Henry Bean (born 1945, Philadelphia, United States) is an American screenwriter, film director, producer, novelist, and actor.

Most famous as a screenwriter, Bean wrote the screenplays for Internal Affairs, Deep Cover, Venus Rising, The Believer (which was awarded the dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Festival), Basic Instinct 2 and Noise.

Bean acted in The Believer, and was a producer on Deep Cover and Noise. He was the director for The Believer and Noise.

Bean is also the inspiration for the main protagonist of Noise. He was so tired of constant noise around him and his home in New York that he decided to take the law into his own hands. If a car alarm was going off and the owner of the vehicle didn't rectify the situation, Bean would break into the car to disable the offending car alarm. Bean was eventually arrested and jailed. He admits to doing it a few more times since.^[1]

References[link]

1. ^ Tim Robbins wages crusade against noise in new film | U.S. | Reuters

External links[link]

• Henry Bean at the Internet Movie Database
• Henry Bean at AllRovi

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Henry J. Bean
Bean circa 1910
24th Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
In office 1931-1933–1937-1939
Preceded by	Oliver P. Coshow, James U. Campbell
Succeeded by	John L. Rand
40th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
In office 1911–1941
Preceded by	William R. King
Succeeded by	James T. Brand
Personal details
Born	November 13, 1853 Bethel, Maine
Died	May 8, 1941 Oregon
Spouse(s)	Mattie Magahey

Henry J. Bean (November 13, 1853 – May 8, 1941) was an American politician and judge in Oregon. He was the 24th Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. He served in that role twice during the 1930s. At his death on the bench he was the longest serving justice in the state’s history. A native of Maine, he also served in the Oregon House of Representatives.

Early life[link]

Henry Bean was born in Bethel, Maine, on November 13, 1853,^[1] to Elizabeth E. Bean (née Swift) and Timothy Bean.^[2]

There he attended Gould, Hebron, and North Yarmouth Academies for his primary education.^[1] Bean attended Gould Academy from 1874 to 1878 before spending six years as a teacher.^[2] Later he studied law under Maine Supreme Court justice Enoch Foster and was admitted to the bar in 1881.^[1]

He then moved to Oregon where he set up a law practice in Pendleton, Oregon in 1882. In private practice Bean formed a partnership with James A. Fee from 1885 to 1886.^[2] In that Eastern Oregon town, he served as the city attorney in 1883 and then as city recorder from 1885 to 1886.^[1] Bean then served a term in the Oregon State House in 1889.^[3] He represented Umatilla County in the lower chamber as a Republican. Bean married Mattie Magahey in Pendleton in 1896.^[1] They had two sons together.^[2]

Judicial career[link]

After serving as district attorney from 1896 to 1900,^[2] Henry Bean then served as a county judge for Umatilla County from 1904 to 1906.^[1] Following that he was selected to be a circuit court judge from 1906 to 1910.^[1]

In November 1910, Bean was elected to the Oregon Supreme Court where he would serve until his death.^[4] He won re-election in 1914, 1920, 1926, 1932, and 1938.^[4] His thirty years on the bench made him the longest serving justice on the court until co-worker George Rossman earned that distinction.^[4]

Bean served as chief justice twice during his tenure. First in 1931 to 1933 and then in 1937 to 1939.^[4] He died in office on May 8, 1941 and was replaced by James T. Brand.^[4]

References[link]

Daniel Johnston
Johnston in December 2006
Background information
Birth name	Daniel Dale Johnston
Born	(1961-01-22) January 22, 1961 (age 51) Sacramento, California, United States
Origin	West Virginia, United States
Genres	Lo-fi, outsider music
Occupations	Musician, singer-songwriter, visual artist
Years active	1978–present
Labels	Yip Eye Music Atlantic Records
Website	hihowareyou.com

Daniel Dale Johnston (born January 22, 1961) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and artist. Johnston was the subject of the 2006 documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston. He currently lives in Waller, Texas.

Johnston has been diagnosed with manic depression and schizophrenia which has been a recurring problem throughout his life.^[1][2]

Early life[link]

Johnston was born in Sacramento, California, and grew up in the northern panhandle of West Virginia between Ohio and Pennsylvania near Chester and New Cumberland, West Virginia. He began recording music in the late 1970s on a $59 Sanyo monaural Boombox, singing and playing piano and chord organ. Following graduation from Oak Glen High School, Johnston spent a few weeks at Abilene Christian University in West Texas, but soon dropped out. Later he attended the East Liverpool branch of Kent State University.

Music career[link]

Johnston's musical work gained some notoriety when he moved to Austin, Texas. Johnston began to attract the attention of the local press and gain a following augmented in numbers by his habit of handing out tapes to people he met. Live performances were well-attended and hotly anticipated.^[3]

His local standing led to him being featured in a 1985 episode of the MTV program The Cutting Edge featuring performers from Austin's "New Sincerity" music scene.^[4] Subsequently he performed at the 1985 Woodshock music festival in Austin, where he was featured in a short documentary of the festival, Woodshock.

In 1988, Johnston visited New York City and recorded 1990 with producer Kramer^[5] at his Noise New York studio. It was released in 1990 on Kramer's Shimmy-Disc label. This was Johnston's first experience in a professional recording environment after a decade of releasing home-made cassette recordings. His mental health further deteriorated during the making of 1990.

Interest in Johnston increased when Kurt Cobain was frequently photographed wearing a t-shirt featuring the cover image of Johnston's album Hi, How Are You which music journalist Everett True gave him. In spite of Johnston being resident in a mental hospital at the time, a bidding war to sign him ensued. He refused to sign a multi-album deal with Elektra Records because Metallica was on the label's roster and he was convinced that they were possessed by Satan and would hurt him. He also dropped his manager who brokered the deal, because Johnston believed he too was possessed by Satan.^[6] Ultimately he signed with Atlantic Records and released Fun, produced by Paul Leary of Butthole Surfers in 1994.^[7]

Johnston contributed two songs to the soundtrack for Larry Clark's controversial 1995 film Kids, produced by Folk Implosion and Sebadoh's frontman, Lou Barlow. Johnston later covered Schoolhouse Rock!'s "Unpack Your Adjectives" for a compilation of the popular education songs called Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks in 1996. In 1989 Johnston released the album It's Spooky in collaboration with Half Japanese singer Jad Fair.

In 1990, Johnston played at a music festival in Austin, Texas. On the way back to West Virginia on a small, private two-seater plane piloted by his father Bill, Johnston had a manic episode believing he was Casper the Friendly Ghost and removed the key from the plane's ignition and threw it out of the plane. His father, a former Air Force pilot, managed to successfully crash-land the plane, even though "there was nothing down there but trees". Although the plane was destroyed, Johnston and his father emerged with only minor injuries. As a result of this episode, Johnston was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital.^[8]

In 2004, he released The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered, a two-disc compilation. The first disc featured many artists, such as Tom Waits, Beck, TV on the Radio, Jad Fair, Eels, Bright Eyes, Calvin Johnson, Death Cab for Cutie, Sparklehorse, Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips covering songs written by Johnston. The second disc featured Johnston's original recordings of the songs.

In 2005, Texas-based theater company Infernal Bridegroom Productions received a Multi-Arts Production/MAP Fund grant^[9] to work with Johnston to create a rock opera based on his music, titled Speeding Motorcycle.

A 2005, Dutch documentary about Johnston for the TV series R.A.M. was followed in 2006 by The Devil and Daniel Johnston. Jeff Feuerzeig's documentary, four years in the making, collated some of the vast amount of recorded material Johnston (and in some case, others) had produced over the years to portray his life and music. The film won high praise, receiving the Director's Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. The film also inspired more interest in Johnston's work, such as the film's theme song, "I Had Lost My Mind", and increased his pull as a touring artist.

In 2006, Johnston's own Eternal Yip Eye Music label released his first greatest hits compilation, Welcome to My World.^[10] He also appeared as musical guest on The Henry Rollins Show on which he performed "Mask" and "Care Less" (the latter was exclusive to the internet).

Through the next few years Johnston toured extensively across the world, and continued to attract press attention. In 2008, Dick Johnston, Daniel's brother and manager, revealed that "a movie deal based on the artist's life and music had been finalized with a tentative 2011 release."^[11] He also said that a deal had been struck with the Converse company for a "signature series" Daniel Johnston shoe.^[11] Later, it was revealed by Dick Johnston that Converse had dropped the plan.^[12] In late 2008, Adjustable Productions released Johnston's first concert DVD, The Angel and Daniel Johnston – Live at the Union Chapel, featuring a 2007 appearance in Islington, London.^[13]

On January 31, 2009, Daniel Johnston joined the band The Swell Season on a broadcast of Austin City Limits (previously recorded on September 28, 2008) to perform the song "Life in Vain".

His latest album, Is and Always Was, was released on October 6, 2009 on his Eternal Yip Eye Music record label. In 2009, it was announced that Matt Groening had chosen Johnston to perform at the edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that he curated in May 2010 in Minehead, England. Later that year, he was invited by rock band Cage the Elephant to appear at Starry Nights Fest, an upstart music festival in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Johnston performed a brief solo set before being joined on stage by Cage, who backed performances of several songs, including "Speeding Motorcycle" and "True Love Will Find You in the End".

Reviews[link]

One critic from Pitchfork Media writes that Johnston's recordings range from "spotty to brilliant."^[14]

Art career[link]

Johnston's "Hi, How Are You" mural in Austin, Texas

His artwork is shown in galleries such as in London's Aquarium Gallery and New York's Clementine Gallery. both in 2006, and the 2008 Liverpool Biennial. Currently his work is being exhibited as "The Museum of Love" at Verge Gallery in Sacramento, California.

In 1993 Johnston was commissioned to paint a mural of the Hi, How Are You? frog (also known as "Jeremiah the Innocent") from his 1983 album cover on the side of the Sound Exchange record store located on the corner of 21st and Guadalupe in Austin, Texas (the "Drag").^[15] At the time, the frog image had recently become nationally recognized from media images of Kurt Cobain wearing a "Hi, How Are You?" t-shirt during Nirvana's promotion of their 1991 album Nevermind.^[16] The building remained unoccupied until 2004 when a Mexican grill franchise called Baja Fresh took ownership and decided to paint over the mural. Diego Gonzalez Joven, an international student from The University of Texas at Austin convinced the managers and contractors to keep the mural intact, later that year it became a sushi and Thai restaurant called Crave.^[17] In Spring 2008, a Jeremiah the Innocent collectible figurine was released in limited runs of four different colors.^[18]

As of June 2010, a biopic about Johnston's life featuring Gabriel Sunday of My Suicide is in production.^[19]

March 1, 2012, Brooklyn based photographer Jung Kim announced her photo book and traveling exhibition project with Johnston, a collaboration 4 years in the making. It is cited on the project's Kickstarter campaign page that the photo book and first exhibition will launch at SXSW 2013 in Austin, Texas, hosted by Louis Black who was an early supporter of Johnston.^[20]

March 13, 2012, Johnston released his first comic book, Space Ducks – An Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness at SXSW in Austin, Texas, published by BOOM! Studios. The comic book is complemented by the Space Ducks album and an iOS app. ^[21]

New media[link]

Daniel Johnston worked with Dr. Fun Fun and Smashing Studios to develop an iPhone platform game called "Hi, How Are You". The game is similar to Frogger, but features Johnston's art and music.^[22]

Discography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Official[link]

• Hi How Are You: Daniel Johnston's official website (maintained by the Johnston family)
• Daniel Johnston's official fan website (also maintained by the Johnstons)
• Daniel Johnston's digital download site (also maintained by the Johnstons)
• Daniel Johnston's Book "Hi, How Are You?" (maintained by Jack Medicine)

Other[link]

• Daniel Johnston at the Internet Movie Database
• New York Times article on Daniel Johnston (Feb 2006)
• Daniel Johnston on MusicAustin^{[dead link]}
• Secret Tones review of The Devil and Daniel Johnston (by John Barron)
• 2001 Daniel Johnston interview with Jon Niccum
• "Songs of Pain" interview with Daniel Johnston (Apr. 2008) on MonsterFresh.com
• Daniel Johnston, Paris, 2007
• Exclusive Images of unreleased Daniel Johnston signature model Converse
• Feature on Daniel Johnston in German magazine ZOO, Summer 2005
• "Colouring Daniel Johnston" (Jan. 2012), a tribute to Daniel Johnston from spanish bands