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Butch cut Marine

A butch cut is a type of haircut in which the hair on the top of the head is cut short in every dimension^[1] The top and the upper portion of the back and sides are cut the same length, which ranges between one quarter of an inch and three quarters of an inch, following the contour of the head.^[1][2] A variant form may have a slight graduation of the top hair longer from back to front or a quickly graduated bit of hair at the front hairline to achieve a little flip up of the hair at the forehead.^[1] The hair below the upper portion of the sides and back of the head is tapered short, semi-short or medium with a clipper, in the same manner as a crew cut.^[1][2] A butch may also be called a short brush cut or a brush cut.^[1] Butch cuts are traditionally groomed with hair control wax, commonly referred to as butch wax.

See also[link]

• Crew cut
• Flattop
• Buzz cut

References[link]

Bibliography[link]

• Thorpe, S.C. (1967). Practice and Science of Standard Barbering. Milady Publishing Corporation. 
• Trusty, L. Sherman (1971). The Art and Science of Barbering. Wolfer Printing Co.. 

External links[link]

Butch Cut High School Football Player, Lawrence, Kansas , 1960

Butch Cut High School Football Player, Lawrence, Kansas , 1960

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Butch Cut Central High School Student, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1958

Butch Cut Track and Field Athlete, Summer Olympics, Rome, Italy, 1960

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Butch may refer to:

People[link]

• Delaney Knight (born 1997), bordons butch woman
• Butch Ballard (1918-2011), American jazz drummer
• Butch Cassidy (1866–1908), American outlaw
• Butch Davis (born 1951), American football coach
• Ronald DeFeo, Jr. (born 1951), American murderer
• Butch Goring (born 1949), Canadian NHL player
• Butch Hartman (born 1965), American animator, producer
• Butch Johnson (American football) (born 1954), former NFL wide receiver
• Butch Miller (wrestler) (born 1944), professional wrestler from New Zealand
• Jonathan Norton (born 1958), original drummer for the band Eels
• Edward O'Hare (1914–1943), pilot during World War II
• Butch Otter (born 1942), politician and current Governor of Idaho
• Butch Patrick (born 1953), American child actor best known for his role as Eddie Munster in The Munsters
• Butch Reynolds (born 1964), former American 400 meters sprinter
• Butch Thompson (born 1943), jazz pianist
• Butch Vig (born 1955), American musician and producer, and drummer for the band Garbage
• Butch Walker (born 1969), American recording artist, songwriter, and record producer
• Ray Wilkins (born 1956), English former football player

Fictional characters[link]

• Butch Coolidge, fictional character in the film Pulp Fiction
• Butch and Cassidy, minor antagonists from the Pokémon anime
• Butch the Bulldog, arch-nemesis of Pluto in Walt Disney cartoons
• Butch (Tom and Jerry), a black cat from the Tom and Jerry cartoons
• The black haired member of The Rowdyruff Boys, a trio of villains from The Powerpuff Girls
• Tommy Bond of Our Gang
• Butch, a tow truck who makes cameos in Thomas and Friends

Animals[link]

• Butch, the dog verified as the oldest on Earth, age 28
• Butch, one of the Tamworth Two, two pigs who escaped from an abattoir and caused a media frenzy in England

Music[link]

• Butch, is an album by The Geraldine Fibbers

Other[link]

• Butch cut
• butch and femme
• Soft butch
• Stone butch

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Look up cut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Cut may refer to:

• The act of cutting, the separation of an object into two through acutely directed force

Mathematics[link]

• Cut (graph theory)
• Branch cut, a concept in complex analysis
• Dedekind cut, a partition of rational numbers
• Cut-elimination theorem

Computing[link]

• Cut (logic programming)
• cut (Unix), a command line utility
• Cut, copy, and paste, a set of editing procedures

[edit] Film and television

• Cut (transition), a transition from one sequence to another
• Cut (censorship), removal of a scene to meet censors' requirements
• Cut (film), a horror comedy
• The Cut (film), 2007 South Korean horror film
• Cut (advertisement), a 2009 British advertising campaign on domestic violence

Music[link]

• Cut (music), an African American music technique
• Cut (C-Tec album)
• Cut (Crack the Sky album)
• Cut (Golden Earring album)
• Cut (Hunters and Collectors album)
• Cut (The Slits album)
• "Cut" (Plumb song)
• Cut drum
• Cut, an album by Flare Acoustic Arts League
• "Cut", a song by The Cure on the album Wish
• "Cut", A slang term for "track" or "song" derived from early song recording when music was recorded on master tapes which had to be literally cut up in order to make the final music release.

Games and sport[link]

• Cut (cards), a method of mixing a deck of cards
• Cut (golf), a means of reducing the number of competitors in a golf tournament or a type of stroke
• Carleton Ultimate Team

Geography[link]

• Cut, Alba, Romania
• Cut River
• Cut, a village in Dumbrava Roşie, Neamţ County, Romania

Schools[link]

• Central University of Technology, South Africa
• Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe
• Curtin University of Technology, Australia
• Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

Trade unions[link]

• Central Única dos Trabalhadores, in Brazil
• Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores (Costa Rica)
• Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores del Perú

Other uses[link]

• Cut (archaeology), a hole dug in the past
• Cut (clothing), the style or shape of a garment
• Cut (earthmoving), an excavation to make way for a transport route
• Cut (etiquette), a snub or slight such as failure to greet an acquaintance
• Cut (gems)
• Cut (novel), by Patricia McCormick
• Cut of meat
• Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications, a UK political pressure group
• Church Universal and Triumphant, a religious movement
• Cincinnati Union Terminal
• Compact Utility Tractor
• Coordinated Universal Time, a time standard
• Cryptic unstable transcript, a type of RNA molecule
• A type of wound
• CUT is the IATA code for Cutral Có Airport, Argentina

See also[link]

• Cuts, a TV series
• Cutting (disambiguation)
• Cutter (disambiguation)
• Cutoff (disambiguation)
• Cut-out (disambiguation)
• Cutaway (disambiguation)

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Ricky Jay
At the premiere of Redbelt, April 2008
Born	1948 (age 63–64) Brooklyn, NY
Other names	Richard Jay Potash
Occupation	Magician, actor, author
Known for	Sleight of Hand, Card Tricks, History of Magic

Richard Jay Potash (born 1948), better known by the stage name Ricky Jay, is an American stage magician, actor, and writer. He is a sleight-of-hand expert and is notable for his card tricks, card throwing, memory feats, and stage patter.^[1]

Life and career[link]

Jay was born in Brooklyn, New York to a middle class Jewish family.^[2] His grandfather, Max Katz, was a well-to-do certified public accountant and amateur magician who introduced Jay to the profession.^[3][4][5]

At least three of his one-man shows, Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants, On the Stem, and A Rogue's Gallery were directed by David Mamet, who has also cast Jay in a number of his films. Jay has appeared in productions by other directors, notably Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights, and Magnolia, as well as Christopher Nolan's The Prestige.

A collector and historian of note, he was a student and firm friend of the legendary Dai Vernon, who Jay states was: "the greatest living contributor to the magical art". An avid collector of rare books (he has spent over five thousand dollars on single books alone) and manuscripts, art, and other artifacts connected to the history of magic, gambling, unusual entertainments, and frauds and confidence games, he is also opposed to any public revelations of the techniques of magic.^[6]

Jay joined the cast and crew of the HBO western drama Deadwood as a guest star and writer for the first season in 2004. The series was created by David Milch and focused on a growing town in the American West. Jay played card sharp Eddie Sawyer, a dealer in the Bella Union casino of ambitious newcomer Cy Tolliver. Jay wrote the episode "Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking".^[7] He left the series at the end of the first season.

He also played a henchman to villain Elliot Carver in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. When he was offered the role, the producers assured him that they would of course change the Indian name of his character, Gupta, accordingly. Jay in turn said that he would only play the part if they didn't change the name.

Until recently, Ricky Jay was listed in the Guinness Book of Records for throwing a playing card 190 ft at 90 miles per hour (140 km/h) (the current record is 216 feet (66 m) by Rick Smith, Jr.). Ricky Jay can throw a playing card into a watermelon rind (which he refers to as the "thick, pachydermatous outer melon layer" of "the most prodigious of household fruits") from ten paces. In addition, he is able to throw a card into the air and cut it cleanly in half with a pair of "giant scissors" upon its return. In his shows, he often throws playing cards at plastic animals in "self defense".

Consultant[link]

Jay created a consulting firm, Deceptive Practices, which provides "arcane knowledge on a need-to-know basis." His firm's clients are often within the stage, television, and film industries. He has worked with libraries and museums on their collections, including the Mulholland Library of Conjuring and the Allied Arts and the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City, CA.

Credits[link]

Television[link]

• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (October 26, 1970)
• Saturday Night Live (1977)
• Arsenio (1988)
• Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women – 1 hour special for American TV (1989)
• Simon Drake's Secret Cabaret (UK)
• Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants – 1 hour version of his Off-Broadway show, taped for HBO (1996)
• Hustlers, Hoaxsters, Pranksters, Jokesters and Ricky Jay (1996)
• The X-Files – "The Amazing Maleeni" (2000)
• MythBusters – Episode 20, "Exploding Jawbreaker, Static Cannon, Deadly Playing Cards." Ricky demonstrated card throwing, and the speed of his throws was clocked. (2003)
• Deadwood – Eddie Sawyer (2004), Season 1
• Tales From The Crypt (Unknown)
• The Unit (2007)
• Kidnapped (2007)
• Lie to Me (2009)
• FlashForward – Flosso (2010)

Film[link]

• House of Games (1987)
• Things Change (1988)
• Homicide (1991)
• The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky (1995) (TV)
• The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
• Boogie Nights (1997)
• Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
• Magnolia (1999)
• Mystery Men (1999)
• State and Main (2000)
• Heist (2001)
• Heartbreakers (2001)
• Incident at Loch Ness (2004)
• Last Days (2005)
• The Illusionist (2006)
• The Prestige (2006)
• Redbelt (2008)
• The Great Buck Howard (2008)
• The Brothers Bloom (2009)

Books[link]

When not performing, Ricky Jay collects rare books and artifacts. He is the author of several books:

• Celebrations of Curious Characters
• Extraordinary Exhibitions: The Wonderful Remains of an Enormous Head, The Whimsiphusicon & Death to the Savage Unitarians - a collection of 17th, 18th, and 19th-century broadsides^[8]
• Jay's Journal of Anomalies
• Dice: Deception, Fate, and Rotten Luck
• Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women
• Cards as Weapons
• Ricky Jay Plays Poker

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Ricky Jay Archive at the Magic Newswire website
• Ricky Jay at the Internet Movie Database
• San Francisco Chronicle review of "Extraordinary Exhibitions: Broadsides From the Collection of Ricky Jay" during 2005 exhibition
• "Secrets of Magus" 1993 New Yorker profile