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After leaving his band "The Young And The Useless", Adam Horovitz joined Mike D and Adam Yauch in the Beastie Boys, opening for Madonna on her famous "Like a Virgin" tour.
Adam has also appeared in films such as Lost Angels (1989) with Donald Sutherland and Roadside Prophets (1992) with John Doe. He is the son of actor/director/producer/writer Israel Horovitz and Doris O'Keefe, an artist/painter. His brother is actor Matthew Horovitz and his sister is film producer Rachael Horovitz.
Adam was involved in releasing experimental music with Amery Smith as a member of the "BS2000" project.- Actor
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Adam Yauch, an only child, was born on August 5, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Frances and Noel Yauch, who is a painter and architect. His father was Catholic (of Irish, German, and French descent) and his mother was Jewish. Adam attended Edward R. Murrow High School in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. In high school, he taught himself to play the bass guitar. He formed Beastie Boys with John Berry, Kate Schellenbach, and Mike D. On his seventeenth birthday, they played their first show, then still a hardcore punk band in the vein of Reagan Youth. Adam attended Bard College for two years before dropping out.
Beastie Boys added Adam Horovitz to the group, and released their first album, Licensed to Ill, on Def Jam Records, now performing as a hip hop trio. They went on to open for Madonna on her famous "Like a Virgin" tour. The group gained huge success with numerous genius albums and tours, and founded their own label "Grand Royal Records" in 1993.
Under the pseudonym "Nathanial Hörnblowér", Yauch directed many of the Beastie Boys' music videos. In 2002, Yauch built a recording studio in New York City called Oscilloscope Laboratories. He began an independent film distributing company called Oscilloscope Pictures. Yauch directed the 2006 Beastie Boys concert film, although in the DVD extras for the film, the title character in "A Day in the Life of Nathanial Hörnblowér" is played by David Cross. He also directed the 2008 film Gunnin' For That #1 Spot about eight high school basketball prospects at the Boost Mobile Elite 24 Hoops Classic at Rucker Park in Harlem, New York City. Yauch produced Build a Nation, the comeback album from hardcore/punk band Bad Brains. Oscilloscope Laboratories also distributed Adam Yauch's directorial film debut, basketball documentary Gunnin' For That #1 Spot (2008) as well as Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy (2008) and Oren Moverman's The Messenger (2009).
Yauch was a practicing Buddhist. Inspired by his own extensive travels as well as the The Dalai Lama, Yauch became publicly passionate about the destructive, violent situation in Tibet, and created "The Milarepa Fund" in 1994 to help promote awareness and generate support around the world. He organized the first "Tibetan Freedom Concert" in San Francisco in 1996, which he followed with years of a similar series in the United States and worldwide. His Milarepa Fund has raised large sums of money for the Tibetan cause and its nonviolent Buddhist struggle to maintain an actual state of existence on the planet. In May of 1998, Adam married Dechen Wangdu, and they have a daughter named Tenzin Losel Yauch. Yauch has influenced an entire generation of human souls to look deep within themselves in search of a greater truth and a peaceful, compassionate understanding of all that surrounds us.
In 2009, Yauch was diagnosed and treated for a cancerous parotid gland and a lymph node, and underwent surgery and radiation therapy, delaying the release of Hot Sauce Committee Part Two and the subsequent tour. He was unable to appear in music videos for the album. Yauch became a vegan under the recommendation of his Tibetan doctors.
Beastie Boys had sold 40 million records worldwide by 2010. In 2011, Yauch received the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College, the college he attended for two years. In April 2012, the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Yauch was inducted in absentia due to his illness. His bandmates paid tribute to Yauch, and a letter from him was read to the crowd.
Adam Yauch died from cancer on May 4, 2012, in New York City. He was survived by his wife and son.- Art Department
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Andy Jenkins was one part of the famous trio behind Dirt Magazine, the brother publication of the much lamented ground-breaking Sassy Magazine, along with Spike Jonze and Mark Lewman. These three friends were all editors of Grand Royal Magazine as well, under the direction of Mike D and Adam Yauch and Adam Horovitz before the sad demise of Grand Royal Records and Magazine. Andy Jenkins was also a member of the band "Milk" with Kelley Jenkins, Mark Lewman, R.L. Osborn and Jeff Tremaine. A song by Milk appears on the Jackass: The Movie (2002) soundtrack.- Actor
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Ben Lee made his stage debut in 1993, fronting the indie rock band "Noise Addict", a foursome of Sydney school friends. The band was signed to "Fellaheen Records" that same year, when the average age of the group was only 14. Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore also signed the band to his "Ecstatic Peace" label. Then, in 1994, Mike D of the Beastie Boys signed "Noise Addict" to the young label "Grand Royal Records". Ben Lee's solo debut "Grandpaw Would" was released in March 1995 when Ben was just 16 years old. He followed that with the album "Something To Remember Me By" in 1997 and "Breathing Tornados" in 1999. On "Breathing Tornados", Ben collaborated with Harmony Korine and Petra Haden. As for his film debut, Ben stars in The Rage in Placid Lake (2003) with Rose Byrne and directed by Tony McNamara.- Music Department
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D. Boon created the legendary punk rock band, Minutemen, with George Hurley and Mike Watt in 1980. The trio went on to release 11 albums in less than six years and toured maniacally until Boon's tragic death in late December of 1985 caused the group's abrupt demise.- Actor
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Besides being DJ for Beck for 4 years, DJ Swamp is famous for his extremely eccentric live performances. Swamp has made a name for himself by scratching on his tongue, blowing fire, smashing his records, and then mutilating his own body with broken shards of vinyl. He took the title of USA DMC CHAMPION in 1996, his very first year involved with the contest. DJ Swamp has recorded on studio tracks for Beck, Kid Rock, Ben Folds, R.L. Burnside, and Vanilla Ice, just to name a few. His television appearances include: The Grammy Awards, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, and TFI Friday (1996). DJ Swamp has worked with Mark Mothersbaugh on multiple film soundtracks including _Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999/I)_.- Actor
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Dave Allen founded the band Gang of Four with Hugo Burnham and Andy Gill and Jon King in 1977. Allen left the group in 1981 to form the band Shriekback with Barry Andrews from XTC. Shriekback released numerous albums and its music appears in films such as Manhunter (1986) and Band of the Hand (1986) and Free Enterprise (1998) as well. Dave Allen has performed in many other bands such as The Crash Baptists, The Elastic Purejoy, King Swamp, Noise Abroad, and The Squall Collective. Dave was also the President and co-owner of World Domination Records and later the Director of Intel's Consumer Digital Audio Services Operation.- Actor
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David Pajo first emerged as a member of Louisville, Kentucky's legendary and short-lived band 'Slint' in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He went on to play and record on albums with Will Oldham and Stereolab and Tortoise. Since 1995, Pajo has been releasing his own material under various names such as M is the Thirteenth Letter, M, Aerial M, and Papa M. In 2001, David also began working with Billy Corgan on the 'Zwan' project, which can be heard in the Spun (2002) film.- Dechen Wangdu is an American-raised Tibetan. She has been a prominent activist for Tibet, struggling in concert with her Beastie Boys husband, Adam Yauch, to help make the Tibetan cause known all over the world. Dechen and Robert Thurman are featured as important scholars in the documentary film, Free Tibet (1998), which was produced by Adam Yauch. Dechen and Adam were married in May of 1998, and they have together produced a daughter named Tenzin Losel Yauch.
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George Hurley formed the legendary punk rock band, Minutemen, with D. Boon and Mike Watt in 1980. The trio went on to release 11 albums in less than six years and toured maniacally, but then the tragic death of Boon in late December of 1985 caused their abrupt demise. Hurley and Watt continued to play together in a new band called "Firehose" with Ed Crawford from 1986 until their eventual break-up in 1994, releasing five studio albums during that time.- Composer
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Ian MacKaye formed the Washington, D.C. band Fugazi with Brendan Canty and Joe Lally and Guy Picciotto in 1987. Before that, he was a member of Egg Hunt, Embrace, Minor Threat, Skewbald/ Grand Union, and Teen Idles. Ian created "Dischord Records" in 1980 to document the music coming out of the Washington, D.C. punk community. In 1998, Dischord released a film by Jem Cohen called Instrument (1999) which compounds ten years of various Fugazi studio and tour documentary footage.- Composer
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Jeremy Enigk first emerged in the Seattle band Sunny Day Real Estate, which issued its Sub Pop debut Diary in 1994. Formed in 1992, Sunny Day Real Estate was a dynamic quartet that seemed to give voice to passion. After only one album, Sunny Day Real Estate broke up due to Jeremy's legendary powerful spiritual awakening.
Their second album was released after the fact and many believe it to be the band's very best work regardless. Enigk released a solo album entitled "Return of the Frog Queen" one year later in 1996.- Producer
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Mark Cuban was born July 31, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Shirley (Feldman) and Norton Cuban, an automobile upholsterer. His family, of Eastern European Jewish descent, was originally named Chabenisky. Mark graduated from Indiana University in 1981 with a degree in Business. After college, he moved to Dallas, Texas and created a computer consulting business called "MicroSolutions" which transformed him into a millionaire when he sold the business to CompuServe in 1990. In 1995, Mark and his business partner Todd Wagner began working on an idea (that later became known as Broadcast.com) in order to stream live events over the Internet. This innovative duo sold their company to Yahoo.com in 1999 for billions of dollars in Yahoo! stock. Mr. Cuban went on to purchase the NBA's Dallas Mavericks basketball franchise for $285 million on January 14, 2000, dramatically changing the team for the better. Mark's brilliant ability to lead this organization and mold the Mavericks into an evolving superior force led the team to reach the NBA Finals in 2006 for the first time in franchise history.
Beyond that, Cuban launched the high-definition television network "HDNet" in September of 2001 with Philip Garvin. HDNet provides the highest level of digital broadcast quality available. Mark and Todd Wagner established a media company named "2929" with holdings that cover many aspects of entertainment. This includes film production companies HDNet Films and 2929 Productions, movie distributor Magnolia Pictures, home video distributor Magnolia Home Entertainment, the Landmark Theatres chain, and a stake in Lions Gate Entertainment.
Mr. Cuban is famous for his bold, unambiguous views and mindset, which has a great deal to do with his perpetual success. He continues to challenge the status quo in the worlds of media and technology. In 2005, Mark announced he was financially backing the underdog in a U.S. Supreme Court "peer-to-peer" file-sharing case. Also in 2005, Cuban experimented with a "day-and-date" model when he produced the film Bubble (2005) which was released simultaneously across theatrical, television and home video platforms. His stated goal of collapsing the traditional release windows was intended to give consumers the choice in terms of exactly how they might be interested in viewing a film.
It's impossible to truly know what Mark Cuban will create, produce, buy, or sell next, but you can bet it will be considered "genius" just like the man himself.- Additional Crew
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Mark Lewman made up one third of the famous triumvirate behind Dirt Magazine, the brother publication of the much lamented ground-breaking Sassy Magazine, along with Andy Jenkins and Spike Jonze. These three friends were all editors for Grand Royal Magazine as well, under the direction of Mike D and Adam Horovitz and Adam Yauch before the sad demise of Grand Royal. Lewman was also a member of the band "Milk" with Andy Jenkins and Kelley Jenkins and R.L. Osborn and Jeff Tremaine, which recorded a song that appears in Jackass: The Movie (2002). Beyond that, Mat Hoffman wrote his 2002 autobiography "The Ride of My Life" with Mark's expert artistic assistance.- Actor
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Mike D formed the Beastie Boys with Adam Yauch in 1981, soon adding Adam Horovitz to the group. They started out as a punk band, but they found their calling with hip-hop music. In 1985, they opened for Madonna on her famous "Like a Virgin" tour. The Beastie Boys gained huge success with numerous albums and tours, then later founded their own record label and magazine called Grand Royal in 1993. Mike has also worked on musical projects with Mike Watt and Kenny 'Tick' Salcido, as well as Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda of the band Cibo Matto.- Actor
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Mike Watt was raised in San Pedro, California, where he created the legendary punk rock band, Minutemen, with D. Boon and George Hurley in 1980. The trio went on to release 11 albums in less than six years and toured maniacally, but then the tragic death of Boon in late December of 1985 caused their abrupt demise. Watt and Hurley continued to play together in a new band called "Firehose" with Ed Crawford from 1986 until their eventual break-up in 1994, releasing five studio albums during that time. Mike put out his debut solo record in 1995, with the musical participation of friends like Nels Cline, Mike D, Flea, Petra Haden, Adam Horovitz, Krist Novoselic, and Stephen Perkins. Watt has recorded with countless extraordinary musicians over the years and he has also appeared in some Raymond Pettibon films as well.- Music Department
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This legendary punk rock band was created by D. Boon, George Hurley and Mike Watt in 1980. The trio went on to release 11 albums in less than six years and toured until Boon's tragic death, in December 1985, caused the group's abrupt demise.- Actor
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Robert Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University in New York City. He studied at Phillips Exeter Academy as well as Harvard, and then went on to study Buddhism and Tibet as a personal pupil of the The Dalai Lama for nearly 30 years. Robert A. F. Thurman is the father of Ganden Thurman, Uma Thurman, Dechen Thurman and Mipam Thurman and he is also a former Tibetan Buddhist monk. In 1987, Mr. Thurman and Richard Gere founded New York City's Tibet House, a nonprofit institution devoted to preserving the living culture of Tibet. Robert Thurman has written extensively and lectured all over the world. He can be seen and heard in the documentary film Free Tibet (1998) which was produced by Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys.- Producer
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Spike Jonze made up one-third (along with Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman) of the triumvirate of genius minds behind Dirt Magazine, the brother publication of the much lamented ground-breaking Sassy Magazine. These three uncommon characters were all editors for Grand Royal Magazine as well, under the direction of Mike D and Adam Horovitz and Adam Yauch before the sad demise of Grand Royal Records. Jonze was also responsible for directing the famous Beastie Boys: Sabotage (1994) short film as well as numerous other music videos for various artists.- Music Department
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'Stephen Perkins' formed the band "Jane's Addiction" with Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro and Eric Avery Weiss in 1985. After they broke up in 1991, Perkins continued on with Perry in "Porno for Pyros" for two albums before the project's demise. Stephen reunited with Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro for a new "Jane's Addiction" in 1997, but this time with Flea replacing Eric Avery Weiss on bass. They released an album, the documentary film Three Days (1999) and toured extensively. Beyond all this, 'Stephen Perkins' is well known for his all-star "Banyan" records as well as the long and growing list of session work he is responsible for recording.- Actor
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His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama (born Lhamo Döndrub, also known by his religious name, Tenzin Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso), is Tibet's head of state as well as the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. He was recognized at age 2 as the reincarnation of Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. In November 1950, His Holiness assumed full power of Tibet. He completed his Doctorate of Buddhist Philosophy in 1959, the same year that China attacked Tibet; after which he escaped to Dharamsala, India, where he has since led the Tibetan government in exile. On December 10th, 1989, His Holiness accepted the Nobel Peace Prize "on behalf of the oppressed everywhere and all those who struggle for freedom and work for world peace and the people of Tibet." In his acceptance statement, he declared, "This prize reaffirms our conviction that with truth, courage, and determination as our weapons, Tibet will be liberated. Our struggle must remain nonviolent and free of hatred."