Look up depend, dependent, dependant, dependence, or dependency in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Dependency or dependent may refer to:

Sciences[link]

Computer science[link]

• dependency, also called Coupling (computer science), a state in which one object uses a functionality of another object
• Data dependency, which describes a dependence relation between statements in a program
• Dependency (UML), a relationship between two elements in the Unified Modeling Language
• Dependency relation, a type of binary relation in mathematics and computer science.
• Functional Dependency, a relation between database attributes allowing normalization.
• Dependent type, in computer science and logic, a type which depends on a value
• Hidden dependency, a relation where a change in one area of a program produces unexpected side-effects, kind of dependency hell.

Economics[link]

• Dependant (British English) (Dependent - American English), a person who depends on another as a primary source of income
• Dependency ratio, in economics, the ratio of the economically dependent part of the economy to the productive part
• Dependency theory, an economic worldview which states that resources flow from poor states to wealthy states

Linguistics[link]

• Dependent and independent verb forms, in Goidelic languages, distinct verb forms used either with a preceding particle, in the case of dependent forms, or

Logic[link]

• Dependent type, in computer science and logic, a type which depends on a value

Mathematics[link]

• Dependency relation, a type of binary relation in mathematics and computer science.
• Dependent and independent variables, in mathematics, the variable that is dependent on the independent variable

Medicine[link]

• Dependence (behavioral medicine), a continuum of physical and psychological attachments related to the concept of behavioral addiction

Politics[link]

• Dependent territory, a classification of territory, especially a region that is not a sovereign state, but the possession of such

without one, in the case of independent forms

Psychology[link]

• Codependence, a pattern of detrimental, behavioral interactions within a dysfunctional relationship
• Dependency need, the real need of the organism, or something that individuals can not provide for themselves
• Dependent personality disorder, a personality disorder characterized by a pervasive psychological dependence on other people
• Substance dependence, a need for a substance so strong that it becomes necessary to have this substance to function properly

Music[link]

• dependent (record label), a German independent record label that focuses on aggrotech, electro-industrial and futurepop music
• Dependent Music, an independent Canadian record label, owned and operated by the artists that were a part of the collective

Religion[link]

Among monastic orders, the term denotes the relation of a monastic community with a newer community which it has established elsewhere. The relationship can be that of an abbey with a priory composed of the monks who originated from the first house. In that situation, the abbot remains the ultimate authority for the affairs of the dependent priory, which is considered an extension of the founding house. This relationship will end at such time as the daughter community might become fully autonomous and an abbey in its own right.

Smaller monasteries of nuns within a monastic congregation can make a bond with a monastery of monks within the same division of the Order, whereby the two are affiliated, and the monks guarantee pastoral care of the nuns. In this sense, the women's house is considered a dependency on that of the men.

Technologies[link]

• Dependency (project management), a link amongst a project's terminal elements

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Owen Pallett
Pallett playing live in Brussels, 2010-03-23.
Background information
Birth name	Michael James Owen Pallett
Born	(1979-09-07) September 7, 1979 (age 32) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genres	Indie pop Baroque pop Experimental music
Occupations	Musician, Composer, Arranger
Instruments	Violin, Viola, Vocals, Piano, Harpsichord, Synthesizer, Guitar, Bass
Labels	Blocks Recording Club Tomlab Domino Records
Associated acts	Bon Iver Andrew Bird Final Fantasy Picastro Arcade Fire Les Mouches Beirut The Last Shadow Puppets Enter the Haggis The Hidden Cameras The Mountain Goats
Website	owenpalletteternal.com

Michael James Owen Pallett (born September 7, 1979 Toronto) is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist. He won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds.

Pallett is best known as a solo artist, formerly under the name Final Fantasy. Leon Taheny is also credited as drummer and engineer. Following the release of Heartland, Pallett has toured with guitarist/percussionist Thomas Gill^[1] and more recently with his former collaborators in Les Mouches, Rob Gordon and Matt Smith.^[2][3]

Pallett has been noted for his live performances, wherein he plays the violin into a loop pedal, a technique also used by musicians such as Andrew Bird, Jeremy Larson, Emily Wells and Zoë Keating. Pallett uses Max/MSP and SooperLooper to do multi-phonic looping, which sends his violin signal to amplifiers across the stage.^[4]

Life and career[link]

Pallett's father is an avid church organist who provided Owen with a background in classical music until his early preteens. From the age of a toddler, Owen studied classical violin and composed his first piece at age 13. A notable early composition includes some of the music for the game Traffic Department 2192; he moved on to scoring films, to composing two operas while in university. Apart from the indie music scene, he has had commissions from the Barbican, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Bang on a Can, Ecstatic Music Festival, the Vancouver CBC Orchestra, and Fine Young Classicals.

He believes his work is implicitly influenced by his sexuality, saying, "As far as whether the music I make is gay or queer, yeah, it comes from the fact that I'm gay, but that doesn't mean I'm making music about it."^[5]

Pallett received an Honours Bachelor of Music for Composition from the University of Toronto in 2002.^[6]

Patrick Borjal, Pallett's boyfriend, began working as his manager in 2006, and formed the management company Boyfriend Management.^[7]

Final Fantasy[link]

The name Final Fantasy, under which Pallett recorded prior to the release of Heartland, was a tribute to the well-known video game series, although he said that it is not one of his top twenty favorite games.^[8]

Final Fantasy performing in 2005.

Pallett's debut album, Has a Good Home, was released on February 12, 2005, by the Blocks Recording Club, a cooperative, Toronto-based record label of which he is a founding member. "An Arrow in the Side of Final Fantasy" borrows the music from the Space Zone's final level in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. "Adventure.exe" from this album was used in a series of 2006 commercials by Orange in the United Kingdom.^[9] Pallett did not intend to sell the song for this purpose, but its use was authorized due to an alleged miscommunication with his record label, Tomlab. All of Pallett's income from this use is donated to Doctors Without Borders.

Pallett's second album, He Poos Clouds, was released in June 2006, though the video,^[10] directed by Jesse Ewles, was released on March 1, 2006. The album consists entirely of string quartet arrangements. Eight of the ten songs are about each of the schools of magic as described in the rules to the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. The album was named winner of the 2006 Polaris Music Prize. Uncomfortable with receiving a prize sponsored by a mobile phone conglomerate, Pallett gave the money away to bands he liked who needed financial assistance.

On November 11, 2006, Pallett posted to a fan forum to announce a new album, tentatively titled Heartland. Subsequently on July 9, 2007 on the CBC Radio One program Q, Pallett said that the album would be released no earlier than mid 2008. In the same interview he confirmed that it would be titled Heartland, and that it was an album about nothingness.

In 2007, the song "This Is The Dream Of Win & Regine" was used in a commercial for Wiener Stadtwerke without Pallett's permission. Instead of litigation, Pallett and his booking agent Susanne Herrndorf approached the company for sponsorship for a music festival of their curation. The resultant Maximum Black Festival featured Final Fantasy, The Dirty Projectors, Deerhoof, Frog Eyes, Max Tundra, Six Organs Of Admittance and others. It played Vienna, Berlin and London. In September 2007 they did a Take-Away Show acoustic video session shot by Vincent Moon.

In October 2007 Final Fantasy released a vinyl 7" on Tomlab's Alphabet Single series ( The Letter "X" ). The two tracks on "X", recorded in Montreal with Zach Condon, of the band Beirut; predate the album He Poos Clouds. The tracks – "Hey Dad" and "What Do You Think Will Happen Next?" are both played regularly at live shows. The song "Hey Dad" contains a melody borrowed from the Nintendo video game "Super Mario Bros. 3"; specifically it is the music from the "Coin Heaven" bonus/hidden stages. Also, the song is quite similar in melody, lyrics and tone to another of Pallett's songs – "→".

In March 2008, Owen Pallett under the alias Final Fantasy, collaborated with Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste on a cover of Björk's "Possibly Maybe" as part of Stereogum's tribute to Björk's album, Post.^[11]

In Fall 2008, Pallett released two EPs. The first one, Spectrum, 14th Century, was a collaboration with Beirut. The second EP, Plays To Please, found Pallett paying homage to fellow Torontonian Alex Lukashevsky, his group Deep Dark United, and his unique personality. On it, six Lukashevsky originals were reconfigured for a 35-piece big band, the Toronto-based St. Kitts Orchestra (which includes Drumheller's Nick Fraser, Paul Mathew of the Hidden Cameras, and a whistling Andrew Bird, among others).^[12]

On December 18, 2009, Pallett announced "I am voluntarily retiring my band name" and that Heartland "will be issued under my own name, Owen Pallett" to "definitively distinguish my music from Square Enix's games".^[13] The album was released on Domino Records on January 12, 2010. It was mixed by New York producer Rusty Santos.^[14] Also he played Primavera Sound Festival 2010.^[15] In August 2010, Pallett announced the release of a four track EP entitled A Swedish Love Story on September 28 via Domino.^[16]

Other contributions[link]

Owen Pallett, 2009-07-29

Pallett's previous projects included a 3-piece Toronto-based band, Les Mouches, now defunct. He also played fiddle for a short time with the celtic rock band Enter the Haggis. He was once the violinist of another Toronto band called Picastro, and briefly played keyboard in SS Cardiacs (with Leon Taheny, Jessie Stein and Michael Small in 2005). Pallett has also recorded and toured with Jim Guthrie, The Hidden Cameras, Royal City, The Vinyl Cafe, Gentleman Reg, and Arcade Fire (he co-wrote the strings arrangement for their albums Funeral and Neon Bible).^[17] One of his songs, "This Is the Dream of Win & Regine", was inspired by the principal members of the latter group, Win Butler and Régine Chassagne,^[17] and is a play on a Dntel song called, "(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan."

Pallett contributed remixes for the bands Stars, Grizzly Bear and Death from Above 1979. He also wrote string arrangements for the Canadian bands Immaculate Machine, on their 2007 album, Fables, and Fucked Up, on their 2006 album Hidden World. He also wrote the string arrangements for the Beirut album The Flying Club Cup, as well as provided vocals for the track "Cliquot".^[18] Most recently, he provided orchestration for the side project of Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner and former Rascals frontman Miles Kane, as The Last Shadow Puppets, entitled The Age of the Understatement. Pallett also conducted the London Metropolitan Orchestra in the recording of this project.

In June 2009 at Luminato, Toronto's annual festival of arts and creativity, Pallett provided part of the live soundtrack for the outdoor screening (at Yonge-Dundas Square) of the 1919 silent German horror film Tales of the Uncanny (Unheimliche Geschichten), alongside Canadian instrumental band Do Make Say Think and electronica music artist Robert Lippok from Berlin, Germany.

On October 17, Pallett posted on his Twitter page that he had just completed "10 days on the best album I've ever had the pleasure of working on".^[19] This was ten days after a previous comment suggesting he was in the studio with Arcade Fire,^[20] who were working on their 2010 album The Suburbs at the time.

In 2009, Pallett worked with Win Butler and Régine Chassagne on the score for Richard Kelly's film The Box.^[21] Pallett was also initially set to score Rabbit Hole, a film by John Cameron Mitchell,^[22] but in the end the film was scored by Anton Sanko. Pallett also played along on several songs from the second album of The Luyas.^[23]

Discography[link]

With Les Mouches[link]

• The Polite Album (CD-R) - 2002
• Blood Orgy!!! (EP) - 2003
• You're Worth More to Me Than 1000 Christians – 2004

Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy)[link]

Studio albums[link]

• Has a Good Home (as Final Fantasy) – February 12, 2005
• He Poos Clouds (as Final Fantasy) – May 15, 2006
• Heartland – January 11, 2010

EPs[link]

• Young Canadian Mothers – March 10, 2006
• Spectrum, 14th Century – September 30, 2008
• Plays to Please – October, 2008
• A Swedish Love Story EP – September 28, 2010
• Export [Demo EP] (digital EP) – December 18, 2010

Singles[link]

• Many Lives → 49 MP – May 29, 2006
• Alphabet Series: X – October 2007
• Lewis' Dream (Flora Advert) – February 25, 2008
• Lewis Takes Action – January, 2010
• Lewis Takes Off His Shirt – March 29, 2010

Various songs[link]

• "Joys" – appears on Worried Noodles (2007), a compilation of David Shrigley's lyrics set to music.
• "Flare Gun" – appears on #8: SPAM (2007), a compilation released by Esopus.
• "Possibly Maybe" – duet with Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear. Appears on the Stereogum compilation Enjoyed (2008), a tribute to Björk's Post.
• "The Donor" – appears on Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill (2009).
• "Red Sun (demo version)" – appears on Friends in Bellwoods II (2009).
• "Hard to Explain" - appears on the Stereogum compilation Stroked (2011) a tribute to The Strokes debut album Is This It.

Other contributions[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Owen Pallett

• Official website
• Owen Pallett on Myspace

Margaret Cho
Cho in 2009
Birth name	Moran Cho
Born	(1968-12-05) December 5, 1968 (age 43) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Medium	comedy, television, film
Nationality	American
Years active	1993–present
Genres	Liberal/political humor, LGBT humor
Subject(s)	Gay rights, race, liberal issues
Influences	Richard Pryor, Bill Hicks
Spouse	Al Ridenour (2003–present)
Notable works and roles	Assassin, I'm the One That I Want
Website	MargaretCho.com MySpace.com/MargaretCho

Margaret Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American comedian, fashion designer, actress, author, and singer-songwriter. Cho, of Korean descent, is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially those pertaining to race and sexuality. She has also directed and appeared in music videos and has her own clothing line. She has frequently supported LGBT rights and has won awards for her humanitarian efforts on behalf of women, Asians, and the LGBT community.

As an actress she has played more serious parts, such as Charlene Lee in It's My Party and that of John Travolta's FBI colleague in the action movie Face/Off. She is part of the TV series Drop Dead Diva on Lifetime Television, playing the role of Teri Lee, a paralegal assistant.

Early life[link]

Cho was born into a Korean family in San Francisco, California. She grew up in a racially diverse neighborhood in the 1970s and 1980s, which she described as a community of "old hippies, ex-druggies, burn-outs from the '60s, drag queens, Chinese people, and Koreans. To say it was a melting pot — that's the least of it. It was a really confusing, enlightening, wonderful time."^[2]

Cho's parents, Young-Hie and Seung-Hoon Cho,^[3] ran Paperback Traffic, a bookstore on Polk Street at California Street in San Francisco. Her father writes joke books and a newspaper column in Seoul, South Korea.^[4] After Cho expressed an interest in performance, she auditioned and was accepted into the San Francisco School of the Arts, an area arts high school. While at the school, she became involved with the school's improvisational comedy group^[5] alongside actor Sam Rockwell.

Early career[link]

After doing several shows in a club adjacent to her parents' bookstore, Cho launched a stand-up career and spent several years developing her material in clubs. Cho's career began to build after appearances on television and university campuses. In 1992, she appeared on the unsuccessful Golden Girls spin-off The Golden Palace in a small role. In 1994, Cho won the American Comedy Award for Best Female Comedian.^[6] In 2010, on The View, she discussed her nervousness about doing The Golden Palace and thanked the late Rue McClanahan for her help with rehearsing. Also in the early years of her career, she secured a coveted spot as opening act for Jerry Seinfeld and was featured on a Bob Hope special. She was also a frequent visitor to The Arsenio Hall Show.^[7]

Television career[link]

[edit] All American Girl

That same year, ABC developed and aired a sitcom based on Cho's stand-up routine. The show, All American Girl, was initially feted as the first show prominently featuring an East Asian family, although the short lived sitcom Mr. T and Tina preceded it by nearly two decades.

Cho has expressed subsequent regret for much of what transpired during the production of the show.

• After network executives criticized her appearance and the roundness of her face, Cho starved herself for several weeks. Her rapid weight loss, done to modify her appearance by the time the pilot episode was filmed, caused serious kidney failure.
• The show suffered criticism from within the U.S. East Asian community over its perception of stereotyping. Producers told Cho at different times during production both that she was "too Asian" and that she was "not Asian enough". At one point during the course of the show, producers hired a coach to teach Cho how to "be more Asian".^[7]
• Much of the humor was broad, and at times stereotypical portrayals of her close Korean relatives and gay book-shop customers were employed.

The show was canceled after suffering from poor ratings and the effect of major content changes over the course of its single season (19 episodes).^[8]

After the show's 1995 cancellation, Cho became addicted to drugs including alcohol. As detailed in her 2002 autobiography, I'm the One That I Want, in 1995 her substance abuse was evident during a performance in Monroe, Louisiana, where she was booed off the stage by 800 college students.^[9]

New Year's Rockin' Eve[link]

At the same time All American Girl underwent a difficult period, Margaret Cho hosted the New Year's Rockin' Eve 95 show with Steve Harvey.^[10][11][12]

Other appearances[link]

Cho and her family and friends appeared in an episode of NBC's series Celebrity Family Feud, which premiered on June 24, 2008. Later that summer, Cho appeared in her own reality show for VH1. The Cho Show premiered on August 21, 2008^[13] and lasted one season. She next appeared as a supporting actress on the series Drop Dead Diva, which debuted in July 2009.^[14]

In April 2011, Cho guest starred on the comedy 30 Rock in the episode "Everything Sunny All the Time Always". She played North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il. The role had her speak Korean as well as English.^[15] In 2010, Cho appeared as a contestant on the 11th season of Dancing with the Stars.^[16]

She appeared on the YouTube comedy show Equals Three as the Comment Question of the Day.

Books[link]

[edit] I'm the One That I Want

Cho's career and personal life were challenging after the cancellation of the show, but Cho eventually sobered, refocused her energy and developed new material. In 1999, she wrote about her struggles with the show in her first one-woman show, I'm the One That I Want. Cho then released her book of the same name, and the show was filmed and released as a concert film in 2000. Her material dealt with her difficulties breaking into show business because of her ethnicity and weight and her resulting struggle with and triumph over body image issues and drug and alcohol addiction.^[17]

[edit] I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight

Also in 2005, Cho released her second book, I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight, a compilation of essays and prose about global politics, human rights, and other topical issues. Cho launched a national book tour in support of the collection. An audio reading of the book was also released. A DVD of a live taping of the Assassin tour was released in conjunction with the book.

Film career[link]

In late 2004, Cho began work on her first self-written film in which she starred. Bam Bam and Celeste, a low-budget comedy about a "fag hag" and her gay best friend, co-starred Cho's friend and co-touring act Bruce Daniels. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2005. On Valentine's Day of 2004, Cho spoke at the Marriage Equality Rally at the California State Capitol. Her speech can be seen in the documentary Freedom to Marry.^[18][19]

Shows and tours[link]

Cho appeared in an episode of the HBO comedy Sex and the City's fourth season. The episode, titled "The Real Me", first aired on June 3, 2001, and also guest-starred supermodel Heidi Klum.

In 2002, the show Notorious C.H.O. (the title derived from slain rapper The Notorious B.I.G.) dealt with the comedian having been raised in 1970s San Francisco and her bisexuality.

In 2003, Cho made another stand-up film, Revolution, which was released in 2004.

Cho doing stand-up in June 2005

In 2005, Cho started promoting and touring with her new show, Assassin. The show became her fourth live concert film and premiered on the gay and lesbian premium cable network Here! TV in September 2005. In this DVD, she notably includes herself when talking about gays, saying "we" and "our community". Posters for Assassin featured Cho in paratrooper gear and holding a microphone in the style of an automatic rifle, a reference to the infamous 1974 photo of heiress Patty Hearst.

Cho launched "The Sensuous Woman"^[20] burlesque-style variety show tour in Los Angeles on August 10, 2007, with tour dates scheduled through November 3, as of October 10.^[21] Past and scheduled tour stops after Los Angeles are Chicago, Illinois and New York City.^[21] On August 10, 2007 the San Francisco Chronicle reviewed the show, Cho's work, key events in her personal life and characterized the show as, "In fact, as bawdy and bad-behaving as the cast gets, the whole show feels more like a crazy family reunion than a performance."^[22]

The premiere performance of Cho's "Beautiful" tour was on February 28, 2008, in Sydney, Australia as part of the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival. Cho was also the Chief of Parade for the festival's annual parade along Oxford Street on March 1. During her stay in Sydney, Cho was filmed shopping for parade outfits in a drag store with Kathy Griffin and Cyndi Lauper for Griffin's reality series Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List. The episode featuring Cho aired on June 26, 2008.

Music[link]

In September 2008, Cho released her single, "I Cho Am a Woman", on iTunes. The song, produced by Desmond Child,^[23] was featured on her VH1 series.

Throughout 2010, she worked on a full length album, going through the titles "Guitarded" and "Banjovi" before finally settling on Cho Dependent.^[24] The album was released on August 24, 2010. It was supported by music videos for "I'm Sorry", "Eat Shit and Die", and "My Lil' Wayne"; Liam Kyle Sullivan directed the first two. The album was nominated for a 2010 Grammy award for Best Comedy Album.^[25]

In May 2010, Cho directed and appeared in the music video for "I Wanna Be a Bear," a song by "Pixie Herculon" (a pseudonym of Jill Sobule).

Nature of material and political advocacy[link]

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Cho at Los Angeles LGBT pride parade in 2011

Cho performing burlesque at the 2006 Miss Exotic World Pageant.

Cho is also well known for discussing her relationship with her mother, particularly in imitating her mother's heavily accented speech. Her depictions of "Mommy" have become a popular part of her routine. Cho's comedy routines are often explicit. She has covered substance abuse, eating disorders, her bisexuality and obsession with gay men, and Asian-American stereotypes, among other subjects, in her stand up.

A substantial segment of her material and advocacy addresses LGBT issues. In addition to her shows, Cho also developed an additional outlet for her advocacy with the advent of Margaretcho.com and her daily weblog. When San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom directed that San Francisco's city hall issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in San Francisco in 2004 (until reversed by the state supreme court), Cho started Love is Love is Love,^[26] a website promoting the legalization of gay marriage in the United States.

Cho's material often features commentary on politics and contemporary American culture. She has also been outspoken about her dislike of former President George W. Bush. She began to draw intense fire from conservatives over her fiercely anti-Bush commentary; a live performance in Houston, Texas was threatened with picketing. Although protesters never showed up, she held a counter protest outside the club until security told her she had to go inside.^[27]

In 2004, Cho was performing at a corporate event in a hotel when after ten minutes her microphone was cut off and a band was instructed to begin playing. Cho claims this was because the manager of the hotel was offended by anti-Bush administration comments. Cho's payment, which was issued by way of check directly to a non-profit organization, a defense fund for the West Memphis Three, initially bounced but was eventually honored.^[28]

In July 2004, during the Democratic National Convention, Cho was disinvited to speak at a Human Rights Campaign/National Stonewall Democrats fundraiser out of fear that her comments might cause controversy. In November 2005, she campaigned to pardon Stanley Tookie Williams, an early Crips gang leader, for his death sentence for four murders. On December 13, 2005, after exhausting all forms of appeal, Williams was executed by lethal injection at San Quentin State Prison, California.^[29]

She emceed the multi-artist True Colors Tour,^[30] which traveled through 15 cities in the United States and Canada. The tour, sponsored by the Logo channel, began on June 8, 2007. Headlined by Cyndi Lauper, the tour also included Debbie Harry, Erasure, The Gossip, Rufus Wainwright, The Dresden Dolls, The MisShapes, Rosie O'Donnell, Indigo Girls, The Cliks and other special guests. Profits from the tour helped to benefit the Human Rights Campaign as well as PFLAG and The Matthew Shepard Foundation.

On January 25, 2008, Cho officially gave her support to Barack Obama for the nomination on the Democratic ticket for the 2008 U.S. presidential election.^[31] After Republican Presidential candidate John McCain announced his running-mate, Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, Cho said of Palin, "I think [Palin] is the worst thing to happen to America since 9/11."^[32]

After same-sex marriage became legal in California in May 2008, Cho was deputized by the City of San Francisco to perform marriages there.^[33]

Other projects[link]

In 2002, Cho founded a clothing line with friend and fashion designer Ava Stander called High Class Cho. The company eventually went defunct.^{[citation needed]}

In 2004, Cho took up bellydancing and in 2006 started her own line of bellydancing belts and accessories called Hip Wear^[34] (sold through her website). She also had extensive tattooing done to cover the majority of her back.^[35] She co-wrote and starred in a sitcom pilot based around the "Mommy" character of her stand-up, but it was not picked up. She began releasing comedic rap animated videos on her website under the moniker "M.C. M.C." (MC Margaret Cho) including the tracks "Finger" and "Roofies."

In November 2006, Cho joined the board of Good Vibrations.^[36] She co-wrote a rap song with fellow comedian Diana Yanez entitled "My Puss", which was recorded by the duo as "Maureen and Angela". She then appeared in and directed the music video for the song.^[37] In December 2006, Cho appeared on the Sci-Fi Channel's miniseries The Lost Room as Suzie Kang.^[38]

In 2007, Cho appeared in The Dresden Dolls' video of their song "Shores of California", which was MCed by Amanda Palmer^[39] and in The Cliks' video for "Eyes in the Back of My Head", in which she played Lucas Silveira's lover.^[40] She also voiced a character, Condie Ling, on the Logo animated series Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World. Her episodes began airing in 2007.

Recently on an episode of The Hour with host George Stroumboulopoulos, Cho mentioned that she loved Broken Social Scene and wishes to be a part of the band (offering to play the rainstick or the triangle). On air, Stroumboulopoulos called Kevin Drew from his cell phone and Cho made her request to join the band via his voicemail.^{[citation needed]}

In April 2009, Cho was photographed by photographer Austin Young and appeared in a Bettie Page–inspired "Heaven Bound" art show.^[41]

In September 2010 she competed in the eleventh season of Dancing with the Stars partnered by Louis van Amstel. She was the third star to be eliminated on week three of the show, landing her in 10th place.

The online human rights awareness project America 2049 had Margaret portray one of the main characters, whose videos were played as part of the main storyline. The facebook-interfaced game uses a fictional, fractioned future in order to highlight today's social inequities.^[42]

Personal life[link]

In 1994 Cho was in a relationship with Quentin Tarantino and he appeared in the Pulp Fiction-parody episode of her All American Girl sitcom, Pulp Sitcom, as Desmond, a bootleg-video salesman.

Cho married Al Ridenour, an artist involved in the production of Cacophony Society and the Art of Bleeding, in 2003.^[43] Margaret was featured in an Art of Bleeding performance in March 2006.^[44] In a Bond interview, she reveals that her marriage is "very conventional and conservative, I think. I mean we're such weird people that people just can't imagine that we would have a conventional marriage. But, yeah, we are very conventional."^[45]

Cho began getting major tattoo work done in 2006 and has become an enthusiast; as of March 2007 she estimates that 15–20% of her body is currently tattooed.

As of 2009, Cho lives in Peachtree City, Georgia,^[46] as Drop Dead Diva is filmed in the Atlanta area.

She is openly bisexual.^[47]

Commendations[link]

• In 1994, Skankin' Pickle released their album Sing Along With Skankin' Pickle featuring a song entitled "It's Margaret Cho."
• In 1999, I'm The One That I Want won New York magazine's Performance of the Year award and was named one of the Great Performances of the year by Entertainment Weekly.^[48]
• In 2000, her "E! Celebrity Profile" won a Gracie Allen Award from the American Women in Radio and Television organization acknowledging its "superior quality and effective portrayal of the changing roles and concerns of women."^[48]
• In 2000, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) awarded her with a Golden Gate award and described her as an entertainer who, "as a pioneer, has made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity."^[49]
• In 2001, she was given a Lambda Liberty Award by Lambda Legal for "pressing us to see how false constructions of race, sexuality, and gender operate similarly to obscure and demean identity."^[50]
• In 2003, she received a "Justice in Action" award from the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.^[51]
• In 2003, she was given an Intrepid Award by the National Organization for Women.^[52]
• In 2004, she was awarded with the First Amendment Award from the American Civil Liberties Union.^[53]
• In 2007, she won for Outstanding Comedy Performance in AZN's Asian Excellence Awards.^[54]
• April 30, 2008 was declared "Margaret Cho Day" in San Francisco, CA.^[55]

Filmography[link]

• The Golden Palace (1992) – Television (Episode: One Old Lady to Go)
• All American Girl (1994–1995) – Television (all episodes)
• Angie (1994)
• The Doom Generation (1995)
• It's My Party (1996)
• Pink as the Day She Was Born (1997)
• Fakin' Da Funk (1997)
• Sweethearts (1997)
• Face/Off (1997)
• The Thin Pink Line (1998)
• Ground Control (1998)
• The Rugrats Movie (1998)
• The Tavern (1999)
• I'm the One That I Want (2000)
• Notorious C.H.O. (2001)
• Sex and the City (2001) – Television
• Revolution (2003)
• Margaret Cho: Assassin (2005)
• Bam Bam and Celeste (2005)
• The Lost Room (2006)
• Falling for Grace (2007)
• Celebrity Family Feud (2008)
• One Missed Call (2008)
• The Cho Show (2008)
• Beautiful (2009)
• 17 Again (2009)
• Miss Oriented (2009)
• Drop Dead Diva (2009–present) – Television
• Ghost Whisperer (2010) – Television
• Dancing With The Stars (2010) – Television
• Don't Forget The Lyrics Celebrity Edition (2010) – Television
• 30 Rock as Kim Jong-il (2011) – Television

Bibliography[link]

• I'm the One That I Want (2000)
• I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight (2005)

Discography[link]

Comedy[link]

• Drunk with Power (1997)
• Live in Houston (1998)
• I'm the One That I Want (2000)
• Notorious C.H.O.: Live at Carnegie Hall (2001)
• Revolution (2003)
• Assassin (2005)
• Beautiful (2009)

Music[link]

• Cho Dependent (2010)^[56]

Tours[link]

• "I'm the One That I Want" (2000)
• "Notorious C.H.O." (2002)
• "Revolution" (2003)
• "State of Emergency" (2004)
• "Assassin" (2005)
• "True Colors" (2007)
• "Beautiful" (2008)
• "True Colors" (2008)
• "Cho Dependent" (2010)

References[link]

External links[link]

	Asian Americans portal
	Biography portal
	Comedy portal

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