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Guy or guys may refer to:

• Guy (given name)
• Guy, an effigy burned on bonfire night (as in 'Penny for the Guy' - see Guy Fawkes, section "Legacy", for the development to the colloquial meaning of "a guy" meaning "a man")
• Guys - plural informal for a group of men

In places:

• Guy, Arkansas
• Guy, Indiana
• Guy, Texas
• Guys, Tennessee

In characters

• Guy (Final Fight), character from the Final Fight and Street Fighter games
• Guy (Fire Emblem), character from Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken
• Guy Smiley, character from Sesame Street
• Guy #1 and Guy #2, characters in We Like Sportz, by The Lonely Island
• Guy Cecil, character from the game Tales of the Abyss

In other uses:

• Guy (sailing), rope to control a spar on a sailboat
• Guy (grape), another name for the French wine grape Gouais blanc
• Guy (band), R&B group
• Guy (film), 1997 film starring Vincent D'Onofrio
• Guy-wire, wire used to keep a structure in place against the effects of wind
• Guy Motors, former British bus and truck builder
• Guy the Gorilla, ((1946 – 1978), a Western Lowland Gorilla and 1960s–70s "celebrity" at London Zoo

Surname[link]

• Athol Guy (born 1940), Australian musician
• Barry Guy (born 1947), British composer
• Billy Guy (1936–2002), American singer
• Brent Guy (born 1960), American football coach
• Buddy Guy (born 1936), American guitarist
• Constantin Guys (1802–1892), French journalist
• Edna Guy (1907–1982), American dancer
• Étienne Guy (1774–1820), Canadian surveyor and politician
• Fabrice Guy (born 1968), French skier
• Fritz Guy (born 1930), American theologian
• Greg Guy, American basketball player
• Henry Lewis Guy (1887–1956), British mechanical engineer
• Jasmine Guy (born 1962), American actress
• John Guy (governor) (died 1629), English merchant and Governor of Newfoundland
• John Guy (historian) (born 1949), British historian
• Nathan Guy (born 1970), New Zealand politician
• Phil Guy (1940–2008), American guitarist
• Ray Guy (born 1949), American football player
• Richard Guy (born 1916), British mathematician
• Rosa Guy (born 1925), American writer
• Thomas Guy (1644–1724), British hospital founder
• William Guy (1810–1885), British physician
• William L. Guy (born 1919), American politician

See also[link]

• Guy Fawkes Night
• Guy-Concordia (Montreal Metro), Montreal metro station
• Guy I (disambiguation)
• Guy II (disambiguation)
• Guinness Yeast Extract or GYE

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William R. "Willie" Horton (born August 12, 1951) is an American convicted felon who, while serving a life sentence for murder, without the possibility of parole, was the beneficiary of a Massachusetts weekend furlough program. He did not return from his furlough, and ultimately he committed assault, armed robbery and rape.

Criminal activity and incarceration[link]

Horton was born in Chesterfield, South Carolina. On October 26, 1974, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Horton and two accomplices robbed Joseph Fournier, a 17-year-old gas station attendant, and then fatally stabbed him 19 times after he had cooperated by handing over all of the money in the cash register. His body was dumped in a trash can. Fournier died from blood loss.^[1] Horton was convicted of murder, sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, and incarcerated at the Northeastern Correctional Center in Massachusetts.^[2]

On June 6, 1986, he was released as part of a weekend furlough program but did not return. On April 3, 1987 in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Horton twice raped a local woman after pistol-whipping, knifing, binding, and gagging her fiancé. He then stole the car belonging to the man he had assaulted. He was later shot and captured by Corporal Paul J. Lopez of the Prince George's County Police Department after a pursuit. On October 20, Horton was sentenced in Maryland to two consecutive life terms plus 85 years. The sentencing judge, Vincent J. Femia, refused to return Horton to Massachusetts, saying, "I'm not prepared to take the chance that Mr. Horton might again be furloughed or otherwise released. This man should never draw a breath of free air again."^[3]

On April 18, 1996, Horton was transferred to the Jessup Correctional Institution (then called the Maryland House of Correction Annex), a maximum security prison in Jessup, Maryland, where he remains.^[4]

Democratic Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis was the governor of Massachusetts at the time of Horton's release, and while he did not start the furlough program, he had supported it as a method of criminal rehabilitation. The State inmate furlough program was actually signed into law by Republican Governor Francis W. Sargent in 1972. However, under Sargent, convicted first-degree murderers were not eligible for furlough. After the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that this right extended to first-degree murderers, the Massachusetts legislature quickly passed a bill prohibiting furloughs for such inmates. However, in 1976, Dukakis vetoed this bill arguing it would 'cut the heart out of efforts at inmate rehabilitation'.^[5] The program remained in effect through the intervening term of governor Edward J. King and was abolished during Dukakis' final term of office on April 28, 1988. This abolition occurred only after the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune had run 175 stories about the furlough program and won a Pulitzer Prize.^[6] Dukakis continued to argue that the program was 99 percent effective; yet, as the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune pointed out, no state outside of Massachusetts, nor any federal program, would grant a furlough to a prisoner serving life without parole.^{[citation needed]}

Horton in the 1988 presidential campaign[link]

The first person to mention the Massachusetts furlough program in the 1988 presidential campaign was Al Gore. During a debate at the Felt Forum sponsored by the New York Daily News, Gore took issue with the furlough program. However, he did not specifically mention the Horton incident or even his name, instead asking a general question about the Massachusetts furlough program.^[7]

Republicans picked up the Horton issue after Dukakis clinched the nomination. In June 1988, Republican candidate George H.W. Bush seized on the Horton case, bringing it up repeatedly in campaign speeches.^[7] Bush's campaign manager, Lee Atwater, predicted that "by the time this election is over, Willie Horton will be a household name."^[7][8] In April 1988, Lee Atwater asked aide Jim Pinkerton for negative research to defeat Dukakis.^{[citation needed]} Pinkerton returned with reams of material that Atwater told him to reduce to a 3×5 index card, telling him, "I'm giving you one thing. You can use both sides of the 3×5 card." Pinkerton discovered the furlough issue by watching the Felt Forum debate. On May 25, 1988, Republican consultants met in Paramus, New Jersey, holding a focus group of Democrats who had voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984. After giving the focus group the material Pinkerton provided on the index card, most of the voters switched from favoring Dukakis to favoring Bush.^{[citation needed]} These focus groups convinced Atwater and the other Republican consultants that they should 'go negative' against Dukakis. Further information regarding the furlough came from aide Andrew Card, a Massachusetts native whom President George W. Bush later named as his Chief of Staff.^[9]

Jumping the gun[link]

Although commercials about Willie Horton were not run until the fall campaign, Bush first mentioned him at the Texas Republican convention on June 9, 1988. The following week at the Illinois Republican convention in Springfield, Bush began to press the argument against Dukakis by declaring that Dukakis had let Horton loose to 'terrorize innocent people' and continued support of the furlough program until the Massachusetts legislature changed the law.^{[citation needed]} Bush again mentioned Horton at the National Sheriffs Association in Louisville, Kentucky and declared himself in favor of 'life without parole' for convicted murderers.^{[citation needed]}

Over the Fourth of July weekend in 1988, Atwater attended a motorcyclists' convention in Luray, Virginia. Two couples were talking about the Horton story as featured in the July issue of Reader's Digest. Atwater joined them without mentioning who he was. Later that night, a focus group in Alabama had turned completely against Dukakis when presented the information about Horton's furlough. Atwater used this occurrence to argue the necessity of pounding Dukakis about the furlough issue.^[9]

The fall campaign[link]

Beginning on September 21, 1988, the Americans for Bush arm of the National Security Political Action Committee (NSPAC), under the auspices of Floyd Brown, began running a campaign ad entitled "Weekend Passes", using the Horton case to attack Dukakis. The ad was produced by media consultant Larry McCarthy, who had previously worked for Roger Ailes. After clearing the ad with television stations, McCarthy added a menacing mug shot of Horton, who is African American. The ad was run as an independent expenditure, separate from the Bush campaign, which claimed not to have had any role in its production.^[10]

On October 5, 1988, a day after the "Weekend Passes" ad was taken off the airwaves, was the date of the Bentsen-Quayle debate, the Bush campaign ran its own ad, "Revolving Door", which also attacked Dukakis over the weekend furlough program. While the advertisement did not mention Horton or feature his photograph, it depicted a variety of intimidating-looking men walking in and out of prison through a revolving door.^[11] The commercial was filmed at an actual state prison in Draper, Utah, but the individuals depicted – thirty in all, including three African Americans and two Hispanics, were all paid actors.^{[citation needed]}

Attempting to counter-attack, Dukakis' campaign ran an ad about a convicted heroin dealer named Angel Medrano who raped and killed a pregnant mother of two after escaping from a federal correctional halfway house.^[12] Conservative pundit Ann Coulter argues this case was less relevant since Medrano had no criminal history of violent behavior and Bush was not running based on his work in the federal justice system.^[13] The controversy escalated when Vice Presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen and former Democratic presidential candidate and civil rights leader Jesse Jackson called the "Revolving Door" ad racist – a charge which was denied by Bush.^[12]

In 1990, the Ohio Democratic Party and a group called "Black Elected Democrats of Ohio" filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that NSPAC had coordinated or cooperated with the Bush campaign in airing the ad, which would make it an illegal in-kind campaign contribution.^[10] Investigation by the FEC, including deposition of officials from both organizations, revealed indirect connections between McCarthy and the Bush campaign (such as his having previously worked for Ailes), but found no direct evidence of wrongdoing, and the investigation reached an impasse and was eventually closed with no finding of any violation of campaign finance laws.^[10]

See also[link]

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• Revolving Door (advertisement)
• Daisy (advertisement)
• Wayne DuMond

References[link]

External links[link]

• Independent Ads: The National Security Political Action Committee "Willie Horton"
• "Willie Horton" advertisement via American Museum of the Moving Image
• Ingraham, Hannity revived claim that "Al Gore brought up Willie Horton"
• Anthony Walton's 1989 essay, Willie Horton and Me
• Willie Horton at the Internet Movie Database

Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Ferguson at a PFLAG event on October 1, 2010.
Born	(1975-10-22) October 22, 1975 (age 36) Missoula, Montana, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1998–present
Partner	Justin Mikita

Jesse Tyler Ferguson (born October 22, 1975) is an American actor known for portraying Mitchell Pritchett on the ABC sitcom Modern Family. Previously he played the role of Richie Velch in the CBS sitcom The Class.

Life and career[link]

Ferguson was born in Missoula, Montana, and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he was raised.^[1] At age eight he decided to become an actor, and joined the Albuquerque Children's Theater, where he was a member for six years. In high school Ferguson played Albert Peterson in Bye Bye Birdie, and General Bullmoose in Li'l Abner. He also joined his high school speech and debate team, and worked as a dancer/singer at Cliff's Amusement Park.^{[citation needed]}

Ferguson graduated from St. Pius X high school in 1994 and attended The American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in New York City. He worked mainly in off-Broadway and Broadway shows, including the Tony Award-winning, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, where he originated the role of Leaf Coneybear.^[2]

In the summer of 2007, Ferguson starred in the Public Theatre's Shakespeare in the Park production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and co-starred in the 2008 thriller, Untraceable. Ferguson appears in the ABC sitcom Modern Family and, like his character, is openly gay.^[3][4] He has been nominated for Outstanding Supporting Role in a Comedy Series at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards and the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards for this role. He submitted the season one finale episode, "Family Portrait", and the season two episode, "Halloween", for consideration in each year.

In March 2012, Ferguson was featured in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play, 8 – a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage – as Dr. Ilan Meyer.^[5] The production was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and broadcast on YouTube to raise money for the American Foundation for Equal Rights, a non-profit organization funding the plaintiffs' legal team and sponsoring the play.^[6][7]

Commenting on Kirk Cameron's remarks on the March 6, 2012 episode of Piers Morgan Tonight, in which Cameron called homosexuality unnatural and "detrimental to society", Ferguson said "The only unnatural thing about me being gay is that I had a crush on Kirk Cameron until about 24 hours ago." ^[8]

Filmography[link]

• 2000: Sally Hemings: An American Scandal – Young Tom Hemings
• 2001: Ordinary Sinner – Ogden
• 2002: Mercury in Retrograde – Duane
• 2003: Absolutely Fabulous – Cameo^[9]
• 2006: Griffin and Phoenix – Student
• 2007: The Class – Richie Velch (19 episodes)
• 2008: Untraceable – Arthur James Elmer
• 2008: Do Not Disturb – Larry
• 2009: Wonderful World – Cyril
• 2009-present: Modern Family – Mitchell Pritchett
• 2010: Ugly Betty – Dr. Gabe Farkus (2 episodes)
• 2011 So You Think You Can Dance – Guest judge Wednesday July 13, 2011

Stage productions[link]

• On the Town – Chip (Broadway Revival, November 19, 1998 – January 17, 1999)
• The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told – (Off Broadway)
• Little Fish – Marco (Off Broadway)
• Where Do We Live
• newyorkers
• Hair – Margaret Mead – (Encores!)
• SantaLand Diaries
• A Midsummer Night's Dream – Francis Flute – Public Theatre (Shakespeare in the Park)
• The Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged)
• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee – Leaf Coneybear (Broadway, May 2, 2005 – January 20, 2008)
• On the Twentieth Century – Max Jacobs (Special Concert, September 26, 2005)
• The Merchant of Venice – Launcelot Gobbo – Public Theatre (Shakespeare in the Park) – Summer 2010

Awards[link]

• 2005 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Ensemble Performance – The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
• 2010 Screen Actors Guild Award: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series – Modern Family

References[link]

External links[link]

• Jesse Tyler Ferguson at the Internet Broadway Database
• Jesse Tyler Ferguson at the Internet Movie Database
• Jesse Tyler Ferguson on Twitter

Eric Stonestreet
Stonestreet at the 2010 SAG Awards
Born	(1971-09-09) September 9, 1971 (age 40) Kansas City, Kansas, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1999–present

Eric Stonestreet (born September 9, 1971) is an American actor, best known for his starring role as Cameron Tucker on the ABC comedy Modern Family. Stonestreet has received critical acclaim for his performance in Modern Family and won the 2010 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role.

Early life[link]

Stonestreet was born in Kansas City, Kansas. During his childhood, he wanted to become a clown.^[1] At age nine,^[2] he created an auguste clown character named Fizbo, and has periodically brought him back, including in three episodes of Modern Family. He is a graduate of Piper High School and Kansas State University (1996). He spent two years doing plays and studying improv at The Second City Training Center in Chicago, then moved to Los Angeles and began his professional acting career. He was also a member of Kansas State's Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity.

Career[link]

Stonestreet plays Cameron Tucker on Modern Family on ABC.^[1] He is also notable for his role as Ronnie Litre on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He has also appeared on such television shows as Dharma & Greg, Malcolm in the Middle, The Mentalist, Party of Five, Spin City, ER, The West Wing, Pushing Daisies, Greg the Bunny, Providence, Close to Home, Crossing Jordan, Bones, Monk, NCIS, American Horror Story, and Nip/Tuck. Early on in his career, Stonestreet was featured in Northwestern University's 1996 Football TV commercial campaign as the "purple pride guy." In 2008, he played a private security firm employee and killer in an episode of NCIS entitled "Silent Night." In 2009, Stonestreet appeared on Nip/Tuck as a criminal sentenced to death for the alleged killing of a young girl.

His first major film role came in 2000, when he played Sheldon the desk clerk in Almost Famous. He also played Dr. Benson in Girls Will Be Girls, Ed the Trucker in The Island, and Courtney's Neighbor in Ninja Cheerleaders. In 2007, Stonestreet appeared in the short film "Vinny's Vault," which was produced during the reality show On the Lot. In 2009, Stonestreet began his run as Cameron Tucker on ABC's Modern Family. The show, and Stonestreet, returned for a second season on September 22, 2010. On August 29, 2010, Stonestreet won a 2010 Primetime Emmy Award (his first) as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role as Cameron in the episode "Fizbo". On December 14, 2011, it was announced that Stonestreet received a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.

Personal life[link]

Stonestreet is heterosexual, and often says that he is "openly straight". His openly gay co-star, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who plays Cameron Tucker's partner, Mitchell Pritchett, jokingly calls him "gay-for-pay".^[3][1] Stonestreet is also an avid fan of Kansas State University, cheering for the Wildcats on Jimmy Kimmel Live after they had beaten the Kansas Jayhawks in men's basketball, as well as appearing on College Gameday Live on October 29th 2011 in full Kansas State jumpsuit and picking them to upset the then No. 9 Oklahoma football team. He is also a hockey fan and a well known supporter of the Los Angeles Kings^[4]

Filmography[link]

Film[link]

Eric Stonestreet with Modern Family co-star Jesse Tyler Ferguson at the 2010 HRC National Dinner

Television[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Eric Stonestreet at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Website

Paul Dooley (born February 22, 1928) is an American actor, writer, and comedian.

Personal life[link]

Dooley was born Paul Dooley Brown in Parkersburg, West Virginia, the son of Ruth Irene (née Barringer), a homemaker, and Peter James Brown, a factory worker.^[1] Dooley was a cartoonist as a youth and drew a strip for a local paper in Parkersburg. He joined the Navy before discovering acting while at college. He is married to writer Winnie Holzman, with whom he has one daughter, Savannah Dooley (born 1985).

Career[link]

Moving to New York, he soon found success as a regular on the stage. Also having an interest in comedy, Dooley was a standup comedian for five years, and a member of the Compass Players and The Second City troupe in NYC, as well as having brief stints as a magician and as a clown. Not afraid of trying different areas of entertainment, he also worked as a writer. He was one of the writers on The Electric Company, which the character Paul the Gorilla was named after, and appeared in commercials.

Besides appearing in many movies, including most notably Popeye, Sixteen Candles, Breaking Away, and the voice of Sarge in the Disney/Pixar film Cars and its sequel Cars 2. Dooley has also appeared as a variety of recurrent characters on numerous television shows, including My So-Called Life, Dream On, Grace Under Fire, Curb Your Enthusiasm, ALF (playing Whizzer Deaver) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine where he played the recurring role of Enabran Tain. He guest starred in other primetime shows like The Wonder Years, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, The Golden Girls, and Desperate Housewives. In 2000, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role as an eccentric judge on The Practice. He was also in the infamous alternate ending to Little Shop of Horrors, but was replaced by Jim Belushi in the final cut.

In 2010, Dooley played the part of the head chef at Camp Victory, a fictional fat camp, on the short-lived ABC Family original series Huge.

Filmography[link]

• Fore Play (1975)
• Slap Shot (1977)
• A Wedding (1978)
• A Perfect Couple (1979)
• Breaking Away (1979)
• Rich Kids (1979)
• Popeye (1980)
• Paternity (1981)
• Endangered Species (1982)
• Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
• Strange Brew (1983)
• Sixteen Candles (1984)
• Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
• Monster in the Closet (1986)
• O.C. and Stiggs (1987)
• Lip Service (1988)
• Last Rites (1988)
• When He's Not a Stranger (1989) (TV)
• Flashback (1990)
• White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd (1991)
• The Player (1992)
• Shakes the Clown (1992)
• State of Emergency (1993)
• A Dangerous Woman (1993)
• My Boyfriend's Back (1993)
• Evolver (1994)
• The Underneath (1994)
• Out There (1995)
• God's Lonely Man (1996)
• Millennium (1996) (TV)
• Angels in the Endzone (1997)
• Telling Lies in America (1997)
• Waiting for Guffman (1997)
• Clockwatchers (1998)
• Happy, Texas (movie) (1999)
• Guinevere (1999)
• Runaway Bride (1999)
• A Woman's a Helluva Thing (2001)
• Insomnia (2002)
• Crazy Little Thing (2003)
• A Mighty Wind (2003)
• Come Away Home (2005)
• Madison (2005)
• Cars (2006)
• Hairspray (2007)
• Scrubs (2009) (TV)
• Sunshine Cleaning (2009)
• Huge (2010) (TV)
• Cars 2 (2011)

[edit] Star Trek: Deep Space Nine appearances

• "The Wire"
• "Improbable Cause"
• "The Die is Cast"
• "In Purgatory's Shadow"

References[link]

External links[link]

• Paul Dooley at the Internet Movie Database
• Paul Dooley at Yahoo! Movies
• Paul Dooley at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)