Flinn is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, Mississippi.

Flinn is located at 34°02′46″N 88°25′45″W / 34.04611°N 88.42917°W / 34.04611; -88.42917 northeast of Amory and southwest of Smithville on Mississippi Highway 25.

References[link]

• "Flinn". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:711137. Retrieved 2006-04-18. 

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Alphonzo Bailey, better known by his stage name Al Kapone, is an American rapper from Memphis, Tennessee. Al Kapone is known principally for his underground success in the Memphis hip hop scene in the 1990s, and latter role in a number of more contemporary songs.

Career[link]

After a decade of cultivating underground cult status in Memphis, Al Kapone began to achieve some mainstream success starting with his role on the soundtrack to the film, Hustle & Flow. The soundtrack included one solo track, titled "Get Crunk, Get Buck". He also wrote and produced "Whoop That Trick" and wrote "Hustle & Flow (It Ain't Over)", both tracks performed by Djay.^[1] His song "The Deepest Hood" featured in the 2007 film, Stomp the Yard.

Kapone collaborated with several musicians including E-40, Mike Jones, Too Short, Pimp C, Pastor Troy and D-Shot. He co-wrote E-40's "U and Dat" and Lil' Jon's "Snap Yo Fingers" and appeared on fellow Memphis hip hoppers Three 6 Mafia's album, Last 2 Walk, and 8Ball & MJG's, Ridin High.

He has toured with DJ Charlie White and guitarist Matt Uselton,^[2] as well as with six piece band of Memphis musicians called Tha Untouchablez.

Kapone lives in Memphis, Tennessee with his wife.

Discography[link]

• 1992: "Lyrical Drive-By" (indie single)
• 1992: Street Knowledge: Chpaters 1-12
• 1994: Pure Ghetto Anger
• 1994: Sinista Funk
• 1995: '[Da Resurrection
• 1995: Memphiz Undaground Hustlaz Vol. 1
• 1997: What Cha Got
• 1998: Memphis to the Bombed out Bay
• 2001: Alakatraz Ridaz: The Present & the Past (with Taylor Boyz & Sir Vince)
• 2001: Alkatraz Ridaz Chapter 2 (with Taylor Boyz)
• 2001: Memphis Drama Vol. 1
• 2002: Memphis Drama Vol. 2
• 2002: The Best of Memphis Drama Vol. 1 & 2 Chopped & Screwed
• 2002: Goin' All Out
• 2003: Memphis Untouchables (with The Jerk & Kingpin Skinny Pimp)
• 2003: Memphis Drama Vol. 3: Outta Town Luv
• 2005: Memphis Drama Vol. 4: Crunk Roots
• 2005: Showdown (with Mr. Sche)
• 2005: Whoop That Trick
• 2008: Poppin' Tags (EP)
• 2008: Al Kapeezy Oh Boy - The Hits!!
• 2008: Showdown: Reloaded (with Mr. Sche)
• 2010: Godfather EP
• 2010: Guitar Bump
• 2010: The Kapeezy Soul Hop Experience

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website

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DJ Paul
DJ Paul (back) performing with Three 6 Mafia bandmate Juicy J.
Background information
Birth name	Paul Beauregard
Born	1977 (age 34–35)
Origin	Memphis, Tennessee
Genres	Hip hop
Occupations	Rapper, record producer
Labels	Columbia/Sony Music (2003-Present) Loud (2000-2003) Relativity (1997-2000) Prophet (1995-1997)
Associated acts	Three 6 Mafia, Project Pat, Juicy J, Lil Wyte, Lord Infamous, Young Buck

Paul Beauregard, better known by his stage name DJ Paul, is an American rapper and record producer from Memphis, Tennessee.^[1] He is one half of the Memphis-based rap group Three 6 Mafia. He is also the half-brother of former Three 6 Mafia member Lord Infamous. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp". DJ Paul founded Scale-A-Ton Entertainment in 2009.

Rap career[link]

DJ Paul (Paul Beauregard) began his career as a DJ, producer, and rapper in the early 90's. He was one-half of the duo The Serial Killaz, his older half-brother Lord Infamous (Ricky Dunigan) was the other half. They released self-recorded tapes in their neighborhood, school, and local shops. "Portrait Of A Serial Killa" was their first tape, released in 1992. Also DJ Paul released numerous solo mixtapes (ex: c "Volume 12 (Pts. 1 and 2)", "Volume 15: For You Niggaz Wit' Anna", and "Volume 16: 4 Da Summa of '94").

DJ Paul rose to prominence as one of the best DJ-producers on the south side of Memphis, and met up with DJ/artist/producer Juicy J (Jordan Houston), also garnering buzz on the North side of Memphis. They noticed they had a lot of similar interests eventually merging their sound and crew members to form the super-group The Backyard Posse (later known as Triple Six Mafia). DJ Paul and Juicy J soon began producing dark, eerie tracks driven by bass-heavy beats and haunting sounds, and invited numerous Backyard Posse members to rap over the beats with them. They released the resulting tracks locally as Triple Six Mafia; years later these recordings would resurface as re-releases.

In 1994, Triple Six Mafia released the underground album "Smoked Out Loced Out". The album was laden with questionable content, such as violence, heavy drug use, and sexually explicit lyrics. Triple Six Mafia received a great response from listeners of this tape. In 1995, the loose collective changed its name to Three 6 Mafia and self-released its debut album, Mystic Stylez. The album became an underground success, and Three 6 Mafia, in turn, signed a distribution deal with Relativity for its Hypnotized Minds imprint. Throughout the late '90s, Juicy J and DJ Paul produced numerous albums a year for Hypnotize Minds and capitalized on the lucrative distribution deal. By the end of the decade, the two producers were at the helm of an empire, having extended their brand to alarming lengths, culminating with their commercial breakthrough album, When the Smoke Clears, which debuted at number six on Billboard's album chart. He became a great inspiration for people in the rap community.

Together with production partner Juicy J, DJ Paul played an important role in the South's rise to prominence within the once East- and West Coast-dominated rap industry. Behind the duo's leadership, Three 6 Mafia rose from an underground phenomenon in Memphis to a nationally recognized rap empire, spinning off numerous solo albums for the collective's many members in the mid to late '90s. DJ Paul raps as a member of Three 6 Mafia and contributes rhymes to most of the albums he produces for such artists as Project Pat, Gangsta Boo, La Chat, and Tear Da Club Up Thugs. Moreover, DJ Paul ventured into film-making with Choices, a straight-to-video film starring most of the Three 6 Mafia collective. He was also the winner of VH1's Famous Food out of 7 other celebrities in 2011.

Discography[link]

• 2002 Underground Volume 16: For Da Summa
• 2009: Scale-A-Ton^[2]
• 2012: A Person Of Interest (EP)

Mixtapes[link]

• 2009: The Weigh In ^{hosted by DJ Scream}
• 2010: Too Kill Again ^{hosted by DJ Scream & DJ Whoo Kid}
• 2011: Pray For Forgiveness (with Ya Boy and Lil Lody) ^{hosted by DJ Scream}
• 2012: For I've Sinned ^{hosted by DJ Scream}

Music Videography[link]

• U Don't Want It w/ Lord Infamous
• She Wanna Get High w/ Lord Infamous
• Wanta Be Like You
• Fuckboy/Im Drunk (Remix) w/ Lil Wyte
• Hi Way (I'm Gone) w/ Montana Trax
• Gimme Yayo w/ Miscellaneous
• Buy My Old Shit
• Lose It w/ Lil Wyte
• Ima Show My... w/ Mac Butta & Reno
• I'm Lookin For It w/ Lion Heart & Partee
• Stick'm Up w/ Drumma Boy & DJ Zirk
• Get Rowdy w/ Drumma Boy & Young Buck
• Hard Shit w/ Travis Barker
• Buck Nah w/ Ya Boy
• Dead Wrong w/ Ya Boy
• Me Dats Who w/ Ya Boy
• Mad At Me w/ Young Buck & Charlie P
• Get So Violent (Dub-Step Remix)
• Cocky
• Smokin & Fuckin

See also[link]

• Three 6 Mafia
• Hypnotize Minds

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• DJ Paul's channel on YouTube

Alex Flinn is an American author of novels for young adults. To date, she has written ten books that have been published.

Personal life[link]

Flinn was born in Glen Cove, New York and grew up in Syosset, New York and Miami, Florida. At the age of five she started thinking about being a writer and submitted early efforts to magazines like Highlights, which did not publish them. At twelve, she moved to Palmetto Bay, Florida, a suburb of Miami, where she still lives.She had a hard time making friends at her new school, and she has said that this experience inspired much of her writing for young adults, particularly her book, Breaking Point. She graduated from Miami-Palmetto High School and was in a magnet performing arts program called PAVAC (Performing And Visual Arts Center), which inspired some of her book, Diva. She graduated from the University of Miami with a degree in vocal performance (opera) then went to law school at Nova South Eastern University^[1] and practiced law for 10 years before retiring to devote herself full-time to writing, following the acceptance of her third book. She is married to Eugene Flinn and has two daughters.

[edit] Breathing Underwater and Diva

Breathing Underwater was Flinn's first novel. It was originally published in 2001 and was chosen a Top 10 ALA Best Books for Young Adults for that year. The story of 16-year-old Nicholas Andreas, a wealthy Miami teen who is sent to anger management because his girlfriend, Caitlin, takes out a restraining order against him. Ordered by the judge to write about his relationship, Nick tells of falling in love with her, and the eventual time when his anger took over and he hit her. The book is set in Miami and Key West, Florida. An excerpt from the book was included in Liz Claiborne, Inc's Love is Not Abuse curriculum, which was formulated to teach students about dating violence. Diva, a sequel to Breathing Underwater was released in 2006. It tells the story of Caitlin attending performing arts school as she gets over what happened between her and Nick and learns to be her own person while bonding with her often-flighty mother.

[edit] Breaking Point

[edit] Nothing to Lose

Nothing to Lose (2004) is about Michael Daye, a 17-year-old boy, who runs away from home after his stepfather is killed. Michael finds refuge at a traveling carnival and also falls in love with a fellow carny, Kirstie. When Michael finds out his mother is on trial for murder, he must decide whether to stay with the carnival and Kirstie, or come back to Miami to try to help his mother. The book was chosen as a Booklist Top 10 Youth Mystery, and American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and an American Library Association Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers.

[edit] Fade to Black

Fade to Black (2005) is perhaps Flinn's second-best known realistic novel and a frequent high school required read. Alex Crusan, a 16-year-old HIV positive high school junior, is attacked in his car early one morning and sent to the hospital. The novel is written in the perspective of three people: Alex Crusan, the victim; Clinton Cole, the suspect; and the witness, Daria Bickel, a young woman with Down's syndrome.

[edit] Beastly

[edit] Beastly: Lindy's Diary

This book is written as a diary showing the events of Beastly from Lindy's perspective, along with a few extra things.

[edit] Bewitching

Bewitching is another story involving Beastly's witch, Kendra. It begins with Kendra's original family and we get to see when she found out she was a witch. Then we see the story of Emma and follow her as we learn about her stepsister, who turns out to be manipulative. Kendra tries to help, but as usual, magic can sometimes be unpredictable.

[edit] A Kiss in Time

A Kiss in Time was released in 2009. A Junior Library Guild selection for 2009, the novel is a modern version of Sleeping Beauty, in which Talia, princess of Euphrasia, touches a spindle, falling into a deep sleep for three-hundred years. She wakes to the kiss of an American boy named Jack, on a tour of Europe. Since everyone in her kingdom is angry at her for touching the spindle, she persuades Jack to take her back to his Miami home, where she enters a modern world, replete with South Beach models and Jell-O shots. A humorous fish-out-of-water romance, Booklist magazine said in their review that "fans of Meg Cabot’s Princess Diaries and Gail Carson Levine’s Ella Enchanted (1997) will embrace this charming, lightweight fantasy." Publisher's Weekly called the book, "clever and humorous," while HornBook magazine called it "satisfying."

Cloaked[link]

Is a melange of several fairy tales, including The Frog Prince, The Shoemaker and the Elves, and The Six Swans. Set in Miami, it tells the story of a teen who works at the shoe repair counter at a posh South Beach hotel until he is sent on a quest by a princess, whose brother has been turned into a frog and set loose in the Florida Keys. It was released on January 26, 2011.

Awards[link]

Many of her books have made the American Library Association's Best Books for Young Adults lists, as well as Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. They have also received such teen-selected honors as the International Reading Association Young Adult Choices list (Breathing Underwater, Nothing to Lose, and Fade to Black). Flinn's books seem to appeal to teens who might otherwise prefer not to read, which is the charge of the Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers list.^[2] Her books have also been nominated for numerous state awards. Breathing Underwater won the Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Award in 2004. Beastly was nominated for the 2009 Lone Star State (Texas) Award and recently won the teen-selected Detroit Public Library Author Day Award. In 2012, she is set to write another fairytale story, this time a spin off of Cinderella.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official web site
• American Library Association website (only available to members)
• Young Adult Library Services Association of the ALA. Available to nonmembers
• International Reading Association Website, www.reading.org
• Official blog
• Breathing Underwater (novel)
• Breaking Point (novel)
• Beastly (novel)
• Nothing to Lose (novel)
• Fade to Black (novel)
• Diva (novel)
• "Love is Not Abuse" curriculum, copyright, 2006, Liz Claiborne, Inc.
• Hollywood Reporter Article[1] "CBS Films Sinks Teeth Into Beastly," December 5, 2007

Toby Stephens (born 21 April 1969) is an English stage, television and film actor who has appeared in films in both Hollywood and Bollywood. He is best known for playing megavillain Gustav Graves in the James Bond film Die Another Day (2002), Edward Fairfax Rochester in the BBC television adaptation of Jane Eyre (2006) and Philip Marlowe on the BBC Radio 4 Saturday Play "Classic Chandler" series (2010-11).

Biography[link]

Stephens, the younger son of actors Dame Maggie Smith and Sir Robert Stephens, was born in London, England. He was educated at Aldro and Seaford College and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). He began his film career with the role of Othello in 1992's Orlando. He has since made regular appearances on television (including in The Camomile Lawn) and on stage.

He has gained acclaim as a stage actor of distinction, notably playing the title role in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Coriolanus shortly after graduation from LAMDA; that same season he played Claudio in Measure for Measure for the RSC. He also played Stanley Kowalski in a West End production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, and Hamlet in 2004. He has appeared on Broadway in Ring Round the Moon. He played the lead in the film Photographing Fairies and played Orsino in Trevor Nunn's film of Twelfth Night. In 2002 he took on the role for which he is most widely known, that of Gustav Graves in the James Bond film Die Another Day.

In 2005 he played the role of a British Army captain in the Indian film, Mangal Pandey: The Rising, portraying events in the Indian rebellion of 1857. The following year he returned to India to play a renegade British East India Company officer in Sharpe's Challenge.

In late 2006 he starred as Edward Rochester in the BBC television adaptation of Jane Eyre (broadcast in the United States on PBS in early 2007) and The Wild West in February 2007 for the BBC in which he played General George Armstrong Custer in Custer's Last Stand.

During mid-2007, Stephens played the role of Jerry in a revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal under the direction of Roger Michell. Later that year, Stephens also starred as Horner in Jonathan Kent's revival of William Wycherley's The Country Wife. The play was the inaugural production of the Theatre Royal Haymarket Company, which in addition to Stephens includes the actors/actresses Eileen Atkins, Patricia Hodge, David Haig and Ruthie Henshall. Various members of the company are expected to star in upcoming productions at the Haymarket Theatre with various artistic directors. The formation of the company is considered by many London theatre critics to be a bold move for West End theatre.^[1]

In February 2008, Fox Broadcasting Company gave the go-ahead to cast Stephens as the lead in a potential one hour, prime time U.S. television show, Inseparable, to be produced by Shaun Cassidy. Billed as a modern Jekyll and Hyde story, the show was to feature a partially paralyzed forensic psychologist whose other personality is a charming criminal. Stephens' casting was highly unusual, because Fox had not yet approved a script nor purchased a pilot for the show. However, in mid-May 2008, The Hollywood Reporter announced that "[b]y the time the network picked up the pilot . . . [the producers'] hold on Stephens had expired . . . ."^[2][3]

In May 2008, Stephens performed the role of James Bond in a BBC Radio 4 production of Ian Fleming's Dr. No, as part of the centenary celebration of Fleming's birth. The production was reportedly the first BBC radio dramatisation of the novel though Moonraker was on South African radio in 1956, with Bob Holness providing the voice of Bond.^[4]

Also in May 2008, Stock-pot Productions announced that Stephens will have the lead role in a feature-length film entitled Fly Me, co-starring Tim McInnerny.^[5] Stock-pot was also the producer of One Day, a short 2006 film shown at international film festivals, in which Stephens played a small part as the boss of McInnerny's character.

On 5 October 2008, Stephens appeared onstage at the London Palladium as part of a benefit entitled "The Story of James Bond, A Tribute to Ian Fleming." The event, organised by Fleming's niece, Lucy Fleming, featured music from various James Bond films and Bond film stars reading from Fleming's Bond novels. Stephens took the part of James Bond himself in the readings.

In early December 2008, Stephens read from Coda, the last book written by his good friend Simon Gray, for BBC Radio 4. The excerpts from which Stephens read included Gray's description of Gray's participation as godfather at the christening of Stephens' son Eli.

Early in 2009, Stephens appeared as Prince John in season 3 of the BBC series Robin Hood. The series also aired on BBC America in the United States. Stephens' more recent television appearances include two episodes of a six-part television series, Strike Back, based on the novel by Chris Ryan.^[6] The series aired in May 2010.

In the summer of 2009, Stephens returned to the London stage in the Donmar Warehouse production of Ibsen's A Doll's House alongside Gillian Anderson and Christopher Eccleston.

In 2010, Stephens once again performed on television. First, he starred in the made-for-television film, The Blue Geranium, a further sequel to the television series and films based on Agatha Christie's Miss Marple character.^[7] The show was broadcast in the U.S. on PBS in June 2010, and is expected to finally air in Britain later this year. Stephens also recently starred as a highly self-centred detective opposite Lucy Punch in a three-part comedy television series for BBC Two entitled Vexed.^[8]

Stephens also took on a small supporting role in a short film, The Lost Explorer, the directorial debut of photographer Tim Walker. The film is based on a short story by author Patrick McGrath.^[9]

Meantime, on the London stage in the spring of 2010, Stephens received outstanding reviews for his performance as Henry in a revival of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, directed by Anna Mackmin at the Old Vic Theatre in London.^[10] Of debuting at the Old Vic, where his parents performed as part of Laurence Olivier's Royal National Theatre Company, Stephens said: "It's quite moving for me to do something there. It means it has an added fascination. It was an historic place but I never saw anything when [my parents] were there, which is really sad, because I was just born. I'm a huge admirer of Stoppard's work."^[11]

Stephens' most recent stage role, performed in the summer and autumn of 2010, was Georges Danton in Danton's Death. The play was another debut for Stephens, this time at London's Royal National Theatre.^[12][13]

Over the years, Stephens has continued to prolifically narrate audiobooks and perform in broadcast radio dramas; in the last three years, he has averaged four or five such performances per year. In January 2011, Stephens will join other stars in narrating portions of the King James Version of the Bible for BBC Radio 4 as part of a celebration of the 400th anniversary of the bible's publication. BBC Radio 4 also recently announced that Stephens will be performing the role of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe in a radio serial planned schedule to start in February 2011. Stephens has also narrated another audiobook, Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery, also due for release in February 2011.

Personal life[link]

In May 2007, Toby Stephens and his wife of six years, New Zealand actress Anna-Louise Plowman, had their first child, son Eli Alistair.^[14] The late Simon Gray, the renowned British playwright (who penned Japes, a stage play, and Missing Dates, a radio drama, both of which starred Stephens), was reportedly Eli's godfather.^[15] Stephens and his wife became the parents of a second child, daughter Tallulah, in May 2009.^[16] The couple were expecting a third child in September 2010.^[17]

Filmography[link]

Television[link]

Theatre[link]

Radio drama and audio books[link]

Notes[link]

Awards[link]

• 1994—Ian Charleson Award (best classical actor under 30): Coriolanus
• 1994—Sir John Gielgud Award (best actor): Coriolanus
• 1999—Theatre World Award (debut performance on Broadway): Ring Round the Moon

Interviews and articles[link]

• The Independent - It'll Be All Right on the Night (27 March 1994)
• The New York Times - It's Not Romantic or Oedipal: It's Just the Family Business (24 April 1999)
• The Independent - 1 Minute in the Mind of Toby Stephens 4 February 2001)
• The Independent - Theatre Debut - Toby Stephens (7 February 2001)
• The Evening Standard - Toby's Second Act (15 November 2002)
• The Times - My Cultural Life (23 November 2002)
• The Sunday Telegraph - Villain with a Past (16 December 2002)
• San Francisco Chronicle - Traitor? It's No Easy Gig (19 October 2003)
• Stephens on Hamlet, Essay for RSC Website (2004)
• The Times - Interview: Toby Stephens (4 July 2004)
• The Independent on Sunday - This Cultural Life (5 December 2004)
• The Independent - How do I look? (13 August 2005)
• The Telegraph - The Perils of Being Posh on TV (16 March 2006)
• The Independent - Toby Stephens: My Life in Travel (18 March 2006)
• The Times - Every Woman Has Her Own Idea of Mr. Rochester (29 August 2006)
• The Guardian - Prodigal Son (31 May 2007)
• The Times - Mr. Rochester Takes His Bow (3 September 2007)
• The Evening Standard - Restoring His Humour (2 October 2007)
• Angel & North - Charming Chameleon (2007)
• SFX - Meet the New James Bond (20 May 2008)
• BBC Press Office - Robin Hood returns to BBC One (27 March 2009)
• Daily Mail- Toff at the top! Aristocad Toby Stephens on his Robin Hood role, drink and famous parents (1 May 2009)
• The Daily Telegraph - Being Born into the Theatre was a Mixed Blessing (21 May 2009)
• The Times - Diary: Toby Stephens (20 June 2009)
• London Evening Standard - Toby Stephens to Face Family History at Old Vic (23 March 2010)
• The Times - Toby Stephens: Of course I’d act with my mother (1 April 2010)
• Daily Mail - In a Taxi with...Theatre Royal Toby Stephens (17 April 2010)
• The Spectator - Silencing the Voices (17 July 2010)
• The Guardian - This much I know: Toby Stephens (18 July 2010)
• officiallondontheatre.co.uk - The Big Interview: Toby Stephens (28 July 2010)

External links[link]

• RSC Hamlet website Includes clips of Toby Stephens and the cast rehearsing the 2004 production of Hamlet.
• Toby Stephens at the Internet Movie Database
• http://unitedagents.co.uk/toby-stephens
• http://www.hobsons-international.com/voices/1595/toby_stephens