Adam Horowitz
Horowitz in March 2012.
Born	(1971-12-04) December 4, 1971 (age 40)
Occupation	Writer, producer
Spouse(s)	Erin Barrett Horowitz
Children	Sadie and Seneia Horowitz

Adam Horowitz (born December 4, 1971) is an American screenwriter and producer.

He is known for his work on: Felicity, Black Sash, One Tree Hill, Popular, Fantasy Island, Birds of Prey, Life As We Know It, and Lost.

He currently works on the ABC fantasy series Once Upon a Time, which he, and collaborator Edward Kitsis, co-created.

Life and career[link]

Education[link]

Horowitz attended Hunter College High School for his early high school career, graduating in 1990. He attended University of Wisconsin–Madison and graduated with a BA in 1994, majoring in communication arts and political science. There he met his future collaborator, Edward Kitsis. Horowitz was writer and reporter for the Daily Cardinal student newspaper, writing as many as five articles in the same issue. He often caught editors off-guard with humorous leads or picking odd quotes. He worked on articles about spearfishing and the Exxon Valdez oil spill.^{[citation needed]}

Television[link]

After graduating, Kitsis and Horowitz traveled together to Los Angeles, and worked together on Fantasy Island, Felicity, and Popular, before joining the Lost team halfway through the first season. He is married to Erin Barrett Horowitz.

Horowitz and the Lost writing staff won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2006 ceremony for their work on the first and second seasons.^[1] He was nominated for the WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series again at the February 2007 ceremony for his work on the second and third seasons,^[2] at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the fourth season of Lost^[3] and at the February 2010 ceremony for the fifth season.^[4] He also wrote Confessions of an American Bride, a made for television movie.

Horowitz and Kitsis created the ABC fantasy drama series Once Upon a Time, which began airing on October 23, 2011. The show focuses on a town which is actually a parallel world populated by fairytale characters who are unaware of their true identity. The two came up with the concept seven years prior to joining the staff of Lost, but wanted to wait until it ended before they focused on this project.^[5][6]

Film[link]

Horowitz worked as a writer on the Universal project Ouija Board^[7] and co-wrote with Kitsis the film Tron: Legacy in 2011.^[8]

Credits[link]

• Once Upon a Time, 2011-present
  • Episode 1.01 "Pilot" with Edward Kitsis
  • Episode 1.02 "The Thing You Love Most" with Kitsis
  • Episode 1.07 "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" with Kitsis
  • Episode 1.10 "7:15 A.M." story with Kitsis, teleplay by Daniel T. Thomsen
  • Episode 1.14 "Dreamy" with Kitsis
  • Episode 1.18 "The Stable Boy" with Kitsis
  • Episode 1.22 "A Land Without Magic" with Kitsis

• Lost, 2005–2010
  • Episode 1.22 "Born to Run" teleplay with Edward Kitsis, story by Javier Grillo-Marxuach
  • Episode 2.04 "Everybody Hates Hugo" with Kitsis
  • Episode 2.12 "Fire and Water" with Kitsis
  • Episode 2.18 "Dave" with Kitsis
  • Episode 2.22 "Three Minutes" with Kitsis
  • Episode 3.04 "Every Man for Himself" with Kitsis
  • Episode 3.10 "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead" with Kitsis
  • Episode 3.14 "Exposé" with Kitsis
  • Episode 3.18 "D.O.C." with Kitsis
  • Episode 3.21 "Greatest Hits" with Kitsis
  • Episode 4.03 "The Economist" with Kitsis
  • Episode 4.07 "Ji Yeon" with Kitsis
  • Episode 4.10 "Something Nice Back Home" with Kitsis
  • Episode 5.02 "The Lie" with Kitsis
  • Episode 5.10 "He's Our You" with Kitsis
  • Episode 5.14 "The Variable" with Kitsis
  • Episode 6.02 "What Kate Does" with Kitsis
  • Episode 6.07 "Dr. Linus" with Kitsis
  • Episode 6.12 "Everybody Loves Hugo" with Kitsis
  • Episode 6.16 "What They Died For" with Kitsis and Elizabeth Sarnoff

• Confessions of an American Bride, 2005

• One Tree Hill, 2004
  • Episode 1.20 "What Is and What Should Never Be" with Edward Kitsis

• Life as We Know It, 2004
  • Episode 1.08 "Family Hard-ships" with Edward Kitsis

• Black Sash, 2003
  • Episode 1.04 "Prodigal Son" with Edward Kitsis

• Birds of Prey, 2002–2003
  • Episode 1.03 "Prey for the Hunter" teleplay with Edward Kitsis, story by Adam Armus & Kay Foster
  • Episode 1.06 "Primal Scream" teleplay with Kitsis, story by Adam Armus & Kay Foster
  • Episode 1.07 "Split" teleplay with Kitsis, story by Adam Armus & Kay Foster
  • Episode 1.08 "Lady Shiva" teleplay with Kitsis, story by Adam Armus & Kay Foster
  • Episode 1.11 "Reunion" with Kitsis

• Popular, 2000–2001
  • Episode 1.08 "Tonight's the Night" with Edward Kitsis and Ryan Murphy
  • Episode 1.15 "Booty Camp" with Kitsis
  • Episode 1.21 "What Makes Sammy Run" with Kitsis
  • Episode 2.02 "Baby, Don't Do It" with Kitsis
  • Episode 2.07 "Ur-ine Trouble" with Kitsis
  • Episode 2.12 "The Shocking Possession of Harrison John" with Kitsis
  • Episode 2.15 "It's Greek to Me" with Kitsis
  • Episode 2.20 "You Don't Tug on Superman's Cape...You Don't Spit into the Wind...You Don't Pull the Mask off the Ol' Lone Ranger...And You Don't Mess Around with Big Bertha Muffin" with Kitsis

• Felicity, 2001
  • Episode 4.03 "Your Money or Your Wife" with Edward Kitsis
  • Episode 4.09 "Lonelyhearts" with Kitsis

Awards[link]

• 2005 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series for Lost.
• 2000 SHINE Award for Best Comedy Episode for Popular episode "Booty Camp".
• Nominated for 2000 Shine Award for Best Dramatic Episode for Popular episode "Tonight's the Night".

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Adam Horowitz

• Adam Horowitz at the Internet Movie Database

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Adam
Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam, a fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Adam is the figure on the left, and God the figure on the right.

Adam (Hebrew: אָדָם‎, Arabic: آدم‎, Syriac: ܐܵܕ݂ܵܡ) is a figure in the Book of Genesis, the Qur'an and the Kitáb-i-Íqán. According to the creation myth^[1] of Abrahamic religions, he is the first human. In the Genesis creation narratives, he was created by Yahweh-Elohim ("Yahweh-God", the god of Israel), though the term "adam" can refer to both the first individual person, as well as to the general creation of humankind. Christian churches differ on how they view Adam's subsequent behavior (often called the Fall of man), and to the consequences that those actions had on the rest of humanity. Christian and Jewish teachings sometimes hold Adam and Eve (the first woman) to a different level of responsibility for the Fall, though Islamic teaching holds both equally responsible. In addition, Islam holds that Adam was eventually forgiven, while Christianity holds that redemption occurred only later through the sacrifice of God's son, Jesus Christ. Bahá'í Faith, Islam and some Christian denominations consider Adam to be the first Prophet.

Etymology[link]

"Adam" (Hebrew אָדָם comes from the trilateral root אָדַם ( 'ADM ), meaning "red", "fair", "handsome".^[2] In the Book of Genesis, Adam occurs as a proper name in chapters 2-5. As a masculine noun, 'adam ^[3] means "man", "mankind" usually in a collective context as in humankind,^[2] and may also refer to the individual human.^[4] The noun 'adam is also the masculine form of the word adamah which means "ground" or "earth". It is related to the words: adom (red), admoni (ruddy), and dam (blood).^[5]

Genesis narrative[link]

In the first five chapters of Genesis the word אָדָם ( 'adam ) is used in all of its senses: collectively ("mankind"),^[1:27] individually (a "man"),^[2:7] gender nonspecific, ("man and woman")^[5:1,2] and male.^[2:23-24][6]

In Genesis 1:27 "adam" is used in the collective sense, whereby not only the individual Adam, but all humans, are created on the sixth day. The interplay between the individual "Adam" and the collective “humankind” is a main literary component to the events that occur in the Garden of Eden, the ambiguous meanings embedded throughout the moral, sexual, and spiritual terms of the narrative reflecting the complexity of the human condition.^[7] Genesis 2:7 is the first verse where "Adam" takes on the sense of an individual man (the first man): the context of sex and gender, prior to these verses, is absent. The gender distinction of "adam" is then reiterated in Genesis 5:1-2 by defining "male and female".^[8]

A recurring literary motif that occurs in Gen. 1-8, is the bond between Adam and the earth ("adamah"). Adam is made from the earth, and it is from this "adamah" that Adam gets his name. God's cursing of Adam also results in the earth being cursed,^[3:17] and Adam returns to the earth from which he was taken.^[3:19] This “earthly” aspect is a component of Adam’s identity, and Adam’s curse of estrangement from the earth seems to render humankind’s divided identity of being earthly yet separated from nature.^[8:21][9]

Creation[link]

And Elohim Created Adam
William Blake.

According to Genesis 1, God (Elohim) created human beings. "Male and female created He them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam..." (Genesis 5:2). Here "Adam" is a general term for "mankind" and refers to the whole of humankind. God blesses "mankind" to "be fruitful and multiply" and ordains that they should have "dominion" (but the exact meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain and disputed) "over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" (Genesis 1.26-27).

In Genesis 2 God forms "Adam" (this time meaning a single male human) out of "the dust of the ground" and then "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life", causing him to "become a living soul" (Genesis 2:7). God then placed Adam in the Garden of Eden, giving him the commandment that "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" (Genesis 2:16-17).

God then noted that "It is not good that the man should be alone" (Genesis 2:18). He then brought every "beast of the field and every fowl of the air" (Genesis 2:19) before Adam and had Adam name all the animals. However, among all the animals, there was not found "a helper suitable for" Adam (Genesis 2:20), so God caused "a deep sleep to fall upon Adam" and took one of his ribs, and from that rib, formed a woman (Genesis 2:21-22), subsequently named Eve.

Fall of Man[link]

Adam and Eve were subsequently expelled from the Garden of Eden, were ceremonially separated from God, and lost their innocence after they broke God's law about not eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This occurred after the serpent (understood to be Satan in many Christian traditions) told Eve that eating of the tree would result not in death, but in Adam and Eve's eyes being opened, resulting in their being "as gods, knowing good and evil" (Gen. 3.4-5). Convinced by the serpent's argument, Eve eats of the tree and has Adam do likewise (Gen. 3.6).

As a result, both immediately become aware of the fact that they are naked, and thus cover themselves with garments made of fig leaves (Gen. 3.7). Then, finding God walking in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve hide themselves from God's presence (Gen. 3.8). God calls to Adam "Where art thou?" (Gen. 3.9, KJV) and Adam responds "I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself" (Gen. 3.10, KJV). When God then asks Adam if he had eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Adam responds that his wife had told him to (Gen. 3.11-12).

As a result of their breaking God's law, the couple were removed from the garden (Gen. 3.23) (the Fall of Man according to Christian doctrine) and both receive a curse. Adam's curse is contained in Gen. 3.17-19: "Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return" (KJV).

Post-expulsion[link]

After his expulsion from Eden, Adam was forced to work hard for his food for the first time. According to the Book of Genesis, he had three male children with Eve named Cain, Abel, and Seth. The Book of Jubilees, a second century BC text which is not considered canonical by most Abrahamic faiths, states that Adam also had two daughters, Azura and Awan, who married Seth and Cain, respectively, in incestuous unions.

According to the Genealogies of Genesis, Adam died at the age of 930. With such numbers, calculations such as those of Archbishop Ussher would suggest that Adam would have died only about 127 years before the birth of Noah, nine generations after Adam. In other words, Adam's lifespan would have overlapped that of Lamech (father of Noah), at least fifty years. Ussher and a group of theologians and scholars in 1630 performed calculations and created a study that reported the creation of Adam on October 23, 4004 BC at 9:00 am and lived until 3074 BC. There was controversy over the fact that Ussher believed the whole creation process occurred on that day.

Religious views[link]

Jewish traditions[link]

In rabbinic writings and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Adam is a perfect human before his exile from Eden, but is diminished in stature when exiled.^[9] A traditional Jewish belief is that after Adam died, he was buried in the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron. The Book of Joshua mentions a "City of Adam" at the time that the Israelites crossed the Jordan River on entering Canaan, but doesn't suggest any relationship between this city and the "first man" of Genesis.

According to some Jewish mystical traditions, the original glory of Adam can be regained through mystical contemplation of God.^[9]

In Jewish folklore, Lilith is the name of Adam's first wife, who was created at the same time and from the same earth as Adam. She left Adam after she refused to become subservient to Adam and then would not return to the Garden of Eden after she mated with archangel Samael.^[10] Her story was greatly developed, during the Middle Ages, in the tradition of Aggadic midrashim, the Zohar and Jewish mysticism.^[11] The resulting Lilith legend is still commonly used as source material in modern culture, literature, occultism, fantasy and horror.

Christian traditions[link]

Early Christian views[link]

In Augustine’s reinterpretation of Pauline theology, Adam’s sin is transmitted by sexual relations (specifically by semen) to each descending generation. This contrasts with Christ who was conceived without sin by immaculate conception.^[9]

Jehovah's Witnesses[link]

Jehovah's Witnesses view Adam and Eve as the ones who brought sin, and thus death, into the world by committing the original sin, by disobeying Jehovah's clear command not to eat of the fruit of knowledge of good and evil.

Eve's sin is counted as deliberate disobedience, as she did know that Jehovah had commanded them not to eat, but she is held to have been deceived by the Serpent. (She was deceived only about the effect of their disobedience, not about the will of God on the matter.) Adam's sin is considered even more reproachable, as he had not been deceived. Rather, when confronted with his sin, he attempted to blame both his wife Eve, and Jehovah himself. Genesis 3:12 NWT - "The woman who you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree and so I ate.".^[12] By his sin, he forfeited human perfection and was therefore unable to pass it on to his offspring.

Latter Day Saints[link]

The Latter Day Saint movement holds that Adam and Michael the archangel are the same individual.^[13] Michael the archangel fought against and cast out Lucifer (who became Satan) and his followers at the conclusion of the War of Heaven during the pre-mortal existence (see Book of Revelation 12:7-9). Michael was born into this mortal existence as the man "Adam, the father of all, the prince of all, the Ancient of Days" (see Doctrine and Covenants 27:11 and 107:54). Mormons also consider Adam to be the first among all the prophets on earth. Brigham Young and other early leaders spoke favorably about the Adam–God theory, the idea that Adam and God the Father were the same person, but it did not become church doctrine and has since been repudiated by the church.

The Latter Day Saints hold the belief that the "Fall" was not a tragedy, but a necessary part of God's plan. They believe that Adam and Eve had to partake of the forbidden fruit in order to fulfill God's will, and that it is good that they did so.^[14]

Seventh-day Adventists[link]

Seventh-day Adventist believe that the importance of the literal creation time-line is pivotal to the story of humanity, their relationship to God, and the plan of salvation and atonement for Adam and Eve’s transgression (fall), by which all their descendants are under subjugation. The Bible states, “Since by man (Adam) came death, by man (Jesus the Christ) came also the resurrection... (I Cor. 15:21).” To disavow a literal creation and our first parents (Adam and Eve) nearly 6,000 years ago negates a fundamental, orthodox doctrine and the supremacy of the Holy Bible that the sovereign, triune God --“Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth,” (Genesis 1:26 NASB)—according to His own purpose and counsel and for His own glory, created humanity in the Biblical/Torah account.^[15]

Islamic view[link]

In Islam, Adam (Adem; Arabic: آدم) is believed to have been the first human being and the first prophet. Adam's role as the father of the human race is looked upon by Muslims with reverence, who also venerate his wife, Eve, as the "mother of mankind".^[16] Muslims see Adam as the first Muslim, as the Qur'an promulgates that all the prophets preached the same faith of submission to God.^[17] According to Hadith, Abu Huraira reports Muhammad as having said, "God created Adam, making him 60 cubits tall" and, "Any person who will enter Paradise will resemble Adam (in appearance and figure). People have been decreasing in stature since Adam's creation."^[18]

Bahá'í view[link]

In the Bahá'í view, Adam was the first Manifestation of God in recorded history.^[19] He is believed by Bahá'ís to have started the Adamic cycle 6000 years ago, which has culminated with Bahá'u'lláh.^[20][21] The Biblical story of Adam and Eve, according to Bahá'í belief, is allegorical and is explained by `Abdu'l-Bahá in Some Answered Questions.^[21]

Druze belief[link]

In the Druze religion, Adam and Eve are seen as dualistic cosmic forces and are complementary to one another. Adam represents the universal mind and Eve, the universal soul.^[22]

See also[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Adam

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Adam

• Adam and Eve
• Adam Kadmon
• Banu (Arabic)
• Paradise Lost
• Table of prophets of Abrahamic religions
• Y-chromosomal Adam
• Mahabad (prophet)

Footnotes[link]

References[link]

• Bahá'u'lláh (1862). Kitáb-i-Íqán: The Book of Certitude. Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Bahá'í Publishing Trust. ISBN 1-931847-08-8. http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/KI/. 

• Hendel, Ronald S (2000). "Adam". In David Noel Freedman. Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Eerdmans. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qRtUqxkB7wkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=eerdmans+dictionary+of+the+bible&hl=en&ei=Hu28TuaZA87nmAX22Z3MBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Adam&f=false. 

• Oxford annotated NRSV, editors, Michael D. Coogan, editor ; Marc Z. Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Pheme Perkins, associate (2007). The new Oxford annotated Bible with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books : New Revised Standard Version (Augm. 3rd ed. ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-528880-3. 
• Barker, Kenneth (Editor); John H. Stek, Mark L. Strauss, & Ronald F. Youngblood (2008). The NIV Study Bible. Genesus: Zondervan Publishing House. pp. 7. ISBN 978-0-310-93896-5. 

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"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.

The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.^[1]

History[link]

The earliest recorded use^{[citation needed]} of the term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to a letter written by a young Alexander Hamilton in September 1772, when he was 15. In a letter to his father James Hamilton, published in the Royal Dutch-American Gazette, he described the response of the Dutch governor of St. Croix to a hurricane that raked that island on August 31, 1772. "Our General has issued several very salutary and humane regulations and both in his publick and private measures, has shewn himself the Man." ^{[2][dubious – discuss]} In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.

It was also used as a term for a drug dealer in the 1950s and 1960s and can be seen in such media as Curtis Mayfield's "No Thing On Me", William Burroughs's novel Naked Lunch, and in the Velvet Underground song "I'm Waiting for the Man", in which Lou Reed sings about going to Uptown Manhattan, specifically Lexington Avenue and 125th Street, to buy heroin.

The use of this term was expanded to counterculture groups and their battles against authority, such as the Yippies, which, according to a May 19, 1969 article in U.S. News and World Report, had the "avowed aim ... to destroy 'The Man', their term for the present system of government". The term eventually found its way into humorous usage, such as in a December 1979 motorcycle ad from the magazine Easyriders which featured the tagline, "California residents: Add 6% sales tax for The Man."

In present day, the phrase has been popularized in commercials and cinema, featuring particularly prominently as a recurring motif in the 2003 film School of Rock.^[3][4][5][6]

Use as praise[link]

The term has also been used as an approbation or form of praise. This may refer to the recipient's status as the leader or authority within a particular context, or it might be assumed to be a shortened form of a phrase like "He is the man (who is in charge)." One example of this usage dates to 1879 when Otto von Bismarck commented, referring to Benjamin Disraeli's pre-eminent position at the Congress of Berlin, "The old Jew, he is the man."^{[7][dubious – discuss]}

In more modern usage, it can be a superlative compliment ("you da man!") indicating that the subject is currently standing out amongst his peers even though they have no special designation or rank, such as a basketball player who is performing better than the other players on the court. It can also be used as a genuine compliment with an implied, slightly exaggerated or sarcastic tone, usually indicating that the person has indeed impressed the speaker but by doing something relatively trivial.

See also[link]

• Absentee landlord
• Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
• New World Order (conspiracy theory)
• Ruling class
• The Establishment
• Power elite
• Corrections officer
• YTMND

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Lighter, J.E. (Ed.). (1997). Random House Dictionary of American Slang. New York: Random House.

Adam Yauch
Yauch performing in 2007
Background information
Birth name	Adam Nathaniel Yauch
Also known as	MCA Nathanial Hörnblowér, Abednego
Born	(1964-08-05)August 5, 1964 Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died	May 4, 2012(2012-05-04) (aged 47) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.[1]
Genres	Hip hop, rap rock, hardcore punk, alternative hip hop
Occupations	Rapper, musician, songwriter, director, film distributor
Instruments	MC, vocals, bass guitar, keyboards
Years active	1979–2012
Labels	Def Jam Grand Royal Capitol
Associated acts	Beastie Boys
Website	www.beastieboys.com
Notable instruments
ARP-2600 Ampeg AEB-1 Fender Jazz Ampeg Electric Upright Roland TR-808

Adam Nathaniel Yauch (pronounced /ˈjaʊk/; August 5, 1964 – May 4, 2012) was an American rapper, songwriter, film director, and human rights activist. He was best known as a founding member of the Beastie Boys - a hip hop group that recorded between 1985–2012, with many of their releases becoming certified platinum selling. He was frequently known by his stage name, MCA, and sometimes worked under the pseudonym Nathanial Hörnblowér.

Yauch founded Oscilloscope Laboratories, an independent film production and distribution company based in New York City. A Buddhist, he was involved in the Tibetan independence movement and organized the Tibetan Freedom Concert.

Early life[link]

Yauch was born an only child in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Frances, a social worker, and Noel Yauch, a painter and architect.^[2] His father had been raised a Catholic and his mother was Jewish; Yauch himself received a non-religious upbringing,^[3][4] although his and his bandmates' Jewish heritage was often referenced in media.^[5][6][7][8]

Yauch attended Edward R. Murrow High School in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. In high school, he taught himself to play the bass guitar.^[9] Yauch formed the Beastie Boys with John Berry, Kate Schellenbach, and Michael Diamond.^[10] They played their first show — while still a hardcore punk band in the vein of Reagan Youth — on his 17th birthday. He attended Bard College for two years before dropping out.^[11]

Career[link]

When Yauch was 22, the Beastie Boys, now performing as a hip hop trio (via Rick Rubin), released their first album Licensed to Ill on Def Jam Records. Under the pseudonym "Nathanial Hörnblowér", Yauch directed many of the Beastie Boys' music videos.^[11][12]

In 2002, Yauch built a recording studio in New York City called Oscilloscope Laboratories. He began an independent film distributing company called Oscilloscope Pictures.^[13] Yauch directed the 2006 Beastie Boys concert film, Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!, although in the DVD extras for the film, the title character in "A Day in the Life of Nathanial Hörnblowér" is played by David Cross. He also directed the 2008 film Gunnin' For That#1 Spot about eight high school basketball prospects at the Boost Mobile Elite 24 Hoops Classic at Rucker Park in Harlem, New York City. Yauch produced Build a Nation, the comeback album from hardcore/punk band Bad Brains. Oscilloscope Laboratories also distributed Adam Yauch's directorial film debut, basketball documentary Gunnin' For That#1 Spot (2008) as well as Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy (2008) and Oren Moverman’s The Messenger (2009).^[14]

The Beastie Boys had sold 40 million records worldwide by 2010.^[11] In April 2012, the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Yauch was inducted in absentia due to his illness.^[9] His bandmates paid tribute to Yauch; a letter from Yauch was read to the crowd.^[15]

In 2011, Yauch received the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College, the college he attended for two years. The award is "given in recognition of a significant contribution to the American artistic or literary heritage."^[16]

Personal life[link]

Yauch was a practicing Buddhist.^[17] He became an important voice in the Tibetan independence movement.^[18][19] He created the Milarepa Fund, a non-profit organization devoted to Tibetan independence, and organized several benefit concerts to support the cause, including the Tibetan Freedom Concert.^[9][14][20]

Yauch was also a strong supporter of feminism and LGBT rights, apologizing for early lyrics which he retroactively deemed offensive. In 1999, the Beastie Boys sent a letter to Time Out New York apologizing for homophobic lyrics, and in their song "Sure Shot" Yauch sings "I want to say a little something that’s long overdue/ The disrespect to women has got to be through/ To all the mothers and sisters and wives and friends/ I want to offer my love and respect to the end."

^[9][21]

He and his wife, Dechen Wangdu, had a daughter, Tenzin Losel, in 1998.^[9][21]

Illness and death[link]

In 2009, Yauch was diagnosed and treated for a cancerous parotid gland and a lymph node and underwent surgery and radiation therapy, delaying the release of Hot Sauce Committee Part Two and the subsequent tour.^[22][23] He was unable to appear in music videos for the album. Yauch can be seen chewing gum in almost all of his performances after his diagnosis, the gum was used to help with his moisture and mouth issues.^[9][14] Yauch became a vegan under the recommendation of his Tibetan doctors.^[24] At the time, Yauch described the cancer as "very treatable".^[25]

Yauch died at age 47 on May 4, 2012, after a three-year battle with throat cancer.^[1][26][27] Upon his death, Russell Simmons of Def Jam Records said that Yauch "was incredibly sweet and the most sensitive artist, who I loved dearly." Ben Stiller tweeted that Yauch "stood for integrity as an artist."^[11] Rapper Q-Tip shared a personal message, sending his condolences out to the trio's surviving members, tweeting "RIP yauch and thank u mike and adam n adam 4 all of your help, the tours, the bball games, n great times. a humanitarian a tru friend."^[28]

Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam said that Yauch was "a crazy talent whose contributions with his band were inspirational and consistently ground breaking".^[29] Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke wrote, "We looked up to the Beastie Boys a lot when we were starting out and how they maintained artistic control making wicked records but still were on a major label, and the Tibetan Freedom Concerts they organized had a very big influence on me personally and the way Adam conducted himself and dealt with it all impressed me a lot. He was a mellow and [very] smart guy. May he rest in peace."^[30] Eminem said in an interview, "Adam Yauch brought a lot of positivity into the world and I think it's obvious to anyone how big of an influence the Beastie Boys were on me and so many others."^[31]

Beastie Boys rapper Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz posted a note on the band's Tumblr page about the death of Yauch. He wrote, "As you can imagine, shit is just fkd up right now. But I wanna say thank you to all our friends and family (which are kinda one in the same) for all the love and support. I'm glad to know that all the love that Yauch has put out into the world is coming right back at him."^[32]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Adam Yauch

• Oscilloscope homepage
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Adam Yauch on Charlie Rose
• MCA at the Internet Movie Database
• Works by or about Adam Yauch in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• MCA at the Notable Names Database

Interviews

• Interview in Shambhala Sun
• Audio interview on the.LIFE Files
• Interview on "Gunnin' For That #1 Spot" at IFC, June 2008

Edward Kitsis
Kitsis in March 2012.
Born	1971 (age 40–41) [1] Minnesota

Edward Lawrence Kitsis, also sometimes credited as Eddy Kitsis, is an American screenwriter and producer, best known for his work on the popular ABC drama series Lost and Once Upon a Time.

Life and career[link]

Kitsis joined the crew of Lost mid-way through the first season as a writer and producer in 2005. He was promoted to supervising producer for the second season in fall 2005. Kitsis and the writing staff won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2006 ceremony for their work on the first and second seasons.^[2] He was promoted to co-executive producer for the third season in the 2006-2007 television season. He returned as a co-executive producer and writer for the fourth season in 2008. Kitsis was nominated for the WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the fourth season of Lost.^[3] He was promoted to executive producer for the fifth season in 2009. The writing staff was nominated for the WGA award for Best Dramatic Series again at the February 2010 ceremony for their work on the fifth season.^[4] Kitsis remained an executive producer and regular writer for the sixth and final season in 2010.

Many of his episodes have been co-written with Adam Horowitz. He and Horowitz are both alumni of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and met in their "Introduction to Film" class. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in radio, television, and film in 1993, Kitsis travelled with Horowitz to Los Angeles. They initially working as assistants and messengers until landing a job writing scripts for the remake of Fantasy Island. It was cancelled after 13 episodes, but they went on to write for both Felicity and Popular, before joining Lost halfway into the first season.

Kitsis was born to Tybe and Arlen Kitsis of Minneapolis. In May 2002, it was announced that he was engaged to Jennifer Susman, a TV/film graduate of University of Texas in 1999.^[5] They married on March 29, 2003 in Scottsdale, Arizona.^[6]

Kitsis also wrote Tron: Legacy, the sequel to the film Tron, with his partner Horowitz^[7] and wrote with the same the book for Universal Pictures future project "Ouija Board".^[8]

Kitsis and Horowitz are the creators of the fantasy drama series Once Upon a Time, which began airing on ABC October 23, 2011. The show focuses on a town which is actually a parallel world populated by fairytale characters who are unaware of their true identity. The two came up with concept seven years prior joining the staff of Lost, but wanted to wait until it ended before they focused on this project.^[9][10]

Credits[link]

• Once Upon a Time, 2011
  • Episode 1.01 "Pilot" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 1.02 "The Thing You Love Most" with Horowitz
  • Episode 1.07 "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" with Horowitz
  • Episode 1.10 "7:15 A.M." story with Horowitz, teleplay by Daniel T. Thomsen
  • Episode 1.14 "Dreamy" with Horowitz
  • Episode 1.18 "The Stable Boy" with Horowitz
  • Episode 1.22 "A Land Without Magic" with Horowitz

• Lost, 2005–2010
  • Episode 1.22 "Born to Run" teleplay with Adam Horowitz, story by Javier Grillo-Marxuach
  • Episode 2.04 "Everybody Hates Hugo" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 2.12 "Fire and Water" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 2.18 "Dave" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 2.22 "Three Minutes" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 3.04 "Every Man for Himself" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 3.10 "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 3.14 "Exposé" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 3.18 "D.O.C." with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 3.21 "Greatest Hits" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 4.03 "The Economist" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 4.07 "Ji Yeon" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 4.10 "Something Nice Back Home" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 5.02 "The Lie" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 5.10 "He's Our You" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 5.14 "The Variable" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 6.02 "What Kate Does" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 6.07 "Dr. Linus" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 6.12 "Everybody Loves Hugo" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 6.16 "What They Died For" with Adam Horowitz and Elizabeth Sarnoff

• Confessions of an American Bride, 2005

• One Tree Hill, 2004
  • Episode 1.20 "What Is and What Should Never Be" with Adam Horowitz

• Life as We Know It, 2004
  • Episode 1.08 "Family Hard-ships" with Adam Horowitz

• Black Sash, 2003
  • Episode 1.04 "Prodigal Son" with Adam Horowitz

• Birds of Prey, 2002–2003
  • Episode 1.03 "Prey for the Hunter" teleplay with Adam Horowitz, story by Adam Armus & Kay Foster
  • Episode 1.06 "Primal Scream" teleplay with Adam Horowitz, story by Adam Armus & Kay Foster
  • Episode 1.07 "Split" teleplay with Adam Horowitz, story by Adam Armus & Kay Foster
  • Episode 1.08 "Lady Shiva" teleplay with Adam Horowitz, story by Adam Armus & Kay Foster
  • Episode 1.11 "Reunion" with Adam Horowitz

• Popular, 2000–2001
  • Episode 1.08 "Tonight's the Night" with Adam Horowitz and Ryan Murphy
  • Episode 1.15 "Booty Camp" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 1.21 "What Makes Sammy RuÊn" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 2.02 "Baby, Don't Do It" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 2.07 "Ur-ine Trouble" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 2.12 "The Shocking Possession of Harrison John" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 2.15 "It's Greek to Me" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 2.20 "You Don't Tug on Superman's Cape...You Don't Spit into the Wind...You Don't Pull the Mask off the Ol' Lone Ranger...And You Don't Mess Around with Big Bertha Muffin" with Adam Horowitz

• Felicity, 2001
  • Episode 4.03 "Your Money or Your Wife" with Adam Horowitz
  • Episode 4.09 "Lonelyhearts" with Adam Horowitz

Awards[link]

• 2005, Writers Guild of America, Dramatic Series - Television, Lost (co-writer)^[11]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Edward Kitsis at the Internet Movie Database
• "Lost writers found in Madison", March 7, 2006, interview with Kitsis and Horowitz at the Hillel Foundation at the University of Wisconsin