Issa or ISSA may refer to:

Issa

• Abdisalam Issa-Salwe, Somali scholar
• Darrell Issa, a Californian Representative
• List of The Belgariad and The Malloreon characters#Issa, a divine character in David Eddings's fantasy series The Belgariad and The Malloreon
• Issa or Isa, the Arabic name for Jesus in Islam
• Issa, an ancient Greek colony on the Adriatic island of Vis
• Issa, another name for the Catawba tribe of Native Americans
• Issa, Japanese haiku poet - full name Kobayashi Issa
• Issa, the nickname of Luttif Afif, the leader of the Black September terror squad at the 1972 Olympic Games
• Issa-Aimé Nthépé, French sprinter
• Issa Al Murbati, Guantanamo Bay detainee
• Issa al Qaida guest house, Faisalabad
• Issa (Senegalese singer) (born Issa Diop), singer, songwriter, and record producer
• Issa Hassan, Kurdish musician and singer living in France
• Issa Hentona, lead singer of J-pop band Da Pump
• Issa Sesay, a military leader in the Sierra Leone insurgency
• Issa (clan), Somali clan that resides in Djibouti
• Issa (clothing), London fashion company, participant in Fall 2008 fashion weeks, known for its artistic prints
• Issa (singer), the identity which Canadian musician Jane Siberry took upon changing her name
• Issa (urban-type settlement), an urban-type settlement in Penza Oblast, Russia

ISSA

• International Sailing Schools Association - non-profit European International Sailing Schools Association which was founded 1969 in Paris.
• Independent Schools Sports Association - now known as the Sports Association for Adelaide Schools (SAAS)
• Information Systems Security Association
• Instituto Superior de Secretariado y Administracion (ISSA), a center of the University of Navarra that trains elite management assistants
• Integrated System for Survey Analysis, a joint developer of CSPro
• International Social Security Association, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland
• International Society for Spelæological Art
• International Society for the Study of Argumentation, academic organisation for those interested in Argumentation theory
• International Sports Sciences Association, an organisation of fitness experts which certifies personal fitness trainers from around the world.
• International Strategic Studies Association
• Interscholastic Sailing Association
• International Sanitary Supply Association
• International Step by Step Association A membership organization that connects professionals and organizations working in the field of early childhood development and education (http://www.issa.nl)
• Irish Seed Savers Association
• Intersex South Africa
• Israel–South Africa Agreement

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Darrell Issa
Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 2011
Preceded by	Edolphus Towns
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 49th district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 2001
Preceded by	Ron Packard
Personal details
Born	(1953-11-01) November 1, 1953 (age 58) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Kathy Issa
Children	William Issa
Residence	Vista, California
Alma mater	Kent State University Stark, Siena Heights College
Occupation	Congressman
Military service
Service/branch	United States Army
Years of service	1970–1980

Darrell Edward Issa (/ˈaɪsə/; Arabic: عيسى‎; born November 1, 1953) is the U.S. Representative for California's 49th congressional district, serving since 2001. He is a member of the Republican Party. He was formerly a CEO of Directed Electronics, the Vista, California-based manufacturer of automobile security and convenience products. His district consists of portions of southern Riverside County and northern San Diego County. The district was numbered as the 48th District during his first term and was renumbered the 49th after the 2000 Census. Since January 2011, he has served as Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Issa is a self-made millionaire with a net worth estimated between $220 and $448 million, making him one of the wealthiest members of Congress.^[1][2][3][4] He was a major contributor to the 2003 recall election of Governor Gray Davis.

Early life[link]

Issa was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the second of six children. His mother was a Mormon and his father Eastern Orthodox. Issa is the grandson of Lebanese immigrants.

The family moved to the predominantly Jewish suburb of Cleveland Heights in the later years of his childhood. Many of his friends were Jewish, and Issa reportedly worked for a rabbi at one point. He became very familiar with Jewish culture.^[5]

Military career and personal life[link]

Issa dropped out of high school and enlisted for a three-year tour in the Army on his 17th birthday.^[5][6] He served as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technician, defusing bombs, after having been shown a movie about soldiers in that specialty during World War II. He has said that his unit provided security for President Richard Nixon, sweeping stadiums for bombs prior to games in the 1971 World Series, and that he had always received the highest approval ratings during his service.^[7] A 1998 investigation by the San Francisco Examiner found that these claims were not true and Nixon had not attended any of that year's World Series games. The investigation also found that Issa was transferred to a supply depot after receiving an unsatisfactory evaluation. According to Issa, the Examiner reporter had misunderstood an anecdote he had related.^[5] A fellow soldier, Jay Bergey, claimed that Issa stole his Dodge Charger in 1971 while they were serving together and that the day after he confronted Issa the car was found abandoned on a nearby expressway. Asked about this charge in 2011, Issa denied it and suggested it was possible that other soldiers stole the car or that Bergey, who he claims had a drinking problem, had abandoned it himself while intoxicated."^[5]

After receiving a hardship discharge in 1972 following his father's heart attack, Issa earned his General Educational Development (GED) certificate and began taking classes at Siena Heights University, a small Catholic college in Adrian, Michigan. He continued his military service in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC)."^[5] Twice during that year he was arrested, once for alleged theft of a Maserati, which Issa says was a matter of mistaken identity, and for which the charge was dismissed. In another case, he was pulled over for driving the wrong way on a one-way street, and a police officer noticed a firearm in the glove compartment. Issa was charged with carrying a concealed weapon; he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of possession of an unregistered firearm, and sentenced to six months' probation and a small fine.^[5][8] Issa has said he believed the record of the incident had been expunged.^[5]

Issa was commissioned as a lieutenant after graduating from college on an ROTC scholarship and served in a non-combat administrative capacity with the U.S. Army from 1976 to 1980.^[9][10] In September 1980, while deployed with the 1/77th Armor at Fort Ord, he received high marks on a routine evaluation. Lt. Col. Wesley Clark stated, "This officer's performance far exceeded that of any other reserve officer who has worked in the battalion." The standardized report also stated that Issa had "unlimited potential" with a note to "promote ahead of [his] contemporaries."^[5]

Business career[link]

After leaving the military, Issa and his second wife, Kathy Stanton, moved back to the Cleveland area, pooled their savings, sold their cars and borrowed $50,000 from his family to invest in Quantum Enterprises, an electronics manufacturer run by a friend from Cleveland Heights that assembled bug zappers, CB radio parts and other consumer products for other companies. One of those clients, car alarm manufacturer Steal Stopper, would become the path to Issa's fortune. It was struggling badly, and he took control of it by foreclosing a $60,000 loan he had made to it when its founder, Joey Adkins, missed a payment. Adkins remained as an employee.^[5]

Issa soon turned Steal Stopper around, to the point that it was supplying Ford with thousands of car alarms and negotiating a similar deal with Toyota. But early in the morning of September 7, 1982, the offices and factory of Quantum and Steal Stopper in the Cleveland suburb of Maple Heights, caught fire. The fire took three hours to put out; the buildings and almost all inventory within were destroyed.^[5]

Move to California[link]

Steal Stopper soon regained its previous prosperity. Car theft rose in the United States during the 1980s, and with it the demand for security devices. Rolls Royce, BMW and General Motors joined Ford and Toyota as customers. In 1985 Issa sold the company to a California-based maker of home alarms, and moved to the San Diego suburb of Vista, where he has lived ever since, to work for it. Shortly afterward he left to start Directed Electronics, Inc. (DEI).^[5]

He recorded the "Please step away from the car", warning for DEI's signature product, the Viper car alarm.^[11] Sales grew from a million dollars its first year to $14 million by 1989.^[5] DEI diversified, and eventually became one of the largest makers of aftermarket electronic automotive accessories in the U.S. As of 2004, Directed Electronics was North America's largest aftermarket automotive electronics manufacturer. Issa divested personal interest in Directed Electronics after being elected to public office.

From his involvement in consumer-electronics trade organizations, he began to get politically active. He went to Washington to lobby Congress and became one of California's largest individual campaign contributors to Republican candidates. In 1996 he backed the successful campaign to pass Proposition 209, a ballot initiative which prohibitted public institutions in California from considering race, sex, or ethnicity. He was instrumental in persuading the national Republican Party to hold its 1996 convention in San Diego.^[5]

Political career[link]

1998 U.S. Senate campaign[link]

Issa's first campaign for elected office came in 1998, when he sought the Republican nomination for United States Senate to run against incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer. He backed the campaign with $10 million of his personal wealth, but lost the primary election to California State Treasurer Matt Fong. Fong's campaign raised $3 million from contributions and complained that Issa's wealth made for an uneven playing field (Issa had only $400,000 in contributions). An Issa spokesman countered that the money was needed to compensate for Fong's statewide name recognition.^[12] Fong prevailed in the open primary by a margin of 22% to 20% for Issa. A San Francisco exit poll suggested large numbers of Asian-Americans had crossed party lines to vote for Fong.^[13]

U.S. House of Representatives[link]

Two years after Issa's failed Senate bid, Congressman Ron Packard, a nine-term incumbent, announced his retirement. Issa capitalized on his name recognition from the 1998 Senate race. He finished first in the all-party primary; the only other Republican candidate in the race, State Senator Bill Morrow, finished sixth.^[14] He won in the November 2000 general election with 61 percent of the vote.^[15]

Issa has been reelected five times with almost no difficulty in this heavily Republican district (it presently has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+10). During his 2002 run for re-election, the Democrats failed to field a candidate, and his closest competition was from Libertarian Karl Dietrich. A write-in candidate from that election, Mike Byron, went on to become the Democratic challenger in 2004.^[16]

2008 House election[link]

In 2008, Issa defeated Democratic candidate Robert Hamilton, prevailing by a 20 point margin. In 2010, Project on Government Oversight, a government watchdog group, awarded Issa with its Good Government Award for his contributions to government oversight and transparency. These included publicizing documents produced by the New York Federal Reserve Bank in response to a congressional subpoena, publicly exposing the New York Federal Reserve's secret "back-door bailout" of AIG's counterparties, and cofounding a Transparency Caucus dedicated to "promoting a more open and accountable government through education, legislation, and oversight."^[17][18]

House tenure[link]

Issa currently serves on the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the House Judiciary Committee, and the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, of which he is the chairman. Issa mounted an unsuccessful campaign to join the ranks of the House GOP leadership hierarchy. He finished third of the four candidates vying for the chairmanship of the House Republican Policy Committee, and was ultimately passed over in favor of Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI).^{[citation needed]}

On February 16, 2012, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing on contraceptives mandates. Sandra Fluke was submitted as a witness by Democratic members, but Issa did not permit her to testify because her name was submitted too late, a claim Democrats challenged.^[19]

Gubernatorial recall[link]

Issa came to national prominence when he contributed over $1.6 million to help fund a signature-gathering drive for the petition to recall Gray Davis. At the time he made the contribution, it was widely believed that Issa intended to place himself on the ballot to replace Davis. However, following the entrance of fellow Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger into the race, two days before the filing deadline, Issa announced that he would not run.^[20] Issa later said that his mission had been accomplished since Davis was recalled and he wanted to continue representing his district in Congress and work towards Middle East peace. ^[8] At one point in the campaign he suggested that people should vote against recalling Davis unless one of the two leading Republican contenders dropped out, concerned that Schwarzenegger and fellow Republican Tom McClintock would split votes, resulting in Democratic lieutenant governor Cruz Bustamante taking over as Davis' successor.^[21] Issa endorsed Schwarzenegger in the election.

Middle East involvement[link]

Issa is one of a few Lebanese-Americans in Congress and has had a significant role in U.S. peace initiatives in the Middle East. He traveled to Lebanon and Syria in an effort to negotiate the end of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon. In 2003, he appeared at a Washington rally by Iranian groups protesting against the Islamic government in Iran.^[22]

Issa targeted in bombing plot[link]

In 2001, Issa's district office in San Clemente was targeted in an aborted bombing plot. Jewish Defense League leader Irving Rubin was arrested along with Earl Krugel in connection with the plot, which reportedly had focused on other targets before shifting to Issa's office.^[23][24] Issa speculated that the cause of the incident may have been a column written by political commentator Debbie Schlussel in which she charged that Issa sympathized with Hezbollah despite its being listed by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization, charges he denied.^[24][25][26]

Issa supported the use of military force in Iraq (2002)^[27] and Afghanistan. On June 16, 2006 he voted to reject setting timetables for withdrawal from Iraq. On 5 April 2007, Issa met with Syrian president Bashar Assad to discuss Middle East issues, one day after Assad met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.^[28]

As of 2010^[update], Issa serves as a director of the American Task Force for Lebanon, a nonprofit organization working to advance Lebanon and its ties with the US.^[29]

Political views[link]

Issa holds a generally conservative political viewpoint. He has voted with the majority of House Republicans 94.7% of the time during the 111th Congress.^[30]

Issa is generally opposed to abortion and supports stem cell research, saying that "The promise of stem cells to provide innovative treatments and cures warrants investment in more advanced research".^[31]

In 2001 Issa voted for the authorization of the PATRIOT Act and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.^[32] He voted for the reauthorization of the Patriot Act in 2005 after successfully amending it to require judicial notification, reporting requirements and facts justifying the use of roving survelliance at new facilities or places.^[33]

He voted against the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA), which would prohibit employers from discriminating on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation.^[34]

He has opposed attempts to ease restrictions on illegal immigration such as the "Blue Card" system, saying that it provides amnesty for illegal immigrants.^[35]

Issa has said he supports efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He voted against a cap and trade bill designed to cut them.^[36] Issa believes that "the science community does not agree to the extent of the problem or the critical threshold of when this problem is truly catastrophic."^[37]

He has been critical of No Child Left Behind, supporting a modification that would, in his words, "give states the freedom to adopt best practices for their students by returning flexibility and control to the educators and parents who are the real experts on education".^[38]

He signed the "Taxpayer Protection Pledge" of the Americans for Tax Reform, an organization that opposes all tax increases.^[39]

He is opposed to the Stop Online Piracy Act based on the amount of discretion the Department of Justice would have under the legislation as it is currently drafted. He plans to propose amendments that would reduce that discretion.^[40] Issa subsequently went on to cosponsor the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.^[41]

He co-sponsored both the 2008 and 2009 versions (H.R. 6845 and H.R. 801, respectively) of the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act and sponsored the Research Works Act (H.R. 3699) introduced in 2011, all of which aim at a reversal of the NIH's Public Access Policy,^[42] which mandates open access to NIH-funded research.^[43]

He has endorsed Mitt Romney's candidacy for the Republican nomination for the 2012 presidential election.^[44]

Committee assignments[link]

• Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (Chairman)
  • As Chairman of the full committee, Rep. Issa may serve as an ex officio member of all subcommittees
• Committee on the Judiciary
  • Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law
  • Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy

• Republican Study Committee

Obama administration[link]

After becoming Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Issa has become a vocal advocate for investigations into the Obama administration, including the TARP and Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, corruption in Afghanistan, Wikileaks, and the FDA, among other issues.^[45] On March 22, 2011, it was reported that Issa accused the Obama administration of retaliating against Catherine Papoi, who complained the administration was blocking public access to records.^[46]

Criticism and controversy[link]

Industry insiders on his oversight team[link]

In February 2011, the Watchdog Institute, an independent nonprofit reporting center based at San Diego State University, published an investigation alleging that as leader of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Issa built a team that included staff members with close connections to industries that could benefit from his investigations.^[47] The Huffington Post also published the Institute's investigation.^[48]

9/11 payments[link]

In April 2008, the Daily News reported that Issa questioned federal expenditures made after 9/11. He was criticized for making comments that the federal government "'just threw' buckets of cash at New York for an attack 'that had no dirty bomb in it, it had no chemical munitions in it'"^[49] and asking "why the firefighters who went there and everybody in the city of New York needs to come to the federal government for the dollars versus this being primarily a state consideration."^[49] In September 2009, Issa's office released a statement indicating that his comments had been misrepresented and that the questions he asked concerned the then still unpassed bill H.R. 3543, which, according to that statement "would give U.S. taxpayer dollars to those who did not suffer physical injury and did not work at or around Ground Zero."^[50][51]

Letter to businesses[link]

Following the 2010 elections, Issa sent a letter to more than 150 trade associations, companies and think tanks, asking them to tell him which existing and proposed regulations would harm job growth.^[52] Liberal critics have charged that Issa was "embracing regulatory capture",^[53] and Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform also criticized Issa's actions.^[54]

Office of Congressional Ethics complaint[link]

In September 2011, the group American Family Voices filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics against Issa, alleging he had repeatedly used his public office for personal financial gain. Issa's office rejected the allegations.^[55]

See also[link]

• List of richest American politicians

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Biography at WhoRunsGov.com at The Washington Post
• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
• Biography, voting record, and interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
• Congressional profile at GovTrack
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• Issue positions and quotes at On the Issues
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• Staff salaries, trips and personal finance at LegiStorm.com
• Campaign finance reports and data at the Federal Election Commission
• Appearances on C-SPAN programs
• Collected news and commentary at The New York Times
• Directed Electronics
• Darrell Issa: Enter Stage Right, profile in Mother Jones magazine
• Williams, Lance. Issa's Army record in doubt: Candidate's account can't be verified. San Francisco Chronicle. 29 May 1998.

Don Juan in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, a painting by Max Slevogt

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Don Juan (Spanish, or "Don Giovanni" in Italian) is a legendary, fictional libertine whose story has been told many times by many authors. El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) by Tirso de Molina is a play set in the fourteenth century that was published in Spain around 1630. Evidence suggests it is the first written version of the Don Juan legend. Among the best known works about this character today are Molière's play Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre (1665), Byron's epic poem Don Juan (1821), José de Espronceda's poem El estudiante de Salamanca (1840) and José Zorrilla's play Don Juan Tenorio (1844). Along with Zorrilla's work (still performed every year on November 2nd throughout the Spanish-speaking world), arguably the best known version is Don Giovanni, an opera composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, first performed in Prague in 1787 (with Giacomo Casanova probably in the audience) and itself the source of inspiration for works by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Alexander Pushkin, Søren Kierkegaard, George Bernard Shaw and Albert Camus.

Don Juan is used synonymously for "womanizer", especially in Spanish slang, and the term Don Juanism is sometimes used as a synonym for satyriasis.

Don Juan legend[link]

Although the various iterations of the Don Juan myth show some variation, the basic storyline remains the same. Starting with Tirso's work, Don Juan is portrayed as a wealthy, seductive libertine who devotes his life to seducing women, taking great pride in his ability to seduce women of all ages and stations in life. His life is also punctuated with violence and gambling, and in many interpretations (Tirso, Espronceda, Zorrilla), he kills Don Gonzalo, the father of a girl he has seduced, Doña Ines. This leads to the famous last supper scene, whereby Don Juan invites the dead father to dinner. The ending depends on which version of the legend one is reading. Tirso's original play was meant as religious parable against Don Juan's sinful ways, and ends with his death, having been denied salvation by God. Other authors and playwrights would interpret the ending in their own fashion. Espronceda's Don Felix walks into hell and to his death of his own volition, whereas Zorrilla's Don Juan asks for, and receives, a divine pardon. The figure of Don Juan has inspired many modern interpretations.

Pronunciation[link]

In Castilian Spanish, Don Juan is pronounced [doŋˈxwan]. The usual English pronunciation is /ˌdɒnˈwɑːn/, with two syllables and a silent "J". However, in Byron's epic poem it rhymes with ruin and true one, indicating that it was intended to have the trisyllabic spelling pronunciation /ˌdɒnˈdʒuːən/. This would have been characteristic of his English literary predecessors who often deliberately imposed partisan English pronunciations on Spanish names, such as Don Quixote /ˌdɒnˈkwɪksət/.

Chronology of works derived from the story of Don Juan[link]

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Seventeenth century[link]

• 1630: Tirso de Molina's play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra
• 1643: Paolo Zehentner's play Promontorium Malae Spei
• 1650: Giacinto Andrea Cicognini's play Il convitato di pietra
• 1658: Dorimon (Nicolas Drouin's) Le festin de pierre, ou le fils criminel
• 1659: Jean Deschamps, Sieur de Villiers's play Le Festin de Pierre ou le Fils criminel
• 1665: Molière's comedy Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre
• 1669: Rosimon's Festin de pierre, ou l’athée foudroyé
• 1676: Thomas Shadwell's play The Libertine
• 17th century: L'ateista fulminato, Italian play by unknown author

Eighteenth century[link]

• 1714?: Antonio de Zamora's play No hay plazo que no se cumpla ni deuda que no se pague o convidado de piedra^[1]
• 1730: Antonio Denzio's opera La pravità castigata, with music mainly by Antonio Caldara
• 1736: Carlo Goldoni's play Don Giovanni Tenorio ossia Il dissoluto
• 1761: Christoph Willibald Gluck's and Gasparo Angiolini's ballet Don Juan
• 1776: Vincenzo Righini's opera Il convitato di pietra
• 1787: Giovanni Bertati's opera Don Giovanni, music by Giuseppe Gazzaniga
• 1787: Lorenzo da Ponte's opera Don Giovanni, music by Mozart

Nineteenth century[link]

• 1813: E.T.A. Hoffmann's novella Don Juan (later collected in Fantasiestücke in Callots Manier)
• 1821: Byron's epic poem Don Juan
• 1829: Christian Dietrich Grabbe's play Don Juan und Faust
• 1830: Pushkin's play Каменный гость (Kamenny Gost', The Stone Guest) set as an opera in 1872
• 1831: Alexandre Dumas' play Don Juan de Maraña
• 1831: Balzac's short story L'Élixir de longue vie (The Elixir of Life)
• 1834: Prosper Mérimée's novella Les âmes du Purgatoire
• 1840: José de Espronceda's El estudiante de Salamanca
• 1841: Franz Liszt's Réminiscences de Don Juan on themes from the Mozart opera
• 1843: Søren Kierkegaard's Either/or in which he discusses Mozart's musical interpretation of Don Giovanni, and includes another text which develops a similar character called Johannes ("Diary of a seducer").
• 1844: Nikolaus Lenau's play Don Juan
• 1844: José Zorrilla's play Don Juan Tenorio
• 1857: Charles Baudelaire's poem Don Juan aux enfers (Don Juan in Hell) in Les Fleurs du Mal
• 1862: Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's verse drama Don Juan
• 1872: Alexander Dargomyzhsky's opera The Stone Guest after Puskin
• 1874: Guerra Junqueiro's poem A morte de D. João
• 1878: The Finding of Don Juan by Haidee, painting by Ford Madox Brown
• 1883: Paul Heyse's "Don Juans Ende"
• 1888: Richard Strauss' symphonic poem Don Juan
• 1889: Vernon Lee's short story 'The Virgin of the Seven Daggers', in which Don Juan raises a Moorish princess from the grave in order to seduce her

Twentieth century[link]

• 1903: George Bernard Shaw's play Man and Superman; the third act's dream sequence is often played by itself as Don Juan in Hell
• 1902–1905: Ramón del Valle-Inclán's Las sonatas
• 1906 : Ruperto Chapí's opera Margarita la tornera, based on José Zorrilla's dramatic poem. This features a seducer of women known as Don Juan Alarcon.
• 1907: Guillaume Apollinaire's novel Les exploits d'un jeune Don Juan
• 1910: Gaston Leroux's novel Phantom of the Opera, which includes an opera called Don Juan Triumphant.
• 1910–1912: Aleksandr Blok's The Commander's Footsteps (Шаги командора).
• 1912: Lesya Ukrainka's Stone Host (Кам'яний господар), a dramatic poem.
• 1913: Jacinto Grau's play Don Juan de Carillana; also, the play El burlador que no se burla (1927) and the essay Don Juan en el tiempo y en el espacio (1954)
• 1921: Edmond Rostand's play La dernière nuit de Don Juan
• 1922: Azorín's Don Juan
• 1926: Ramón Pérez de Ayala's novel and play Tigre Juan
• 1926: Don Juan, starring John Barrymore, silent film with Vitaphone soundtrack.
•  ?: Serafín and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero's play Don Juan
• 1928: Don Juan in der Mädchenschule, directed by Reinhold Schünzel, starring Ernst Behmer, Adolphe Engers and Carl Geppert
• 1932: short story Don Juan's Confession in Karel Čapek's Apocryphal Tales (Kniha apokryfů)^[2]
• 1934: Miguel de Unamuno's Don Juan
• 1934: The Private Life of Don Juan, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.'s last film
• 1934–1949: André Obey: Don Juan
• 1936: Ödön von Horváth's Don Juan kommt aus dem Krieg (Don Juan comes back from the war)
• 1938: Sylvia Townsend Warner's novel "After the Death of Don Juan"
• 1940: Le Mythe de Sisyphe: Albert Camus. Published by Librarire Gallimard (1942) and by Alfred A. Knopf (1955, 1983) and First Vintage International Editions (1991) in English as The Myth of Sisyphus and other essays. In Camus' anti-suicide treatise, Don Juan is one of three 'Absurd Men', 'heroes' who overcome life with their attitude.
• 1942: Paul Goodman's novel Don Juan or, The Continuum of the Libido, edited by Taylor Stoehr, 1979.
• 1942: Franz Zeise's novel Don Juan Tenorio
• 1944: Josef Toman Don Juan
• 1946: Suzanne Lilar, play "Le Burlador", an original reinterpretation of the myth of Don Juan from the female perspective that revealed a profound capacity for psychological analysis.
• 1949: Adventures of Don Juan, film starring Errol Flynn
• 1950: Don Juan, film directed by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
• 1952: "A Story of Don Juan", a short ghost story by V.S. Pritchett
• 1953: Max Frisch's Don Juan oder die Liebe zur Geometrie; also Nachträgliches zu Don Juan
• 1954: Ronald Frederick Duncan's play Don Juan
• 1955: Ingmar Bergman's play Don Juan
• 1955: Desi Arnaz as Ricky Ricardo as Don Juan in several episodes (Season 4, Episode #6, #9, #10, #17, #21) of I Love Lucy, the television series.
• 1956: Buddy Holly's song Modern Don Juan
• 1957: Georges Bataille's novel "Blue of Noon", an adaptation of the Don Juan story set in 1930s fascist Europe
• 1958: Henry de Montherlant's play Don Juan
• 1959: Roger Vailland's play Monsieur Jean
• 1960: Ingmar Bergman film Djävulens öga(The Devil's Eye)
• 1963: Gonzalo Torrente Ballester's novel Don Juan
• 1967: In the Star Trek Episode from the first season Shore_Leave_(Star_Trek) Yeoman Tonia Barrows is accosted by Don Juan.
• 1969: Jan Švankmajer's Don Šajn (Don Juan); a short retelling of the Don Juan legend featuring live-action, stop-motion animation, and marionettes.
• 1969/1970: Donna Juanita, a song performed by Swedish artist Monica Zetterlund, part of the revue and TV-show "Spader, Madame!" by comedians Hasseåtage, based on a musical piece by Franz Schubert (Sixth Symphony, Second Movement) - the theme of the lyrics is to show the gender inequality in the fact that Don Juan's philandering behaviour would never have been accepted in a woman
• 1970: The Stoned Guest, a half-act opera by P. D. Q. Bach
• 1973: Don Juan ou Si Don Juan était une femme..., a film starring Brigitte Bardot
• 1974: Derek Walcott's play, The Joker of Seville
• 1975: Lars Gyllensten's novel I skuggan av Don Juan (In the shadow of Don Juan)
• 1980: New York City no-wave artists Mars and DNA recorded a collaborative opera based on Don Giovanni entitled John Gavanti
• 1983: Carlos Morton's play, Johnny Tenorio
• 1987: In the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom Of the Opera, the Phantom both writes and stars in a fictional opera named Don Juan Triumphant.
• 1987: Post-minimalist composer Elodie Lauten wrote an opera based on a feminist variation of the legend entitled "The Death of Don Juan"
• 1988: The Pet Shop Boys song "Don Juan", which used the story as a metaphor for the seduction of the Balkans by Nazism during the 1930s
• 1991: Georges Pichard's Exploits d'un Don Juan, comic from Apollinaire's novel
• 1995: Don Juan DeMarco, film starring Johnny Depp in the role of Don Juan, and also starring Marlon Brando
• 1997: David Ives' comedy Don Juan in Chicago

Twenty-first century[link]

• 2003: Félix Gray's musical comedy Don Juan
• 2004: Peter Handke's novel Don Juan (erzählt von ihm selbst) ("Don Juan (Told by Himself)")
• 2005: José Saramago's play Don Giovanni ou O Dissoluto Absolvido (Don Giovanni or The Dissolute Acquitted).
• 2005: Jim Jarmusch's film Broken Flowers.
• 2006: Don Juan in Soho, a play by Patrick Marber
• 2009: Kasper Bech Holten's film Juan

Both the Flynn and Fairbanks versions turn Don Juan into a likeable rogue, rather than the heartless seducer that he is usually presented as being. The Flynn movie even has him successfully foiling a treasonous plot in the Spanish royal court. Shaw's play turns him into a philosophical character who enjoys contemplating the purpose of life.

References[link]

1. ^ http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_de_Zamora
2. ^ Apocryphal Tales, Karel Čapek.

Further reading[link]

• Macchia, Giovanni (1995) [1991] (in Italian). Vita avventure e morte di Don Giovanni. Milano: Adelphi. ISBN 88-459-0826-7. 
• Said Armesto, Víctor (1968) [1946] (in Spanish). La leyenda de Don Juan. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe. 
• Guillaume Apollinaire: Don Juan (1914).
• Michel de Ghelderode: Don Juan (1928).

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Don Juan

• Don Juan Archiv Wien (in German)
• Text of Molière's Dom Juan' (in French)
• Encyclopædia Britannica article about Don Juan
• Armand E. Singer: A Bibliography of the Don Juan Theme 1954-2003
• "Juan!...Juaaan!!!" Sample of an alternative Don Juan story
• "Flowers of Evil", Charles Baudelaire

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Robinson was selected a McDonald's All-America following an exceptional high school career at Emery High School, where he finished as the leading scorer in California men's high school basketball history.He scored 19 points, outplaying the more highly regarded Rasheed Wallace, and getting him thrown out the game.^[1][2]

Robinson was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks with the 29th pick of the 2nd round of the 1996 NBA Draft^[3] after leaving Arkansas a season early. He later signed with the Philadelphia 76ers,^[4] but never played in the NBA.^[5] Robinson ended up playing professionally in Italy, Greece, Israel, Puerto Rico and France.^[6][7]

Robinson's coach in Greece referred to him as "one of the greatest underachievers I've ever been involved with."^[5]

References[link]

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