Al MacKenzie
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. #3 (Aug 1988)
Created by	Bob Harras and Paul Neary
In-story information
Alter ego	Alphonso MacKenzie
Team affiliations	S.H.I.E.L.D. C.I.A.

Al MacKenzie is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.

Publication history[link]

Al MacKenzie first appeared in Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. #3 (August 1988), and was created by Bob Harras and Paul Neary.

The character subsequently appears in Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1-7 (September 1989-January 1990).

Al MacKenzie received an entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89 #4.

Fictional character biography[link]

Al MacKenzie was born in Austin, Texas. He was once the C.I.A. liaison to S.H.I.E.L.D.^{[volume & issue needed]} He became romantically involved with Contessa Valentina Allegra di Fontaine after a while, which led to an estrangement between him and Nick Fury.^{[volume & issue needed]} Because of this, he returned to the CIA with the Contessa.^{[volume & issue needed]}

MacKenzie later joined the S.H.I.E.L.D. organization full time, and spent considerable time as the senior liaison officer to the C.I.A.^{[volume & issue needed]} Subsequently, under unknown circumstances, MacKenzie resigned from S.H.I.E.L.D., and wrote a "tell-all" book entitled UnSHIELDed: an Unauthorized Insider's Look Behind the World's Most Powerful Global Spy Network, which purportedly explained some of the history behind the organization from his point of view.^[1] Since then, he also acted as an unofficial source to Ben Urich, prodding Urich and Jessica Jones to attempt to expose Fury's unauthorized mission to Latveria.^[2]

References[link]

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Scott McKenzie (born Philip Blondheim, January 10, 1939,^[1] Jacksonville, Florida) is an American singer. He is best known for his 1967 hit single and generational anthem, "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)".^[2]

Life and career[link]

McKenzie grew up in North Carolina and Virginia, where he became friends with the son of one of his mother's friends, John Phillips. In the mid 1950s, he sang briefly with Tim Rose in a high school group called The Singing Strings, and later with Phillips, Mike Boran and Bill Cleary formed a doo wop band, The Abstracts. In New York, The Abstracts became The Smoothies and recorded two singles with Decca Records, produced by Milt Gabler. In 1961 Phillips and McKenzie met Dick Weissman and formed The Journeymen, which recorded three albums for Capitol Records. They disbanded The Journeymen in 1964, as McKenzie wanted to perform on his own. So Phillips formed the group The Mamas & the Papas with Denny Doherty, Cass Elliot and Michelle Phillips, his second wife. The group soon moved to California. Two years later, McKenzie followed from New York and signed with Lou Adler's Ode Records.

Phillips wrote and co-produced "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)" for McKenzie. John Phillips played guitar on the recording and session musician Gary L Coleman played orchestra bells and chimes. The bass line of the song was supplied by session musician Joe Osborn. Hal Blaine played drums. It was released on 13 May 1967 in the United States and was an instant hit, reaching number four on the Billboard Hot 100. It was also a number one in the UK and several other countries, selling over seven million copies globally.^[3]

McKenzie followed the song with "Like An Old Time Movie", also written and produced by Phillips, which was a minor hit. His first album, The Voice of Scott McKenzie, was followed with an album called Stained Glass Morning. He stopped recording in the early 1970s and lived in Joshua Tree, California, and Virginia Beach.

In 1986 he started singing with a new version of The Mamas and the Papas. With Terry Melcher, Mike Love and John Phillips, he co-wrote the number 1 single for the Beach Boys, "Kokomo" (1988).

By 1998 he had retired from the road version of The Mamas and Papas, and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. He appeared at the Los Angeles tribute concert for John Phillips in 2001, amongst other 1960s contemporary acts.^{[citation needed]}

Discography[link]

• 1967: The Voice of Scott McKenzie
• 1970: Stained Glass Morning

Quotation[link]

NME - August 1967^[4]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Scott McKenzie Web Site
• Scott McKenzie at Allmusic
• Scott McKenzie at the Internet Movie Database

Alan Mackenzie (born 8 August 1966 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish former footballer. Mackenzie played for a number of Scottish clubs most notably for Cowdenbeath and Raith Rovers.

Mackenzie holds the record of being the first Clyde player to score at Broadwood Stadium, scoring the first goal at their new ground in 1994.

In 1996 he moved to Australia where he scored Perth Glory's first goal for in their first match on the 13th of October 1996 in the National Soccer League.^[1][2][3]

He later moved back to Scotland for a stint with Whitburn Junior F.C.^[4]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Alan MacKenzie, Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Database

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Mackenzie Phillips
Phillips in 1975.
Born	Laura Mackenzie Phillips (1959-11-10) November 10, 1959 (age 52) Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
Other names	Mackinzie Phillips
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1973–present
Spouse	Jeff Sessler (m. 1979–1981) «start: (1979)–end+1: (1982)»"Marriage: Jeff Sessler to Mackenzie Phillips" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Mackenzie_Phillips) Michael Barakan (m. 1996–2000) «start: (1996)–end+1: (2001)»"Marriage: Michael Barakan to Mackenzie Phillips" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Mackenzie_Phillips)

Mackenzie Phillips (born November 10, 1959) is an American actress and singer best known for her roles in American Graffiti and as rebellious teenager Julie Cooper Horvath on the sitcom One Day at a Time. She's also known for her role in the Disney Channel science fiction show So Weird.^[1]

Early life[link]

Born Laura Mackenzie Phillips in Alexandria, Virginia, she is the daughter of John Phillips, singer of The Mamas & the Papas, and his first wife, Susan Adams. She is the sister of Jeffrey Phillips and a half-sister of Tamerlane Phillips, actress Bijou Phillips, and singer Chynna Phillips.

Phillips attended Highland Hall Waldorf School in Northridge, California.^[2] At age 12, Phillips formed a band with three of her classmates and was spotted by a casting agent during one of their performances.^[3] She was given an audition for a role in the 1973 hit film American Graffiti, which she won.

Career[link]

Phillips was 12 when the filming of American Graffiti began, and 14 when the movie was released. She was cast as Carol Morrison, a young girl accidentally picked up by hot rodding teenager John Milner. Because of California state law, producer Gary Kurtz became Phillips' legal guardian during the filming.^[4]

Phillips gained stardom in the 1970s, when she played boy-crazy teenager Julie Cooper Horvath on the long-running television show One Day at a Time, for which she earned $50,000 a week.^[3] During the show's third season in 1977, Phillips was arrested for public drunkenness and possession of cocaine. Because of her drug and alcohol abuse, Phillips began arriving late and was even incoherent for rehearsals. The producers ordered her to take a six-week break to overcome her addiction. In 1980, she was fired from the show.^[3]

After two nearly fatal overdoses, Phillips entered Fair Oaks Hospital to undergo treatment. In 1981, the producers of One Day at a Time invited her back to the show.^[3] However, she resumed using cocaine in 1982 and collapsed on the show's set. When she refused to take a drug test, she was fired and her character was written out of the series. In 1992, she entered a long-term drug rehabilitation program and underwent intensive treatment for nine months.^[3]

From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, Phillips performed with a re-formed version of The Mamas & the Papas known as The New Mamas and The Papas.

In 1999, Phillips co-starred with Cara DeLizia in the Disney Channel series So Weird, playing a fictional rock star coincidentally named Molly Phillips. She was mother to Fiona, played by Cara DeLizia, and Jack played by Patrick Levis. In the third season, Fiona was replaced by Alexz Johnson, and Molly became a sort of mother to her. She sang original songs written by show producers Jon Cooksey and Ann Marie Montade. In 2002, she appeared in the Disney Channel original movie Double Teamed. Phillips has since guest-starred on episodes of ER, Without a Trace, 7th Heaven, and Cold Case.

Phillips won an Honorary Best Actress award on March 20, 2011 at the closing night awards gala of the Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto, Canada for her performance as Sharon in the 2010 independent film Peach Plum Pear. While in Toronto, she was interviewed on Canada Am, ET Canada, and the Marilyn Denis Show.^[5]

Personal life[link]

Phillips has been married twice: to rock-group manager Jeffrey Sessler (1979–1981), and to rock guitarist Michael Barakan – now known professionally as Shane Fontayne – (1996–2000). She has one child, a son, Shane Barakan (born 1987), a musician. Phillips has had a lifetime troubled by drug abuse. On August 27, 2008, she was arrested by the Los Angeles Airport Police on charges of possession of cocaine and heroin after she went through airport security screening.^[6] On October 31, 2008, she pleaded guilty to one felony count of cocaine possession, and was sentenced to a drug rehabilitation program.^[7] Phillips' drug case was dismissed after she successfully completed a drug diversion program. "Mackenzie deserves great credit for seizing the opportunity she was given to get clean and prove she was worthy of the dismissal of her case," her attorney Blair Berk said in a statement.^[8] She appeared on the third season of Celebrity Rehab, which aired in January and February 2010. She later discussed her recovery on the March 17, 2010 episode of The View.

Allegations of sexual relationship with father[link]

In September 2009, Phillips' memoir High on Arrival was released, after which she appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show for an hour-long interview. She told Winfrey that she first tried cocaine when she was 11 years old, and that her father did drugs with her and injected her with cocaine.

During the interview, Phillips read excerpts from her book. She said that at the age of 19, on the night before her first wedding, "I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father." In a later article in People magazine, she adds that she was under the influence of drugs provided by her father.^[9] Phillips then told Winfrey, "It became a consensual relationship,"^[10][11] describing her participation as "sort of Stockholm Syndrome, where you begin to love your captor."^[11] She later changed her mind about it being a consensual relationship. In an interview on HLN's Joy Behar show, she said: "As I was writing the book, I thought, this word, it kept sitting wrong with me. But I used it for lack of a better word. Since then, I've been schooled by thousands of incest survivors all across the world that there really is no such thing as consensual incest due to the inherent power a parent has over a child. So, I wouldn't necessarily call it a consensual relationship at this time."^[12]

Phillips said the incestuous relationship had happened gradually for ten years,^[13] and that she ended it when she became pregnant and did not know who had fathered the child. She stated that her father paid for her to have an abortion, "and I never let him touch me again."^[14][15]

Genevieve Waite, John's wife at the time claimed abuse before her wedding occurred, denied the allegations, and said they were totally incongruous with his character. Michelle Phillips, John's second wife, also stated that she had "every reason to believe [Mackenzie's account is] untrue."^[16]

Chynna Phillips, Mackenzie's half-sister and Michelle Phillips' daughter, stated that she believed Mackenzie's claims and that Mackenzie first told her about the relationship during a phone conversation in 1997, approximately 11 years after the supposed relationship had ended.^[17] Bijou Phillips, Mackenzie's other half-sister, said in a statement that Mackenzie had informed her of the relationship when Bijou was 13 years old,^[18] but also stated, "I'm 29 now, I've talked to everyone who was around during that time, I've asked the hard questions. I do not believe my sister. Our father is many things; this is not one of them."^[19] Jessica Woods, daughter of Denny Doherty, said that her father knew of the relationship.^[20]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Mackenzie Phillips at the Internet Movie Database
• "Mackenzie Phillips on Family" - Phillips's appearance on The Talk, discussing the reaction to her memoir