Early life [ edit ] Hannibal Amir Buress[1] was born in Chicago, Illinois,[2] on February 4, 1983,[3] the son of teacher Margaret and John Buress, a Union Pacific Railroad employee.[4] He was raised in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago. He was named after Carthaginian general Hannibal,[5] and has told stories in his stand-up act about his name causing women to turn him down because of its association with fictional cannibal Hannibal Lecter. After attending Steinmetz College Prep, he attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale for four years but did not graduate. While there he became friends with hip hop artist Open Mike Eagle, his RA at the time.[6][7]
    Career [ edit ] Buress performing in October 2007
    Buress performing in October 2009
    Buress began his stand-up career at an open mic in 2002. He has been featured in The Awkward Comedy Show special on Comedy Central, and alongside comics Baron Vaughn, Eric Andr(C), Marina Franklin, and Victor Varnado, and on the FX sitcom Louie. Beginning in 2012, he has co-starred as Eric Andr(C)'s sidekick on The Eric Andre Show.[8] In July 2010, Buress made Variety magazine's "Ten Comics to Watch in 2010" list.[9]
    His first stand-up comedy album My Name is Hannibal was released on July 27, 2010.
    Buress was a writer on Saturday Night Live from 2009 to 2010.[10] He left with only one of his sketches having aired.[11] In September 2010, he began writing for the fifth season of the NBC comedy series 30 Rock.[12] He left after six months,[11] although he continued to portray various characters on the show for 9 episodes from 2010 to 2012 such as "Gus", "Homeless Guy" and "Bum".[13][14]
    He released his second album, Animal Furnace, in 2012, which also aired as a special on Comedy Central. The album received positive reviews.[15]
    His stand-up comedy has been featured on Comedy Central programs such as Live at Gotham and John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show. He has also performed on several late night talkshows such as The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Lopez Tonight, Russell Howard's Good News, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, and Conan. Additionally, he performed a set at the 2012 Secret Policeman's Ball at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.[16]
    An hourlong Comedy Central show, Hannibal Buress Live from Chicago, aired on March 29, 2014.[11]
    He used to host a weekly stand-up comedy show at The Knitting Factory on Sunday evenings in Brooklyn, New York.[17] In October 2016, Buress began a podcast called Handsome Rambler.[18]
    Buress played Coach Wilson in the 2017 Marvel movie Spider-Man: Homecoming. Buress paid a lookalike who didn't look like him to attend the film's premiere in his place, because he was busy with the film Tag. He got in contact with the lookalike when he did a video for the MTV Movie Awards.[19][7]
    On February 8, 2020, he appeared on The Bob Ross Challenge, painting for the first time, coming up with the art nickname 7.[20]
    He had a comedy special for Cornell University via Zoom on April 17 at 9 pm exclusive to the students.[21]
    On April 30, 2020, he released a single called Judge Judy, paying homage to the series of the same name after it was announced that the show would end in 2021.[22]
    In 2020, Chelsea Peretti did a collaboration with Buress along with other musicians on the album, which theme is mainly about coffee, called Foam and Flotsam. The EP came out on April 21, 2020, and the full album will release soon.[23]
    Bill Cosby routine [ edit ] On October 16, 2014, at the Philadelphia club The Trocadero, Buress was recorded doing an extended routine about existing rape allegations against comedian Bill Cosby.[24] Buress addressed Cosby's legacy of "talk[ing] down" to young black men about their style of dress and lifestyle. Buress criticized the actor's public moralizing by saying, "Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby, so that kind of brings you down a couple notches." When the audience responded to Buress's accusation with incredulity (Philadelphia being Cosby's home town), he encouraged everyone to search for "Bill Cosby rape" on Google when they got home.[25]
    Buress had been doing the same Cosby routine for the previous six months with little response,[26] but the October performance went viral after being posted on Philadelphia magazine's website.[27][28] A media firestorm ensued, with numerous publications tackling the question of how Cosby had managed to maintain, as Buress called it in his set, a "Teflon image" despite more than a decade of public sexual abuse accusations.[29][30][31][32]
    Comedian Eddie Murphy later referenced Buress's role in the allegations coming to light while impersonating Cosby during his 2015 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor acceptance speech, mockingly playing Cosby as threatening Buress's life.[33]
    Personal life [ edit ] Buress is an atheist.[34][35] After living in New York City, he moved back to his hometown of Chicago in 2017 and settled in its Wicker Park neighborhood. Buress is a fan of the Chicago White Sox.[36]
    In December 2017, Buress was arrested in Miami for disorderly intoxication.[37] Bystander footage of the arrest showed Buress mocking the police officers and demanding to know why he was being arrested.[37] The arrest report revealed that Buress was detained because he approached the police officers and would not stop asking them to call an Uber for him.[38] Buress later stated, "I asked the [officer] to call me an Uber, and he said, 'No.' He told me to leave the street. I go into this bar to get a phone charger for an Uber. He follows me into the bar, and told me I'm too drunk to go inside. [...] 'If I can't be on the street, where do you want me to be?' I ask him. I was in a state of trying to get home. [...] I don't really believe I was at fault."[39] The case was later dismissed. The Miami New Times reported that the arresting officer has an alleged history of violence and was previously disciplined by internal affairs for an alcohol-fueled assault. The report was included by Buress in a televised stand-up routine he did at the Olympia Theater in Miami, in August 2019.[40][41]
    Buress stated in a September 2018 interview that he had "quit drinking" after a number of "different situations [happened] that were alcohol fuelled," such as "arguments" stating that the ways he had handled things "were not smooth, just messy shit."[42]
    Buress has been called a "landlord".[43][44] Buress was later attacked on Twitter for behavior around his rental property. He attributed the criticism he received to fallout over comments he made on Bernie Sanders's age. Buress claimed that subsequent developments were jokes on his part. However, Buress also said a housing charity no longer wanted his $4,000 donation due to his perceived landlord advocacy.[45]
    Filmography [ edit ] Film [ edit ] Television [ edit ] Web series [ edit ] Video games [ edit ] Discography [ edit ] Albums/Comedy Specials [ edit ] My Name is Hannibal (2010)Animal Furnace (2012)Live from Chicago (2014)Comedy Camisado (2016)Hannibal Takes Edinburgh (2016)Miami Nights (2020)Guest appearances [ edit ] Singles [ edit ] Judge Judy (2020)[22]Awards and nominations [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ BigBoyTV (August 30, 2016), Hannibal Buress on "The Eric Andre Show", Bill Cosby, And More! (Full Interview) | BigBoyTV , retrieved June 25, 2018 ^ Fishman, Elly. "Is Hannibal Buress the Funniest Man Alive?". Chicago Magazine. Chicago Tribune Media Group . Retrieved September 18, 2014 . ^ Raghav Mehta (February 4, 2013). "Interview: Hannibal Buress". vita.mn. Archived from the original on February 28, 2014. ^ "Is Hannibal Buress the Funniest Man Alive?". Chicago magazine . Retrieved June 25, 2018 . ^ "Comedian Hannibal Buress' star is rising". Chicago Tribune . 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Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on October 14, 2013 . Retrieved November 16, 2014 . ^ Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (2014). "Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Series '' 2010". 62nd Primetime Emmys Nominees and Winners. Emmys.com. Archived from the original on November 16, 2014 . Retrieved November 16, 2014 . ^ Writers Guild of America (December 7, 2011). "2012 Writers Guild Awards Television, News, Radio, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced". Writers Guild of America Awards 2012. Wga.org. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014 . Retrieved November 16, 2014 . ^ Matheson, Whitney (May 9, 2012). "Are you a Hannibal Buress fan yet?". USA Today. Archived from the original on June 26, 2012 . Retrieved November 20, 2014 . ^ Fox, Jesse David (May 17, 2012). "Talking with Hannibal Buress About His Hour Special, 'The Eric Andre Show', and Enjoying the Moment". Splitsider. Archived from the original on January 27, 2013 . Retrieved November 20, 2014 . ^ "Hannibal Buress". Carolines on Broadway. 2014. Archived from the original on December 20, 2013 . Retrieved November 20, 2014 . Further reading [ edit ] NPR Staff (September 12, 2013). "Hannibal Buress and the Comedy of the Unexpected". NPR. External links [ edit ] Official website Hannibal Buress at IMDb
  Why Roman Polanski Thought Bruce Lee Killed Sharon Tate - True Story Behind 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'
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    In 1969, after the brutal killings of five people, including actress Sharon Tate, at a Benedict Canyon home north of Beverly Hills, the police found a pair of horn-rimmed glasses they believed could belong to the killer.
    Roman Polanski was in London when he found out about the murder of Tate, who he was married to at the time. After he returned to the U.S., the crime remained unsolved for months'--and Polanski became obsessed with it. After learning about the glasses at the crime scene, he bought a Vigor lens-measuring gauge, he explains in his memoir Roman by Polanski, which he hoped could help aid in the investigation.
    And he continued to take self-defense classes with his friend, actor and martial artist Bruce Lee, who was charging nearly $1,000 an hour for lessons at that time.
    It was an off-hand comment during one of those sessions which led Polanski to incorrectly believe it could've been Lee who committed the mass murders'--though it was, of course, the followers of Charles Manson who killed Tate and the others that night.
    Lee's relationship with Tate is reexamined in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which comes out Friday. In the film, Lee, who is played by 35-year-old Mike Moh, has a brush with the Manson victims'--but, in this case, truth is stranger than fiction.
    Tate introduced Lee and Polanski in the 1960s. The actress met Lee on the set of The Wrecking Crew, when he taught karate to the cast. She hit it off with Lee, who at that point was just beginning to break into acting, and invited him over to have dinner with her and Polanski, telling her husband, ''You two will get on like a house on fire.''
    A publicity still of Sharon Tate from the 1969 film "The Wrecking Crew." Bettmann Getty Images
    They did get on, and Polanski hired Lee as his personal Kung Fu instructor.
    Not long after the couple formed a friendship with Lee, Tate was mysteriously killed. Lee was living just a couple of valleys away from the home where the mass murders took place in August 1969. Along with Tate, Lee and Tate's friend, celebrity hair stylist Jay Sebring was killed that night. Sebring was one of Lee's closest friends, and the one who helped him break into Hollywood, Lee's biographer, Matthew Polly, told me in an interview this week.
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    In Once Upon a Time, Tarantino shows Lee training with Sebring just hours before the murder takes place. In reality, there was only a rumor that Lee went over to Benedict Canyon the day of the murders, but his biographer says there's no evidence that happened. Lee's widow, Linda Lee, told Polly she has no recollection of Lee going to the house or seeing the victims that day, and the diary in which Lee kept a log of who he was training shows he wasn't training Sebring during that time, either.
    What really happened sounds even more far-fetched, though.
    Several months after the murders, Lee mentioned to Polanski during a Kung Fu lesson that he'd recently misplaced his glasses. Polanski immediately recalled the glasses found near Tate's body at the crime scene.
    Polanski and Tate at their wedding. Getty Images
    "I never liked your old pair anyway," Polanski told Lee, according to Polly. "After class, why don't I drive you to my optician's and buy you a new frame as a gift."
    "Bruce was the only person [Polanski] knew personally who had the physical skills to hurt a bunch of people at once," Polly tells me. "Bruce was the toughest guy he knew, and Bruce knew weapons."
    When Lee told the optician his prescription, Polanski realized his suspicion was unfounded. He never told Lee he suspected him. And he never publicly admitted it until he recounted the story in his memoir, which came out in 1985, more than a decade after Lee's death.
    Lee's widow, Linda, was amused by the absurd accusation when she read about it in Polanski's book, according to Polly, who interviewed her for Bruce Lee: A Life.
    Polly says Tarantino's manager requested a copy of his book, which includes the story about Polanski's suspicion. Moh, the actor playing Lee, read the biography, as well. But it's clear from the film that Tarantino took artistic license with the story.
    I reached out to Lee's family to see what they think about Lee's appearance in Tarantino's new film, but they didn't return my request to comment. His daughter Shannon Lee, however, told Deadline earlier this year when the cast was announced, ''With Tarantino's film, to not have been included in any kind of way, when I know that he reached out to other people but did not reach out to me, there's a level of annoyance '-- and there's part of me that says this is not worth my time and my energy.
    "Let's just see how the universe deals with this one.''
    Tarantino told Deadline he didn't contact Polanski before writing the film, either. But Polanski reached out through a friend.
    "After it was finished, he got wind of it and he reached out through a mutual friend. That friend called me and said, so what's up with this? He said that Roman wasn't mad. He didn't call up irate or anything. He was just curious. What is this?" Tarantino said. "So what I did was'...Roman's obviously stuck in Europe. I had the friend come over and read the script. He came to my house. He read the script simply so he could call Roman up and tell him the idea and what's in it. And basically that he didn't have anything to worry about."
    It was months before Charles Manson was connected to the murders. Getty Images
    Polanski is "stuck in Europe" because, in 1977, a grand jury indicted Polanski on six felony charges, including rape, furnishing a controlled substance to a minor and sodomy. He later pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, then fled the United States on the eve of his sentencing. He's remained in Europe ever since.
    Though he wasn't at the house that day, as the film portrays, Lee was deeply affected by the deaths of Tate and Sebring.
    "When he wrote the screenplay The Silent Flute, it had a level of violence in it which was extreme even for that era. You could feel the murders behind it influencing it," Polly says. "And when he moved to Hong Kong and became super famous himself, everyone noted that he seemed paranoid. His children never left the house without a minder, and he went around with security guards, which was unusual at that time.
    "I think that he forever after had an extra level of fear associated with being famous."
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    Species of beetle
    The Spanish fly (Lytta vesicatoria) is an emerald-green beetle in the blister beetle family (Meloidae). It and other such species were used in preparations offered by traditional apothecaries, often referred to as Cantharides or Spanish fly. The insect is the source of the terpenoid cantharidin, a toxic blistering agent once used as an aphrodisiac.
    L. vesicatoria is sometimes called Cantharis vesicatoria,[1] although the genus Cantharis is in an unrelated family, Cantharidae, the soldier beetles.[2]
    Description and etymology [ edit ] Collecting cantharides, 19th century.
    Lytta vesicatoria is a slender, soft-bodied metallic and iridescent golden-green insect, one of the blister beetles. It is approximately 5 mm (0.20 in) wide by 20 mm (0.79 in) long.[3][4][5][6]
    The generic and specific names derive from the Greek Î>>ÏÏÏÎ± (lytta) for martial rage, raging madness, Bacchic frenzy, or rabies,[7][8] and Latin vesica for blister.[9]
    Range and habitat [ edit ] The Spanish fly is a mainly southern European species[10][11] although its range of habitats is more completely described as being "throughout southern Europe and eastward to Central Asia and Siberia,"[3] alternatively as being throughout Europe, and parts of northern and southern Asia (excluding China).[12] It occurs locally in southern Great Britain[13] and Poland.[14]
    Adult beetles primarily feed on leaves of ash, lilac, amur privet, honey suckle and white willow tree while occasionally being found on plum, rose, and elm.[3][15]
    Life cycle [ edit ] The defensive chemical cantharidin, for which the beetle is known, is produced only by males; females obtain it from males during mating, as the spermatophore contains some. This may be a nuptial gift, increasing the value of mating to the female, and thus increasing the male's reproductive fitness.[16]
    The female lays her fertilised eggs on the ground, near the nest of a ground-nesting solitary bee. The larvae are very active as soon as they hatch. They climb a flowering plant and await the arrival of a solitary bee. They hook themselves on to the bee using the three claws on their legs that give the first instar larvae their name, triungulins (from Latin tri, three, and ungulus, claw). The bee carries the larvae back to its nest, where they feed on bee larvae and the bees' food supplies. The larvae are thus somewhere between predators and parasites. The active larvae moult into very different, more typically scarabaeoid larvae for the remaining two or more instars, in a development type called hypermetamorphosis. The adults emerge from the bees' nest and fly to the woody plants on which they feed.[17][3]
    Cantharidin [ edit ] Cantharidin, the principal active component in preparations of Spanish fly, was first isolated and named in 1810 by the French chemist Pierre Robiquet, who demonstrated that it was the principal agent responsible for the aggressively blistering properties of this insect's egg coating. It was asserted at that time that it was as toxic as the most violent poisons then known, such as strychnine.[18]
    The active agent has been estimated present at about 0.2''0.7 mg per beetle, males producing significantly more than females. The beetle secretes the agent orally, and exudes it from its joints as a milky fluid. The potency of the insect species as a vesicant has been known since antiquity and the activity has been used in various ways. This has led to its small-scale commercial preparation and sale, in a powdered form known as cantharides (from the plural of Greek ÎºÎ±Î½Î¸Î±ÏÎ¯Ï‚, Kantharis, beetle), obtained from dried and ground beetles. The crushed powder is of yellow-brown to brown-olive color with iridescent reflections, is of disagreeable scent, and is bitter to taste. Cantharidin, the active agent, is a terpenoid, and is produced by some other insects, such as Epicauta immaculata.[4][1][19]
    Cantharidin is dangerously toxic, inhibiting the enzyme phosphatase 2A. It causes irritation, blistering, bleeding and discomfort. These effects can escalate to erosion and bleeding of mucosa in each system, sometimes followed by severe gastro-intestinal bleeding and acute tubular necrosis and glomerular destruction, resulting in gastro-intestinal and renal dysfunction, by organ failure, and death.[19][20][21][22][23][24]
    Preparations from L. vesicatoria and its active agent have been implicated in both inadvertent[19] and intentional poisonings.[19] Froberg notes a 1954 manslaughter case where cantharidin was administered in a coconut-flavoured candy as an intended aphrodisiac, resulting in illness and eventual death of two women (agent identified postmortem), and in facial blistering and criminal conviction of the perpetrator.[19]
    Culinary uses [ edit ] In Morocco and other parts of North Africa, spice blends known as ras el hanout sometimes included as a minor ingredient "green metallic beetles", inferred to be cantharides from L. vesicatoria, although sale of this in Moroccan spice markets was banned in the 1990s.[25] Dawamesk, a spread or jam made in North Africa and containing hashish, almond paste, pistachio nuts, sugar, orange or tamarind peel, cloves, and other various spices, occasionally included cantharides.[26]
    Other uses [ edit ] In ancient China, the beetles were mixed with human excrement, arsenic, and wolfsbane to make the world's first recorded stink bomb.[27]
    Noteworthy cases [ edit ] The Venezuelan leader Sim"n Bol­var may have been accidentally poisoned by application of Spanish fly.[28]
    Arthur Kendrick Ford was convicted and given a multiyear prison sentence in 1954 for the unintended deaths of two women surreptitiously given candies laced with cantharidin, which were intended to act as an aphrodisiac.[19]
    George Washington is thought to have been treated for epiglottitis (his cause of death)[29] with Spanish fly.
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  Excerpts From Bill Cosby's Deposition in 2005 and 2006 - The New York Times
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    Views on Women and SexAfter describing what he depicts as a sexual encounter with Andrea Constand, Mr. Cosby explains in part why he viewed it as consensual.
    I walk her out. She does not look angry. She does not say to me, don't ever do that again. She doesn't walk out with an attitude of a huff, because I think that I'm a pretty decent reader of people and their emotions in these romantic sexual things, whatever you want to call them.
    Asked if he ever talked with anyone else about what he described as his physical interaction with Ms. Constand, Mr. Cosby says he never discusses such things.
    I am a man, the only way you will hear about who I had sex with is from the person I had it with.
    Q. Why is that?
    A. When I was a boy it was a thing that girls used to say, please don't tell anybody. But it is something that I've learned as you grow older that they're the first people to go and tell somebody after something has happened.
    Mr. Cosby was asked to talk about his relationship with Beth Ferrier, one of the women who has accused him of drugging her. Ms. Ferrier has said that in the mid-1980s, after a brief consensual affair with the entertainer had ended, she met him before a performance in Denver, drank some coffee that he gave her, felt woozy and woke up in a car with her clothes a mess and her bra undone.
    Q. What was your relationship with her?
    A. We had sex and we had dinners and sex and rendezvous.
    Q. What are rendezvous?
    A. Rendezvous is when you call somebody and say, do you want to be at such and such and they say yes and you go there.
    Q. Is there sexual contact associated with the rendezvous?
    A. There was with Beth every time.
    Q. Where did these rendezvous occur?
    A. I don't remember.
    Q. Do you know the cities?
    A. Denver for sure.
    Q. Do you know if any of the rendezvous happened in New York City?
    A. I don't remember.
    Q. How did it end with her?
    A. Stopped calling for rendezvous.
    Q. You stopped?
    A. Yes.
    Q. Why?
    A. Just moving on.
    Q. What does that mean?
    A. Don't want to see her anymore.
    After some debate with Mr. Cosby's lawyer, Ms. Troiani continued her questioning:
    Q. You said just moving on. What did you mean by that?
    A. Changing.
    Q. Had you decided to stop having extramarital affairs?
    A. No.
    Later Ms. Troiani asked Mr. Cosby to respond to Ms. Ferrier's account of an earlier time when, after a dinner in Manhattan, she went back to Mr. Cosby's New York City home with several people and stayed behind when the other people left.
    Q. She says that she stayed with you and that you began talking about her career and asking about her father who had died of cancer. Does any of that ring a bell with you?
    A. Yes.
    Q. Do you remember talking about that?
    A. Yes.
    Q. Do you remember what else you talked about?
    A. That's enough.
    Q. Did you ask her those questions because you wanted to have sexual contact with her?
    A. Yes.
    Obtaining DrugsMr. Cosby acknowledges in the deposition that he secured seven prescriptions for Quaaludes in the 1970s over a period of two to three years from a Los Angeles doctor. He says that, while he told the doctor he had a sore back, he imagined that the doctor understood that he was not using them to treat his pain.
    Q. You testified that he knew you were not going to take them. And I'd like to -- explain your answer. How did he know that, or why do you say he knew that?
    A. What was happening at that time was that that was -- Quaaludes happen to be the drug that kids, young people were using to party with and there were times when I wanted to have them just in case.
    Mr. Cosby says he never took the Quaaludes himself because they made him sleepy and because he was using them in his efforts to have sex with women. He also says that, with the exception of one glass of beer, he stopped drinking alcohol when he was 16.
    Q. Why didn't you ever take the Quaaludes?
    A. Because I used them.
    Q. For what?
    A. The same as a person would say have a drink.
    A Testy DefendantThough he shows flashes of jocularity, Mr. Cosby is often testy under questioning, as in one sequence where Ms. Troiani asks him about the account of Therese Serignese, who says she could not have consented to the sex she had with Mr. Cosby one night in Las Vegas because she was incapacitated after taking Quaaludes he had given her. Mr. O'Connor, below, is Patrick O'Connor, Mr. Cosby's lawyer.
    Now, would you agree with me if she's right that this incident of you meeting her when she was 19, then you would be in your late 30s, early 40s at that time?
    MR. O'CONNOR: Well, it's 1976.
    THE WITNESS: I was born in 1937.
    MS. TROIANI: Q. Would you agree with me that would place you around 39, 40?
    A. Do the math.
    In another instance, Ms. Troiani, after some debate with Mr. O'Connor about her line of questioning, asks Mr. Cosby about his state of mind after getting off the telephone with Ms. Serignese years later.
    Q. Now, what do you think about? Do you have a problem answering that question?
    A. I was waiting for you to stop talking.
    Q. Okay. What did you think about?
    A. Am I allowed to think?
    Mr. Cosby at one point acknowledges to Ms. Troiani that his chef met Andrea Constand when she visited Mr. Cosby's Pennsylvania home, and Ms. Troiani proceeds to ask some questions about the chef.
    Q. Have you spoken to him about the accusations that Andrea has made in this case?
    A. Yes.
    Q. When was that?
    A. I don't recall.
    Q. What was the conversation?
    A. My lawyers wanted to talk to him.
    Q. Did you say anything else to him?
    A. No.
    Q. Why did he leave your employ?
    A. That's confidential.
    Q. What do you mean it's confidential?
    A. Look it up in the dictionary. I'm getting a little tired.
    Hiding From His WifeAt several junctures in the deposition, Mr. Cosby describes how he tried to keep his wife, Camille, from finding out about the women he had been pursuing and, by his account, having sex with. In one instance, he describes how he once planned to pay for Ms. Constand's educational expenses, not through a foundation he had established that provides education grants, but by ''our writing a check.''
    Q. And our being who?
    A. The family.
    Q. Would your wife know about that?
    A. That's family. My wife would not know it was because Andrea and I had had sex and that Andrea was now very, very upset and that she decided that she would like to go to school or whatever it is. We can get back on track.
    Q. How would you explain to your wife that you were giving this personally as opposed to using the foundation?
    A. I would say to her that there is a person I would like to help.
    At another point, Mr. Cosby describes how he routed a payment to Therese Serignese, the woman who said she had been taken advantage of while drugged in Las Vegas, through his agent at the William Morris Agency. He says the agency sent Ms. Serignese $5,000 and he reimbursed them.
    Q. And did that come from your personal account or from the business?
    A. That's from my personal account.
    Q. So, was the purpose of that to disguise --
    A. Yes.
    Q. I have to finish my question. Was to disguise that you were paying the money to Theresa?
    A. Yes.
    Q. And the reason you were doing -- who were you preventing from knowing that?
    A. Mrs. Cosby.
  Bill Cosby Is Found Guilty of Sexual Assault - The New York Times
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    Bill Cosby on Thursday after he was found guilty in his sexual assault retrial in Norristown, Pa. Credit... Mark Makela/Getty Images NORRISTOWN, Pa. '-- [Update: Bill Cosby released from prison after Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturns sexual assault conviction.]
    A jury found Bill Cosby guilty Thursday of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home near here 14 years ago, capping the downfall of one of the world's best-known entertainers, and offering a measure of satisfaction to the dozens of women who for years have accused him of similar assaults against them.
    On the second day of its deliberations at the Montgomery County Courthouse, the jury convicted Mr. Cosby of three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand, at the time a Temple University employee.
    Mr. Cosby's case was the first high-profile sexual assault trial to unfold in the aftermath of the #MeToo movement and many considered the verdict a watershed moment, one that reflected that, going forward, the accounts of female accusers may be afforded greater weight and credibility by jurors.
    The Montgomery County district attorney, Kevin R. Steele, asked that Mr. Cosby's $1 million bail be revoked, suggesting he had been convicted of a serious crime, owned a plane and could flee, prompting an angry outburst from Mr. Cosby, who shouted, ''He doesn't have a plane, you asshole.''
    [Read reactions to the verdict.]
    ''Enough of that,'' Judge Steven T. O'Neill said. He did not view Mr. Cosby as a flight risk, he said, adding that he could be released on bail but that he would have to remain in his nearby home. The judge did not set a date to sentence Mr. Cosby on the three counts, all felonies and each punishable by up to 10 years in state prison.
    The National Organization for Women called the verdict a ''notice to sexual predators everywhere.'' Rose McGowan, one of the women who has accused Harvey Weinstein of assault, tweeted a thank you to the judge and jury and to ''society for waking up.'' Gloria Allred, the lawyer who represented many of Mr. Cosby's accusers, hailed the decision as an important breakthrough.
    ''After all is said and done, women were finally believed,'' she said outside the courtroom.
    The impression of change was evident within the trial itself when the defense attacked the credibility of five women who had testified that they, too, believed Mr. Cosby had drugged and sexually assaulted them. Kathleen Bliss, one of Mr. Cosby's lawyers, called one of the women a failed starlet who slept around. She branded another a publicity seeker.
    The remarks inflamed Kristen Gibbons Feden, a prosecutor on the case. She called the attacks filthy and shameful and the sort of criticism that had long kept sexual assault victims from coming forward. Ms. Feden's colleague, M. Stewart Ryan, described Ms. Bliss's approach as ''the last vestiges of a tactic not to get to the truth, but to damage character and reputation.''
    Their boss, Kevin R. Steele, the Montgomery County district attorney, referenced the broader significance of the case when he thanked Ms. Constand for taking part in not one, but two trials. ''She has been a major factor in a movement that has gone in the right direction, finally,'' he said.
    The first trial ended with a hung jury after six days of deliberations last summer. When the jury announced its decision Thursday, Mr. Cosby sat back in his chair and quietly stared down. Several women who have accused him of abuse, and attended the trial each day, briefly cheered. Ms. Constand, who had been quiet throughout, stood up and was hugged by supporters, including her lawyer.
    [Did the #MeToo movement have an effect on the Bill Cosby jury?]
    Mr. Cosby did not comment as he left the courthouse, but his lead lawyer, Thomas A. Mesereau Jr., said his client would appeal. ''We are very disappointed by the verdict,'' he said. ''We don't believe Mr. Cosby is guilty of anything.''
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    The Woman Who Brought Down Bill CosbyAndrea Constand is the only woman among more than 50 accusers whose complaint against Mr. Cosby has resulted in a conviction. He was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison on Tuesday.This is Andrea Constand, the woman whose sexual assault complaint against Bill Cosby brought down the man once known as ''America's dad.'' ''Finally, we can say: Women are believed. And not only on #MeToo, but in a court of law.'' She's the only woman among more than 50 others whose case against Cosby has resulted in a conviction. ''I feel like my faith in humanity is restored.'' Constand and Cosby's story started more than 15 years ago in Philadelphia. She was 29 years old at the time, and worked for the women's basketball team at Temple University. Cosby was the university's most famous alum and a trustee. They met at a basketball game in 2002. Constand grew up in Toronto, Canada. She was a star high school basketball player and had dreams of playing professionally. Over the next two years, the pair had a friendly relationship. In 2004, Constand says Cosby assaulted her at his Pennsylvania mansion after giving her three pills that left her frozen. He claims the sex was consensual. The pills, he later said, were Benadryl. Constand reported the attack to the police a year later, but prosecutors decided not to charge Cosby at the time. She later filed a civil suit and got a settlement of over $3 million. Cosby's defense team used that to paint her her as a scheming former lover. ''Andrea Constand made up these fantastical stories in order to get rich.'' A criminal investigation was reopened in 2015. ''We're here because we want to seek the truth.'' At this point, more than 50 women had come forward with similar accusations of sexual misconduct. Many of these cases happened outside the 12-year statute of limitations. So Constand became the lone accuser who brought criminal charges. The jury came to their decision in just two days. ''We don't think Mr. Cosby is guilty of anything. And the fight is not over.''
    Andrea Constand is the only woman among more than 50 accusers whose complaint against Mr. Cosby has resulted in a conviction. He was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison on Tuesday. Credit Credit... Mark Makela/Getty Images In recent years, Mr. Cosby, 80, had admitted to decades of philandering, and to giving quaaludes to women as part of an effort to have sex, smashing the image he had built as a moralizing public figure and the upstanding paterfamilias in the wildly popular 1980s and '90s sitcom ''The Cosby Show.'' He did not testify in his own defense, avoiding a grilling about those admissions, but he and his lawyers have insisted that his encounter with Ms. Constand was part of a consensual affair, not an assault.
    The verdict now marks the bottom of a fall as precipitous as any in show business history and leaves in limbo a large slice of American popular culture from Mr. Cosby's six-decade career as a comedian and actor. For the last few years, his TV shows, films and recorded stand-up performances, once broadcast staples, have largely been shunned, and with his conviction, they are likely to remain so.
    At Mr. Cosby's retrial, in the same courthouse and before the same judge, a new defense team argued unsuccessfully that Ms. Constand, now 45, was a desperate ''con artist'' with financial problems who steadily worked her famous but lonely mark for a lucrative payday.
    The prosecution countered that it was Mr. Cosby who had been a deceiver, hiding behind his amiable image as America's Dad to prey on women that he first incapacitated with intoxicants. During closing arguments Tuesday, Ms. Feden told the jury: ''She is not the con. He is.''
    The defense's star witness was a veteran academic adviser at Temple who said Ms. Constand had confided to her in 2004 that she could make money by falsely claiming she had been molested by a prominent person. Mr. Cosby paid Ms. Constand $3.38 million in 2006 as part of the confidential financial settlement of a lawsuit she had brought against him after prosecutors originally declined to bring charges.
    [The Bill Cosby case: A timeline from accusation to conviction.]
    But Ms. Constand said she had never spoken with the adviser, and prosecutors rebutted her characterization as a schemer. Perhaps most damaging to Mr. Cosby, was the testimony from five other women who told jurors they, too, were Cosby victims. The powerful drumbeat of accounts allowed prosecutors to argue that Ms. Constand's assault was part of a signature pattern of predatory behavior.
    Mr. Cosby's lawyers had tried to block the additional women from testifying, arguing their accounts would be prejudicial. They noted that the scrutiny of sexual assault had heightened, and recently had ensnared a group of high-profile men, but they said it was only Mr. Cosby who was on trial in this instance. ''Mob rule is not due process,'' Ms. Bliss told the jury.
    When Ms. Constand testified, she took the stand as something of a proxy for the other women, more than 50, who have accused Mr. Cosby of abuses.
    Image Kathleen Bliss, left, and Thomas A. Mesereau Jr., two lawyers for Mr. Cosby, at the courthouse on Wednesday. Credit... Tracie Van Auken/EPA, via Shutterstock None of those accusations had resulted in prosecution. In many of the cases, too much time had passed for criminal charges to be considered, so Ms. Constand's case emerged as the only criminal test of Mr. Cosby's guilt.
    But Mr. Cosby has been sued by several accusers, some of whom said he or his staff defamed them by dismissing their allegations as fabrications.
    The suits are likely to draw momentum from the guilty verdict.
    Many of the accusers celebrated the verdict with laughter and tears. Patricia Steuer, 61, who accused Mr. Cosby of drugging and assaulting her in 1978 and 1980, said she and her husband were in a pharmacy at Lake Tahoe when the news arrived by text.
    ''We just collapsed in each other's arms,'' she said. ''We were just crying.''
    Mr. Cosby returned to the suburban mansion where, in the evening, his spokesman, Andrew Wyatt, said Mr. Cosby planned to appeal on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct and to also assert that the statute of limitations had expired before charges were filed in December 2015.
    ''God puts certain situations in your life, not to destroy you but to build you,'' Mr. Wyatt said. ''We build from here.''
    The case largely turned on the credibility of Ms. Constand, who testified that during a visit in early 2004 to Mr. Cosby's home near Philadelphia, when she was 30 and he was 66, Mr. Cosby gave her pills that left her immobile and drifting in and out of consciousness. He said he had only given her Benadryl.
    Image Ms. Constand, center, with the Montgomery County district attorney, Kevin Steele, left, and Kristen Gibbons Feden, the special prosecutor on the case, at a news conference after the conviction. Credit... Dominick Reuter/Agence France-Presse '-- Getty Images Image Mr. Cosby and his wife, Camille, arriving Tuesday at the courthouse for closing arguments. It was the only day Mrs. Cosby appeared at the trial. Credit... Tracie Van Auken/EPA, via Shutterstock ''I was kind of jolted awake and felt Mr. Cosby on the couch beside me, behind me, and my vagina was being penetrated quite forcefully, and I felt my breast being touched,'' Ms. Constand said. ''I was limp, and I could not fight him off.''
    In Mr. Cosby's first trial, only one other accuser had been allowed to testify. At the retrial, the five additional witnesses included the former model Janice Dickinson, who told jurors Mr. Cosby had assaulted her in a Lake Tahoe hotel room in 1982, after giving her a pill to help with menstrual cramps. ''Here was America's Dad on top of me,'' she told the courtroom, ''a happily married man with five children, on top of me.''
    The defense suggested that Ms. Dickinson had made up the account, pointing to her memoir, which recounted the meeting without mentioning any assault. But Ms. Dickinson's publisher testified that she had shared her account of rape and that it was kept out of the book for legal reasons.
    Another accuser, Chelan Lasha, said Mr. Cosby invited her to his suite at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1986, when she was 17, to help her with her modeling career. Mr. Cosby, she said, gave her a pill and liquor, and then assaulted her.
    In court, Ms. Lasha, who was often in tears, called across the courtroom to the entertainer.
    ''You remember,'' she asked, ''don't you, Mr. Cosby?''
    Image The jury deliberating the Cosby case inside the Montgomery County Courthouse was asked to decide on three counts of sexual assault. Credit... Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters The defense team tried to convince the jurors that Mr. Cosby's main accuser, Ms. Constand, saw him as her escape from financial straits. ''You are going to be asking yourself during this trial, 'What does she want from Bill Cosby?' And you already know the answer: 'Money, money and lots more money,''' Mr. Mesereau told the jurors as he opened his defense of Mr. Cosby.
    The defense emphasized inconsistencies in the version of events Ms. Constand had given the police, saying, for example, at one point that the assault had taken place in March 2004, then later changing that to January 2004.
    Mr. Cosby's lawyers cited her phone records to show she had stayed in touch with him after the encounter and they produced detailed travel itineraries and flight schedules in an effort to show that Mr. Cosby had not stayed at his Philadelphia home during the period in which she said the assault occurred.
    ''He was lonely and troubled and he made a terrible mistake confiding in her what was going on in his life,'' Mr. Mesereau said.
    Under cross-examination, Ms. Constand explained the lapses in her accounts as innocent mistakes, and said her contacts with Mr. Cosby after the incident were mostly cursory, the unavoidable result of her job duties.
    Mr. Steele told the jury that Mr. Cosby took away Ms. Constand's ability to consent with the pills he gave her, and that their later contacts were irrelevant.
    When Ms. Constand's mother called to confront Mr. Cosby about a year after the incident, the prosecution argued, his apology and his offer to pay for her schooling, therapy and a trip to Florida were evidence he knew he had done something wrong.
    Mr. Steele, the district attorney, also worked to rebut the defense claims. He said that Mr. Cosby, a member of Temple University's board of directors at the time and the university's most famous alumnus, set his sights on Ms. Constand, an employee in the athletic department who considered him a mentor.
    ''This case is about trust,'' Mr. Steele had told the jurors. ''This case is about betrayal, and that betrayal leading to a sexual assault of a woman named Andrea Constand.''
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  02. Bill Cosby Officially Released From PA Prison After Overturned Conviction 1.mp3
  03. Bill Cosby Officially Released From PA Prison After Overturned Conviction 2.mp3
  04. Gloria Allred, client Janice Baker-Kinney react to Bill Cosby bombshell 1.mp3
  05. Gloria Allred, client Janice Baker-Kinney react to Bill Cosby bombshell 2.mp3
  06. Gloria Allred, client Janice Baker-Kinney react to Bill Cosby bombshell 3.mp3
  07. Bill Cosby Prosecutor Survivors Now Know Justice Can Prevail Velshi & Ruhle MSNBC 1.mp3
  08. Bill Cosby Prosecutor Survivors Now Know Justice Can Prevail Velshi & Ruhle MSNBC 2.mp3
  10. Legal analyst slams Cosby prosecutors He has not been exonerated 1.mp3
  11. Bill Cosby speaks out after prison release ABC7 Chicago 1.mp3
  12. Phylicia Rashad Defends Bill Cosby Forget Those Women 1.mp3
  13. The Bill Cosby abuse allegations timeline 1.mp3
  14. Bill Cosby - Spanish Fly 1.mp3
  15. What Are Quaaludes Inside the Popular 70s Drug Cosby Offered to Women 1.mp3
  16. Victim in Roman Polanski sexual assault wants case dropped 1.mp3
  17. Whoopie Goldberg Explaining Roman Polanski Child Rape wasn't Legitimate Rape 1.mp3
  18. Whoopie Goldberg Explaining Roman Polanski Child Rape wasn't Legitimate Rape 2.mp3
  22. What is MFAC explained (DONATION)..mp3
  23. Bill Cosby A Rapist Hannibal Buress Jokes About In Stand-up Act 1.mp3
  24. Joe Rogan Asks Hannibal Buress About the Aftermath of the Bill Cosby Controversy 1.mp3
  25. Joe Rogan Asks Hannibal Buress About the Aftermath of the Bill Cosby Controversy 2.mp3
  26. Bill Cosby Famous Pound Cake Speech 1.mp3
  27. Bill Cosby Famous Pound Cake Speech 2.mp3
  28. D.L. Hughley on Argument with Bill Cosby I Use the N-Word But I Don't Rape Girls (Part 4) 1.mp3
  29. D.L. Hughley on Argument with Bill Cosby I Use the N-Word But I Don't Rape Girls (Part 4) 2.mp3
Music in this Episode
  Intro: The Cosby Show Season 6 and 7 Opening 2 sec
  Outro: Bill Cosby - Its Strange 4 sec
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