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English actor, comedian, and screenwriter

Rowan Atkinson CBE
Atkinson at the premiere for Johnny English language Reborn in September 2011
Nascency name	Rowan Sebastian Atkinson
Born	(1955-01-06) half dozen January 1955 (age 67) Consett, County Durham, England
Medium	Stand up-up television flick
Alma mater	Newcastle University The Queen's College, Oxford
Years active	1978–present
Spouse	Sunetra Sastry ​ ​ (m. 1990; div. 2015)​
Partner(due south)	Louise Ford[1]
Relative(s)	Rodney Atkinson (blood brother)
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Rowan Atkinson's voice ( 0:40 ) from the BBC programme Front Row Interviews, viii Jan 2012.[2]

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson CBE (born 6 January 1955) is an English role player, comedian and writer. He is best known for playing the title roles on the sitcoms Blackadder (1983–1989) and Mr. Bean (1990–1995), and the film series Johnny English language (2003–2018). Atkinson first came to prominence in the BBC sketch one-act show Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979–1982), receiving the 1981 BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance, and via his participation in The Secret Policeman's Brawl (1979). His other work includes the James Bond film Never Say Never Over again (1983), playing a bumbling vicar in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), voicing the red-billed hornbill Zazu in The King of beasts King (1994), and playing jewellery salesman Rufus in Honey Really (2003). Atkinson also featured in the BBC sitcom The Sparse Blue Line (1995–1996). His piece of work in theatre includes the part of Fagin in the 2009 West End revival of the musical Oliver!.

Atkinson was listed in The Observer as i of the 50 funniest actors in British one-act in 2007,^[3] and among the meridian l comedians ever, in a 2005 poll of fellow comedians.^[iv] Throughout his career, he has collaborated with screenwriter Richard Curtis and composer Howard Goodall, both of whom he met at the Oxford University Dramatic Social club during the 1970s. In addition to his 1981 BAFTA, Atkinson received an Olivier Honor for his 1981 West End theatre operation in Rowan Atkinson in Revue. He has had cinematic success with his performances in the Mr. Bean film adaptations Bean (1997) and Mr. Bean'south Holiday (2007), and also in the Johnny English film series (2003–2018). He also appeared every bit the titular character in Maigret (2016–2017). Atkinson was appointed a CBE in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to drama and charity.

Early on life

Atkinson was born in Consett, County Durham, England, on 6 January 1955.^{[five] [6] [7]} The youngest of four boys, his parents were Eric Atkinson, a farmer and company managing director, and Ella May (née Bainbridge), who married on 29 June 1945.^[7] His three older brothers are Paul, who died as an infant; Rodney, a Eurosceptic economist who narrowly lost the UK Independence Party leadership ballot in 2000; and Rupert.^{[viii] [ix]}

Atkinson was brought upwardly Anglican,^[x] and was educated at Durham Choristers Schoolhouse, a preparatory school, and so at St Bees School. Rodney, Rowan and their older blood brother Rupert were brought upwardly in Consett and went to schoolhouse with the future Prime Minister, Tony Blair, at Durham Choristers.^[eleven] After receiving elevation grades in science A levels,^[12] he secured a identify at Newcastle University, where he received a caste in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.^[xiii] In 1975, he continued for the degree of MSc in Electric Engineering at The Queen's Higher, Oxford, the same college where his father matriculated in 1935,^[14] and which made Atkinson an Honorary Fellow in 2006.^[fifteen] His MSc thesis, published in 1978, considered the application of self-tuning command.^[16]

Atkinson briefly embarked in doctoral work earlier devoting his full attention to acting.^[17] First winning national attention in The Oxford Revue at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 1976,^[thirteen] he had already written and performed sketches for shows in Oxford by the Etceteras – the revue grouping of the Experimental Theatre Club (ETC) – and for the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS), coming together author Richard Curtis,^[thirteen] and composer Howard Goodall, with whom he would go along to collaborate during his career.

Career

Radio

Atkinson starred in a serial of comedy shows for BBC Radio 3 in 1979 chosen The Atkinson People. It consisted of a serial of satirical interviews with fictional great men, who were played by Atkinson himself. The series was written by Atkinson and Richard Curtis, and produced by Griff Rhys Jones.^[eighteen]

Boob tube

After university, Atkinson did a one-off airplane pilot for London Weekend Television in 1979 chosen Canned Laughter. Atkinson and so went on to do Non the Nine O'Clock News for the BBC, produced by his friend John Lloyd. He featured in the testify with Pamela Stephenson, Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith, and was one of the chief sketch writers.

The success of Not the 9 O'Clock News led to him taking the lead role of Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder. The first series The Black Adder (1983), was set in the medieval flow. Atkinson co-wrote information technology with Richard Curtis. Subsequently a three-year gap, in part due to budgetary concerns, a second series was broadcast, written past Curtis and Ben Elton. Blackadder II (1986) followed the fortunes of one of the descendants of Atkinson's original character, this time in the Elizabethan era. The same blueprint was repeated in the two sequels Blackadder the Third (1987), set in the Regency era, and Blackadder Goes Along (1989), set in Globe War I. The Blackadder series became one of the most successful of all BBC state of affairs comedies, spawning television specials including Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988), Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (1988), and later Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999), which was set at the turn of the Millennium. The final scene of "Blackadder Goes Along" (when Blackadder and his men go "over the top" and charge into No-Man'south-Land) has been described equally "bold and highly poignant".^[19] Possessing an acerbic wit and armed with numerous quick put-downs (which are often wasted on those at whom they are directed), in a 2001 Aqueduct 4 poll Edmund Blackadder was ranked 3rd (behind Homer Simpson from The Simpsons and Basil Fawlty from Fawlty Towers) on their list of the 100 Greatest Tv Characters.^{[xx] [21]} During the 2014 centennial of the offset of World War I, Bourgeois Party politico Michael Gove and war historian Max Hastings complained nearly the so-chosen "Blackadder version of history".^{[22] [23] [24]}

Atkinson in 1997, promoting Bean. In 2014, immature adults from away named Mr. Edible bean among a grouping of people they nearly associated with British culture.^[25]

Atkinson'southward other creation, the hapless Mr. Edible bean, first appeared on New year's Mean solar day in 1990 in a half-hour special for Thames Tv set. The character of Mr. Bean has been likened to a mod-twenty-four hours Buster Keaton,^[26] but Atkinson himself has stated that Jacques Tati's character Monsieur Hulot was the main inspiration.^[27] Atkinson states, "The essence of Mr Bean is that he's entirely selfish and self-centred and doesn't really acknowledge the outside earth. He's a child in a human'due south body. Which is what near visual comedians are nearly: Stan Laurel, Chaplin, Benny Colina."^[28]

Several sequels to Mr. Bean appeared on telly until 1995, and the character later appeared in a feature film. Bean (1997) was directed by Mel Smith, Atkinson'southward colleague in Not the Ix O'Clock News. A 2d film, Mr. Bean's Vacation, was released in 2007. Atkinson portrayed Inspector Raymond Fowler in The Thin Bluish Line (1995–96), a television sitcom written by Ben Elton, which takes place in a police station located in fictitious Gasforth.

Atkinson has fronted campaigns for Kronenbourg,^[29] Fujifilm, and Give Claret. He appeared equally a hapless and fault-decumbent espionage amanuensis named Richard Lathum in a long-running series of adverts for Barclaycard, on which character his title function in Johnny English, Johnny English Reborn and Johnny English language Strikes Again was based. In 1999, he played the Dr. in The Curse of Fatal Death, a special Doctor Who serial produced for the charity telethon Comic Relief.^[30] Atkinson appeared every bit the Star in a Reasonably Priced Motorcar on the BBC's Summit Gear in July 2011, driving the Kia Cee'd effectually the track in 1:42.ii. Placing him at the acme of the leaderboard, his lap time was significantly quicker than the previous loftier-contour record holder Tom Cruise, whose time was a i:44.2.^[31]

Atkinson appeared at the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London as Mr. Bean in a comedy sketch during a operation of "Chariots of Fire", playing a repeated unmarried notation on synthesizer.^[32] He then lapsed into a dream sequence in which he joined the runners from the film of the same proper name (about the 1924 Summertime Olympics), chirapsia them in their iconic run forth W Sands at St. Andrews, past riding in a minicab and tripping the front runner.^[33] Atkinson starred as Jules Maigret in Maigret, a series of television films from ITV.^[34]

Retirement of Mr. Bean Alive

In November 2012, it emerged that Rowan Atkinson intended to retire Mr. Bean. "The stuff that has been most commercially successful for me – basically quite concrete, quite childish – I increasingly feel I'm going to do a lot less of," Atkinson told The Daily Telegraph 's Review. "Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to turn down, I also retrieve someone in their 50s being childlike becomes a petty pitiful. Y'all've got to exist conscientious."^[35] He has also said that the role typecast him to a degree.^[36] Despite these comments, Atkinson said in 2016 that he would never retire the graphic symbol of Mr. Edible bean.^[37]

In October 2014, Atkinson as well appeared as Mr. Bean in a Idiot box advert for Snickers.^[38] In 2015, he starred alongside Ben Miller and Rebecca Front in a sketch for BBC Scarlet Nose Day in which Mr. Bean attends a funeral.^[39]

In 2017, he appeared as Mr. Bean in the Chinese film Huan Le Xi Ju Ren.^[twoscore] In October 2018, Atkinson (as Mr. Edible bean) received YouTube'southward Diamond Play Button for his channel surpassing 10 million subscribers on the video platform. Amid the most-watched channels in the globe, in 2018 information technology had more than 6.5 billion views.^{[41] [42]} Mr. Bean is too among the nearly-followed Facebook pages with 94 meg followers in July 2020, "more than the likes of Rihanna, Manchester United or Harry Potter".^[42]

Animated Mr. Edible bean

In January 2014, ITV announced a new blithe series featuring Mr. Bean with Rowan Atkinson returning to the part. It was expected to be released online equally a Web-serial later in 2014, equally a television broadcast followed presently afterward.^[43]

On 6 Feb 2018, Regular Capital announced that in that location would be a fifth serial of Mr. Bean: The Blithe Series in 2019 (voiced by Atkinson). Consisting of 26 episodes, the first two segments, "Game Over" and "Special Commitment", aired on 29 April 2019 on CITV in the Great britain as well as on Turner channels worldwide.^{[44] [45]} All five serial (104 episodes) were also sold to Chinese children'south channel CCTV-xiv in February 2019.^[42]

Film

Atkinson'due south film career began with a supporting role in the "unofficial" James Bond moving-picture show Never Say Never Again (1983) and a leading role in Dead on Fourth dimension (also 1983) with Nigel Hawthorne. He was in the 1988 Oscar-winning short moving-picture show The Appointments of Dennis Jennings. He appeared in Mel Smith's directorial debut The Tall Guy (1989) and appeared aslope Anjelica Huston and Mai Zetterling in The Witches (1990), a pic accommodation of the Roald Dahl children'southward novel. He played the office of Dexter Hayman in Hot Shots! Office Deux (1993), a parody of Rambo Three, starring Charlie Sheen.

Atkinson gained further recognition as a verbally bumbling vicar in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994, written and directed by his long time collaborator Richard Curtis), and featured in Disney's The Panthera leo King (also 1994) as the vocalism of Zazu the red-billed hornbill. He likewise sang the song "I But Tin't Expect to Be King" in The Lion King. Atkinson continued to announced in supporting roles in comedies, including Rat Race (2001), Scooby-Doo (2002), jewellery salesman Rufus in another Richard Curtis British-prepare romantic one-act, Love Really (2003), and the criminal offense comedy Keeping Mum (2005), which also starred Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, and Patrick Swayze.

In addition to his supporting roles, Atkinson has as well had success as a leading man. His tv set character Mr. Bean debuted on the big screen with Bean (1997) to international success. A sequel, Mr. Edible bean'south Holiday (2007), (once again inspired to some extent by Jacques Tati in his film Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot), also became an international success. He has also starred in the James Bond parody Johnny English film series (2003–2018).^[46]

Theatre

Rowan Atkinson outside Theatre Royal Drury Lane on Tuesday xvi June 2009.

Rowan Atkinson performed live on-stage skits – besides appearing with members of Monty Python – in The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979) in London for Amnesty International.^[47] Atkinson undertook a 4-month bout of the UK in 1980. A recording of the stage performance was subsequently released equally Alive in Belfast.

In 1984, Atkinson appeared in a Westward End version of the comedy play The Nerd alongside a 10-year-old Christian Bale.^[48] The Sneeze and Other Stories, seven short Anton Chekhov plays, translated and adjusted past Michael Frayn, were performed by Rowan Atkinson, Timothy West and Cheryl Campbell at the Aldwych Theatre, London in 1988 and early on 1989.^[49]

In 2009, during the Due west End revival of the musical Oliver! based on Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, Atkinson played the office of Fagin.^[50] His portrayal and singing of Fagin at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London gained favourable reviews and he was nominated for an Olivier Award for all-time actor in a musical or entertainment.^[51]

On 28 November 2012, Rowan Atkinson reprised the role of Blackadder at the "We are Most Tickled" comedy gala for The Prince'south Trust at the Majestic Albert Hall in London. He was joined by Tony Robinson as Baldrick. The sketch involved the first new Blackadder material for x years, with Blackadder every bit CEO of Melchett, Melchett and Darling bank facing an enquiry over the banking crunch.^[52]

In Feb 2013, Atkinson took on the titular function in a 12-week production (directed by Richard Eyre) of the Simon Gray play Quartermaine'southward Terms at Wyndham's Theatre in London with costars Conleth Hill (Game of Thrones) and Felicity Montagu (I'm Alan Partridge).^[53] In Dec 2013, he revived his schoolmaster sketch for Royal Complimentary Infirmary's Rocks with Laughter at the Adelphi Theatre.^[54] A few days prior, he performed a selection of sketches in a small coffee venue in front of only 30 people.^[55]

Comic style

Best known for his use of physical comedy in his Mr. Bean persona, Atkinson'southward other characters rely more on language. Atkinson often plays authority figures (especially priests or vicars) speaking absurd lines with a completely deadpan delivery.

I of his meliorate-known comic devices is over-articulation of the "B" sound, such as his pronunciation of "Bob" in the Blackadder II episode "Bells". Atkinson has a stammer,^{[56] [57]} and the over-joint is a technique to overcome problematic consonants.^[58]

Atkinson's ofttimes visually based style, which has been compared to that of Buster Keaton,^[26] sets him autonomously from most modern television and picture show comics, who rely heavily on dialogue, as well every bit stand-upwards comedy which is mostly based on monologues. This talent for visual comedy has led to Atkinson being called "the man with the safety face"; comedic reference was made to this in an episode of Blackadder the Third ("Sense and Senility"), in which Baldrick (Tony Robinson) refers to his chief, Mr. E. Blackadder, as a "lazy, big-nosed, rubber-faced bastard".^[59]

Influences

Atkinson's early one-act influences were the sketch comedy troupe Beyond the Fringe, made upwardly of Peter Melt, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett, major figures of the 1960s British satire boom, and then Monty Python. Atkinson states, "I remember watching them avidly as students at academy."^[60] He continued to be influenced by the piece of work of John Cleese post-obit his Monty Python days, regarding Cleese as being "a major, major inspiration", adding, "I think that he and I are quite different in our style and our approach, simply certainly it was comedy I liked to picket. He was very physical. Yes, very physical and very angry."^[60] He was as well influenced by Peter Sellers, whose characters Hrundi Bakshi from The Party (1968) and Inspector Clouseau from The Pinkish Panther films influenced Atkinson's characters Mr. Bean and Johnny English.^[61]

On Barry Humphries' Dame Edna Everage, he states, "I loved that grapheme – once again, it'southward the veneer of respectability disguising suburban prejudice of a really quite cruel and dismissive nature."^[lx] Of visual comedians, Atkinson regards Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd as influential.^[sixty] He was besides inspired by French comedian Jacques Tati, stating, "Mr. Hulot'southward Holiday I recollect seeing when I was 17 – that was a major inspiration. He opened a window to a world that I'd never looked out on before, and I thought, "God, that's interesting," how a comic situation can be adult as purely visual and yet it's not nether-cranked, it'south not speeded-up, it'due south more deliberate; it takes its time. And I enjoyed that."^[60]

Personal life

In March 2001, while Atkinson was on a vacation trip to Kenya, the pilot of his private airplane fainted. Atkinson managed to maintain the plane in the air until the pilot recovered and was able to country the airplane at Nairobi'southward Wilson Airport.^[62]

Marriage and children

Rowan Atkinson married Sunetra Sastry in February 1990. They have two children.^[63] The couple offset met in the belatedly 1980s, when she was working as a makeup creative person with the BBC.^[64] They separated in 2014 and were divorced on ten November 2015.^[65] The family lived in Apethorpe, Northamptonshire.^[66]

Atkinson is in a human relationship with the comedian Louise Ford. They met while performing in a play together.^[one]

Political activism

In June 2005, Atkinson led a coalition of the United Kingdom's most prominent actors and writers, including Nicholas Hytner, Stephen Fry, and Ian McEwan, to the British Parliament in an attempt to force a review of the controversial Racial and Religious Hatred Nib, which they felt would requite overwhelming power to religious groups to impose censorship on the arts.^[67] In 2009, he criticized homophobic speech legislation, saying that the House of Lords must vote against a authorities attempt to remove a gratis-spoken language clause in an anti–gay detest police.^[68] Atkinson opposed the Serious Organised Criminal offense and Police Act 2005 to outlaw inciting religious hatred, arguing that, "freedom to criticise ideas – any ideas even if they are sincerely held beliefs – is one of the key freedoms of society. And the law which attempts to say you can criticise or ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed."^{[69] [seventy]}

In October 2012, he voiced his support for the Reform Section 5 campaign,^[71] which aims to reform or repeal Department 5 of the Public Order Act 1986, particularly its statement that an insult can be grounds for arrest and penalisation. Information technology is a reaction to several recent loftier-profile arrests, which Atkinson sees as a restriction of liberty of expression.^[72] In February 2014, Parliament passed a redaction of the statute which removed the word "insulting" following pressure from citizens.^{[73] [74]}

In 2018, Atkinson defended comments made by Boris Johnson over wearing the burqa. Atkinson wrote to The Times stating, "as a lifelong beneficiary of the freedom to make jokes about faith, I do think that Boris Johnson's joke about wearers of the burka resembling letterboxes is a pretty good i."^{[75] [76]}

In August 2020, Atkinson added his signature to a letter coordinated by Humanist Society Scotland along with xx other public figures including novelist Val McDermid, playwright Alan Bissett and activist Peter Tatchell which expressed concern about the Scottish National Party's proposed Hate Crime and Public Order Bills. The alphabetic character argued the bill would "hazard stifling freedom of expression."^{[77] [78] [79]}

In January 2021, Atkinson criticised the rise of abolish culture on social media, likening information technology to "medieval mob." He furthermore stated "information technology's important that nosotros're exposed to a wide spectrum of opinion, but what nosotros take now is the digital equivalent of the medieval mob, roaming the streets looking for someone to burn down," and "the problem we take online is that an algorithm decides what we want to run into, which ends upwardly creating a simplistic, binary view of society. It becomes a case of either yous're with us or confronting us. And if you're against u.s.a., you deserve to be 'cancelled'."^[80]

Atkinson has also supported the Complimentary Spoken language Union and gave a keynote voice communication at a meeting of the group.^[81]

Cars

Atkinson holds a category C+E (formerly "Class 1") lorry driving licence, gained in 1981, because lorries held a fascination for him, and to ensure employment as a young player. He has likewise used this skill when filming comedy material. In 1991, he starred in the self-penned The Driven Human being, a serial of sketches featuring Atkinson driving around London trying to solve his obsession with cars, and discussing it with taxi drivers, policemen, used-car salesmen and psychotherapists.^[82] A lover of and participant in automobile racing, he appeared as racing commuter Henry Birkin in the television play Full Throttle in 1995.

Atkinson has raced in other cars, including a Renault 5 GT Turbo for two seasons for its one make series. From 1997 to 2015, he owned a rare McLaren F1, which was involved in an blow in Cabus, near Garstang, Lancashire, with an Austin Metro in October 1999.^[83] It was damaged over again in a serious crash in Baronial 2011 when information technology caught fire later Atkinson reportedly lost control and hit a tree.^{[84] [85]} That blow caused meaning damage to the vehicle, taking over a year to be repaired and leading to the largest insurance payout in United kingdom, at £910,000.^[86] He has previously owned a Honda NSX,^[87] an Audi A8,^[88] a Škoda Superb, and a Honda Borough Hybrid.^[89]

The Conservative Party politician Alan Clark, a devotee of archetype motor cars, recorded in his published Diaries a gamble meeting with a man he later on realized was Atkinson while driving through Oxfordshire in May 1984: "Simply after leaving the superhighway at Thame I noticed a dark red DBS V8 Aston Martin on the slip route with the bonnet upwardly, a human unhappily angle over it. I told Jane to pull in and walked back. A DV8 in trouble is always good for a gloat." Clark writes that he gave Atkinson a lift in his Rolls-Royce to the nearest telephone box, only was disappointed in his banal reaction to being recognised, noting that: "he didn't sparkle, was rather disappointing and chétif."^[90]

In July 2001, Atkinson crashed an Aston Martin V8 Zagato at an enthusiasts' meeting, but walked abroad unhurt. This was while he was competing in the Aston Martin Owners Guild event, at the Croft Racing Circuit, Darlington.^[91]

1 car Atkinson has said he will not own is a Porsche: "I take a problem with Porsches. They're wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one. Somehow, the typical Porsche people – and I wish them no ill – are non, I feel, my kind of people."^{[89] [92]}

In July 2011, Atkinson appeared equally the "Star in a Reasonably Priced Automobile" on Top Gear, driving the Kia Cee'd around the runway in 1:42.two, which at the time granted him outset identify on the leaderboard; subsequently, only Matt LeBlanc gear up a faster time.^[87]

Honours

Atkinson was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to drama and charity.^{[93] [94]}

Filmography

• 1979–1982: Not the Nine O'Clock News
• 1983–1989: Blackadder
• 1983: Never Say Never Again
• 1988: The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
• 1989: The Alpine Guy
• 1990–1995: Mr. Bean
• 1995–1996: The Thin Bluish Line
• 1990: The Witches
• 1993: Hot Shots! Office Deux
• 1994: Four Weddings and a Funeral
• 1994: The Panthera leo Male monarch
• 1997: Bean
• 2000: Maybe Babe
• 2001: Rat Race
• 2002: Scooby-Doo
• 2003: Johnny English
• 2003: Beloved Actually
• 2005: Keeping Mum
• 2007: Mr. Bean'south Holiday
• 2011: Johnny English language Reborn
• 2017: Huan Le 11 Ju Ren
• 2018: Johnny English Strikes Once again
• 2022: Man Vs. Bee
• 2023: Wonka

Stage

Year	Title	Function	Notes
1981	Rowan Atkinson in Revue	Various roles	As well author Earth Theatre
	Rowan Atkinson in New Revue	Various roles
1984	The Nerd	Willum Cubbert	Aldwych Theatre
1986	Rowan Atkinson at the Atkinson	Various roles	Also writer Brooks Atkinson Theatre
1988	The Sneeze	Various roles	Aldwych Theatre
2009	Oliver!	Fagin	Drury Lane
2013	Quartermaine's Terms	St. John Quartermaine	Wyndham's Theatre

See also

• Mr. Bean
• Johnny English

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External links

• Rowan Atkinson at IMDb
• Rowan Atkinson biography at BFI Screenonline
• Rowan Atkinson at Rotten Tomatoes
• Rowan Atkinson interview on BBC Radio four Desert Island Discs, 20 May 1988

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