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Ben Johnson was a world-class sprinter who broke the 100m and 60m indoor world records in 1987. He won the 100m gold at the 1988 Olympics, but was disqualified for doping and stripped of his medal.
May 4, 2024 · Former Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson won gold in the 100-metre sprint at the 1988 Olympics, but was stripped of his medal and record after testing positive for steroids. He still claims to be the best sprinter and faces racism and backlash in Canada.
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Ben Johnson was an American film and television actor, stuntman, and world-champion rodeo cowboy. He won an Oscar for his role in The Last Picture Show and worked with directors John Ford and Sam Peckinpah.
YearTitleRoleNotes1939Mexican BarflyUncredited1943DeputyUncredited1943Bordertown Gun FightersMessengerUncredited1944Race ContestantUncreditedBen Johnson (1918-1996) was an American actor who appeared in over 300 movies, including The Last Picture Show, The Wild Bunch, and The Getaway. He also won a world roping championship in 1953 and worked as a stuntman and horse wrangler for many stars.
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In midlife, Jonson said his paternal grandfather, who "served King Henry 8 and was a gentleman", was a member of the extended Johnston family of Annandale in the Dumfries and Galloway, a genealogy that is attested by the three spindles (rhombi) in the Jonson family coat of arms: one spindle is a diamond-shaped heraldicdevice used by the Johnston fa...
By summer 1597, Jonson had a fixed engagement in the Admiral's Men, then performing under Philip Henslowe's management at The Rose. John Aubreyreports, on uncertain authority, that Jonson was not successful as an actor; whatever his skills as an actor, he was more valuable to the company as a writer. By this time Jonson had begun to write original ...
At the beginning of the English reign of James VI and I in 1603 Jonson joined other poets and playwrights in welcoming the new king. Jonson quickly adapted himself to the additional demand for masques and entertainments introduced with the new reign and fostered by both the king and his consort Anne of Denmark. In addition to his popularity on the ...
Jonson recounted that his father had been a prosperous Protestant landowner until the reign of "Bloody Mary" and had suffered imprisonment and the forfeiture of his wealth during that monarch's attempt to restore England to Catholicism. On Elizabeth's accession, he had been freed and had been able to travel to London to become a clergyman. (All tha...
Jonson's productivity began to decline in the 1620s, but he remained well-known. In that time, the Sons of Ben or the "Tribe of Ben", those younger poets such as Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace, and Sir John Suckling who took their bearing in verse from Jonson, rose to prominence. However, a series of setbacks drained his strength and damaged his ...
Drama
Apart from two tragedies, Sejanus and Catiline, that largely failed to impress Renaissance audiences, Jonson's work for the public theatres was in comedy. These plays vary in some respects. The minor early plays, particularly those written for boy players, present somewhat looser plots and less-developed characters than those written later, for adult companies. Already in the plays which were his salvos in the Poets' War, he displays the keen eye for absurdity and hypocrisy that marks his bes...
Poetry
Jonson's poetry, like his drama, is informed by his classical learning. Some of his better-known poems are close translations of Greek or Roman models; all display the careful attention to form and style that often came naturally to those trained in classics in the humanist manner. Jonson largely avoided the debates about rhyme and meter that had consumed Elizabethan classicists such as Thomas Campion and Gabriel Harvey. Accepting both rhyme and stress, Jonson used them to mimic the classical...
There are many legends about Jonson's rivalry with Shakespeare. William Drummond reports that during their conversation, Jonson scoffed at two apparent absurdities in Shakespeare's plays: a nonsensical line in Julius Caesar and the setting of The Winter's Taleon the non-existent seacoast of Bohemia. Drummond also reported Jonson as saying that Shak...
Jonson was a towering literary figure, and his influence was enormous for he has been described as "One of the most vigorous minds that ever added to the strength of English literature". Before the English Civil War, the "Tribe of Ben" touted his importance, and during the Restoration Jonson's satirical comedies and his theory and practice of "humo...
Plays
1. A Tale of a Tub, comedy (c. 1596 revised performed 1633; printed 1640) 2. The Isle of Dogs, comedy (1597, with Thomas Nashe; lost) 3. The Case is Altered, comedy (c. 1597–98; printed 1609), possibly with Henry Porter and Anthony Munday 4. Every Man in His Humour, comedy (performed 1598; printed 1601) 5. Every Man out of His Humour, comedy (performed 1599; printed 1600) 6. Cynthia's Revels(performed 1600; printed 1601) 7. The Poetaster, comedy (performed 1601; printed 1602) 8. Sejanus His F...
Masques
1. The Coronation Triumph, or The King's Entertainment (performed 15 March 1604; printed 1604); with Thomas Dekker 2. A Private Entertainment of the King and Queen on May-Day (The Penates)(1 May 1604; printed 1616) 3. The Entertainment of the Queen and Prince Henry at Althorp (The Satyr)(25 June 1603; printed 1604) 4. The Masque of Blackness(6 January 1605; printed 1608) 5. Hymenaei(5 January 1606; printed 1606) 6. The Entertainment of the Kings of Great Britain and Denmark (The Hours)(24 Jul...
Other works
1. Epigrams(1612) 2. The Forest (1616), including To Penshurst 3. On My First Sonne (1616), elegy 4. A Discourse of Love(1618) 5. Barclay's Argenis, translated by Jonson (1623) 6. The Execration against Vulcan(1640) 7. Horace's Art of Poetry, translated by Jonson (1640), with a commendatory verse by Edward Herbert 8. Underwood(1640) 9. English Grammar(1640) 10. Timber, or Discoveries made upon men and matter, as they have flowed out of his daily readings, or had their reflux to his peculiar n...
Bednarz, James P. (2001), Shakespeare and the Poets' War, New York: Columbia University Press, ISBN 978-0-2311-2243-6.Bentley, G. E. (1945), Shakespeare and Jonson: Their Reputations in the Seventeenth Century Compared, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-2260-4269-5.Bush, Douglas (1945), English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600–1660, Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford: Clarendon Press.Butler, Martin (Summer 1993). "Jonson's Folio and the Politics of Patronage". Criticism. 35 (3). Wayne State University Press: 377–90.Ben Jonson (c. 1572-1637) was an English playwright and poet of the Renaissance era. He wrote comedies of humours, satires, and epigrams, and influenced many later dramatists and poets.
Jul 23, 2012 · Ben Johnson smashed his own world record with a run of 9.79 seconds. He had blown Lewis, and the rest of the field, away.
Ben Johnson. Actor: The Last Picture Show. Born in Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was a ranch hand and rodeo performer when, in 1940, Howard Hughes hired him to take a load of horses to California.
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