title: Joint Task Force 2

text: In 1996, JTF 2 deployed to Haiti to advise the security forces of President René Préval on methods to repel the revolutionary army, train local SWAT teams and raid weapons smugglers in Port-au-Prince.


title: Joint Task Force 2

text: According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, JTF 2 was also in Haiti at the time that Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted from power in 2004. They protected the Canadian embassy and secured the airport.


title: Joint Task Force 2

text: In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks and the American declaration of a War on Terror, approximately 40 JTF 2 soldiers were sent to southern Afghanistan in early December 2001 to be part of Task Force K-Bar, under the command of Captain Robert Harward. The Canadian public was not informed of the deployment. However, in Sean M. Maloney's book "Enduring the Freedom", it was reported that JTF 2 was secretly deployed without Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's permission in early October 2001. Under Task Force K-Bar, JTF 2 worked extensively with the U.S. 3rd Special Forces Group; one of their first missions in Afghanistan was what Harward described as "the first Coalition direct action mission since the Second World War." The joint operation with a team of Green Berets targeting a Taliban command node almost ended in disaster when a Chinook carrying JTF 2 operators was forced to make a hard landing near the target site. While serving with Task Force K-Bar, Harward also stated that the JTF 2 team under his command was his first choice for any direct action.


title: Joint Task Force 2

text: Several months later, "The Globe and Mail" published an image on its front page showing operators in distinctive forest-green Canadian Forces combat uniforms delivering captured prisoners to the Americans. This prompted an outcry in Parliament as MPs were never informed these operations were underway. Vice Admiral Greg Maddison was called before the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs to address claims that Minister of Defence Art Eggleton had purposely misled the public and the government, even failing to inform the Prime Minister that JTF 2 had been operating in Afghanistan. Segments of the Canadian media made much of the special forces handing over detainees, particularly those who may have been sent to Guantanamo Bay. In January 2002, JTF 2 deployed reconnaissance teams to the series of caves discovered in Zhawar Kili, just south of Tora Bora. Airstrikes hit the sites before SOF teams were inserted into the area. A platoon from SEAL Team 3, including several of their Desert Patrol Vehicles, accompanied by a German Kommando Spezialkräfte (KSK) element and a Norwegian SOF team, spent some nine days conducting extensive site exploitation, clearing an estimated 70 caves and 60 structures in the area, recovering a huge amount of both intelligence and munitions, but they did not encounter any al-Qaeda fighters. In March 2002, JTF 2 reconnaissance teams took part in Operation Anaconda; they also conducted close protection tasks and participated in numerous direct action missions, allegedly including the siege at Mirwais hospital in Kandahar, where a US Army Special Forces operational detachment-A (SFODA) killed a group of al-Qaeda terrorists hiding in a hospital ward; JTF 2 also carried out numerous operations with the New Zealand Special Air Service. JTF 2's first rotation was completed when they returned to Canada in May 2002, to be replaced by a second, shorter term, deployment until October 2002.


title: Joint Task Force 2

text: In 2004, an estimated 40 members of JTF 2 serving with Task Force K-Bar were awarded the Presidential Unit Citation by the U.S. government for service in Afghanistan. Very little is known on JTF 2 operations in Afghanistan, but during a conference the former Chief of Defence Staff, General Rick Hillier, stated that JTF 2 was in "high demand" and that they were considered to be "world class". He went on to say that the unit was providing direct support to the Afghan government and was targeting the Taliban leadership in southern Afghanistan. He stated that "trying to help neutralize those leaders is a key part of their role and that's what they will continue to do."


title: Joint Task Force 2

text: On 26 November 2005, members of the terrorist group Swords of Righteousness Brigade – a small offshoot of possibly Islamic Army in Iraq (IAI), Ansar al-Islam (AAI), Army of Islam, or a cover name for their abduction cells, or freelance cash criminal abductors – kidnapped four members (two Canadian, one British and one American) of the Christian Peacemaker Teams in Baghdad, Iraq. In response, Task Force Knight — the British special forces task force in Iraq — initiated Operation Lightwater; spearheaded by B Squadron, 22nd Special Air Service Regiment (SAS), the aim of which was to find and recover the hostages; a small team of JTF 2 and Canadian intelligence experts joined the task force for the operation whilst the United States provided technical intelligence to the operation. Together the force carried out relentless raids across the city, building up a picture by exploiting intelligence in the search for the hostages, eventually on the 23 March 2006 the three remaining hostages were rescued by the SAS. The Pentagon and the British Foreign Office both commented on the instrumental role JTF 2 played in rescuing the British and Canadian Christian Peacemaker Team that were being held hostage in Iraq. Involvement of JTF 2 was not confirmed by Canadian officials.


title: Joint Task Force 2

text: There has been much speculation in the Canadian media on possible JTF 2 operational deployments. As of 2001, the unit had 297 members, but by the end of the year, with the War on Terror becoming a reality, the federal government announced their intentions to increase it to 600 members within four years.


title: Joint Task Force 2

text: As of 2014, the unit was believed to be in Iraq as training personnel, under the Canadian Operation Impact which is part of Operation Inherent Resolve. The Canadian Government has not denied or confirmed JTF 2's involvement.


title: Joint Task Force 2

text: In June 2017, it was reported that a JTF 2 sniper in Iraq had shot and killed an ISIL fighter from a distance of , setting a world record for the longest confirmed kill. The shot was taken from a high-rise building using a standard Canadian military issued McMillan Tac-50 rifle, a .50 caliber (12.7×99mm) anti-materiel rifle commonly used by snipers in an anti-personnel role. The Canadian Forces designation is the C15 Long-Range Sniper Weapon (LRSW).


title: Joint Task Force 2

text: Vice-Admiral Dean McFadden also confirmed that JTF 2 would take a role in securing the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2010 Winter Paralympics.


title: Joint Task Force 2

text: JTF 2 has also acted as bodyguards to Canadians travelling abroad, notably accompanying Lieutenant-General Maurice Baril and Raymond Chrétien to Zaire in November 1996. When photographs provided to the media were revealed to show the faces of JTF 2 forces, they were redacted and reissued with the faces removed. In 1998, they accompanied General Roméo Dallaire to Tanzania where he was due to testify against a Rwandan Hutu official accused of complicity in the 1994 genocide. They similarly accompanied war crimes prosecutor Louise Arbour into Kosovo. In early November 2000, Conservative Defence Critic David Price stated that JTF 2 had been deployed to Kosovo, however, this was denied by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and Defence Minister Art Eggleton.


title: Joint Task Force 2

text: The unit was believed to be operating with the Special Air Service and Special Boat Service in Operation Mobile, the Canadian operation in the 2011 Libyan civil war.


title: Joint Task Force 2

text: In August 2021, JTF-2 and CSOR operators were deployed to Afghanistan to evacuate staff from the Canadian Embassy in Kabul.


title: Joint Task Force 2

text: In May 2022, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Ukraine to show solidarity and to witness the war for himself, alongside members of the cabinet. As part of the security detail, they were accompanied by members of JTF 2.


title: Joint Task Force 2

text: On 21 December 2006, a Federal Court judge rejected a request to proceed with a court martial against an unnamed JTF 2 officer, accused of assaulting and mistreating a subordinate. Because court martial requests require that the accused be named, the judge suggested that they explore other avenues to proceed with the court martial.


title: Joint Task Force 2

text: JTF 2 has acknowledged the death of one member. Master Corporal Anthony Klumpenhouwer, 25, died on April 18, 2007, after falling off a communications tower in Kandahar, Afghanistan. In 2010, the investigation into Klumpenhouwer's death was completed, and revealed that he had been knocked unconscious by a surge of electricity.


title: Joint Task Force 2

text: JTF 2 uses the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) special operations version. A replacement project was cancelled in 2010. In 2016, the DAGOR (Deployable Advanced Ground Off-road) vehicle by Polaris Defense was awarded the Ultra-Light Combat Vehicle (ULCV) contract to provide 78 vehicles to CANSOFCOM.


title: Teenage Dirtbag

text: "Teenage Dirtbag" is a song by American rock band Wheatus. It was released on June 20, 2000, as the lead single from their eponymous debut album (2000). The song was written by guitarist and vocalist Brendan B. Brown and was inspired by a childhood experience of his.


title: Teenage Dirtbag

text: The song was successful in Australia, spending four weeks at number one, being certified 3× Platinum, and becoming the second-best-selling single of 2000. It also reached number one in Austria and Flanders while peaking at number two in Ireland, Germany, and the United Kingdom, where it was certified 2× Platinum in 2018. It has sold 5 million copies worldwide as of 2014.


title: Teenage Dirtbag

text: "Teenage Dirtbag" is about a childhood experience that guitarist and vocalist Brendan B. Brown had. In a 2012 interview with "Tone Deaf", he said:


title: Teenage Dirtbag

text: Brown also added that the song's sing-along chorus remains an act of defiance: "so when I sing: 'I'm just a teenage dirtbag', I'm effectively saying: 'Yeah, fuck you if you don't like it. Just because I like AC/DC doesn't mean I'm a devil worshipper, and you're an idiot.' That's where it comes from." In the same interview, regarding the possible reasons for its continued success, Brown recalled his father's words: "Every teenager has to go through that 'being an outsider' thing, at least a little bit. So that story is still the same for people, even if it's thirty years after I went through it."


title: Teenage Dirtbag

text: The song's vocals are all performed by Brown, including a segment in falsetto. When the group arranged a joint tour with MC Frontalot, MC Frontalot contributed a nerdcore rap verse to the song, as did MC Lars.


title: Teenage Dirtbag

text: Ayhan Sahin of "Billboard" magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling it a "gritty, on-the-edge track" and saying that its "keen melody, inventive production, and cool lyric about those who have felt like underlings during high school will entice listeners who prefer hanging out behind the gym with a smoke to Latin club." He went on to say that it "stands strongly on its own as an emphatic anthem and a song many teens will be proud to push hard from their car speakers." In June 2013, Australian radio station Triple J ranked "Teenage Dirtbag" as number 82 on their "Twenty Years of Triple J's Hottest 100". The song was ranked number 69 on the "Top 100 Greatest Pop Songs of All Time" countdown by British music channel The Hits.


title: Teenage Dirtbag

text: In the United Kingdom, the song peaked at number two, staying there for two weeks and kept off the top spot by Atomic Kitten's "Whole Again". It spent four weeks at number one in Australia and also topped the charts in Austria and Flanders. Despite being a huge success in the UK, Europe and Australia, it failed to chart on the US "Billboard" Hot 100, peaking only at number seven on the Alternative Songs chart. In March 2011, the song returned to the UK Singles Chart at number 43 and climbed to number 35 the following week, nearly 11 years after its initial release. Bigtop40.com suggested that this was due to a promotion on iTunes. In April 2012, it re-entered the UK Singles Chart again, this time peaking at number 36; and then once again in March 2013, where it entered at number 46. The track has sold five million copies worldwide as of 2014.


title: Teenage Dirtbag

text: The second verse of the song originally began with, "Her boyfriend's a dick/He brings a gun to school". Radio edits usually omitted the word "dick" or edit it so that it sounds like the less offensive "prick", but most modern versions of the song have the words "gun to school" covered by scratching sounds. Some versions also edit the lines "And he'd simply kick/My ass if he knew the truth", to remove the word "ass". When asked why "gun" is frequently censored, Brown stated that it is because the day he presented the song to the band's record label was around the time of the first anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre. The song was re-recorded and re-released in 2020, retaining the original lines.


title: Teenage Dirtbag

text: The music video for "Teenage Dirtbag", directed by Jeff Gordon, is based on the 2000 film "Loser", which the song features in, and tells a different story from the film based on the song's lyrics. Jason Biggs plays a nerdy character and Mena Suvari is the love interest who unexpectedly invites the protagonist to an Iron Maiden concert, and in the end scene they dance together on prom night.


title: Teenage Dirtbag

text: In some cases, the beginning and the end of the video were deleted: The full version of the video begins with Jason falling asleep while doing his homework and ends with a large glitter ball falling from the ceiling and striking him on the head. He then wakes up, revealing his brief romance with Suvari to have been all a dream. The video was nominated for Best Video at the "Kerrang!" Awards.


title: Mason Alexander Park

text: Mason Alexander Park (born July 12, 1995) is an American actor. They gained prominence through their stage work, earning a Helen Hayes Award. On television, they are known for their roles in the Netflix adaptations of the anime "Cowboy Bebop" (2021) and Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman" (2022), and the "Quantum Leap" (2022) revival on NBC.


title: Mason Alexander Park

text: Park was born in Fairfax, Virginia, and moved around as a child for their father's work before settling down in North Carolina. They are non-binary. They are of Spanish and Mexican descent. Park discovered acting through a summer camp in Texas. In need of a new environment after being bullied at school, Park went to Los Angeles with their mother and enrolled at Grand Arts High School. They graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in Musical Theatre from Point Park University in Pittsburgh.


title: The Babylon Bee

text: The Babylon Bee is a conservative Christian news satire website that publishes satirical articles on topics including religion, politics, current events, and public figures. It has been referred to as a Christian, evangelical, or conservative version of "The Onion".


title: The Babylon Bee

text: "The Babylon Bee" was created by Adam Ford and was launched on March 1, 2016. It is headquartered on 110 Front Street, Suite 300, in Jupiter, Florida, and employs around 24 people across the United States. According to Seth Michael Dillon, the current owner of "The Babylon Bee", Ford launched the website "because there was this massive void on the right for comedy that wasn't cheesy". Shortly after launching, "The Babylon Bee" made headlines for mocking the "health and wealth" theology of Jan Crouch, co-founder of Trinity Broadcasting Network, on the day of her death.


title: The Babylon Bee

text: In 2017, Hurricane Harvey battered Houston, Texas, causing widespread flooding. In that context, "The Babylon Bee" satirically criticized televangelist Joel Osteen with a headline that read: "Joel Osteen Sails Luxury Yacht Through Flooded Houston to Pass Out Copies Of "Your Best Life Now"". The article went viral, prompting a fact check from Snopes.


title: The Babylon Bee

text: In late 2018, Ford sold the website to Seth Dillon, whom Ford described as "a successful businessman who uses his resources for Kingdom purposes". In a public announcement published on his personal website, Ford cited several reasons for the sale, including his discomfort with the power wielded by social media companies like Facebook over creators and their perceived anti-conservative and anti-Christian bias. He wrote that "Facebook has the power to kill publishers, and they do, not only based on publishing techniques, but based on . Just think about that". At the time of the website's sale, Kyle Mann, who had been head writer since September 2016, became editor-in-chief. Dillon later described the sale as "an exciting opportunity to do something different and more impactful and fun, and would bring me full circle to that whole satire and writing thing I wanted to do." As of 2021, Ford still had a financial stake in "The Babylon Bee".


title: The Babylon Bee

text: In 2019, "The Babylon Bee" satirically criticized Donald Trump with an article saying that Trump claimed he had "done more for Christianity than Jesus". The article went viral, prompting a fact check from Snopes after some thought the article was a real story. In September 2021, Trump actually said in an interview, "Nobody has done more for Christianity, or for evangelicals, or for religion itself than I have."


title: The Babylon Bee

text: At the time of its sale to Dillon, "The Babylon Bee" was receiving 3million page views per month. In October 2020, the website said that it was receiving about 8M visitors a month. In January 2021, "The Washington Times" said that "The Babylon Bee" was receiving more than 20M page views per month, had more than 20,000 paid subscribers, and had a Twitter account with more than 856,000 followers. In January 2022, "The Economist" said that "The Babylon Bee" was "claiming as many as 25M readers a month at its peak", and that Dillon had turned "The Babylon Bee" "into one of the most popular conservative sites after Fox News". During this period the "Bee" had several articles which had higher page views than "The Onion"s normal monthly site traffic of 3.5M. Articles such as "NBA Players Wear Special Lace Collars to Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg", "Motorcyclist Who Identifies as Bicyclist Sets Cycling World Record", and "Trump: 'I Have Done More For Christianity Than Jesus'" each received more than 3.5M page views.


title: The Babylon Bee

text: In July 2021, Dillon spoke at Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida about misinformation and "The Babylon Bee". In April 2022, Dillon announced a partnership with the person behind the Twitter account Libs of TikTok after "The Washington Post" further publicized the account's identity.


title: The Babylon Bee

text: "The Babylon Bee" takes the tone and format of a traditional news publication. The site began by lampooning a wide range of topics including progressives, Democrats, Republicans, Christians, and Donald Trump. The purpose of the site, according to its founder Adam Ford in 2016, was not just to evoke laughter, but to give cause for self-reflection. "It's important to look at what we're doing, to 'examine ourselves.' Satire acts like an overhead projector, taking something that people usually ignore and projecting it up on the wall for everyone to see. It forces us to look at things we wouldn't normally look at and makes us ask if we're okay with them". E.J. Dickson wrote in "Rolling Stone" in 2020 that "The Babylon Bee" "initially started out as something of an equal opportunity offender" in the topics it satirized. In an April 2016 "Washington Post" profile of the site and its founder, Bob Smietana observed that "The "Bee" excels at poking fun at the small idiosyncrasies of believers, especially evangelical Protestants". Susan E. Isaacs publishing in "Christianity Today" wrote in May 2018 that the site "lampoon[ed] the faithful across denominations, political affiliations, and age groups". Emma Green in "The Atlantic" noted of "The Babylon Bee"s content in October 2021, "although political humor drives much of "The Bee"s web traffic, the publication's signature hits focus on what the writers see as shallowness in the evangelical world".


title: The Babylon Bee

text: In the years leading up to 2020, the site grew less critical of Trump and more critical of the left and liberalism, though it continued to satirize topics across both parties. Emma Goldberg of "The New York Times" said in 2020 that although Trump was still not off-limits as a target for the "Bee", "their "early coverage of Trump, back in 2016, was much more vitriolic than today's. They called him a psychopath, or a megalomaniac. Now they're more bemused by him and the ghoulish ways he's described on the left". In another 2020 "New York Times" article, Emma Goldberg wrote that the unifying goal of the site was "poking fun at the left", and that "their most popular articles are often those making jokes at the expense of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden". She wrote that its success was due to finding ways to punch up by "ridiculing every source of authority outside the White House." In the same article, "The Babylon Bee"s editor-in-chief Kyle Mann summarized how he believed readers of "The Babylon Bee" considered the site: "this comedy makes fun of everybody, but it's a little harder on the left, and when it makes fun of the right it's not hateful." Parker J. Bach wrote in "Slate" in June 2021 that the site frequently makes jokes that target marginalized groups, with articles that are "often 'ironically' misogynistic" and "frequently antagonistic toward the LGBTQIA+ community". In an October 2021 interview with "The Atlantic", Mann described the site's view of satire and its mission as "mock[ing] people who hold cultural power and... communicat[ing] truth to a culture that many times does not believe in an objective, universal truth any longer."


title: The Babylon Bee

text: "The Babylon Bee"s influence led to their podcast interview of Elon Musk in December 2021. This podcast featured the usual hosts Kyle Mann and Ethan Nicolle, as well as an uncommon appearance by Seth Dillon. The podcast covered a wide range of topics, ranging from a response to Senator Elizabeth Warren's criticism of the amount of taxes paid by Musk to current sex scandals at CNN to his thoughts on Christianity.


title: The Babylon Bee

text: Jennifer Graham of "Deseret News" attributed the success of "The Babylon Bee" to its benefiting "from the increasing polarization in America, with Republicans and Democrats clustering in information silos that reflect and affirm their beliefs."


title: The Babylon Bee

text: Nick Gillespie of "Reason" praised "The Babylon Bee", saying that "The fact that the "Bee" is very funny, day in and day out, is almost enough to get me, a lapsed Catholic, to believe in divine intervention, if not a covenant of grace not works."


title: The Babylon Bee

text: As the readership of "The Babylon Bee" increased from 2016 to 2020, there were independent, ongoing discussions within journalistic circles on how to handle the rise of fake news and its influence on the public. "The Babylon Bee" was brought into this wider conversation when several of their articles were shared on social media or reported upon, ostensibly as factual, including President Donald Trump commenting on a story that claimed "Twitter Shuts Down Entire Network To Slow Spread Of Negative Biden News" and British newspaper "The Guardian" reprinting as factual a "Bee"-doctored image of LeBron James wearing a lace collar supposedly in tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg.


title: The Babylon Bee

text: "The Conversation" published research by academics at the Ohio State University in August 2019 that found that people regularly mistook satirical reports from "The Babylon Bee", "The Colbert Report", "The Onion", and others for genuine news. They found that "stories published by the "Bee" were among the most shared factually inaccurate content in almost every survey we conducted". They also found that both Republicans and Democrats mistook articles from "The Babylon Bee" as news, but Republicans were more likely to do so. "The Babylon Bee"'s editor-in-chief, Kyle Mann, criticized the research in a conversation with ReasonTV, describing it as "methodologically flawed" and saying "The Conversation" reworded the headlines and took them out of context when asking survey respondents if they thought they were real. "Reason"'s John Osterhoudt said that the headlines had been "stripped of both context and comedy", giving as an example "The Babylon Bee" headline "CNN: 'God Allowed the Mueller Report to Test Our Shakeable Faith in Collusion'" that was rephrased to participants as "CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper said his belief that Trump colluded with Russia is unshakable; it will not change regardless of statements or evidence to the contrary".


title: The Babylon Bee

text: Media outlets' responses to incidents in which "The Babylon Bee"s content was mistaken for factual reporting have varied. Some have described "The Babylon Bee" and its content as obviously satirical, whereas others have suggested the site misleads its readers, either intentionally or inadvertently. The frequency with which "Babylon Bee" stories are confused with real news has resulted in numerous reactions from fact-checkers.


title: The Babylon Bee

text: In October 2020, a satirical news story by "The Babylon Bee" claiming that Twitter had been shut down to protect Joe Biden from negative coverage was retweeted by then-U.S. President Donald Trump, who, according to some journalists, seemed to not realize the article was parody and condemned the fabricated incident described in the story as a case of leftist censorship. This event prompted Kevin Roose, writing in "The New York Times", to question whether "The Babylon Bee" "traffic[s] in misinformation under the guise of comedy", concluding that ""The Babylon Bee" is not a covert disinformation operation disguised as a right-wing satire site, and is in fact trying to do comedy, but may inadvertently be spreading bad information when people take their stories too seriously". When asked about the retweet by Fox News' Media Angle, Dillon said "He's just doing what he does. We know from people close to him that he's a fan of the "Bee" and enjoys our satire."


title: The Babylon Bee

text: Parker J. Bach wrote in "Slate" that "the site is adept at writing ironically ambiguous material that lets audiences from different sections of the right reinforce their own beliefs... even if "The Babylon Bee"'s satire itself should not be considered misinformation, its satire draws on and reinforces actual misinformation and conspiracy" also describing their material as "riffs on riffs, building referential jokes atop the already referential right-wing commentary about the untrustworthiness of the news". James Varney wrote in "The Washington Times" that "Surprisingly often, a short piece from the "Bee" seems to become real news. A jesting report in the "Bee" will be fact-checked and censored, usually briefly, by social media platforms" and that "as a consequence, the satirical website has been fondly christened by its conservative blogging brethren as 'the paper of record. As of 2022, Dillon's Instagram account described "The Babylon Bee" as "the world’s most trusted, factually accurate news source."


title: The Babylon Bee

text: In March 2018, "The Babylon Bee" published an article quipping that CNN was using an industrial-sized washing machine to "spin" the news. Snopes fact-checked the article, rating it "false". Facebook then cited this fact-check in a warning message to "The Babylon Bee", threatening to limit their content distribution and monetization. Ford tweeted a screenshot of the warning message to his followers, drawing public attention to the matter. Facebook quickly apologized, with the statement that "there's a difference between false news and satire. This was a mistake and should not have been rated false in our system. It's since been corrected and won't count against the domain in any way". Snopes later issued a fact-check of its previous fact-check, saying that "it should have been obvious that the Babylon Bee piece was just a spoof."


title: The Babylon Bee

text: In July 2019, "The Babylon Bee" published an article referring to a real-world incident, titled "Georgia Lawmaker Claims Chick-Fil-A Employee Told Her to Go Back to Her Country, Later Clarifies He Actually Said 'My Pleasure'", which Snopes rated "false". They also this time suggested that the article was deliberately deceptive, rather than genuinely satirical. Ford responded on Twitter, highlighting what he deemed to be problematic wording in the fact-check. "The Babylon Bee" also released a statement, calling the fact-check a "smear" that was "both dishonest and disconcerting". The statement concluded by saying a law firm had been retained to represent "The Babylon Bee" because "Snopes appears to be actively engaged in an effort to discredit and deplatform us". After receiving some backlash and a formal demand letter from "The Babylon Bee"s attorney, Snopes made revisions to the wording of the fact check and added an explanatory editor's note.


title: The Babylon Bee

text: "The Babylon Bee"s chief executive, Seth Dillon, appeared on Fox News in August 2019 to discuss the incident. He said "The Babylon Bee" must take the matter seriously "because social networks, which we depend on for our traffic, have relied upon fact-checking sources in the past to determine what's fake news and what isn't. In cases where [Snopes] is calling us fake news and lumping us in with them rather than saying this is satire, that could actually damage us. It could put our business in jeopardy".


title: The Babylon Bee

text: Snopes' co-founder David Mikkelson acknowledged to "The New York Times" that their fact-check was poorly written, but denied trying to discredit "The Babylon Bee." In an interview with "BuzzFeed News", Mikkelson stated, "The question you should be asking is not: 'why is Snopes addressing material from a particular site so often?' But, 'what is it about that site that makes its content trigger the fact-check threshold?'"


title: The Babylon Bee

text: In August 2019, Snopes announced a new rating for satire sites called "labeled satire". Articles from "The Babylon Bee" that were previously rated "false" were updated with the new rating. Snopes explains the label: "This rating indicates that a claim is derived from content described by its creator and/or the wider audience as satire. Not all content described by its creator or audience as 'satire' necessarily constitutes satire, and this rating does not make a distinction between 'real' satire and content that may not be effectively recognized or understood as satire despite being labeled as such". Mann objected to this label in an op-ed published in "The Wall Street Journal", writing that the label "is meant to suggest that we are somehow making jokes in bad faith".


title: The Babylon Bee

text: In June 2021, Dillon threatened legal action against "The New York Times", alleging that the newspaper had defamed "The Babylon Bee" by referring to it as a "far-right misinformation site" in a March 2021 article. The "Times" first amended the article, then removed the descriptor and published a clarification about the labeling dispute between Snopes and "The Babylon Bee".


title: The Babylon Bee

text: On several occasions, social media and other platforms have removed content by "The Babylon Bee" or flagged or suspended its accounts, though some of these actions were later described by the platforms as errors and reversed.


title: The Babylon Bee

text: In March 2018, after "The Babylon Bee"s article about CNN "spinning" the news in a large washing machine was classified by Snopes as "false", Facebook sent a notification threatening to limit the "Bee"s content distribution and monetization. Following some controversy, Facebook identified the notification as a mistake and apologized.


title: The Babylon Bee

text: "The Babylon Bee"s Twitter account was briefly suspended in August 2020 after being mistakenly caught in one of the social media company's spam filters.


title: The Babylon Bee

text: In October 2020, "The Babylon Bee" put up a Facebook post linking to a story about the Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court nomination, with the headline "Senator Hirono Demands ACB Be Weighed Against a Duck to See If She Is a Witch" (a reference to the 1975 film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"). Citing its policies against incitement to violence, Facebook removed the post and demonetized "The Babylon Bee"s page on the social media platform. Dillon responded, "In what universe does a fictional quote as part of an obvious joke constitute a genuine incitement to violence? How does context not come into play here? They're asking us to edit the article and not speak publicly about internal content reviews."


title: The Babylon Bee

text: Dillon criticized Facebook in June 2021 after the company announced that it would moderate satire that "punches down". He responded that "we're not punching down. We're punching back." The same month, Mailchimp suspended "The Babylon Bee"s account. The company later said that this had been an error, but Dillon announced that the "Bee" would no longer use Mailchimp's services.


title: The Babylon Bee

text: In August 2021, after a drop in website traffic referred from Facebook, Dillon accused the social media platform of throttling the reach of "The Babylon Bee".


title: The Babylon Bee

text: "The Babylon Bee" put up a Facebook post in February 2022 with the headline "Trans Woman Breaks Jeopardy Record, Proving Once and for All That Men Are Smarter Than Women", referencing former "Jeopardy!" champion Amy Schneider. Facebook removed the post, citing its policies against hate speech. Dillon responded, "Remember how Facebook recently rolled out new rules stipulating that 'real satire' cannot 'punch down'? Are they really willing to say that defending women against a male takeover of their records is 'punching down' and – even worse – 'hate speech'? We're going to find out".


title: The Babylon Bee

text: On March 20, 2022, "The Babylon Bee"s Twitter account was suspended for tweeting ""The Babylon Bee"s Man of the Year Is Rachel Levine", referencing the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health, a transgender woman. Twitter said that the post violated its policy on "hateful conduct". Dillon refused to delete the tweet in order to regain access to the account, stating, "They could, of course, delete the tweet themselves. But they won't. It's not enough for them to just wipe it out. They want us to bend the knee and admit that we engaged in hateful conduct". On March 23, Twitter rejected an appeal by "The Babylon Bee". Dillon told Fox News Digital that the "Bee" was "disappointed" by the rejection, adding, "It doesn't change our position. They can delete our joke if they want. They have that power. But we're not bending the knee and doing it for them". Mann was also locked out of his personal account after tweeting, "Maybe they'll let us back into our Twitter account if we throw a few thousand Uighurs in a concentration camp", referring to the way in which Twitter handled accounts associated with the Chinese government. Mann has denied allegations of transphobia, saying "We love trans people", and "We don't consider people like that beneath us. You know, the Christian worldview is that everybody has the opportunity to be saved and we can love everybody. I'm no more deserving of God's grace than a transgender person is. But when the culture bows down and starts handing out trophies to people for stuff like this is when we say, 'Hey, wait a minute, you know, we need to protect women in our society as well.


title: The Babylon Bee

text: In a statement to "The Washington Times" on April 4, 2022, Dillon revealed that Elon Musk had contacted "The Babylon Bee" shortly after its Twitter account was suspended. "He wanted to confirm that we had, in fact, been suspended from Twitter. He reached out to us before he publicly asked his [Twitter] followers if they think Twitter 'rigorously adheres' to the principle of free expression. He even mused on that call with us that he might need to buy Twitter." Dillon added, "I wouldn't suggest that "The Babylon Bee" is the sole reason Musk decided to take action", but "I do think the absurdity of his favorite satire site getting suspended factored into his decision. Perhaps it was the last straw." On April 14, Musk made a formal offer to buy Twitter, which was accepted on April 25. Musk later decided to withdraw the offer, however, resulting in litigation. Musk officially acquired Twitter on October 27 and reinstated their Twitter account on November 18.


title: The Babylon Bee

text: Bill Maher also reacted to "The Babylon Bee"s Twitter suspension, making statements on several outlets that the social media company's editorial policies had "failed". He highlighted Twitter's reaction to the Wuhan Lab leak posts and the Hunter Biden laptop story, as well as its labeling as "sensitive content" a "Babylon Bee" video satirizing Twitter employees as being overly sensitive.


title: The Babylon Bee

text: Dillon has accused news media, fact-checking outlets, and social media websites of targeting "The Babylon Bee" in a movement to deplatform conservative or Christian viewpoints, which he has also described as "cancel culture". In October 2020, Senator Mike Lee referred to "The Babylon Bee" as a target of social media moderation, which he said was imbalanced and predominantly directed at right-leaning content, groups, and individuals. "The Babylon Bee" and "Not the Bee" filed an amicus brief in support of Florida's Senate Bill 7072, also known as the Stop Social Media Censorship Act, which seeks to "protect users by prohibiting social media sites from censoring or deplatforming people or organizations they disagree with". In the brief, both organizations said they had experienced censorship from large social media platforms.


title: The Babylon Bee

text: "The Babylon Bee" published a book satirizing the Christian self-help industry, titled "How to Be a Perfect Christian: Your Comprehensive Guide to Flawless Spiritual Living". Founder Adam Ford retained ownership of the book when he sold "The Babylon Bee".


title: The Babylon Bee

text: In November 2020, "The Babylon Bee" released a self-published collection of their greatest hits, titled "The Sacred Texts of The Babylon Bee, Volume 1".


title: The Babylon Bee

text: In 2021, Mann and Joel Berry, "The Babylon Bee"'s managing editor, published "The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness". In the first week after publication, it ranked 20th on Amazon's top seller list, 22nd on "USA Today"s top seller list, and 2nd on "Publishers Weekly"s bestsellers list. On NPD Bookscan (formerly Nielsen Bookscan), it reached the Number 2 spot among top-selling Christian books.


title: The Babylon Bee

text: In September 2022, "The Babylon Bee" released a book satirizing democracy in the United States, titled "The Babylon Bee Guide to Democracy."


title: The Babylon Bee

text: Dillon and Ford, along with Dan Dillon, launched the website "Not the Bee" on September 1, 2020. The content on "Not the Bee" is not satirical. The website instead publishes strange news stories and commentary, and hosts a social media platform. Seth Dillon has described it as "a humor-based entertainment site that offers commentary on stories that are so outrageous they should be satire, but somehow aren't".


title: L.A.'s Finest

text: L.A.'s Finest is an American action comedy crime television series created by Brandon Margolis and Brandon Sonnier; and produced by Sony Pictures Television. It is a spinoff of the "Bad Boys" franchise created by George Gallo. The series premiered on Spectrum on May 13, 2019. "L.A.'s Finest" is the first premium content show made for the cable provider and the debut of its Spectrum Originals banner of exclusive programming. The second season premiered on September 9, 2020. The first season of the series had its American broadcast television premiere on Fox on September 21, 2020. In October 2020, the series was cancelled by Spectrum after two seasons.


title: L.A.'s Finest

text: On October 25, 2017, it was reported that a television series spinoff of the "Bad Boys" films featuring the character Sydney "Syd" Burnett from "Bad Boys II" was in development. The pilot was set to be written by Brandon Margolis and Brandon Sonnier. Executive producers were expected to include Margolis, Sonnier, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, KristieAnne Reed, Jeff Gaspin, and Jeff Morrone. Production companies involved with the series were set to include Sony Pictures Television, Jerry Bruckheimer Television, and 2.0 Entertainment.


title: L.A.'s Finest

text: On October 31, 2017, it was announced that NBC had given the production a pilot production commitment following a competitive situation where multiple networks had pursued the potential series. On January 18, 2018, it was announced that NBC had given the production an official pilot order. On February 2, 2018, it was reported that Anton Cropper would direct the pilot episode. On April 12, 2018, it was announced that the previously untitled pilot had been titled "L.A.'s Finest". On May 11, 2018, it was reported that NBC had passed on the pilot and declined to pick up the production to series. The producers of the series were expected to shop the production to other networks.


title: L.A.'s Finest

text: On May 17, 2018, it was announced that Sony Pictures Television was in preliminary discussions with Charter Communications regarding a deal to pick up the series. By the end of the month, the talks had progressed to the point of serious negotiations. On June 26, 2018, it was announced that Charter Communications had given the production a series order for a first season consisting of thirteen episodes. On February 7, 2019, it was announced during the Television Critics Association's annual winter press tour that the series would premiere on May 13, 2019 with the release of the first three episodes. The remaining episodes were expected to be released on Mondays following the premiere via Spectrum's video on demand service accessible through their set-top cable boxes, along with the provider's iOS, Apple TV, and Roku applications. "L.A.'s Finest" is the first original television series produced by Spectrum.


title: L.A.'s Finest

text: On June 13, 2019, the series was renewed for a second season which was originally set to premiere on June 8, 2020, but on that date it was announced it had been pushed to "as-yet-[un]specified" date later in the year, in response to ongoing protests over police brutality. In August 2020, it was announced that the series would now premiere all thirteen episodes on September 9, 2020. On October 14, 2020, Spectrum canceled the series after two seasons.


title: L.A.'s Finest

text: Alongside the initial series development announcement, it was confirmed that Gabrielle Union would star in the series, reprising her role of Sydney "Syd" Burnett from the film "Bad Boys II". On January 29, 2018, it was announced that Ernie Hudson had been cast in a series regular role. On February 15, 2018, it was reported that Zach Gilford and Duane Martin had joined the main cast. In March 2018, it was announced that Jessica Alba, Ryan McPartlin, and Zach McGowan had been cast as series regulars. In September 2018, it was reported that Sophie Reynolds had been cast in a series regular role and that Barry Sloane would appear in a recurring capacity. In October 2018, David Fumero and Jordan Rodrigues joined the series in recurring roles. On January 11, 2019, it was announced that Jake Busey had joined the cast in a recurring role.


title: L.A.'s Finest

text: On February 21, 2019, executive producer and showrunner Brandon Sonnier was seriously injured during the shooting of a car stunt at the Port of Los Angeles when the vehicle accidentally crashed into the video village area of the set, which led to a partial amputation on his right leg. Brandon Margolis sustained minor injuries.


title: L.A.'s Finest

text: On February 7, 2019, the official trailer for the series was released. The series premiered on Spectrum on May 13, 2019. "L.A.'s Finest" is the first premium content show made for the cable provider and the debut of its Spectrum Originals banner of exclusive programming. In June 2019, Spectrum Originals renewed the series for a second season, which premiered on September 9, 2020.


title: L.A.'s Finest

text: In May 2020, Fox acquired the broadcast rights for the series' first season to fill in primetime broadcast hours due to production suspensions during the COVID-19 pandemic and premiered on September 21, 2020.


title: L.A.'s Finest

text: In January 2021, the first season was added to Netflix. The second season was added on Amazon in July 2021.


title: L.A.'s Finest

text: The series was syndicated for airing in the United Kingdom by Fox. In Canada, the series aired on CTV in Fall 2019. Outside North America, the series has aired in France on TF1, in Southeast Asia on AXN Asia, in the UK on 5USA, in Germany on AXN Germany and in India on Zee Café. The show premiered in Australia on 10 Bold on November 7, 2019 before joining catch-up streaming service 10 Play. The second season premiered in early 2021 on 10 Bold in Australia. All 26 episodes are available on 10 Play.


title: L.A.'s Finest

text: On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds an approval rating of 24% based on 17 reviews, with an average rating of 4.56/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A spin-off to nowhere, "L.A.'s Finest" operates on outdated sensibilities and wastes its talented leads' time—especially unfortunate considering Gabrielle Union's committed performance." On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 50 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". The series ranked 9th in TVLine's "The 10 Worst Shows of 2019".


title: Slipknot (album)

text: Slipknot is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Slipknot. It was released on June 29, 1999 by Roadrunner Records, following a demo containing a few of the songs which had previously been released in 1998. Later, it was reissued in December 1999 with a slightly-altered track listing and mastering as the result of a lawsuit. It was the first release by the band to be produced by Ross Robinson, who sought to refine Slipknot's sound rather than alter the group's musical direction. This is the only album to feature original guitarist Josh Brainard who left at the end of recording in late 1998 while the band was taking a brief break. Jim Root, who recorded two tracks at this point, would appear full time on subsequent albums.


title: Slipknot (album)

text: The album spans several genres, but is generally noted for its extensive percussion and overall heavy sound. It was well received by fans and critics alike and was responsible for bringing Slipknot a large increase in popularity. The album peaked at number 51 on the "Billboard" 200, and has gone on to become certified double platinum in the United States, making it the band's best-selling album. In 2011, it was voted the best debut album of the last 25 years by readers of "Metal Hammer" magazine.


title: Slipknot (album)

text: In 1997, following the band's demo release, "Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.", the members of Slipknot continued to write new material and work in SR Audio, a local studio, with new vocalist Corey Taylor. The band began to work on a follow-up, but were never able to go further than pre-production. Songs written and recorded in this period include "Slipknot", "Gently", "Do Nothing", "Tattered and Torn", "Heartache and a Pair of Scissors", "Me Inside", "Coleslaw", "Carve", "Windows", and "May 17". In 1998, Slipknot was receiving growing attention from record labels, including Epic and Hollywood Records.


title: Slipknot (album)

text: On September 29, 1998, Slipknot left Des Moines, Iowa, and relocated at Indigo Ranch Studios in Malibu, California, anxious to record an album after a long wait to be signed. During that time, its members attended a show by avant-garde metal supergroup Fantômas, fronted by Mike Patton (whom the band already admired from his work with Mr. Bungle and Faith No More). Fantômas went on to greatly influence Slipknot's new music. After recording a new demo, Slipknot released it to prospective labels and producers; the track "Spit It Out" was the main focus in it and, with help from their manager Sophia John, they were able to supply a copy of the eponymous demo to Ross Robinson. The band wanted him to work with them on their debut album, and, after meeting with the band, Robinson signed them to his own label, I Am, but later helped sign them to Roadrunner Records.


title: Slipknot (album)

text: The album's recording process was "very aggressive and chaotic", as producer Robinson strove to capture the intensity that the band created when performing live. Within three days all the drums were recorded, which contributed to the raw, live sound on the album that the band considered integral to its musical direction. Robinson played a big part in the stylistic change of the band, convincing them to cut off the more experimental sections and guitar solos in favor of a straightforward metal sound. By November 11, 1998, the recording of the album seemed complete and the band returned to Des Moines. During the Christmas period, guitarist Josh Brainard, who recorded on all the tracks to that point, left the band. The reasons for his departure were unclear; it was widely thought to have been because of family constraints, however, Brainard dispeled these rumours, explaining that "some decisions were made that I wasn't particularly happy with." His replacement was Jim Root, with whom the band returned to the studio in February 1999. Slipknot finished recording during this period, with two extra songs: a re-recording of "Me Inside", and a new track called "Purity". The mixing stages turned out to be very challenging, as drummer Joey Jordison and producer Robinson mastered the entire album with analog equipment, instead of the then more common method of using digital formats. "Wait and Bleed" and "Spit It Out", which also appeared on the demo prior to the album, were released on the album, also; the demo songs "Interloper" and "Despise" are available on the digipak version of the same album.


title: Slipknot (album)

text: Slipknot's musical style is constantly contested; the genres in which the band are categorized vary depending on the source. However, this album is regarded as nu metal, while showing influences of other genres. Joey Jordison stated, "The roots are death metal, thrash metal, speed metal, and I could go on and on about all those bands." The album also shows influences from alternative metal and even rap metal. Critics have also noted an industrial influence.


title: Slipknot (album)

text: The band's use of percussion, turntables, and samples gave the album a dense, layered sound. "Alternative Press" hailed the "inventive sampling, creative guitar work and an absolute percussive overload", while "Q" described the album as "a terrifying racket". "Slipknot" also includes melody, notably in the single "Wait and Bleed".


title: Slipknot (album)

text: "742617000027", the intro, named after the barcode of "Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.", contains guitar scratches and abstract sound samples by sampler Craig Jones. Some of the dialogue was reportedly taken from a Charles Manson documentary. The dialogue is, "The whole thing, I think it's sick." In an interview shortly after the album was released, Jordison claimed the voice is Corey Taylor's, sped up. "(sic)", recalled Jordison, was written "at the very first rehearsal I had with Slipknot, on September 15, 1995. We were called The Pale Ones then and the song was originally called "Slipknot". It sounded completely different as Corey wasn't in the picture at that point." (Corey Taylor appeared on Slipknot's second demo, which resulted in them signing to Roadrunner Records.) "Paul "[Gray, bassist]" and I wrote the song together many years before we started Slipknot," said Shawn Crahan. "We basically had the riff and the drum beat. But it wasn't '(sic)' until everyone else was in the band and we brought it to "[producer]" Ross "[Robinson]"." "All of us were in the same room when we recorded this. It was hilarious. Everyone had their headphones tied to their head so we could all slam and go crazy while we played. Ross was throwing potted plants at Joey. It was the most insane thing I'd ever seen." Rick Anderson of AllMusic noted that on "Scissors", Taylor "sounds like he's about to burst into tears." Taylor's aggressive, expletive-filled lyrics were noted by AllMusic: "[the] lyrics that are discernible are not generally quotable on a family website; suffice it to say that the members of Slipknot are not impressed with their fathers, their hometown or most anything else."


title: Slipknot (album)

text: "Eeyore" – a hidden track at the end of "Scissors" – begins after dialogue shared among the band members, recorded while they were viewing a scene in a pornographic film that involved coprophilia. It has been played live many times and appears on the DVD "Disasterpieces" and the live album "".


title: Slipknot (album)

text: "Slipknot" received acclaim by critics and fans; following its release the band gained popularity beyond their own expectations. Reviewing for AllMusic, Rick Anderson awarded the album four out of five stars, calling it "an auspicious debut" and proclaimed, "You thought Limp Bizkit was hard? They're The Osmonds. These guys are something else entirely. And it's pretty impressive." The album's aggression and heavy sound was widely praised; "Rolling Stone" stated "Slipknot" is "metal with a capital "m"", "Kerrang!" added "raw and wholly uncompromising, each track delivered a powerful blow to the senses", and in 2001, "Q" magazine included the album in their list "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time". CMJ ranked the album as the twelfth highest "Editorial Pick" for 1999. The album was also included in the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" by Robert Dimery. Jon Hotten of "Classic Rock" magazine described Slipknot's "scary, genre-busting debut" as a "clever synthesis of a slasher movie aestethics with some grindingly heavy metal" and judged the band as apparently not "built to endure".


title: Slipknot (album)

text: A single from the album, "Wait and Bleed", was nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 2001 Grammy Awards, but lost to Deftones' "Elite". The song was also named the 36th greatest metal song of all time by VH1. The release of the album and the touring which followed greatly increased the band's popularity. The album became the "biggest selling extreme metal album” at the time. It was ranked by American SoundScan as the fastest-selling metal debut in SoundScan's history. On May 2, 2000, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), a first for any album released by Roadrunner Records. On February 5, 2005, the RIAA certified Slipknot's self-titled album double platinum. In Canada, the Canadian Recording Industry Association certified the album as platinum on June 10, 2000. The British Phonographic Industry certified Slipknot's self-titled album as platinum on October 17, 2008 in the UK.


title: Slipknot (album)

text: After the album's release, the band had to remove two tracks after allegations of copyright infringement. "Purity" and "Frail Limb Nursery" were inspired by a story, published online, about a girl named Purity Knight, who was kidnapped and buried alive. The website, called "Crime Scene", presents fictional stories as real life crime cases. Originally, the website included no disclaimer saying that it was a work of fiction. Many readers believed the story to be true, including Corey Taylor: "I still think the story's real. It fucked our whole world up when we read it. Can you imagine a girl being buried in a box and have all this lecherous bullshit drip down on her from this guy? It just hurts your head."


title: Slipknot (album)

text: The case was complicated by audio samples from the authoring website being included in "Frail Limb Nursery", the prelude to "Purity".


title: Slipknot (album)

text: 'Purity', said Taylor, "was originally called 'Despise' but it didn't work when we tried to put it together… Ross "[Robinson]" took it and helped us restructure it." In a Q&A, Taylor claimed the lyrics had been written five years prior to the song's release, that only the name had been inspired by the Purity Knight story and that inspiration came from films such as "Boxing Helena" and "The Collector", and not the story.


title: Slipknot (album)

text: However, Slipknot, to prevent the entire album being pulled, removed "Purity" and "Frail Limb Nursery". Slightly remastered standard and digipak versions of the album were issued in December 1999, replacing both tracks with "Me Inside". Although "Frail Limb Nursery" was never rereleased, "Purity" was included on the DVD "Disasterpieces", the live "," the 'best of' "Antennas to Hell", and the 10th anniversary edition of "Slipknot".


title: Slipknot (album)

text: On September 9, 2009, Slipknot released a special edition version of the album to commemorate the tenth anniversary of its release. It was released in two forms, a digipak and a box set. The release date (09/09/09) is a reference to the fact that the band had nine members and had at that point sustained the same lineup since the original release of the album. The special edition box set includes: a CD and DVD set featuring all new digipak packaging, with a total of 25 songs including the original album with "Purity" (minus the prelude "Frail Limb Nursery") plus several previously unreleased cuts and demo tracks. The DVD, which was directed by percussionist Shawn Crahan, features footage of the band in 1999 and 2000, titled "Of the Sic: Your Nightmares, Our Dreams". The DVD also features all three music videos released in support of the album, an entire live concert recorded at the Dynamo Open Air, 2000 and "other surprises". A "super deluxe" box set version of the re-release contains a T-shirt, patch, collectible cards, key chain, beanie and a note from vocalist Corey Taylor, and comes in packaging that resembles a safety deposit box.


title: Slipknot (album)

text: All songs written and composed by Shawn Crahan, Paul Gray, Joey Jordison and Corey Taylor except where noted:


title: Carroll Baker

text: Carroll Baker (born May 28, 1931) is an American former actress. After studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Baker began performing on Broadway in 1954. From there, she was recruited by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in the adaptation of two Tennessee Williams plays into the film "Baby Doll" in 1956. Her role in the film as a coquettish but sexually naïve Southern bride earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.


title: Carroll Baker

text: Baker had other early film roles in "Giant" (1956) and the romantic comedy "But Not for Me" (1959). In 1961, she appeared in the controversial independent film "Something Wild", directed by her then husband Jack Garfein, playing a traumatized rape victim. She went on to star in several critically acclaimed Westerns in the 1950s and 1960s such as "The Big Country" (1958), "How the West Was Won" (1962), and "Cheyenne Autumn" (1964).


title: Carroll Baker

text: In the mid-1960s, as a contract player for Paramount Pictures, Baker became a sex symbol after appearing as a hedonistic widow in "The Carpetbaggers" (1964). The film's producer, Joseph E. Levine, cast her in the potboiler "Sylvia" before giving her the role of Jean Harlow in the biopic "Harlow" (1965). Despite significant prepublicity, "Harlow" was a critical failure, and Baker relocated to Italy in 1966 amid a legal dispute over her contract with Paramount and Levine's overseeing of her career. In Europe, she spent the next 10 years starring in hard-edged "giallo" and horror films, including Romolo Guerrieri's "The Sweet Body of Deborah" (1968), a series of four films with Umberto Lenzi beginning with "Orgasmo" (1969) and ending with "Knife of Ice" (1972), and Corrado Farina's "Baba Yaga" (1973). She re-emerged for American audiences as a character actress in the Andy Warhol-produced dark comedy "Bad" (1977).


title: Carroll Baker

text: Baker appeared in supporting roles in several acclaimed dramas in the 1980s, including the true-crime drama "Star 80" (1983) as the mother of murder victim Dorothy Stratten, and the racial drama "Native Son" (1986), based on the novel by Richard Wright. In 1987, she had a supporting part in "Ironweed" (1987). Through the 1990s Baker had guest roles in several television series, such as "Murder, She Wrote"; "L.A. Law", and "Roswell". She also had supporting parts in several big-budget films, such as "Kindergarten Cop" (1990) and the David Fincher-directed thriller "The Game" (1997). She formally retired from acting in 2003. In addition to acting, Baker is also the author of two autobiographies and a novel.


title: Carroll Baker

text: Baker was born and raised in Johnstown, Pennsylvania into a Catholic family, the daughter of Edith Gertrude (née Duffy) and William Watson Baker, a traveling salesman. Baker is of Irish and Polish descent, which has given rise to a rumor that her birth name was Karolina Piekarski, though this currently cannot be substantiated by known records. Her parents separated when she was eight years old, and she moved with her mother and younger sister, Virginia, to Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania.


title: Carroll Baker

text: According to Baker, her mother struggled as a single parent, and the family was poor for much of her upbringing.


title: Carroll Baker

text: Baker attended Greensburg Salem High School in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, where she was a debate team member and active in the marching band and school musicals. At 18, she moved with her family to St. Petersburg, Florida, where she attended St. Petersburg Junior College (now St. Petersburg College). After her first year in college, she began working as a magician's assistant on the vaudeville circuit and joined a dance company, working as a professional dancer. In 1949, Baker won the title of Miss Florida Fruits and Vegetables. In 1951, Baker moved to New York City, where she rented a dirt-floor basement apartment in Queens. She worked as a nightclub dancer and also had stints as a chorus girl in traveling vaudeville shows, which took her to Windsor, Detroit, and New Jersey.


title: Carroll Baker

text: Baker studied acting at HB Studio. In 1952, she enrolled at the Actors Studio and studied under Lee Strasberg. There, she was a classmate of Mike Nichols, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters, and Marilyn Monroe; she also became a close friend of James Dean for the rest of his life.


title: Carroll Baker

text: After appearing in television commercials for Winston cigarettes and Coca-Cola, Baker was featured in an episode of "Monodrama Theater" performing a monodramatic piece, which was broadcast in 1952 on the DuMont Network. The following year, she made her film debut with a small walk-on part in the musical "Easy to Love" (1953). This led to her landing roles in two Broadway productions: Roger MacDougall's "Escapade" in the fall of 1953, and Robert Anderson's "All Summer Long", opposite Ed Begley, which ran from September to mid-November 1954. In 1955, she screen tested and auditioned for the lead role in "Picnic", but lost the part to Kim Novak. She was also considered for the lead in "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) after James Dean recommended her for the part to director Nicholas Ray, which she turned down.


title: Carroll Baker

text: Baker's first major screen role was the supporting part of Luz Benedict II in "Giant" (1956), opposite Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean, in his final role. According to Baker, she had been offered numerous leading parts in feature films before that point, but chose to debut in a supporting role in "Giant" because she was "insecure" and "wanted to start out a little less 'profile. "Giant" was largely filmed in the small town of Marfa, Texas, in 1955; Baker recalled her experience on set, saying that James Dean and she were both enamored of Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor while filming.


title: Carroll Baker

text: Simultaneously, Baker was cast as the title character in Elia Kazan's "Baby Doll" (1956), a role initially intended for Marilyn Monroe. Tennessee Williams, who had written and developed the screenplay based on two of his one-act plays, wanted Baker to play the part after seeing her perform a scene from his script at the Actors Studio; likewise, Kazan had been impressed by her performance in "All Summer Long" on Broadway the year prior. Shot in Benoit, Mississippi, directly after Baker had completed "Giant", her role in the film as a sexually repressed teenaged bride to a failed middle-aged cotton gin owner brought Baker overnight fame and a level of notoriety even before the film's release. In the fall of 1956, artist Robert Everheart, under contract with Warner Bros., constructed a billboard in Times Square promoting the film, depicting the now-iconic image of a scantily clad Baker lying in a crib sucking her thumb. The controversial advertising campaign for the film caused a pre-emptive backlash from religious groups, and on December 16, 1956, Cardinal Francis Spellman of St. Patrick's Cathedral denounced the film and advised his parish against seeing it. A formal condemnation by the Roman Catholic National Legion of Decency ensued, which considered it "grievously offensive to Christian and traditional standards of morality and decency".


title: Carroll Baker

text: After the success of "Baby Doll", Baker was subsequently offered parts in "The Brothers Karamazov" (1958), "Too Much, Too Soon" (1958), and "The Devil's Disciple" (1959). She refused to make "Too Much Too Soon", so Warner Bros. put her on suspension, which prevented her from starring in "The Brothers Karamazov" (1958) at MGM. Baker was also chosen by MGM for the lead in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958) and by Twentieth Century Fox for "The Three Faces of Eve" (1957), but her contract with Warner Bros. again prevented her from accepting the roles. Tensions between Baker and the studio escalated further when she went against their wishes by appearing in "Arms and the Man" on stage. Baker commented on the effect of the system on her career, saying: "I came in at the end of the big studio system. I still had a slave contract and they were willing to put you in almost anything they had."


title: Carroll Baker

text: After her suspension with Warner Bros. was lifted, Baker appeared in William Wyler's Western epic "The Big Country" (1958). The film was well received by critics, though the shoot was described as "problematic": Baker was four months pregnant at the time and had to wear restraining garments, and director Wyler reportedly had her on the verge of tears after forcing her to repeat the same take over 60 times, only to use the first one. She followed "The Big Country" with lead roles in two romances, portraying a nun in "The Miracle" (1959), co-starring Roger Moore, and in "But Not for Me" (1959), a comedy with Clark Gable. "The New York Times" praised Baker's performance in "But Not for Me", saying: "Miss Baker, being a young lady who not only has looks, but also can act, makes you understand why Mr. Gable would like to cheat a little bit on Father Time." She disliked "The Miracle" so much that she bought out her contract with Warner Bros., putting her in considerable debt. "But Not for Me" was made at Paramount.


title: Carroll Baker

text: Baker went on to make the experimental film "Something Wild" (1961), directed by her then-husband Jack Garfein. In this independent production, she plays a young college student from the Bronx who is raped one night in St. James Park, and later held captive by a Manhattan mechanic (Ralph Meeker), who witnessed her subsequent suicide attempt. In preparation for her role, Baker lived alone in a boarding house in New York's Lower East Side, and gained employment as a department-store salesgirl; her method approach to the role was profiled in "Life" magazine in 1960. Critical reaction to the film was largely negative, though "Film Quarterly" cited it as "the most interesting American film of its quarter", and the most underrated film of 1961. However, its controversial depiction of rape led to critical backlash and public criticism, and the film has been credited by historians as nearly halting Baker's career. The same year, she portrayed Gwen Harold in "Bridge to the Sun" (1961), a production by MGM based on the 1957 best-selling autobiography of a Tennessee-born woman who married a Japanese diplomat (portrayed by James Shigeta) and became one of the few Americans to live in Japan during World War II. While only a modest success at the box office, the film was well received by critics and was America's entry at the Venice International Film Festival.


title: Carroll Baker

text: After this, Baker appeared in the independent British-German film "Station Six-Sahara" (1962) as a woman who provokes tensions at an oil station in the Sahara Desert, as well as the blockbuster Western epic "How the West Was Won" (1962), opposite James Stewart and Debbie Reynolds and former co-stars Gregory Peck and Karl Malden. In addition to film acting, Baker also found time to appear again on Broadway, starring in the 1962 production of Garson Kanin's "Come on Strong" in the fall of that year. In 1963, Baker relocated permanently with then-husband Jack Garfein and their two children to Los Angeles, where she based herself for the next several years. She traveled to Kenya to film "Mister Moses" (1965), where publicized rumors spread that she and co-star Robert Mitchum were having an affair, which they both vehemently denied. Another story, now considered apocryphal, had it that a Maasai chief in Kenya offered 150 cows, 200 goats, sheep, and $750 for her hand in marriage. She subsequently appeared with Maasai warriors on the cover of "Life"s July 1964 issue.


title: Carroll Baker

text: Baker portrayed a pacifist Quaker schoolteacher in John Ford's "Cheyenne Autumn" (1964), and received critical acclaim for the role. She then had a supporting role as Saint Veronica in George Stevens' "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965), and portrayed a cynical, alcoholic movie star in "The Carpetbaggers" (1964), which brought her a second wave of notoriety in spite of the film's lackluster reviews. "The New York Times" called the film "a sickly sour distillation" of the source novel, but said Baker's performance "brought some color and a sandpaper personality as the sex-loaded widow." The film was the top moneymaker of that year, with domestic box-office receipts of $13,000,000, and marked the beginning of a tumultuous relationship with the film's producer, Joseph E. Levine.


title: Carroll Baker

text: Based on her "Carpetbaggers" performance, Levine began to develop Baker as a movie sex symbol, and she appeared posing in the December 1964 issue of "Playboy". She was subsequently cast by Levine in the title roles of two 1965 potboilers— "Sylvia", as an ex-prostitute and con artist, and as Jean Harlow in "Harlow". Baker appeared on the cover of the "Saturday Evening Post" on their November 2, 1963, issue dressed as Harlow, promoting the film's upcoming production. In 1965, she became an official celebrity spokesperson for Foster Grant sunglasses and appeared in advertisements for the company. Baker likened this era of her career to "being a beauty contest winner [as opposed to] an actress".


title: Carroll Baker

text: Despite much prepublicity, "Harlow" received a lukewarm response from critics: "Variety" referred to Baker's portrayal of Harlow as "a fairly reasonable facsimile, although she lacks the electric fire of the original." Relations between Baker and Levine soured; in a 1965 interview, Baker sardonically commented: "I'll say this about Joe Levine: I admire his taste in leading ladies", which led the press to suspect a rift between the actress and producer. Baker sued Levine in 1966 over her contract with Paramount Pictures, and was ultimately fired by Paramount and had her paychecks from "Harlow" frozen amid the contentious legal dispute; this left Baker hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt (however, she was eventually awarded $1 million in compensation).


title: Carroll Baker

text: In an interview with Rex Reed in his book "People Are Crazy Here" (1974), Baker revealed that she had felt pressure in both her working relationship with Levine, and her domestic life with her husband whom she said wanted to maintain an expensive lifestyle: "We'd been very poor when we started out at the Actors Studio in New York", she told Reed. "I was under contract to Joe Levine, who was going around giving me diamonds and behaving like he owned me. I never slept with him or anything, but everyone thought I was his mistress." In the spring of 1966, Baker returned to theatre, performing in a production of "Anna Christie" at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles. The production was directed by Garfein. The production was heralded as the "theatre event of the week" in Los Angeles, though its reception was middling. Cecil Smith of the "Los Angeles Times" wrote of the production: "The beautiful Miss Baker's vehicle becomes a hearse." The play was also performed at the Tappan Zee Playhouse in Nyack, New York in June 1966.


title: Carroll Baker

text: Baker separated from her second husband, Jack Garfein, in 1967, and moved to Europe with her two children to pursue a career there after struggling to find work in Hollywood. Eventually settling in Rome, Baker became fluent in Italian and spent the next several years starring in hard-edged Italian thrillers, exploitation, and horror films. In 1966, Baker had been invited to the Venice International Film Festival, where she met director Marco Ferreri, who asked her to play the lead role in "Her Harem" (1967). This was followed with the horror films "The Sweet Body of Deborah" (1968) and "The Devil Has Seven Faces" (1971). Baker also starred in "So Sweet... So Perverse" (1969), "Orgasmo" (1969), "A Quiet Place to Kill" (1970), and "Il coltello di ghiaccio" ("Knife of Ice") (1972), all giallo films directed by Italian filmmaker Umberto Lenzi.


title: Carroll Baker

text: Many of these films feature her in roles as distressed women, and often showed Baker in nude scenes, which few major Hollywood actors were willing to do at the time. Baker became a favorite of Umberto Lenzi, with her best-known role being in the aforementioned "Paranoia", where she played a wealthy widow tormented by two sadistic siblings. In his review of "Paranoia", Roger Ebert said: "Carroll Baker, who was a Hollywood sex symbol (for some, it is said) until she sued Joe Levine and got blacklisted, has been around. She may not be an actress, but she can act. In "The Carpetbaggers", there was a nice wholesome vulgarity to her performance. She is not intrinsically as bad as she appears in "Paranoia". I think maybe she was saying 'the hell with it', and having a good time." As with "Paranoia", the majority of the films she made in Italy received poor critical reception in the United States, though they afforded Baker—who had left Hollywood in debt and with two children to support— an income, as well as fame abroad. In retrospect, Baker commented on her career in Italy and on her exploitation film roles, saying: "I think I made more films [there] than I made in Hollywood, but the mentality is different. What they think is wonderful is not what we might ... it was marvelous for me because it really brought me back to life, and it gave me a whole new outlook. It's wonderful to know about a different world."


title: Carroll Baker

text: She followed her roles in Lenzi's films with a leading role in Corrado Farina's "Baba Yaga" (1973) as the titular witch, alongside Isabelle De Funès and George Eastman. "TV Guide" referred to the film as an "exceptionally handsome example of 1970s Italian pop-exploitation filmmaking sweetened by Piero Umilani's lounge-jazz score", and praised Baker's performance, but noted that she was "physically wrong for the role; her elaborate lace-and-beribboned costumes sometimes make her look more like a fleshy Miss Havisham than a sleekly predatory sorceress".


title: Carroll Baker

text: Baker's first American film in over 10 years came in the Andy Warhol–produced black comedy "Bad" (1977), in which she plays the lead role of a Queens beauty salon owner who provides hitmen with jobs, starring alongside Susan Tyrrell and Perry King. "You can hardly call making an Andy Warhol movie a 'comeback'", said Baker. "It's more like going to the moon! The subject is totally unique."


title: Carroll Baker

text: She followed "Bad" with a part in the low-budget surrealist thriller "The Sky Is Falling" (1979) with Dennis Hopper, playing a washed-up actress living among expatriates in a Spanish village. The 1970s also had a return to the stage for Baker, where she appeared in British theater productions of "Bell, Book, and Candle"; "Rain", an adaptation of a story by W. Somerset Maugham; "Lucy Crown", an adaptation of the novel by Irwin Shaw; and "Motive". In 1978, while touring England and Ireland in productions of "Motive", Baker met stage actor Donald Burton, who became her third husband. She also appeared in American stage productions of Georges Feydeau's "13 Rue de l'Amour", "Forty Carats", and "Goodbye Charlie".


title: Carroll Baker

text: By the 1980s Baker had largely become a character actress, and was based in London. She starred in a supporting role in the 1980 Walt Disney-produced horror film "The Watcher in the Woods", alongside Bette Davis, after having been asked by British director John Hough, a longtime admirer of her work. After an appearance in the British television film "Red Monarch" (1983), she played the mother of murdered "Playboy" model Dorothy Stratten (played by Mariel Hemingway) in the biopic "Star 80" (1983). She also appeared as the mother of Sigmund Freud in the comedy "The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud" (1984) with Carol Kane and Klaus Kinski.


title: Carroll Baker

text: Baker featured in "" (1985), a coming-of-age drama set against Nazi Germany, as well as in the drama "Native Son" (1986), based on the novel by Richard Wright, which featured Matt Dillon, Geraldine Page, and a young Oprah Winfrey. In the latter Baker plays a 1930s Chicago housewife, mother of a teenage girl accidentally killed by an African American chauffeur, who attempts to cover up the accident. Critic Roger Ebert praised Baker's performance, noting her "powerful" scene with Winfrey during the film's finale.


title: Carroll Baker

text: Following "Native Son", Baker had a critically acclaimed lead role as the wife of a schizophrenic drifter (played by Jack Nicholson) in "Ironweed" (1987), alongside Meryl Streep. Her performance in the film was praised by Ebert, who said: "Nicholson's homecoming [in the film] is all the more effective because Carroll Baker is so good as his wife ... she finds a whole new range. It may seem surprising to say that Baker holds the screen against Jack Nicholson, and yet she does".


title: Carroll Baker

text: In 1990, Baker played the role of Eleanor Crisp—described by Roger Ebert as "an effective bitch on wheels"—in Ivan Reitman's comedy "Kindergarten Cop", starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, which she filmed in Astoria, Oregon, in the summer of 1990. The film was a huge financial success, grossing over $200 million worldwide. Her film and television work continued throughout the '90s, and she acted in many made-for-television movies, including the true-crime story "" (1993), "Witness Run" (1996), and "Dalva" (1996) with Farrah Fawcett.


title: Carroll Baker

text: In 1997, Baker was cast in a supporting role in David Fincher's thriller "The Game", in which she plays a housekeeper to a billionaire San Francisco banker (played by Michael Douglas) who becomes embroiled in a sadistic game by his antagonistic brother, played by Sean Penn. In an interview with "The New York Post" following the film's release, Baker commented on her role, saying: "It's an important movie and I'm honored to be in it. Of course, I'd like to be the romantic lead, and I'm actually closer to Michael's [Douglas] age than Deborah Kara Unger is, [but] I think it's always worked that way in Hollywood. When I was in my 20s, I played opposite Jimmy Stewart, Robert Mitchum, and Clark Gable, all of whom were old enough to be my father." "The Game" proved to be a major success among Baker's later films, performing successfully at the box office and garnering widespread critical acclaim.


title: Carroll Baker

text: In addition to her work in big-budget productions, Baker also appeared in small, independent films, such as "Just Your Luck" (1996) and "Nowhere to Go" (1997). The 1990s also had Baker more frequently appearing on television series, including episodes of "Grand" (1990), "Tales from the Crypt" (1991, opposite Teri Garr in a segment directed by Michael J. Fox), "Murder, She Wrote" and "L.A. Law" (both 1993); "Chicago Hope" (1995), and "Roswell" (1999). In 2000, she appeared in the Lifetime film "Another Woman's Husband". In 2002, Baker appeared in the documentary "Cinerama Adventure", and guest-starred in an episode of "The Lyon's Den", playing the mother of Rob Lowe's character. Her role in "The Lyon's Den" was Baker's last screen appearance before she formally retired from acting in 2003. Her acting career spanned 50 years, and more than 80 roles in film, television, and theater.


title: Carroll Baker

text: She has, however, sometimes participated in retrospective documentaries, including an interview for the 2006 DVD release of "Baby Doll", which includes a documentary featuring Baker reflecting on the film's impact on her career. Baker has also been featured in documentaries about several of her co-stars, including Clark Gable, Roger Moore, Sal Mineo, and James Dean, including the 1975 "James Dean: The First American Teenager", and a 1985 BBC Radio 2 tribute marking the 30th anniversary of the actor's death. Her memories of James Dean at the Actors Studio and later in "Giant" were recalled on BBC Radio 2 in 1982, when she guested on "You're Tearing Me Apart", Terence Pettigrew's documentary which commemorated the 25th anniversary of Dean's death in a car accident in 1955. Also on the program were singer-actor Adam Faith and the screenwriter Ray Connolly.


title: Carroll Baker

text: In 1983, Baker published an autobiography titled "Baby Doll: An Autobiography", which detailed her life and career as an actress and revealed the issues with Paramount and Warner Bros. that had led her to move to Europe in the 1970s and pursue a career in Italian films. Baker said to Regis Philbin, when he interviewed her for Lifetime Television in 1986, that she "didn't want to write an autobiography ... but I wanted to write, and I knew that would be the easiest thing to get published." She further commented to Philbin on her writing, saying: "I think I always wanted to write, but I was a little self-conscious about it. I never had a formal education, and I've always had such a respect for writing. While I could go out and say, even before I started to act, 'Yes, I'm an actress,' I couldn't really say 'I'm a writer.'" In spite of Baker's misgivings, "Baby Doll: An Autobiography" was well received. She later wrote two other books, "To Africa with Love" (1986), detailing her time spent in Africa, and a novel titled "A Roman Tale" (1987).


title: Carroll Baker

text: Baker has been married three times. She first married 54 year-old Louie Ritter, owner of the Weylin Hotel, in 1953. The marriage ended within a year, after which she enrolled at the Actors Studio in New York City. Baker alleged that Ritter had raped her when she was still a virgin in the early stages of their relationship. Her second was to director Jack Garfein, a Holocaust survivor she met at the Studio and for whom she converted to Judaism (having been raised a Catholic). They had one daughter, Blanche Baker (born 1956), also an actress, and a son, Herschel Garfein (born 1958), who is a composer and faculty member at the Steinhardt School of Music at New York University. Garfein and Baker divorced in 1969. Baker also has six grandchildren.


title: Carroll Baker

text: Baker married her third husband, British theater actor Donald Burton, on March 10, 1982, and resided in Hampstead, London, in the 1980s. The couple remained together until Burton's death from emphysema at their home in Cathedral City, California, on December 8, 2007.


title: Carroll Baker

text: After leaving Hollywood in the mid-1960s, Baker travelled with Bob Hope's Christmas USO troupe entertaining soldiers in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, an experience which she described as reformative: "In the hospitals I held the hands of damaged young men, and I realized that my pain was not exclusive: that in this world there was suffering much more terrible than mine."


title: Carroll Baker

text: Baker resided mainly in New York City and Los Angeles throughout the 1950s and 1960s before relocating to Rome to pursue her career there. Baker was mainly based in Palm Springs, California, throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. , she resides in New York City. In February 2014, she served as maid of honor at longtime friend, psychologist, and former actor, Dr Patrick Suraci's wedding to his partner, Tony Perkins, in New York.


title: Carroll Baker

text: Baker's role in "Baby Doll" was one that would come to be career-defining, and her association with both the film and character remained consistent throughout her career. In a 1983 article by "People" magazine, "Baby Doll" was referred to as Baker's "middle name". The film, adapted originally from Tennessee Williams' one-act play "27 Wagons Full of Cotton", has been performed on stage into the 21st century: it had its theatrical debut in 2000, and has been performed numerous times since. Baker's performance of the role was credited in "Vanity Fair" as marking a significant cultural interest in the ingénue in American cinema.


title: Carroll Baker

text: In 2011, Baker attended the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival in celebration of Williams' centenary. There, she participated in a panel with Rex Reed, where she discussed her experiences with Williams and performing in "Baby Doll". In 2011 and 2012, she was awarded Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Hoboken and Fort Lauderdale International Film Festivals.


title: Carroll Baker

text: A 1956 photograph by Diane Arbus depicts Baker onscreen in "Baby Doll" with a passing silhouette during a New York City theater screening of the film. She was also photographed by Andy Warhol in 1975 as part of his Polaroid portrait series, and is mentioned in his published diaries.


title: Carroll Baker

text: Baker has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1725 Vine Street, which was erected on February 8, 1960. In 2001, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars was also dedicated to her.


title: Addison Montgomery

text: Addison Adrianne Forbes Montgomery, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.C.O.G is a fictional character who appears as a supporting main character on the ABC television series "Grey's Anatomy," and as the protagonist of its spin-off "Private Practice" played by Kate Walsh. Addison is a world-class neonatal surgeon with board certifications in both Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Maternal and Fetal Medicine. Additionally, she has completed a medical genetics fellowship. She works at the Oceanside Wellness Group, a fictional practice located in Santa Monica, California.


title: Addison Montgomery

text: Addison joined the series in the first-season finale as Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey)'s estranged wife. Initially set for a recurring guest stint on "Grey's", Walsh's character expanded into a series regular position as Rhimes grew fond of Walsh's portrayal of the character. She is promoted to series regular in season two episode seven, "Something To Talk About". She makes her final appearance as a series regular in the season three finale, "Didn't We Almost Have It All?", but returns as a guest star for the following five seasons, including a two-part guest stint in the fifth season.


title: Addison Montgomery

text: Once the love-triangle storyline had been resolved, Rhimes created the first spin-off of "Grey's Anatomy" based on the character named "Private Practice" which saw Addison move to Los Angeles to start anew, after two seasons as a series regular. The spin-off lasted six seasons, running concurrently with the fourth to ninth seasons of "Grey's Anatomy". Walsh deciding to retire the character after eight years of portraying her, making her final series regular appearance in the "Grey's Anatomy" universe in the "Private Practice" series finale, "In Which We Say Goodbye" on January 22, 2013. Walsh returned to the role almost nine years later in recurring capacity, for the eighteenth season of the original series.


title: Addison Montgomery

text: Most of Addison's past is presented in a non-linear fashion, primarily revealed in the second season of "Grey's Anatomy" and the second and third season of "Private Practice". Addison is the daughter of wealthy parents and has a $25 million trust fund. Addison's father is nicknamed "The Captain" and is a doctor who teaches medicine at a university where Addison would sit and watch as a child. Her father used spending time with his daughter as a pretense for his many affairs. Addison's mother is Beatrice "Bizzy" Forbes Montgomery and her brother, Archer, is a world-class neurologist and successful author. Addison met her future husband, Derek Shepherd, in medical school. Addison is a Yale University graduate and attended Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City for medical school. She met future colleagues Sam and Naomi Bennett there as well. Addison and Derek each began their practice in New York City, which placed a strain on their marriage. Their marriage was troubled in the years leading to Derek's decision to leave New York as it is eventually revealed in both "Grey's Anatomy" and "Private Practice" that Derek's mother did not approve of her (choosing to give her dead husband's ring to Derek's second wife, Meredith Grey) and Addison's brother Archer disliked Derek. Addison's affair with Derek's best friend Mark Sloan drove the wedge even further and Derek's departure to Seattle. Addison briefly attempted to have a relationship with Mark, which resulted in her becoming pregnant. She then had an abortion soon after she discovered that Mark cheated on her, and as she was still in love with Derek. She then moved to Seattle.


title: Addison Montgomery

text: The character Addison first appears in the season one finale of "Grey's Anatomy", arriving at Richard's behest. She tries to reconcile with Derek, despite his relationship with Meredith Grey, but he is still angry with her, and there is a period of antagonism between them. Addison's presence, however, does reinvigorate their relationship, and ultimately leads to Derek choosing Addison over Meredith, despite Derek eventually admitting that he fell in love with Meredith. They attempt to return to their former life, taking residence in his trailer, and Addison becomes the head of a unique surgical service integrating neonatal surgery and obstetrics and gynecology. She realizes that Derek still has feelings for Meredith, and their marriage is tested further when Mark arrives in Seattle looking for Addison. Mark makes Addison realize that Derek is in love with Meredith and that he (Mark) does love her. Derek sleeps with Addison after he sees that Meredith has moved on. When Addison finds out that Derek had sex with Meredith, she gets drunk and sleeps with Mark. He asks for a relationship, but she rejects him.


title: Addison Montgomery

text: During season two, Addison punishes Alex Karev, by putting him on her service, because he almost got her arrested. However, by season three, she begins to feel an attraction towards Alex and eventually sleeps with him, only to discover that he is not interested in a relationship with her. Feeling alone, Addison decides to have a baby and visits Naomi, who is a fertility specialist. This storyline introduces Addison's transition from "Grey's Anatomy" to its spin-off, as it serves as the backdoor pilot for "Private Practice". Soon after, Addison decides to leave Seattle and move to Los Angeles, joining Oceanside Wellness, led by Sam and Naomi. This marks Addison's departure from "Grey's Anatomy" as a regular, although she makes at least one guest appearance per season until the eighth season.


title: Addison Montgomery

text: On September 2, 2021, it was announced on social media that Kate Walsh would return to play Dr. Montgomery for the show's eighteenth season. She reprised her role for three episodes: "Hotter than Hell", "With a Little Help From My Friends" and "Should I Stay or Should I Go?".


title: Addison Montgomery

text: In the series' first episode, Addison is made to feel unwelcome by the other doctors but chooses to stay. Addison is attracted to Pete Wilder, the practice's alternative medicine specialist. When Pete stands her up on a date, Addison decides they should be friends and nothing more and instead accepts a date with Kevin, a police officer she met through work. In a crossover episode, Addison briefly returns to Seattle Grace to help with a patient. Before she leaves, Addison advises Meredith not to let Derek get away.


title: Addison Montgomery

text: In season two, Addison learns from Naomi that the practice is failing financially. She tells Sam against Naomi's wishes, and, feeling betrayed, Naomi breaks off her friendship with Addison. Addison inadvertently prompts the staff to vote between Sam and Naomi and is surprised when instead, she is elected to lead the practice as its director.


title: Addison Montgomery

text: Addison's relationship with Kevin is tested when her brother Archer tells Kevin he is not good enough for her. Addison reassures him, but it causes them to break up later. Addison is surprised when Archer begins working for Pacific Wellcare Center, a rival practice. When he experiences multiple seizures and believes he has a brain tumor, Addison asks Derek to treat Archer in another crossover episode with "Grey's Anatomy". Derek discovers he has parasites in his brain, and successfully removes them. Naomi and Archer begin dating, which puts some strain on the friendship between Addison and Naomi. Addison also dates a man who is later revealed to be married. Also during this time, it is shown that Addison's mother Bizzy is a lesbian who has been in a long-term affair with her best friend. Addison is angry because she always blamed her father for his numerous extra-marital affairs and was angry at how he treated Bizzy, not realizing that her mother was the one in a serious extramarital relationship. Addison's father is aware of her mother's affair, but they decided a long time ago that they would stay married to one another because Bizzy is not comfortable with others knowing about her sexuality. Although the relationship with her parents is strained from this, in the end, they make peace.


title: Addison Montgomery

text: Addison and Sam start developing feelings for each other. It is revealed that, back in college, Sam wanted to ask Addison out but was too nervous, and he ended up with Naomi. They shared a kiss after a terrifying ordeal when they tried to save a married couple who got into a devastating car accident. They kiss again when Addison decides to sleep over at Sam's. Addison and Sam grow close, but she chooses to put a halt on their developing relationship, worried about the consequences in her friendship with Naomi. Addison revealed that she was in love with Sam and Pete, but she decided to begin a relationship with Pete instead, while Sam was with another doctor. Despite them being with other people, they still show they harbor feelings for each other, including jealousy when they see the other with their current significant others. After Sam becomes single again, he kisses Addison again. Although she was with Pete, she kisses Sam back and Pete catches them. Despite this, they stay together. Naomi ends her friendship with Addison after she finds about Sam and Addison. In the season finale, Addison has to operate on Maya Bennett, her godchild, who got in a car accident on her way to the hospital to give birth. She and Naomi then make up. Addison breaks up with Pete, and she and Sam finally become a couple. Although Addison wants to have children, Sam tells her he's not ready to have more children, as he wants to take time in their romance. Sam and Addison end their relationship and Addison goes on a date with a man named Jake (played by Benjamin Bratt). He invites her to Fiji, and although she initially agrees, in the end she chooses to get back together with Sam.