Robert Clark Young

Robert Clark "Bob" Young (born 1960) is an American writer of essays and short stories. He has also written a novel, entitled One of the Guys, published in 1999. Young has been involved in several prominent literary controversies including a series of articles published in May 2013 revealing that Young had been using a pseudonym to make malicious edits to the Wikipedia biographies of his personal and professional adversaries.

Young was raised and educated in Southern California.

Early life

Born in Los Angeles in 1960, Young was raised there and in and San Diego. He studied writing at the University of San Diego, the University of California, Davis, and the University of Houston.

During 1987 and 1988 Young worked for the United States Navy teaching remedial English to sailors on ships deployed in the Far East. He based his 1999 novel One of the Guys on this experience.

Career

Young released his debut novel on May 1, 1999. Entitled One of the Guys (Harper Perennial, 2000), the book was a satirical work about a man impersonating a U.S. Navy chaplain. Reception of the novel was poor, with reviews citing a contrived plot and a bland lead character, though it was moderately financially successful.

Just One

Just One is the debut album by the hardcore band Better Than a Thousand, released in 1997. Originally just intended to be a fun project, Ray Cappo, Graham Land and Ken Olden recorded some hardcore songs at Issa Diao's (of Good Clean Fun) studio in Atlanta. After releasing this album, the band gained a large following. This was mainly because Better Than a Thousand's sound reminds a lot of people of Ray's old band Youth of Today, only then slightly updated to the melodic hardcore style that was famous around 1997.

Track listing

Credits

Just One of the Guys

Just One of the Guys is a 1985 comedy film, directed by Lisa Gottlieb. The film is marketed with the tagline "Terri Griffith is about to go where no woman has gone before." It ranked number 48 on Entertainment Weekly 's list of the "50 Best High School Movies". The film is a loose adaptation of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

Plot

Terry Griffith (Joyce Hyser) is an aspiring teenage journalist living in Phoenix, Arizona who feels that teachers don't take her school newspaper articles seriously because of her good looks. After failing to get her dream job as a newspaper intern, she comes to the conclusion that it is because she is a girl.

With her parents out of town on a 2 week Caribbean vacation, Terry decides to remedy the situation. Enrolling at a rival high school, she enlists the help of her sex-obsessed loudmouth little brother, Buddy (Billy Jacoby) and her best friend Denise (Toni Hudson) to disguise herself as a boy. Her brother and friend also help to keep tabs on her throughout the experiment. Along the way she meets Rick Morehouse (Clayton Rohner), a gold-hearted nerd who becomes her pet project. After helping him through an image makeover and encouraging him to start talking to girls (which results in him taking the most popular girl in school out to the prom), Terry starts to fall for him.