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Talk:Isadora Duncan

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Incredibles?
This line is outright false: "In the Pixar animated movie The Incredibles Edna Mode refuses to make a cape for Mr. Incredible's new uniform, citing Isadora's tragic tangling and death from her scarf. The villain, Syndrome, is later killed in a similar way when his cape is caught in a jet engine."

No reference was made either directly or indirectly to Isadora Duncan. Edna Mode's "no capes!" speech speaks only of superheroes and owes more to Alan Moore's Watchmen (in which the hero Dollar Bill gets his cape snagged in a revolving door while trying to foil a robbery) than the history of Isadora.

I'm willing to be corrected but I think it should be removed.

Confusing
I added the confusing tag because this bio jumps around all over the place chronologically and doesn't really give any clue as to how she rose to prominence or where she learned to dance etc. etc. or where she was when she did what ..... it's a bloody mess. 81.79.184.39 23:07, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Who is Montparnasse? It isn't who but what: Montparnasse is a famous area of Paris, France for its artistic environment!

I second this opinion...how were she and her sister able to teach dance...where did they learn it...the entire article sounds made up —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.107.204.109 (talk) 07:45, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Bad Joke
Why is there a lame joke from a British comedy show on this page? It's totally irrelevant.

I think someone should remove it.

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I'm not sure where she died it was on the French Riviera Nice or Cannes I can't remember.

Nice. See : http://www.seminaire-sherbrooke.qc.ca/hist/hist5/travaux/biog/D/duncan.htm (in French)

Is the photo in public domain ?

Was she born in San Francisco or Oakland?

 * This link tells me it's San Fran

did she die on the 14th or 19th? September_19 says 19th

- A search on google show that it's a photograph by Arnold Genthe it doesn't seems to be public domain.

 * Isadora Duncan died over 60 years ago, so it should be public picture !

 * It doesn't work that way, unfortunately. See U.S. Copyright Law for details. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 17:11, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

My English teacher taught us to use Duncan's name to help find which part of a sentence has the independent and dependent clause. Here's what she taught us: If Duncan's name was in a phone book, it would be Duncan, Isadora. For a sentence that would be dependent than independent.- B-101 16:26, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

ballet vs. modern
isadora disliked ballet, correct? its all a bullshit article

Suicide attempt
In the youtube site you can see a video which says that Isadora tried to kill herself by drowning in Nice on 5th October 1926. Is that true????

Yes it is true, she was found face down in Ida Celestia Pond.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.243.200.39 (talk) 19:24, 6 May 2007 (UTC).

According to the book Artists of the Dance she died tragically when wile driving her car her scarf wrapped around the axle and broke her neck. 128.103.220.249 17:25, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

HELLOOOOOOO, I'm not saying that Isadora died by drowning but she attempted suicide in 1926 (she died in 1927!!!! Wow, don't you understand what I wrote before?

Project Gutenberg
If anyone from PG is reading this, My Life would made a great book for digitalising. She died 79 years ago, so I assume it is out of copyright.

I agree about the joke - I'm going to remove it.

Death
The article states that Isadora Duncan died when her scarf was caught in an Amilcar automobile. However, I've heard from many sources that it was a Bugatti. I'm considering changing this. Zapvet 02:56, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

The general consensus is that it was an Amilcar. http://www.bugattipage.com/jacob/InfoHunt/Q-076.html http://forums.autosport.com/showthread.php?s=4f183a36ad11a89068692d3ee63b73e6&postid=938386#post938386 http://forums.atlasf1.com/printthread.php?threadid=9925 Janm67 05:34, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Most newspaper accounts from the time say she was wearing a red Spanish silk scarf which strangled her, not a Russian scarf. The AP articles also say that she was riding with her biographer, Mary Desta and a French chauffeur demonstrating a new racing car she had bought. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.56.88.4 (talk) 14:59, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Birth Date
According to the books Artists of the Dance and Modern Dance Body & Mind she was born in 1878. This site lists 1877, which is also stated in the book Dancing and Mixed Media. Is Artists wrong?128.103.220.249 17:28, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, she was baptised at Old Saint Mary's Church on California Street on October 13, 1877. That would be difficult if she was born in 1878. --Kosmoshiva 05:33, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Talking Heads
There's no substantiation for the Talking Heads 'Psycho Killer' reference other than fan-based speculation. The quote only vaguely resembles Duncan's last words and the context of the rest of the song's lyrics have nothing to do with her. Unless there's an authoritative reference (eg from the band), it should be removed. Kosmoshiva 02:08, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

"Lost the bank"
Which bank? In the early life section it says her father lost the bank but there is no previous mention of which bank(s). Toddst1 (talk) 17:14, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

According to Samuel Dickson (San Francisco Kaleidoscope - Stanford University Press, 1957), Isadora Duncan's father, Joseph Duncan, was a cashier at Bank of California. He is reported to have had an affair with a Russian Hill spinster, whereupon his wife divorced him and moved to Oakland with her children.Apiquet (talk) 01:09, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

I am reading the book with letter
to Isadora from Stanislavski .He adviced her to meet the director of Imperial theatres and ask for funds to build her school in Moscow .Letter is dated 1908. If there is some info on Isadora biography at that time? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Edelward (talk • contribs) 11:47, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Isadora movie
There is a film, Isadora, made in the 60s, starring Vanessag Redgreaves as Isadora Duncan. I don't see this listed in the info page on Isadora Duncan.

Please add this as Vanessa Redgrave does some wonderful and powerful Isadora dancing in the film.

with thanks, Jan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.66.69.85 (talk) 03:44, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Scroll down and it's there. It's the first mention under "Film" which is the first heading under "In popular culture". Kosmoshiva (talk) 12:55, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

"Affectations Can Be Dangerous" quotation source
Under reference note #13, the link takes the reader to the page of a fictionalized historical writing site (Three Hundred Words) with the title "Affectations Can Be Dangerous." Although I do appreciate the reference to the site (it's mine!), the only source that is visible in the story is actually a hyperlink back to the Wiki article on Isadora Duncan. Doesn't this imply that Wikipedia is citing itself as a source? Perhaps a link to a page citing the source of the actual quote?

Cyurkanin (talk) 06:13, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

More nonsense?
"Duncan began her dancing career by teaching lessons in her home from the time she was six through her teenage years." - damn right it needs a citation. Teaching at age six? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.17.178.36 (talk) 18:30, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Relationship with Mercedes de Acosta
Hi. Per the following letter from Duncan to de Acosta: "...A slender body, hands soft and white, for the service of my delight, two sprouting breasts round and sweet, invite my hungry mouth to eat, from whence two nipples firm and pink, persuade my thirsty soul to drink, and lower still a secret place where I'd fain hide my loving face...." I think it is valuable to identify their affair but the graphic detail of this letter is inappropriate in an encyclopedia and it's vaguely homophobic since nothing this sexually explicit would be included in the personal sections of heterosexual people. Most importantly, perhaps, it adds nothing to our understanding of the whole Duncan's life. Discussion about this? Unless someone can persuasively argue that this text adds something worthwhile to the p., I'm going to remove it. Thanks,--Classicfilmbuff--Classicfilmbuff (talk) 17:21, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Close paraphrasing
The final paragraph of the lead and the first paragraph of the legacy section are copied with minor changes from a non-free source (Wayback machine archive from Feb 8 2006). The edit that inserted the offending passage was made in 2010. Could someone with subject knowledge rephrase or remove the plagiarism?

Examples of plagiarism:

Source: "Breaking with convention, Isadora traced the art of dance back to its roots as a sacred art."

Wikipedia: "Breaking with convention, she traced the art of dance back to its roots as a sacred art."

Source: "She developed within this idea, free and natural movements inspired by the classical Greek arts, folk dances, social dances, nature and natural forces as well as an approach to the new American athleticism which included skipping, running, jumping, leaping and tossing."

Wikipedia: "She developed within this idea, free and natural movements inspired by the classical Greek arts, folk dances, social dances, nature and natural forces as well as an approach to the new American athleticism which included skipping, running, jumping, leaping and tossing."

93.107.156.23 (talk) 11:02, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Fixed. Thanks for pointing it out. Wizardman  02:18, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Citation Tags
I hate to fill a page with tags as it greatly takes away from being able to actually read it, but this page is full of fancruft, non-NPOV, and blatant opinion. I see from the Talk page that I'm not the first one to say that... I've tagged the worst and deleted several references that were from the (clearly commercial and biased) Isadora Organization as non-WP:RS. I also tried to clear up some of the spelling and word smithing to make the sentences stronger. Ckruschke (talk) 12:13, 27 September 2013 (UTC)Ckruschke

Soviet Union
The lead paragraph says "Born in California, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50. She performed to acclaim throughout Europe after being exiled from the United States for her pro-Soviet sympathies." Yet nowhere in the article do we support with referenced material that she was exiled from the United States. Being exiled is a rather severe claim to have anywhere in the article without clear referencing, let alone in the lead paragraph. Was she exiled? If so, where is the material to back this up?--MLKLewis (talk) 21:52, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Children
It says she had a son in 1910. with Isaac Singer, but link with Isaac says that he died in 1875. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cronnin (talk • contribs) 12:17, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

 * Hey at least it doesn’t say she had a son with David Pond.
 * ‘Cause then you would think that David Pond wrote it. 134.41.121.14 (talk) 01:04, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

Grave or columbarium
Her ashes are in the columbarium at Père-Lachaise, as the article states. The article refers to "the headstone of her grave" but I'm not sure if either the word "headstone" or "grave" is appropriate when talking about a columbarium, which is an above-ground, vertical wall with niches in it, behind which the remains are kept. "Interred" (= "in the earth") seems wrong for the same reason, although I think I've seen the expression "interred in the columbarium" before. A cursory search finds "entombed" in a columbarium, "interred" and even "inurned". "Buried" is usually for something placed underground. Mathglot (talk) 19:45, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Popular culture
Several items listed under this heading are clearly not examples of popular culture. Rwood128 (talk) 20:11, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Personal Life section
I came here from a very sweary rant via Signpost and noted the following - the second from last and third from last paragraphs in the section -

 * In 1917, after the close of the Russian Revolution, Duncan moved to Moscow where she met and married the acclaimed poet, Sergei Esenin. Sergei was 17 years Isadora's junior. Duncan brought Esenin with her to the United States but a few years later he left her and returned to St. Petersburg.

 * In 1922 she married the Russian poet Sergei Yesenin who was 18 years her junior. Yesenin accompanied her on a tour of Europe and the United States. The following year he left Duncan and returned to Moscow.

Seems to me that she either married two different Sergei's who both just happened to be poets from St. Petersburg or there has been a mistake. Probably the latter. Unfortunately, this is the page I'd look at if I wanted to find out about her, so I'm hoping somebody who is watching this knows how to find out about these fellows ??? If nobody answers, I'll probably delete the paras concerned as unsourced. -Roxy the dog™ woof 15:49, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

And Then There's Maude
Is there some reason why the popular culture sections doesn't mention the fact that Isadora was immortalized in the lyrics of the theme song from the TV show Maude? The song lists Lady Godiva, Joan of Arc, Isadora, and Betsy Ross. It says "Isadora was the first bra burner; ain't you glad she showed up?". It seems to me this should be included here. Any good reason for not doing so? Sbunny8 (talk) 02:07, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

 * Ideally we look for a secondary source, say a biography of Duncan or a feminist media studies article or something, which would confirm that this mention is of lasting and broadly interesting encyclopedic significance. See WP:IPC. I found this article on ATTM, with a rather trivial but possibly adequate passing mention. Can you dig up anything stronger? FourViolas (talk) 04:28, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 19:08, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Critique (ASU WST)
I have few criticisms of the Wikipedia article on Isadora Duncan--mostly I found that some of the more dramatic events of her life somewhat inadequately described. For example, when the article tells that Isadora's young children died in their runaway car, it is not stated who they were with and if there were further investigations, nor is there a requesite quote or mentioning of Isadora's response to the tragedy. If I were going to edit this page, I would find out (as I already have in finding her autobiography a couple of days ago) what some of the pertinent details of the accident were and what Isadora's feeling about it was initially. I was wondering if Isadora was in the car with them when they died, so in this way the article didn't elucidate important facts and details. I discovered elsewhere the children were with their nanny, and that Isadora had an unusual reaction to the news of their death--that of wanting to console the others around her grieving in an "exalted" way--not really feeling despair herself. I will round up the exact quotes and appropriate source(s) (namely her autobiography) and add that if/when possible. AudraCharlee (talk) 23:00, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Relations?
Maybe should add scarface? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.150.116.240 (talk) 15:35, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

mentioned in "Let It Be" movie? (The Beatles)
I haven't seen that movie in a while, but I remembered hearing "Isadora Duncan" somewhere (not remembering it was in the movie). So I did a web search and came up with John Lennon saying or singing "Isadora Duncan worked for Telefunken". Carlm0404 (talk) 04:39, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Project for Technical Editing Undergrad Course
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Dawson's Creek

Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series about the lives of a close-knit group of friends in the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts, beginning in high school and continuing into college that ran for six seasons from January 20, 1998, to May 14, 2003. The series starred James Van Der Beek as Dawson Leery; Katie Holmes as his best friend and love interest, Joey Potter; Joshua Jackson as their fellow friend Pacey Witter; and Michelle Williams as Jen Lindley, a New York City transplant to Capeside. The show was created by Kevin Williamson and premiered on The WB as a mid-season replacement. It was produced by Columbia TriStar Television (renamed Sony Pictures Television before the sixth and final season) and was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina. The series ended on May 14, 2003. A total of 128 episodes were produced, spanning six seasons.

Along with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and 7th Heaven, Dawson's Creek became one of the flagship shows for The WB and launched its main cast to international stardom. The show placed at No. 90 on Entertainment Weekly "New TV Classics" list in 2007. It has also been credited with kicking off a boom of teen-centered shows in the late 1990s that continued into the 2000s.

Premise
Dawson Leery is an introspective 15-year-old and aspiring filmmaker in the small New England town of Capeside, Massachusetts. Since childhood, he has been best friends with Josephine "Joey" Potter, who routinely comes over to his house through a ladder into his bedroom for movie-watching and platonic sleepovers. Tomboy Joey, who lost her mother to cancer and whose father is in prison for drug trafficking, lives with her older sister Bessie, who runs the restaurant The Icehouse. Dawson works at a video rental store with his other best friend Pacey Witter, an underachieving class clown who occasionally squabbles with Joey. Dawson and Joey dance around a growing attraction to one another, but their dynamic shifts with the arrival of Jen Lindley, who has moved to Capeside from New York City to live with her grandparents. The series explores the characters' coming-of-age, dealing with topics such as first love, death, coming out, homophobia, class differences, mental health, and divorce.

Season 1 (1998)
The first season covers a love triangle between Dawson, Joey, and Jen, which some critics have compared to the love triangle between Archie Comics characters Archie, Betty, and Veronica. Some episodes feature homages to movies such as The Breakfast Club and some reference Kevin Williamson's work on Scream. Jen's reasons for moving to Capeside are revealed – she was acting "too sexual" as a result of being taken advantage of when she was twelve. Pacey aims to lose his virginity and has an affair with a new teacher at Capeside High School. Dawson must cope with the news his mother Gail has had an affair, and then witness his parents' attempts to recover from this.

Season 2 (1998–1999)
The second season takes place during the characters' second half of their sophomore year. Siblings Andie and Jack McPhee move to Capeside and enroll at the high school. The type-A achiever Andie becomes romantically involved with Pacey and helps him to become more motivated. It is revealed that her older brother has died but her mother sometimes acts as if he is still alive and Andie seems to be responsible for caring for her and protecting her at such times as her husband is absent. Pacey becomes a rock for Andie as it is revealed she, unsurprisingly, struggles with mental illness herself. Joey finds herself drawn to Jack, who initially reciprocates her feelings, but comes to realize he is gay, which puts him at odds with homophobic classmates and an intolerant father. Jen befriends "bad girl" Abby Morgan and goes down a path of self-destruction. Dawson must deal with the divorce of his parents, Mitch and Gail.

Season 3 (1999–2000)
The third season saw the beginning of their junior year and a blossoming romance between Joey and Pacey. When Dawson discovers his two friends have become a couple behind his back, he is dejected and angry. Dawson and Pacey become rivals for Joey's affection. Joey tries to repair her friendship with Dawson, but at the end of the season, Dawson realizes he doesn't want to hold Joey back, so he urges her to go and join Pacey, who is sailing down the coast for the summer. Jen is pursued by freshman football player Henry Parker and initially finds him immature but grows to return his feelings. Jack tries to find his first gay experience, while also juggling football, and trying to find a new place to live after his dad sells the only home he knows.

Season 4 (2000–2001)
The fourth season takes place during the characters' senior year of high school and deals with Joey and Pacey's ups and downs as a couple. Their relationship is tested by differing post-high school plans, Joey's friendship with Dawson, and Pacey's insecurity. Jen learns that Henry wants to break up with her but he doesn't say this to her face. Andie almost dies at a rave when she takes ecstasy that was in Jen's possession via a new boy, Drue - she used to know him in New York. The drug conflicts with Andie's prescribed medication. The incident fractures Jen's friendship with Jack and the group. Dawson starts to date Gretchen, Pacey's older sister who has moved back to Capeside.

Season 5 (2001–2002)
The fifth season follows most of the characters leaving Capeside to begin new lives in big cities. In LA, Dawson attends USC Film School but starts to have second thoughts about his path. In Boston, Joey, Jack and Jen navigate their freshman year of college. Pacey finds himself adrift after working on a yacht all summer but enters the restaurant business. Jack joins a fraternity and embraces life as an openly gay college student, but it puts his relationship with Toby on thin ice. Joey struggles to adjust to life as a college student and falls in love with her English professor. Jen finds herself drawn into a whirlwind relationship.

Season 6 (2002–2003)
In the sixth and final season, Dawson moves to Boston and begins to work on a low-budget film project that echoes his life in Capeside. Jen must deal with her parents' impending divorce, while Jack faces sexual harassment from a professor. Pacey works as a chef at a Boston restaurant, but embarks on a new career which comes as a surprise to everyone. The two-part finale, which is set in the year 2008, finds everyone is reunited in Capeside for a special wedding, but the happy reunion is cut short after the group learns that one of their own has been harboring a heartbreaking secret. In the midst of the tragedy, old scores are settled, new relationships blossom, and new ventures are chosen for a better future.

Cast and characters

 * James Van Der Beek as Dawson Leery, the titular character of the show. An introspective dreamer, he aspires to be a filmmaker just like his hero Steven Spielberg. Throughout the series he has romantic relationships with his childhood friend Joey and his neighbor Jen.
 * Katie Holmes as Joey Potter, Dawson's best friend. A tomboy, Joey often serves as a realistic voice of reason to the more idealistic Dawson but she can also be suspicious and has a short temper.
 * Michelle Williams as Jen Lindley, a rich girl from New York who was exiled to Capeside by her parents to live with her grandparents in the house next door to Dawson's. She was sexually abused at 12 and has since had a wild girl reputation which she resents. Often sarcastic.
 * Joshua Jackson as Pacey Witter, Dawson's wisecracking best friend who is seen as an underachiever by his toxic and abusive family. Apparently light-hearted, Pacey has a hidden sad and romantic side.
 * Mary-Margaret Humes as Gail Leery (seasons 1–4; recurring seasons 5–6), Dawson's mother. She works as an anchorwoman at the Capeside news station, later leaving journalism to start the restaurant Leery's Fresh Fish.
 * John Wesley Shipp as Mitchell "Mitch" Leery (seasons 1–4; guest season 5), Dawson's father and Gail's on-and-off-again husband. He is initially unemployed but then starts working at Capeside High School as a substitute teacher, guidance counselor, and football coach. He later becomes the co-owner of Leery's Fresh Fish.
 * Mary Beth Peil as Evelyn "Grams" Ryan, Jen's grandmother. Her conservative personality initially puts her at odds with Jen, but she comes to form a close bond with her granddaughter and opens her home to Jack when he needs a place to stay.
 * Nina Repeta as Bessie Potter (seasons 1–4; recurring seasons 5–6), Joey's older sister. She has helped raise Joey after the loss of their mother to cancer and their father to prison. She runs the Potter family-owned Icehouse restaurant and later opens up a bed-and-breakfast with Joey.
 * Kerr Smith as Jack McPhee (seasons 3–6; recurring season 2), Andie's brother and Jen's best friend. As a high school student, he struggles with his sexuality and ultimately comes out as gay.
 * Meredith Monroe as Andie McPhee (seasons 3–4; recurring season 2; guest season 6), Jack's sister who befriends and becomes involved with Pacey. Outwardly, she is an achiever at school but also struggles with mental illness.
 * Busy Phillips as Audrey Liddell (season 6; recurring season 5), Joey's roommate at Worthington University. She becomes a part of the main characters' friendship group and has a brief relationship with Pacey.

Conception
Following the selling of his spec script for Wes Craven-directed Scream (1996), film assistant Kevin Williamson was taking several meetings with film and television producers before the slasher film began production. In what would be his first television meeting, Williamson met executive Paul Stupin; when asked if he had ideas for a television production, Williamson came up with the idea of a teen series based on his youth growing up near a North Carolina creek as an aspiring filmmaker who admired director Steven Spielberg. Stupin liked his idea and asked him to come back the next day and pitch it to Columbia TriStar Television, prompting Williamson to write a 20-page outline for Dawson's Creek that night. Williamson pitched the show "as Some Kind of Wonderful, meets Pump Up the Volume, meets James at 15, meets My So-Called Life, meets Little House on the Prairie", also taking inspiration from teen drama Beverly Hills, 90210 as he "wanted it to speak to the teenage audience of the day".

When Columbia TriStar Television requested him to relocate the show to Boston, Massachusetts, he settled with fictional Capeside, and pitched it to Fox. However, commissioned amid the struggling of Party of Five, Fox wondered if they needed another teen drama, and while they were supportive of Williamson's scripts, they eventually passed on it. Left unused, Columbia TriStar Television sent his scripts to newly founded The WB network who was looking for fresh ideas for their programme after launching supernatural drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Williamson went for a meeting with then-chief programmer Garth Ancier and entertainment president Susanne Daniels who loved his script and picked it up for the network's new Tuesday night lineup. Procter & Gamble Productions joined in as an original co-producer of the series, but sold its interest in the show three months before the premiere when printed stories surfaced about the racy dialogue and risqué plot lines.

Casting
Dawson's Creek would become responsible for launching the acting careers of its young lead stars James Van Der Beek, Michelle Williams, Katie Holmes, and Joshua Jackson, who had varying levels of acting experience prior to being cast in the show. Known for his appearance in The Mighty Ducks series, playing a young and aspiring hockey player, Jackson was initially considered for the main role of Dawson Leery. However, while Williamson "fell in love" with Jackson, citing his ability to read any role during the auditions, he felt that Jackson's good looks would not fit the underdog, nerd, and video geek character he envisioned for the show's titular character. After The WB expressed their wish to look for a different actor, Williamson decided on casting him in the role of Dawson's best friend Pacey Witter instead. After watching a video of James Van Der Beek that his casting director had sent in, the casting crew invited him to audition in Los Angeles. A regular off-Broadway performer, Van Der Beek impressed Williamson with his "cerebral and internal" quality, citing "that nervousness that made it seem like he was pre-thinking and over-thinking and over-compensating constantly like he was insecure. And we said, "There's Dawson"." Actors Charlie Hunnam, Adrian Grenier, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Scott Speedman also auditioned for the role of Dawson, while Adam Brody read for Pacey.

With the role of Dawson's best female friend Joey Potter, casting directors were looking for a tomboy character. Williamson and his team were initially close to casting actress Selma Blair in the role who had auditioned "very tough, [but] with a lot of heart," when an audition tape of Katie Holmes came in, in which she had filmed herself in her basement, with her mother reading Dawson's lines. Williamson thought she had exactly the right look for Joey, citing that "she had those eyes, those eyes just stained with loneliness." He asked her to come to California, but a conflict with her school play schedule prevented her from doing so. Upon her arrival in Los Angeles two weeks later, she was able to secure the role.

Michelle Williams, who had acted in Lassie, Species, and in guest spots on TV sitcoms, impressed Williamson when she auditioned with a heartfelt scene in which her character Jen Lindley goes in and sees her grandfather lying in the bed, transforming herself "into this broken child who just needed to be fixed". Katherine Heigl also was one of the actresses who auditioned for the role of Jen after Steve Miner, who directed the show's pilot and Heigl's 1994 film My Father the Hero, brought in the young star.

Production team
The entire first season, thirteen episodes, was filmed before the first episode even aired. After the end of the second season, Williamson left to focus on Wasteland, a new show for ABC, but later returned to write the two-hour series finale. After Williamson's departure, Alex Gansa was selected as the new showrunner, but a production shutdown in addition to actors' unhappiness with the story lines at the start of season three led to Gansa being replaced by Greg Berlanti, who had been on the writing staff before Williamson's departure. Members of the series' writing staff—including Gina Fattore (Gilmore Girls), Jenny Bicks (Sex and the City), Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries), Tom Kapinos (Californication), and Dana Baratta (Jessica Jones)—would go on to create or write for other notable TV shows.

Filming locations
During its first four seasons, Dawson's Creek was primarily filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina, at EUE/Screen Gems studios and on location around Wilmington, with Southport and Wrightsville Beach also standing in for the fictional town of Capeside, a port city located in mid-Cape Cod. The Wilmington area benefited greatly from the show. While a number of films, commercials and music videos had been shot at the studios, Dawson's Creek was the first to occupy numerous soundstages for many years. Other shows as One Tree Hill later occupied some of these same soundstages for several years and used some of the same locations in Wilmington. In addition to business brought into the community by the project, it attracted attention to the city as a filming location and boosted tourism. The visitors' bureau distributed a special guide to filming locations used in the show.

For the Leery, Lindley, and Potter homes private residences located along the shores of Hewletts Creek, a stream in New Hanover County, were used. Some of the scenes shown during the opening credits and miscellaneous scenery shots throughout the early episodes were filmed in Martha's Vineyard, an island off the coast of Massachusetts, as well as Masonboro. Interiors for the Potter family's Icehouse restaurant were filmed at The Icehouse bar in downtown Wilmington, while exteriors were filmed at the Dockside Restaurant in Wrightsville Beach. Nearby constructions at the real Icehouse later forced producers to eliminate the bar from the storyline by burning it down. Other prominent exterior shots include Alderman and Hoggard Halls on the University of North Carolina Wilmington campus, serving for Capeside High School.

Due to the architectural uniformity of the campus, it was difficult for the university to double as another campus in the show when the characters reached college in the fifth and sixth season. Therefore, scenes at the fictional Worthington University in Boston were filmed at Duke University and around Franklin Street at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Other filming locations in later seasons include Durham and Raleigh. The Hell's Kitchen bar featured in the show was a natural food store at 118 Princess Street in Wilmington which was purchased by producers, dressed as a seedy college bar and used for production during the show's last season. When production completed, the building was purchased by a local restaurateur, along with much of the set and decorations and was then converted into a real restaurant and bar that retains the same name.

Marketing
The WB spent an estimated $3 million on marketing the show several months ahead of the January 20, 1998, series premiere. Promotion included billboards in addition to trailers in theaters before screenings of films like Titanic, making The WB the first TV network to run trailers in movie theaters. A clip of the show was circulated to television critics and media outlets in the summer of 1997 which generated buzz for the show's risqué content that included frank sexual talk amongst teenagers and a romantic plot line between a teacher and a high school student.

J.Crew, which was the show's wardrobe provider, featured the then unknown cast for its winter-spring catalog. In January 1998, promos ran in Blockbuster video stores featuring the Paula Cole song "I Don't Want to Wait", which would later become the show's theme song after producers could not secure the rights for Alanis Morissette's "Hand in My Pocket". The WB's marketing campaign led Newsweek to remark Dawson's Creek is "as much a marketing event as a small-town serial about overheated hormones."

During the series' run, producers and writers were among the first to use cross-platform fan engagement through the series' official website, which was known as Dawson's Desktop. On the site, users could peruse "Dawson's multimedia journal and homework files, surf his bookmarked Web sites and listen to his CDs. They can read characters' e-mails and chats and go through their trash bins." According to show writer Jeffrey Stepakoff, "dawsonscreek.com [was] where fans could not only chat about the show, but tell us what they wanted to see next. The wishes of viewers had a very strong impact on the direction of the series. In fact, staff members were hired to interact regularly with fans online."

International
The show was broadcast in over 50 countries. It was especially popular in Australia, where it rated #1 in its time slot on Network Ten for several episodes and highly at other times from seasons one to four. Reruns of the show are often seen in Australia on 9Go! The show aired in the UK initially on Channel 4 but later moved to Channel 5 for its last two seasons. In 2007, Channel 5's sister channel 5Star began airing reruns on weekdays. From April 2011, it aired on Sony Channel on the Sky digital platform. In November 2017, the full series returned to Channel 4's streaming service All 4. In Finland, the show aired on Yle. The show aired in Italy initially on the pay TV channel TELE+ Bianco, but later moved to the free-to-air TV channel Italia 1 for its last four seasons. In May 2023, ITV2 started airing every Dawson's Creek episode on every weekday afternoons. The show aired in New Zealand on TV2.

Syndication
Dawson's Creek aired on TBS from 2003 to 2008, and later aired on Noggin's late-night programming block The N from 2006 to 2007, and then later moved to the 24-hour version of The N where it aired until December 31, 2008. And aired on Pop from 2012 to 2018, and aired on ABC Family for a short time in 2015.

Controversy
Dawson's Creek generated a large amount of publicity before its debut, with several television critics and consumer watchdog groups expressing concerns about its anticipated "racy" plots and dialogue. The controversy drove Procter & Gamble Productions, initially a co-producer of the series, away from the project. Syndicated columnist John Leo said the show should be called "While Parents Cringe", and went on to write, "The first episode contains a good deal of chatter about breasts, genitalia, masturbation, and penis size. Then the title and credits come on and the story begins."

The Parents Television Council proclaimed the show as the single worst program of the 1997–98 and 1998–99 seasons by being "the crudest of the network shows aimed at kids", complaining about "an almost obsessive focus on pre-marital sexual activity", references to pornography and condoms, and the show's acceptance of homosexuality. Former UPN President Lucie Salhany criticized WB for airing Dawson's Creek which features "adolescent characters in adult situations" in an early time slot while the network is supposed to be 'the family network.'" However, on the opposite end of the ideological spectrum, the National Organization for Women offered an endorsement, deeming it one of the least sexually exploitative shows on the air.

Much of the criticism cited the show's early decision to feature a storyline about a romantic relationship between a high school student and a teacher.

Critical response
Early reviews of the series were mixed to positive. During the season premiere, much was written about the show's perceived racy content and the teens' "unhealthy obsession with sex." Negative reviews lambasted the show for its lack of realism, particularly its verbose dialogue spoken by the teen characters which People said strained credibility. The Observer called the show "simply misguided and misconceived (hyper-articulate, self-conscious teenagers go through puberty in a Macy's catalogue)." Tom Shales of The Washington Post commented that creator Kevin Williamson was "the most overrated wunderkind in Hollywood" and "what he's brilliant at is pandering."

Other reviews noted the show tread familiar ground, with the LA Weekly writing, "[The show] comes alive in fits and starts, then folds back into a less original or less plausible or less coherent version of some part of something you've seen before, if you've seen The Wonder Years, My So-Called Life, Degrassi High, Party of Five, Dangerous Minds, or Beverly Hills, 90210. Or even one of those very special episodes of Blossom."

On the other hand, multiple critics lauded the show's hyper-articulate, self-aware dialogue, saying it is what sets it apart from past teen shows. Caryn James of The New York Times wrote the "sophisticated awareness...characteristic of Mr. Williamson's writing" is the show's standout. Bruce Fretts of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "That's Kevin Williamson's genius — just as Scream did with slasher flicks, Creek simultaneously works as a teen soap (you can't help but get caught up in the Dawson-Jen-Joey triangle) and comments ironically on the genre (witness the digs at the overly earnest 90210 and Party of Five). The trouble is, some people aren't getting the joke." Jeff Simon of The Buffalo News opined, "This is the way wildly bright 15-year-old kids dearly want to talk, which puts Dawson's Creek into a higher class of realism entirely." Williamson admitted he wrote the dialogue as such with the aim of showing "how teenagers would like to be seen, as opposed to being talked down to."

In response to concerns about the show's sexual dialogue, some critics wrote "it's safe to assume teens have said, heard, or done far worse." The Baltimore Sun wrote the show is "not so much about sex as it is about growing up in a sex-obsessed culture. It's a subtle difference, but one that could make this newest prime-time soap a cut above the rest." The Sacramento Bee noted the show does not appear to glorify teacher-student romances as "Pacey's great adventure is not seen by the others as a triumph, and in the end, both he and the teacher pay for [their liaison]."

John Carman of the San Francisco Chronicle found Dawson's Creek scenically "downright luxuriant" and liked that it "doesn't have the rushed feel of so many teen shows. The edginess is in the situations, not the pacing." Variety wrote that it was "an addictive drama with considerable heart", and that "it's a drama conceited enough to believe that it created the concept of teenagers who care and jaded enough to...[suggest] more than a post-pubescent pipe dream." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution acknowledged the sexual dialogue but said "Williamson conjures a strangely compelling blend of jadedness and innocence." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote the show "is a real charmer, capturing not only the awkwardness and agonies of growing up but also the pure joy of possibilities ahead", and The Seattle Times declared it the best show of the 1997–1998 season and said it "belongs in that too-small pantheon of My So-Called Life, James at 15 and to a lesser extent, Party of Five and Doogie Howser, M.D."

Praise for the cast was widespread. LA Weekly called the leads "luminous" and "talented", while Variety wrote, "As Dawson, Van Der Beek is an exquisitely talented heartthrob, and Holmes, as Joey, is a confident young performer who delivers her lines with slyness and conviction. Williams (Jen) and Jackson (Pacey), meanwhile, more than hold their own, with Jackson looking to be a budding star in his own right."

Awards and accolades
Dawson's Creek was nominated for fourteen awards, including ALMA Awards, Casting Society of America Awards, Golden Satellite Awards, TV Guide Awards, and YoungStar Awards. In 2000, the show was awarded a SHINE Award for consistently addressing sexual health issues on TV. By the end of its run, the show, its crew, and its young cast had been nominated for numerous awards, winning six of them. Joshua Jackson won the Teen Choice Award for Choice Actor three times, and the show won the Teen Choice Award for Choice Drama twice. The series also won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Drama Series.

U.S. television ratings
While never a huge ratings success in the context of major networks like NBC, ABC, and CBS, Dawson's Creek did very well with the younger demographic it targeted and became a defining show for the WB Network. It became the highest-rated show among female teens at that time and helped ad revenue for the WB "soar from $100 million in 1996 to well over half a billion dollars in 1999." The pilot episode was watched by 6.8 million viewers and had a 4.8 rating which made it the network's highest ranked show within two months. The first season's highest ranked episode was the finale, which was fifty-ninth, while the second highest rated was the second episode (probably scoring so well partially because the other major networks carried President Clinton's State of the Union address in the midst of the Lewinsky scandal rather than their regular programming). The series finale itself was watched by 7.3 million U.S. viewers, which was its largest audience ever.

Spinoffs
The show had, in the words of television experts Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, a "semi-spinoff" – Young Americans. The protagonist of Young Americans, Will Krudski (Rodney Scott), was introduced in three episodes at the end of the show's third season as a friend of Dawson, Joey, and Pacey's who had previously moved away and returned to Capeside for a visit. His character was never referred to before this story arc and did not appear again in the series after the season three episode "Show Me Love". Young Americans was made by the same company as Dawson's Creek, Columbia TriStar Television, and appeared in Dawson's Creek's time slot during the show's break in the summer of 2000. Young Americans had 8 episodes. The reason the show is considered a semi-spinoff instead of a true spinoff is that the character of Will was not originally created for Dawson's Creek, and was only introduced in Dawson's to set up and establish the premise of Young Americans.

Foreign remakes
The show served as inspiration for the production of the Argentine soap Verano del '98, which received criticism for being a thinly veiled copy of Dawson's Creek. The 2007 youth drama series Kavak Yelleri is also a Turkish remake of the show.

Music
Curating popular music and breaking artists from the independent and alternative rock genres, Dawson's Creek became impactful on shaping the television music culture of teen and other drama series in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Instrumentation of the episodes was generally overseen by executive Paul Stupin, music supervisor John McCullough, and co-producer Drew Matich who helped artists rise to fame and made pivotal creative decisions. The trio approached music in "a way to convey the emotion, to convey the story," looking for songs to underplay whole sequences where viewers could also enjoy the music under dialogue. Thus, Stupin would often end up spending hours in the editing room with the editor going over candidates for songs that McCullough sent over. In some cases, they would look at, against picture, ten or 15 songs against each scene. Next to McCullough, recommendations for inclusion came "from everywhere", with writers, editors, co-producers and Sony Music executives playing pivotal roles.

Originally, Canadian recording artist Alanis Morissette's song "Hand in My Pocket" from her third studio album Jagged Little Pill (1995) served as the theme song in the unaired pilot episode of the television show. However, Morissette decided not to have it used as the theme after Dawson's Creek was picked up, prompting Stupin and McCullough to approach different artists for original material to use. In the meantime, The WB had licensed American singer-songwriter Paula Cole's song "I Don't Want to Wait" from her second album This Fire (1996) and suggested them to use it instead. An eleventh hour decision, it was incorporated late into the promotion of the series but became a hit on the US Billboard charts upon the show's debut in January 1998. The first season's score was provided by Adam Fields, including the "End Credits Theme", which was used on all six seasons.

Because Sony Music failed to secure the rights for home video and online streaming services when the show was produced and did not wish to pay for them later, most of the songs that aired in the original broadcasts were replaced in the DVD editions and upon the video-on-demand debut of the show. Starting with the third season, "I Don't Want to Wait" was also dropped from the opening sequence of the DVD releases due to budget reasons and was replaced by "Run Like Mad" from Canadian folk artist Jann Arden, a regular music contributor to the series. The 32-second recording was one of the original intros that Stupin commissioned after he had failed to acquire rights to Morissette's song and which international broadcasts had previously used as the theme song for the first season before switching to Cole's song for the remainder of the run. In 2021, Cole recorded a new version of "I Don't Want to Wait" to avoid licensing issues with the original master, and Netflix used this new master as the theme song.

During its original run, Dawson's Creek spawned two volumes of soundtrack albums. The album Songs from Dawson's Creek was released after the broadcasting of the series' first season in April 1999, and became a major success worldwide. It reached the top of the Australian Albums Chart and also peaked within the top in Austria, Norway, Sweden, and the United States. During it first sixth months of release, the album sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide and was certified triple platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) and gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In Australia, it became the fifth highest selling album of 1999. Songs from Dawson's Creek – Volume 2 was released in October 2000 to coincide with the debut of the series' fourth season. Less successful, it reached the top twenty of Austrian and Swiss Albums Charts, while peaking at number 50 on the US Billboard 200.

Book series
Simon & Schuster published a series of fifteen mass-market paperback novelizations of the series. Before joining the series' staff as episode writers, Liz Tigelaar and Anna Fricke wrote a young adult suspense-themed series as a companion to the show.

Legacy
The show's influence as a cultural touchstone has been widely acknowledged by media outlets and critics. In an article for BuzzFeed News, Sandi Rankaduwa wrote about why the show resonated with young people who came of age during the era of Columbine and 9/11, saying "At a time in teens' lives when they're tasked with trying to understand their place in the world, events unfolding around them were becoming increasingly senseless. So it's not entirely surprising that a show featuring confused, outsider teens who seemed more self-aware than the adults around them became comfort food for so many young Americans...but despite its nostalgic elements, Dawson's Creek managed to portray a warts-and-all world in which viewers watched smart, stubborn, and emotional characters search for stability, and seeing them both struggle and succeed in a controlled space became therapeutic. The breadth of characters was wide enough to give everyone at least one person to root for and relate to, especially for a primarily teen girl audience."

Rankaduwa added, "Unlike the glamorous lifestyles shown in shows like Beverly Hills, 90210 and later The O.C., both on Fox, the stories of teens on the Creek felt somewhat accessible. And when it came to what made Dawson's Creek so significant to its teen viewers, it wasn't just the words, it was who was saying them."

Entertainment Weekly ranked Pacey and Joey as number 20 on their list of the 100 Best TV Romances of All Time. The season three finale episode "True Love" is ranked at number 50 on The Ringer 's list of 100 Best TV Episodes of the Century. The character of Jack McPhee was cited as being among the most groundbreaking gay roles on television and his kiss with Ethan marked the first romantic kiss between two gay male characters on primetime TV.

The popularity and success of Dawson's Creek is credited with paving the way for subsequent teen shows. In 2018, Kristen Baldwin of EW argued, "Without Dawson's (and its original lead-out, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), we would never have the hyper-verbal, pop culture-obsessed teens of Riverdale— not to mention Felicity and Charmed (1998), Popular, Freaks and Geeks (which was actually pitched as 'the anti-Dawson's Creek ') and Roswell (1999), Gilmore Girls (2000), Everwood (2002), or 2003's One Tree Hill and The O.C. After all, who is Seth Cohen but a snarkier, more Jewish Dawson Leery?"

Baldwin continued, "with Dawson's the characters didn't just suffer through crushes and hormones and parental drama — they talked endlessly, and with hilarious eloquence, about how cliché their crushes and hormones and parental drama was. As EW's Chris Nashawaty wrote in 1997, on the eve of Dawson's premiere, 'Williamson shows teens a reflection of how they want to be seen: witty, urbane, and always armed with a perfectly barbed, sarcastic comeback.'"

In 2018, the cast reunited for the series' 20th anniversary in a special issue of Entertainment Weekly, which included five different collectible covers for its print issue. The weekend following the reunion cover saw streaming traffic for the series on Hulu quadruple.

When asked about the possibility of a reboot, Katie Holmes said, "What I love about the show is that it existed at a time pre-social media, pre-internet, and it was nostalgic when we were shooting it. So I really like it where it is, to be honest." Kevin Williamson added, "Dawson's Creek was me expressing myself at that point in time. And here I am, at another age, at another point in time. I don't know what I could emotionally bring to the table. I can't wait for someone else to do it. I don't think it's going to be me. But I'll be happy to watch it."

In popular culture
The series was frequently referenced in other media, including South Park at the height of its popularity. The children's sketch comedy series The Amanda Show included a recurring soap opera parody segment called "Moody's Point". The series was also parodied at the 1998 MTV Movie Awards and in the film Scary Movie, the latter which James Van Der Beek makes a cameo appearance in.

James Van Der Beek appeared alongside Jason Biggs in the 2001 movie "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" as the movie versions of the titular characters Jay and Silent Bob's alter-egos 'Bluntman & Chronic". Wherein during an argument; Jason Biggs confuses James's character of Dawson with that of Joshua Jackson's character Pacey Witter.

The scene of Dawson's crying face became a meme that Van Der Beek has acknowledged.

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Dever
I thought the general understanding is that we are not allowed to closely paraphrase our sources. Do you have a problem with that? Your requirement that "quite conservative" and "mainstream" should be found verbatim in the WP:RS is thus absurd, according to WP:PAGs. tgeorgescu (talk) 21:32, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * For someone who is very vocal about their understanding of the rules, you seem to have neglected to review WP:V, WP:NOR, and WP:BLP. Additionally, starting a noticeboard discussion immediately invites questions of forum-shopping. ~ Pbritti (talk) 21:54, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Careful about WP:ASPERSIONS. tgeorgescu (talk) 21:56, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * There is sufficient evidence in your degree of experience and failure to follow appropriate procedure to suggest there may be an issue. Regardless, follow BLP. ~ Pbritti (talk) 22:01, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * You take WP:OR and WP:BLP to absurd extent. Please address it rather than pontificating that I don't obey rules I have learned many years ago. tgeorgescu (talk) 22:03, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * There's nothing in the source about "mainstream" but it does characterize Dever as one of the more conservative historians of ancient Israel. Does that help? Schazjmd   (talk)  22:07, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * And it also characterizes archaeologists more conservative than Dever as not being mainstream, i.e. doing apologetics instead of science. tgeorgescu (talk) 22:09, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * The appropriate phrasing in this case wouldn't be "quite conservative but mainstream". You can leave it at "more conservative". If you want to contrast him with archaeologists who are even more conservative, you use the content of the cited article to note the characteristics of these hyper-conservatives. ~ Pbritti (talk) 22:16, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Again, I'm not defending a particular wording, but the WP:RS makes the following points:
 * Dever is a conservative archaeologist;
 * archaeologists more conservative than Dever do apologetics, not historiography. tgeorgescu (talk) 22:18, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Then use the wording that is verifiable. ~ Pbritti (talk) 22:25, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * WP:V according to what: verbatim words or meaning? tgeorgescu (talk) 22:27, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * No set of words present mean "mainstream". "Quite conservative" departs from the source (and isn't standard in encyclopedic English). ~ Pbritti (talk) 23:02, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @Tgeorgescu: I think it would be in place to note how Dever defines himself in the paper which you brought to this Wikipedia article:
 * "Somewhat later, Finkelstein charged that I had gone to Gezer, Bible in one hand and trowel in the other, to “prove the Bible.” He ignored the fact that for nearly twenty years I had been challenging the older-style “biblical archaeology” in a series of publications.7 I am a very secular humanist, not a theist, and I have no interest whatsoever in “saving” either Solomon or the Bible."

 * Dever nowhere describes himself as a "conservative" in his paper on Solomon. On the contrary, he says he does not have any interest in defending the historicity of biblical narratives. Thus, I find very objectionable that he should be described as a "conservative", especially without clarifying what we mean by "conservative" in this context. Potatín5 (talk) 22:49, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm not opposed to rephrasing those terms, but readers of archaeological papers know that Dever leans conservative. He is not a fundamentalist or inerrantist, but inside mainstream archaeology he occupies the maximalist flank. That's of course relative, since there are full-blown maximalists who are way more conservative than him. tgeorgescu (talk) 02:07, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

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Barton Springs

Barton Springs is a set of four natural water springs located at Barton Creek on the grounds of Zilker Park in Austin, Texas, resulting from water flowing through the Edwards Aquifer. The largest spring, Main Barton Spring (also known as Parthenia, "the mother spring"), supplies water to Barton Springs Pool, a popular recreational destination in Austin. The smaller springs are located nearby, two with man-made structures built to contain and direct their flow. The springs are the only known habitat of the Barton Springs Salamander, an endangered species.

The Barton Creek National Archeological and Historic District was formed in 1985.

Geology
Barton Springs is the main discharge point for the Barton Springs segment of the Edwards Aquifer of Texas, a well known karst aquifer. Geologically, the aquifer is composed of limestone from the Cretaceous period, about 100 million years old. Fractures, fissures, conduits, and caves have developed in this limestone. Both physical forces, such as faulting, and chemical forces, such as dissolution of limestone by infiltrating water, have enlarged these voids. This results in a karst aquifer made up of limestone with large void spaces. Water then enters the aquifer and fills the voids.

All water discharging from Barton Springs originates as rainfall. Some of this rain falls directly onto the area of land where the aquifer limestone rock is exposed, which is known as the recharge zone. Other rainfall enters into creeks that cross the recharge zone, and infiltrates the limestone bedrock. After water enters the aquifer, it flows along the gradients created by differences in hydraulic pressure into the area of lowest hydraulic pressure. This lowest point of hydraulic pressure is Barton Springs.

Main spring
Main Barton Spring/Parthenia is the most famous, yet least visible of the four springs because it is completely submerged by pool water. Located near the diving board in Barton Springs Pool, the spring's flow is not always visible at the surface.

The main spring discharges an average flow of about 31 e6USgal per day. The lowest discharge ever recorded was 9 e6USgal per day during the drought of the 1950s, and the highest discharge ever recorded was 85 e6USgal per day during December 1991 and September 2016 flooding. By comparison, a typical domestic in-ground swimming pool holds about 20,000 USgal, and the City of Austin, a city of about 1 million residents, uses about 120 e6USgal per day for its public water supply system.

Other springs
The three other springs associated with Barton Springs are Eliza, Old Mill, and Upper Barton Spring. Each is significantly smaller than Main Barton Spring, discharging an average of 3 e6USgal per day. Sometimes, these springs dry up completely.

Eliza Spring, also known as Concession Spring, is located near the north entrance to Barton Springs Pool, 300 feet (100m) east towards the children's playscape. During the early 20th century, an amphitheater-style swimming enclosure was built around the spring. This structure is no longer open to the public due to safety concerns, and the fact that Eliza Spring has become a sensitive habitat area for the endangered Barton Springs Salamander.

Old Mill Spring, also known as Sunken Gardens Spring or Zenobia Spring, is located on the south side of Barton Springs Pool. Like Eliza Spring, the early 20th century structure built around the spring is now closed to public access due to safety and endangered species habitat issues. Scientific analysis show that the water at Old Mill Spring has a slightly different chemistry than that of Main Barton Spring and Eliza Spring, even though it is less than half a mile (800 m) away from these springs.

Upper Barton Spring is located in the creek bed of Barton Creek, about a half mile (800 m) upstream or west of Barton Springs Pool. Frequently dry, Upper Barton Spring is fully submerged by Barton Creek during floods. The water at Upper Barton Spring also has a significantly different chemistry than the other springs.

The entire area around Barton Springs is riddled with faults from the Balcones Fault Zone and features other, smaller springs. For example, about one mile (2 km) upstream of Upper Barton Spring, an intermittent spring fills a popular natural swimming hole. Several other small springs empty directly into the Barton Creek bypass tunnel that passes to the side of Barton Springs Pool.

Fauna
Two salamander species are found only at Barton Springs: Barton Springs salamander and Austin blind salamander.

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David Hasselhoff

David Michael Hasselhoff (born July 17, 1952), nicknamed "The Hoff", is an American actor, singer, and television personality. He has set a Guinness World Record as the most watched man on TV. Hasselhoff first gained recognition on The Young and the Restless (1975–1982), playing the role of Dr. Snapper Foster. His career continued with his leading role as Michael Knight on Knight Rider (1982–1986) and as L.A. County Lifeguard Mitch Buchannon in Baywatch (1989–2000). He also produced Baywatch from the 1990s until 2001 when the series ended with Baywatch Hawaii.

Hasselhoff has appeared in films, including Dodgeball (2004), The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004), Click (2006), Hop (2011), and Piranha 3DD (2012). Before Samuel L. Jackson, Hasselhoff was the first actor to portray the Marvel Comics character Nick Fury in the telefilm Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (1998). In 2000, he made his Broadway debut in the musical Jekyll & Hyde. Following his debut, he starred in other musicals including Chicago and The Producers.

Hasselhoff has released a total of 15 studio albums, which found success mostly in German-speaking parts of Europe, where he has garnered multiple gold and platinum awards, with the single "Looking for Freedom" achieving number one in Germany and Switzerland. Hasselhoff has also worked as a talent show judge on television shows such as America's Got Talent (2006–2009) and Britain's Got Talent (2011).

Early life and education
Hasselhoff was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Dolores Theresa (née Mullinex; 1930–2009), a homemaker, and Joseph Vincent Hasselhoff (1925–2014), a business executive. His family is Roman Catholic with German, English, and Irish descent. His great-great-grandmother, Meta, emigrated with her family to Baltimore from Völkersen, Germany in 1865.

He spent his childhood in Jacksonville, Florida, and later lived in Atlanta, Georgia, where he attended Marist School. Hasselhoff made his theatrical debut at the age of seven in Peter Pan, and ever since his childhood dream was to have a career on Broadway. He graduated from Lyons Township High School in La Grange, Illinois, in 1970. He was a member of the speech team, senior discussion leaders, president of the choir, captain of the volleyball team and held roles in several plays (including one lead role as Matt in The Fantasticks). He studied at Oakland University before graduating with a degree in theater at the California Institute of the Arts.

Early career

Hasselhoff portrayed Dr. "Snapper Foster" on The Young and the Restless from 1975 to 1982, leaving the series as the show wrote out many of their original characters. His feature film debut was in 1974 as "Boner" in Revenge of the Cheerleaders, which he did to get accredited into the Screen Actors Guild. At the time, he believed that the film would not be released, but it was: two years later, also appearing under the title Caught with their Pants Down. In 1979, he played "Simon" in Starcrash. He launched his singing career with guest appearances on the first season of children's program Kids Incorporated, performing "Do You Love Me". He guest-starred on two episodes of Diff'rent Strokes and the soap opera Santa Barbara as himself in 1984.

Knight Rider
Hasselhoff was recruited by then-NBC-president Brandon Tartikoff to star in the action crime drama series Knight Rider from 1982 to 1986 as Michael Knight. The actor has described Knight Rider as more than a TV show: "It's a phenomenon. It's bigger than Baywatch ever was." On the success of Knight Rider – "It's because it was about saving lives, not taking lives, and it was how one man really can make a difference."

He describes the acting he has done as "a little more difficult than if you had a regularly well-written script – like, if I was going to be in, say, Reservoir Dogs, or The Godfather, or Dances with Wolves or Lawrence of Arabia or ER, I had to talk to a car." His role in the show led him to a People's Choice Award for 'Most Popular Actor'.

Baywatch
Hasselhoff returned to television on Baywatch which premiered in 1989. Although it was canceled after only one season, he believed the series had potential, so Hasselhoff revived it for the first-run syndication market in 1991, investing his own money and additionally functioning as executive producer. His contract stipulated royalties to be paid to him from the rerun profits, which gave him the financial liberty to buy back the rights to Baywatch from NBC.

In its second incarnation, Baywatch was much more successful. It ran for a total of 11 years and, from the 1990s until its series finale in 2001, was watched by almost 1 billion viewers across 140 countries, solidifying his status among the world's foremost television personalities of the said period. This success combined with his royalties and his other ventures have placed Hasselhoff's fortune at more than $100 million.

In 1991, Hasselhoff reprised his role as Michael Knight in the television film Knight Rider 2000 as a sequel to the original series. The movie served as a pilot for a proposed new series, but despite high ratings, the plan was abandoned.

In 1996, Hasselhoff was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1997, he performed a duet with Filipino singer Regine Velasquez, which was used as the main theme for his 1998 movie Legacy. He made his Broadway debut in 2000 in the title role of Jekyll & Hyde. In August 2001, he hosted an event at the Conga Room, in Los Angeles honoring the Latin rock band Renegade for record sales in excess of 30 million units worldwide, taking the stage with the Latin rockers and singing in Spanish. Beginning on July 16, 2004, he played the lead role in London performances of Chicago for three months. Hasselhoff has made several self-parodic appearances in movies. He had a major role in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, released November 19, 2004, starring as himself (though resembling his bygone Baywatch character) and meeting SpongeBob and Patrick (his full name is heard once in the movie; he is referred to as "Hasselhoff"). Hasselhoff also had another short appearance in the movie DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story as the dodgeball coach to the German national dodgeball team, Team Hasselhoff. Berating his team after being eliminated from a tournament, he shouts "Ihr seid alle Schweine!" (translated: "You are all pigs!", a common German insult) and smashes a photo of himself in his Baywatch attire. In 2004's EuroTrip, Hasselhoff appears in a washroom. In the 2006 Adam Sandler film Click Hasselhoff portrays Sandler's despicable boss. Hasselhoff also appears in an episode of Wildboyz. In 2007, he again played himself in the Jamie Kennedy comedy Kickin' It Old Skool.

In his music video for "Jump in My Car", he engages in self-parody; this time parodying his performance as Michael Knight in Knight Rider. The car in the video was a black Pontiac Trans Am with a pulsing LED and an interior nearly identical to that of the KITT car in the series. The video was shot in Sydney, Australia using a right-hand drive KITT replica, including KITT's ejection seat system.

In November 2006, Mel Brooks announced Hasselhoff would portray Roger DeBris, the director of the Nazi musical Springtime for Hitler, in the Las Vegas production of The Producers.

In 2006, Hasselhoff became a co-judge on NBC's America's Got Talent, a show that showcases America's best amateur entertainers. He also judged in the second, third and fourth seasons alongside Sharon Osbourne and Piers Morgan. On the 2007 season finale, Hasselhoff sang "This is the Moment". He was replaced by comedian Howie Mandel for season five.

Later career
Hasselhoff produced Baywatch for first run syndication. He has spoken at both the Oxford and Cambridge Student Unions.

He was a celebrity cast member on the eleventh season of Dancing with the Stars which increased in ratings by 36% from the previous year and served as a judge on NBC's America's Got Talent from 2006 to 2009. In 2011, he joined the Britain's Got Talent judging panel, as the additional fourth judge.

Hasselhoff was later honored on Comedy Central's The Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff in addition to receiving the International Star of the Year Award for Outstanding Contribution to Global Entertainment by the Bollywood Awards. He was awarded the Comeback Star of the Year award during the VH1 Big in '06 Awards.

In February 2008, towards the end of the Knight Rider 2008, he reprised his career-making role as Michael Knight as he walked on to introduce himself to his on-screen son, Mike Traceur. On November 12, 2008, he became the first celebrity downloadable character for the PlayStation Network's video game Pain.

In September 2009, he featured on a radio podcast for Compare the Meerkat, part of the advertising for British website, Comparethemarket.com. He was the subject of an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as a result of his support for the re-opening of Morecambe Winter Gardens.

In 2010, Hasselhoff guest hosted professional wrestling's WWE Raw in London, England. On August 15, 2010, Comedy Central aired a special "roast" of Hasselhoff.

Hasselhoff returned to The Young and the Restless, reprising his role as "Snapper" for a short arc that aired in mid-June 2010. Hasselhoff appeared as a contestant on season 11 of Dancing with the Stars. His professional dance partner was Kym Johnson. On September 21, 2010, they were the first couple eliminated from the competition. Coincidentally, Hasselhoff competed against Brandy Norwood, who judged alongside him in the first season of America's Got Talent.

In October 2010, it was announced that he would be playing Captain Hook in the New Wimbledon Theatre production of the pantomime "Peter Pan" from December 2010 to January 2011. He has reprised his role of "Hoff the Hook" for 2012 at the Manchester Opera House.

In 2011, he was a guest judge at the Belgian Idols competition. Hasselhoff became a judge on Britain's Got Talent in 2011 alongside Amanda Holden, Michael McIntyre and Simon Cowell. However, Hasselhoff was axed after only one series on the show and was replaced by David Walliams. In 2011, he revived his music career with a short tour across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In the same year, Hasselhoff was featured in the trailer of the spin-off downloadable game, Burnout Crash!.

On February 24, 2014, he opened his own 10-week talk show in Sweden on TV3, in English. A similar show was later recorded in Finland, premiering on Sub on April 2, 2015.

On New Year's Eve he performed again at the Brandenburg Gate, arriving late because his plane was diverted to Hannover.

Hasselhoff had a major role in Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! which premiered globally on July 22, 2015. He then starred in a new musical, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life at the Blackpool Opera House, late in 2015.

On May 18, 2017 Funner, California introduced its first official mayor: David Hasselhoff.

Hasselhoff also appeared in a cameo role in the Guardians of the Galaxy sequel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 as himself. He additionally performed the song "Guardians Inferno" heard over the closing credits of the film and lent his appearance to a retro styled music video for the track found on the film's DVD and Blu-Ray release.

On October 28, 2019, Dolly Parton announced that David Hasselhoff would star in 9 to 5: The Musical at the Savoy Theatre in London's West End from December 2, 2019, until February 8, 2020.

Get Hasselhoff to Number 1 campaign
In 2006, fans of David Hasselhoff launched a tongue-in-cheek website "Get Hasselhoff to Number 1" in an attempt to get the 1989 hit "Looking for Freedom" to the top of the UK music charts through Internet downloads of the single. The campaign attracted attention on British radio and television broadcasts, in the national press and on the Internet. Over 40,000 people signed up to receive the "Hoff Alert" e-mail when the time had come to purchase the single. The focus of the campaign shifted to "Jump in My Car", when that was actually released as a single, and BBC Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills lent his support. On October 3, 2006, "the Hoff Alert" was sent out, and Hasselhoff promptly gained his highest ever UK chart entry (number 3) on October 8, 2006.

HoffSpace

In 2008, Hasselhoff launched a MySpace-like social networking site, known as "HoffSpace". The site is now defunct.

The Hasselhoffs
Hasselhoff and his daughters, Taylor-Ann and Hayley, starred in a reality series on A&E called The Hasselhoffs. The series launched on December 5, 2010, and focused on Hasselhoff's attempts to resuscitate his career and launch his daughters onto the Hollywood stage.

On December 10, 2010, A&E confirmed in a statement that, after airing just two episodes, The Hasselhoffs had been canceled. According to Nielsen Co. ratings, the first episode was seen by 718,000 viewers. Viewers dropped to 505,000 for the second installment, which aired on the same evening. The full series aired in the UK on May 30, 2011, on The Biography Channel.

Hasselhoff stars in a casino-style game series online, produced in partnership with Eric Bischoff with Europe being among the first markets to roll out the game. In keeping with internet and online gambling culture in the UK, "The Hoff" series of games includes video slots and scratch-card type games, all played for real money in Europe's online casino environment. The first in the series of games launched on Valentine's Day in early March 2013, with media and promotional activities commencing in early February.

Hasselhoff is also known as The Face of an online casino brand, in a marketing partnership in which he features as a mascot.

Hoff the Record
In 2014, UK channel Dave announced that it had commissioned Hoff the Record, a sitcom series in which Hasselhoff plays a fictionalized version of himself. The series started airing on June 18, 2015.

It's No Game and The HoffBot
In 2017 Hasselhoff appeared in short film It's No Game by director Oscar Sharp, playing "The HoffBot". Hasselhoff's lines were generated by a neural network artificial intelligence (called Benjamin) using a statistical model trained on his own 80s and 90s television performances. Hasselhoff said the A.I. "really had a handle on what's going on in my life and it was strangely emotional".

Motivational speaking
Hasselhoff works as a motivational speaker. In January 2014, he spoke before hundreds of students at New College Nottingham in Nottingham, England. In April 2019, Hasselhoff spoke before thousands of attendees at TwitchCon Europe in Berlin, Germany.

Hoff the Beaten Track
In late 2023, Hasselhoff alongside New Zealand comedian Rhys Darby were filming a New Zealand television series, Hoff the Beaten Track. The show was produced by the now defunct production company, Stripe Studios. It was later revealed that the company owed money to Hasselhoff. Stripe Studios along with nine other related entities went into receivership in March 2024 due to financial and legal issues. It is unsure if the television show will ever be publicly released. Managing director of Stripe Studios, Alex Breingan said that Hoff the Beaten Track was currently in post-production in December 2023.

1970s
On February 2, 1977, David Hasselhoff made his musical debut on The Merv Griffin Show performing "Nadia's Theme", the theme song from the American television soap opera The Young and the Restless, the show in which Hasselhoff was starring at the time. Ten years later his version of the song was included on his second album Lovin' Feelings (1987).

1980s
Six years after his debut live performance, Hasselhoff released in 1983, his debut single "I Get the Message". In 1984, Hasselhoff made a guest appearance on the first season of Kids Incorporated, performing "Do You Love Me", which became the lead single from his upcoming debut studio album, Night Rocker, which was released in January 1985. The album was a big success in Austria, reaching number one there and being certified Platinum. In 1987, Hasselhoff released his second studio album, Lovin' Feelings, which reached the top-twenty in Austria and West Germany, and being certified Gold in the former country. That same year, due to the popularity of Knight Rider in Europe at the time, Hasselhoff embarked on his first headlining tour across Austria, with a special guest appearance from KITT.

In 1988, Hasselhoff released the song "Looking for Freedom", which became a hit in Europe, especially in West Germany, where it reached number one for eight consecutive weeks. The song was also certified Platinum in West Germany and became the best-performing single of 1989 in the country. "Looking for Freedom" also topped the charts in Austria and Switzerland; and reached the top-twenty in France and Belgium. Due to its success, Hasselhoff released it on June 21, 1989, his third studio album of the same name, which was produced by German music producer Jack White. The album was a commercial success, reaching the top-five in Austria, West Germany and Switzerland; and being certified three-times Platinum in Europe. He was noted for his performance of the song at the Berlin Wall on New Year's Eve 1989, two months after the Wall had come down, but nine months before unification took place. Wearing a piano-keyboard scarf and a leather jacket covered in motion lights, Hasselhoff stood in a bucket crane and performed the song along with the crowd. The performance has had a lasting impact on German pop-culture with Hasselhoff commenting that the song became an "anthem" and "song of hope" for the people of East Germany. In 2004, Hasselhoff lamented the lack of a photo of him in the Checkpoint Charlie Museum in Berlin. In July 1989, Hasselhoff released his first compilation album, Knight Lover, who contains 17 greatest hits from his first two albums Night Rocker and Lovin' Feelings. The album reached the top-twenty in Switzerland; and the top-forty in West Germany.

1990s
Following the breakthrough success of Looking for Freedom, Hasselhoff embarked on his second tour, The Freedom Tour, which took around April and May 1990, across West Germany and Switzerland. In August of that year, Hasselhoff released his fourth studio album, Crazy for You, which topped the charts in Austria and Switzerland, as well as reached the top-ten in West Germany, eventually becoming Hasselhoff's biggest-selling album in his career. In September 1991, Hasselhoff released his fifth studio album, David, which matched the success of its predecessor, with both the album and its lead single "Do The Limbo Dance" reaching number one in Austria. That same year, in order to promote David, Hasselhoff embarked on his third tour, the Dreams Come True Tour, which took around November and December 1991, across Austria, Germany and Switzerland. In late 1991, two compilation albums were released: Looking for Freedom and For You, with the former album including hits from 1989 and 1990, and the latter including hits from 1985 to 1987; however, both albums failed to chart. In September 1992, Hasselhoff released his sixth studio album Everybody Sunshine, which became his last album being produced by Jack White, who collaborated with Hasselhoff since 1988. Though the album was certified Gold in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, it failed to reach the commercial heights of his three previous albums, Looking for Freedom, Crazy for You and David.

In November 1993, Hasselhoff released his seventh studio album You Are Everything, which also met with moderate success in Europe, though it reached the top-ten in Austria and was certified Gold. The songs "If I Could Only Say Goodbye" and "Wir zwei allein" became hits in Europe, with the former becoming his first UK chart entry ever peaking at number 35, and the latter becoming another top-ten hit in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. That same year, he released the single "Pingu Dance" based on the children's show Pingu, and his fourth compilation album, Crazy for You, which contains several hits from 1989 to 1991, however, both releases failed to chart. In 1994, Hasselhoff toured across Germany in order to promote You Are Everything. That same year, he was scheduled to perform a concert on pay-per-view from Atlantic City. The concert was expected to help his singing career in the United States. However, on the night of the concert, O. J. Simpson was involved in his slow-speed chase in southern California. Viewership of the concert was significantly lower than expected due to the live coverage of the chase, and the event was ultimately a $1.5 million loss. Hasselhoff joked that "90 million people watched O. J. and three people watched me, including me and my mom and my dad". Following this, Hasselhoff released his eighth studio album Du, which became Hasselhoff's first studio album not to receive any certification in Europe, and also met with moderate success on European charts.

In 1995, Hasselhoff released four greatest hits albums, including his self-titled fifth compilation album, David Hasselhoff, released on April 11, 1995, in the United States, which became his first album in eight years since Lovin' Feelings (1987) to be released in the US. The record includes several songs from the albums You Are Everything and Du. A new recording, called "Fallin' in Love", was released as the only single from the album. To promote David Hasselhoff, Hasselhoff performed for the first time "Fallin' in Love" on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno aired on April 13, 1995. As attempting to launch his singing career in the US, both the album and the single "Fallin' in Love" were commercially unsuccessful, as failed to enter any Billboard chart. His sixth and seventh compilation albums, Watch Out for the Bay and Is Everybody Happy were released in mid-1995, with the former album including songs from 1985 to 1987; and the latter, from 1989 to 1991; however, both albums failed to chart as well. His eighth compilation album, Looking for... the Best was released in October 1995, which contains 18 greatest hits from 1989 to 1994, including the hits "Looking for Freedom" (1988), "Crazy for You" (1990), "Do The Limbo Dance" (1991), "Everybody Sunshine" (1992), "Wir zwei allein" (1993) and "Du" (1994), as well as the US single "Fallin' in Love" (1995), and a new recording, titled "I Believe" with Laura Branigan. The album charted in Austria, peaking at number 50.

Two years later, in 1997, Hasselhoff signed with Polydor Records and released his ninth studio album, Hooked on a Feeling. The album became Hasselhoff's least successful album to that point in his career, becoming his first studio album that failed to chart in Germany. In 1999, a ninth compilation album was released, Watch Out for Hasselhoff.

2000s
Between 2001 and 2004, two more compilations were released, The Very Best Of and Greatest Hits. Seven years after the release of Hooked on a Feeling, Hasselhoff returned to the music scene with his tenth studio album, David Hasselhoff Sings America, released in August 2004, with the album performing slightly better on European charts, peaking at numbers 11 and 27 in Austria and Germany, respectively. That same year, Hasselhoff released his eleventh studio album, which became his first Christmas album, The Night Before Christmas. The album met with negative reviews and failed to enter any chart. In 2006, Hasselhoff released "Jump in My Car", which debuted at number three on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Hasselhoff's first and only top-ten single in the UK. It also became his first and only Australian chart entry, peaking at number 50.

In May 2006, Hasselhoff was mentioned in an interview of Dirk Nowitzki, an NBA star playing for the Dallas Mavericks and a native of Germany. Nowitzki was asked what he does to concentrate when shooting foul shots. Dirk replied that he sings "Looking for Freedom" to himself. He meant this as a joke but it was thought to be a serious answer. Shortly thereafter, Hasselhoff attended the May 26, 2006, Mavericks home playoff game where they faced the Phoenix Suns in the NBA Western Conference Finals. Interviewed by Craig Sager, Hasselhoff stated he was as much a fan of Nowitzki as Nowitzki was a fan of him. In The 2006 NBA Finals, fans of the Miami Heat in the American Airlines Arena held up facial photos of Hasselhoff and chanted his name when Nowitzki went to the foul line. On August 2, 2006, he proclaimed himself "King of the Internet" in a tongue-in-cheek advertisement for Pipex. In December 2008, he sang the national anthem at the NCAA Las Vegas Bowl. Although the game was televised live by ESPN, the station chose not to broadcast Hasselhoff's performance. In 2008, a twelfth compilation was released under the title of Das Allerbeste.

2010s
Seven years after his last album, Hasselhoff released in 2011 his twelfth studio album, A Real Good Feeling, which reached number three in Austria, the top-thirty in Germany and became Hasselhoff's first album in fourteen years since Hooked on a Feeling (1997) to chart in Switzerland. Hasselhoff toured across those countries to promote the album. In 2012, he released his thirteen studio album This Time Around, however, it failed to chart.

In 2015, he recorded the single "True Survivor", accompanied by a music video, which featured as the lead track for the 2015 Swedish short film Kung Fury. The song was composed by Mitch Murder (Johan Bengtsson). Recorded in Sweden, the song and the video is designed as an ostentatious over-the-top 1980s homage/parody, with the video featuring dinosaurs, kung fu, Adolf Hitler, skateboarding, Norse Gods and time travelling. Hasselhoff claimed that he had received the offer to record the song and the video by a request from Sweden Universal to "sing a tribute to the '80s". Hasselhoff performed a live version of the song during the 2016 Guldbagge Awards. "True Survivor" debuted and peaked at number 94 on the Canadian Hot 100, becoming his first chart entry in Canada. In 2017, a retro music video called "Guardians' Inferno" was released as a bonus on the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 home release, where Hasselhoff does the singing.

In September 2019, Hasselhoff released his fourteenth studio album, Open Your Eyes. The album consists of covers of popular songs such as "Sweet Caroline" and "Lips Like Sugar", with all but one song featuring collaborations from other artists, including Todd Rundgren and Steve Stevens. The album charted in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, with the former reaching the top-thirty there. A promotional music video for the title track was released on YouTube on September 9, followed by the album's release on CD, vinyl, digital download and streaming services on September 27, 2019. To promote the album, as well as celebrating the 30th anniversary of the album Looking for Freedom and the song of the same name, Hasselhoff toured across Austria, Germany and Switzerland on the Freedom! The Journey Continues Tour, which took place in October 2019.

2020s
On December 10, 2020, Hasselhoff released his first heavy metal song titled "Through The Night". The song was recorded alongside CueStack, an Austrian duo who also enlisted the help of Beartooth frontman Caleb Shomo to produce a retro synth-wave remix of the song.

Personal life
Hasselhoff's autobiography Making Waves was released in the UK in September 2006. In an interview in April 2006, he said the book would present the "last chapter" regarding controversial elements of his personal life.

In November 2015, Hasselhoff posted a YouTube video in which he announced that he had changed his name to "David Hoff". It was then reported that he was not changing his name; that the video was an excerpt from an upcoming advertising campaign.

After touring Glasgow in late 2015, Hasselhoff stated that he supports Scottish football team Partick Thistle F.C.

Family
Hasselhoff was married to actress Catherine Hickland from March 24, 1984, to March 1, 1989. Their wedding was recreated in the Knight Rider Season 4 episode "The Scent of Roses" which first aired on January 3, 1986.

Hasselhoff married actress Pamela Bach in December 1989. The couple have two daughters: Taylor Ann Hasselhoff, born May 5, 1990, who attended the University of Arizona and was cast for the 2015 season of Rich Kids of Beverly Hills, and actress Hayley Hasselhoff, born August 26, 1992. In January 2006, Hasselhoff announced he was filing for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. Their divorce was finalized in August 2006. Bach was given custody of one daughter and Hasselhoff custody of the other, until Hasselhoff later obtained custody of both. he resided in Southern California with his daughters.

In late 2011, Hasselhoff began dating Hayley Roberts, from the town of Glynneath in Wales. As a new couple they attended Gordon Ramsay's Christmas special of that year. In the 2012 sequel, when asked about engagement they related how they had discussed it. On July 31, 2018 they married in Apulia, and in August they honeymooned in the Maldives. Hasselhoff is a fan of Welsh rugby union, and the couple regularly attend matches in Wales.

In May 2016, Hasselhoff said he could not afford alimony of $252k a year to Bach anymore, because he had less than $4000 in cash to his name. He made $112k a month, but spent $66k and due to alimony, taxes and living expenses he had little left. In September 2017, Hasselhoff filed formal requests to end alimony payments and cited his ex-wife's "failure to make any efforts to become self supporting, contribute to her own support, or even make any efforts to gain job skills." Hasselhoff and Bach reached an agreement which reduced payments since December 1, 2017, from $10,000 to $5,000 per month.

Alcoholism
On May 3, 2007, a viral video surfaced online of Hasselhoff appearing to be severely drunk inside his home. His daughter, Taylor Ann, who filmed the video, can be heard interrogating him and asking him to stop abusing alcohol. She also warns her father he could be jeopardizing his spot on the Las Vegas production of The Producers he starred in at the time. In the wake of the leaked clip, Hasselhoff issued a statement saying it was recorded by Taylor Ann so that he could see how he behaved while intoxicated and the footage was deliberately released. As a result of the video, Hasselhoff's visitation rights with his two daughters were suspended on May 7, 2007, for two weeks until the video's authenticity and distributor were determined. In May 2009, Hasselhoff's attorney, Mel Goldsman, described Hasselhoff as "a recovering alcoholic".

Honors and awards

 * 1983 – Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Program: People's Choice Awards
 * 2005 – International Star of the Year Award for Outstanding Contribution to Global Entertainment: Bollywood Awards
 * 2006 – Comeback Star of the Year: VH1 Big in '06 Awards
 * 2010 – The Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff: Comedy Central

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