Mark Madoff, his mother and his brother were all the subject of constant media speculation. Tell their story, and publish it online for free. Obituary. It became a hit and both Frelich and Rubinstein also won Tonys. Mark Howard Medoff, playwright, born 18 March 1940; died 28 April 2019, Playwright best known for Children of a Lesser God, which was turned into a 1986 hit film, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Hearing people still have so many misconceptions like deaf people cant read or dance or cry or laugh. Early in his career, Medoff reportedly punched the wall or kicked his television while struggling with a piece of writing. MEDOFF, Marshall. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. In 1981, he also received an honorary degree from Gallaudet University for exemplary service to the deaf community. 5-year firearms enhancement dropped in Baldwin shooting case. Medoff also received an honorary degree in 1981 from Gallaudet University. It was the first Academy Award to go to a deaf actor. He had a way of making every creative heart with whom he worked feel as if their work, or their part in his work, was the single most important thing to him in the moment. We will always remember him and he will be greatly missed.". Children of a Lesser God (Mar 30, 1980 - May 16, 1982) Written by Mark Medoff. Amelia is on the run in the family RV, with husband Jack's body in the back and hostage Darryl at the wheel. Medoff worked as a screenwriter, actor, director and theater professor but was best known for his more than two dozen plays, which often featured witty, poetic language and undercurrents of violence. Frelichs performances in sign language captivated him and when she complained there were no good parts for deaf actors, Medoff promised to write a play for her. His breakthrough, When You Comin Back, Red Ryder?, opened Off-Broadway in 1973 and centered on a Vietnam War veteran who holds a New Mexico diner hostage. Within 20 minutes I told her I was going to write her a play.. He found his greatest success with Children of a Lesser God, the tale of a troubled love affair between a speech teacher and a deaf woman who struggle to overcome the communications gap between their two cultures. "I went to a psychologist when I was 18 or 19 and he said I was the first kid he'd ever met who was rebelling against a happy childhood. . He completed graduate studies in English in 1966 at Stanford University. While no note was found, it's. Mark Medoff (March 18, 1940 April 23, 2019) was an American playwright, screenwriter, film and theatre director, actor, and professor. won a Drama Desk and Obie award in 1974. He also taught at Florida State University, the University of Houston andthe University of Oklahoma. At the University of Michigan, his social circle included students largely from other well-to-do East Coast families. His second original Broadway play was in 2004 with Prymate, which closed quickly after 23 previews and five performances, having in one week only grossed 8 percent of the theaters capacity. "Marilee and Baby Lamb," a play he wrote and directed about Marilyn Monroe, premiered at the Rio Grande Theatre in 2015. It debuted in 1973 at the Circle Repertory theatre in New York, starring Kevin Conway, Brad Dourif and Elizabeth Sturges; then moved to the Eastside Playhouse and won an Obie, the off-Broadway Tony, as most distinguished play, as well as awards for Conway and Sturges. Remembering the moment, I have a sense at last of this, he wrote: Everything I will ever know, everything I will ever pass on to my students, to my children, to the people who see my plays is an inseparable part of an ongoing legacy of our shared frailty and curiosity and fear of our shared wonder at the peculiar predicament in which we find ourselves, of our infernal and eternal hope that we can, must, make ourselves better.. Show your support Send a Gift At a school drama camp, he discovered a teenage Neil Patrick Harris, whom he cast in the 1988 film Claras Heart, an adaptation of a Joseph Olshan novel with a screenplay by Mr. Medoff. Initially, he told People magazine, he was a hostile and unhappy colleague, so depressed by the desert campus that he drove home to Florida, where his parents persuaded him to return to the university. Mark Madoff took his own life today, Martin Flumenbaum, Mark Madoffs lawyer, said in a statement. Mr. Madoff was particularly upset that the trustee had named his young children as defendants in a lawsuit filed in late November seeking the recovery of money Bernard Madoff had paid out to his extended family over the years, according to the person who recently spoke with him, who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on behalf of the family. Medoffs work often tackled social issues, from animal testing and AIDS in the play Prymate, to American myths and disorders in the Obie-winning stage work When You Comin Back, Red Ryder to poverty in India in his screenplay for the 1992 film City of Joy. He also received an Obie Award for his play When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? Sterling is controlled by Fred Wilpon, the owner of the New York Mets, whose family was friendly with the Madoffs and whose businesses had invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the Ponzi scheme. During his years at NMSU, Medoff garnered attention as a playwright after his play, "When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?" The film featured a screenplay by Mr. Medoff and Hesper Anderson, and starred William Hurt and deaf actress Marlee Matlin, who at 21 years old became the youngest person to win the best actress Oscar, and the first deaf performer to win an Academy Award. The theater department is still the American Southwest Theater Company. His brother Andrew was considered more cerebral and reserved than Mark, and served as co-director of trading with his brother. I went to a psychologist when I was 18 or 19 and he said I was the first kid hed ever met who was rebelling against a happy childhood. Mark Medoff, who won a Tony Award for writing Children of a Lesser God and earned an Oscar nom for its movie adaptation, died Tuesday at Mesilla Valley Hospice in Las Cruces, NM. Mark Madoff, the older of Bernard L. Madoff's two sons, hanged himself in his Manhattan apartment on Saturday, the second anniversary of his father's arrest for running a gigantic Ponzi scheme. He was also the Creative Director of the Creative Media Institute at NMSU, the film department at the university. A Broadway revival last year ofChildren of a Lesser Godstarred Joshua Jackson and Lauren Ridloff, a former Miss Deaf America who earned a Tony nomination. Subscribe now to access decluttered news, chosen by you. Ross Marks told the Sun-News a memorial celebration would be planned as a benefit for the university lecture seriesand scholarship funds that bear his name. So when I started writing, I began to expropriate social issues and quickly roped myself out of my angst., Medoff was inspired to write Children of a Lesser God after meeting Frelich and her husband, Robert Steinberg, a lighting designer. In a departure from that works brutal, drug-addled atmosphere, Mr. Medoff then wrote Children of a Lesser God, a romantic drama about an idealistic speech therapist who falls in love with a deaf woman at his school. The author of "Children of a Lesser God" and dozens of other plays and screenplays entered hospice earlier this month after battling cancer in recent years and suffering a fall in early April. He had been suffering. He insisted and fought the studio that the role be played by a deaf actor; I would not be here as an Oscar winner if it werent for him. Prymate (May 05, 2004 - May 08, 2004) Written by Mark Medoff. In 1981, he also received an honorary degree from Gallaudet University for exemplary service to the deaf community. She said that the results should be available by early afternoon on Sunday. The play grew out of Medoffs friendship with Phyllis Frelich, a deaf actress whom Medoff met at a drama workshop in 1978. Deafness isnt the opposite of hearing, as you think, Frelichs character tells him at one point. Taking its title from a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Children of a Lesser God opened on Broadway in 1980, ran for 887 performances and won the Tony for best play, as well as acting honors for Frelich and her co-star, John Rubinstein. Born on October 8, 1938 in the Bronx, NY, Judy is predeceased by her beloved husband, Gerald Medoff, her . The Associated Press review said Medoffs dialogue is unsubtle, often crude and, whats worse, unbelievable. Variety called it ludicrous.. ), What makes Medoffs play so shrewd and moving, wrote Newsweek drama critic Jack Kroll, is that his compassion is not for those who cannot hear sounds, but for those who cannot hear the chords of communication between people, and in this we are all hard of hearing, as well as partially blind, numb of touch, with fast-food taste buds and stuffy noses.. Deafness isnt the opposite of hearing, as you think, Frelichs character tells him at one point. He was 79. A person in close contact with the family who had spoken with Mark Madoff frequently in the last few weeks said he had been in an increasingly fragile state of mind as the anniversary of his fathers arrest approached. He insisted and fought the studio that the role be played by a deaf actor; I would not be here as an Oscar winner if it werent for him. Mark David Madoff. Phyllis Frelich won a Tony in 1980 for her Broadway portrayal of Sarah Norman, the deaf woman at the heart of the play, which ran for almost 900 performances. RIP Dear Mark.. He completed a pediatric internship and residency at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and then was drafted into the military. When it was adapted into a film in 1986, it marked the first major movie about deafness since The Miracle Worker (1962). Just last week, Mr. Madoff, 46, was among the directors and officers of a Madoff affiliate in London who were sued by the trustee seeking assets for victims of the scheme. Mark Madoff had been a licensed broker at his fathers firm since June 1987. casting of the black actor Andr De Shields as the gorilla, revival of Children of a Lesser God on Broadway, co-written with his former student Dennis DAmico, who had interviewed Pepitone. This article was published more than3 years ago. Mr. Madoffs body was removed on a stretcher from his building on the edge of SoHo shortly after noon Saturday. FILE - In this April 8, 2004 file photo, playwright Mark Medoff, left, and actress Phyllis Frelich pose for a photo in New York. With Linda Hamilton, Chris Payne Gilbert, Lena Georgas, Christopher McDonald. Megan Whitney BOONE. During the Vietnam War, he served as a pediatrician at a naval hospital in Newport, R.I. until 1972. Obituaries Mark Medoff, Tony-Winning Children of a Lesser God Playwright, Dies at 79 He also received an Academy Award nomination for the film's 1986 screen adaptation. As an actor, he has appeared in the plays Marat/Sade, Black Comedy/White Lies, and Old Times, among others, and the films The Twilight of the Golds, Santa Fe, Homage, Red Ryder, and Clara's Heart. He had a way of making every creative heart with whom he worked feel as if their work, or their part in his work, was the single most important thing to him in the moment. When the Creative Media Institute was just getting going, Mark told the faculty, Look, we can sit around and talk about how to teach people to make movies, or we can just go make movies, which reflected his philosophy across life, said Amy Lanasa, a friend who now heads the institute, in the family statement. Marc A Medoff, 81 years old, currently living in Novato, CA. He is survived by his second wife, Stephanie (nee Thorne), whom he married in 1972, three daughters, Jessica, Debra and Rachel, and eight grandchildren. Medoff, who also wrote, produced or directed 19 movies, co-founded the American Southwest Theatre Company and for nine years was the head of the Department of Theatre Arts at New Mexico State University. Matlin tweeted on Wednesday: Mark Medoff, the brilliant mind behind the Tony Award-winning play, Children Of A Lesser God, has passed at 79. Today we pay tribute to a missionary who became a language expert, the builder of Adelaide's O-Bahn, and the . Medoff wrote 30 plays and wrote, produced or directed 19 movies. [citation needed] Medoff's feature film Refuge[1] was released in 2010. Academy Award nominated actor Edward James Olmos talks "Walking with Herb" praises Robert M. Young and Mark Medoff at the Las Cruces Film Festival. The play won Drama Desk and Obie awards for Medoff and the productions stars, Kevin Conway and Elizabeth Sturges, and was adapted into a 1979 film with a screenplay by Medoff. OBITUARIES 2019-04-25 - BY HARRISON SMITH harrison.smith@washpost.com . He was 79. Its a silence full of sounds., Some critics saw the work as melodramatic and derivative, part of a wave of inspirational disability plays that included Whose Life Is It Anyway?, about a paralyzed sculptor. Mark Medoff, who won a Tony Award for writing Children of a Lesser God and earned an Oscar nom for its movie adaptation, died Tuesday at Mesilla Valley Hospice in Las Cruces, NM. Ira Lee Sorkin, a lawyer for Bernard Madoff, said he had not been able to contact his client at the North Carolina prison where he is serving a 150-year sentence for his crimes. A 1981 London production received the Society of West End Theatre Award now known as the Olivier Award for best play, and the work was briefly revived on Broadway in 2018. Medoff was married to second wife Stephanie Thorne from 1972 until his death in 2019; they had three daughters. So when I started writing, I began to expropriate social issues and quickly roped myself out of my angst., Medoff was inspired to write Children of a Lesser God after meeting Frelich and her husband, Robert Steinberg, a lighting designer. RIP Dear Mark.". NEW YORK (AP) -- Advertisers bet big that Americans were turning to the Super Bowl for a comforting escape, and delivered a series of Nipsey Hussle's killer gets 60 years to life in prison, Lobo men's basketball team romps to fun Senior Night win, While California wearies of snowstorms, Northeast greets one, What's next for Virgin Galactic? In 2017,Medoff said, "I can't teach students to write, to direct, to act, but I can create an atmosphere in which they can teach themselves.. His daughter Jessica Medoff Bunchman posted news of his. In 1972 he married Stephanie Thorne, a former student. 2023 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. The play won Drama Desk and Obie awards for Mr. Medoff and the productions stars, Kevin Conway and Elizabeth Sturges, and was adapted into a 1979 film with a screenplay by Mr. Medoff. He joined the faculty in the English Department at New Mexico State University. He went home and wrote 'Children of a Lesser God.' Dr. Medoff teaching his Harvard economics class in 1994. Medoff wrote 30 plays and wrote, produced or directed 19 movies. Medoff became director of the Division of Infectious Diseases . He helped form the Creative Media Institute for Film & Digital Arts in 2005. "Tony Award Winner Mark Medoff Joining UH School of Theatre & Dance. Medoff also continued to direct theatre locally, often downtown at the Las Cruces Community Theatre. Medoff died Tuesday in a hospice surrounded by family, according to his daughter, Jessica Bunchman. Medoff's daughter, Jessica Bunchman, confirmed that he died Tuesday, April 23, 2019, in a Las Cruces hospice . Caption: Megan Boone in a scene from Blue Bloods. He was aDramatist in Residence from 1992 to 2006, and a senior fellow and professor at the Creative Media Institute. Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. Here, Medoff poses for a photo on April 8, 2004, in New York. Yesterday morning, the body of Mark Madoff was found hanging from a dog leash in his Soho apartment, while his two-year-old son was sleeping in another room. 15 . I was swept away. Dr. Stuart A. Medoff is a family medicine doctor in Tucson, Arizona. He had been battling both multiple myeloma, a cancer, and renal failure, she said Wednesday in a family statement. He played basketball at Miami Beach high school, then studied English at the University of Miami, where he began writing. Medoff was back on Broadway again with the staging of his play Prymate[7] in 2005. Matlin tweeted on Wednesday: Mark Medoff, the brilliant mind behind the Tony Award winning play, Children Of A Lesser God, has passed at 79. In 2004, Medoff finally returned to Broadway with Prymate; Frelich playing an animal behaviourist fighting with her biologist ex-lover over the fate of a gorilla with whom she communicates through sign language. The public fury over the stunning crime Bernard Madoff estimated the losses at $50 billion was not limited to its mastermind. The play grew out of Mr. Medoffs friendship with Phyllis Frelich, a deaf actress whom Mr. Medoff met at a drama workshop in 1978. He insisted and fought the studio that the role be played by a deaf actress, Matlin recalled. He was influenced by social injustice, he said in 2004. The person said Mr. Madoff had also been upset at some recent news coverage speculating that criminal charges against him and his brother were still likely. It was more than one, said an official, who added: He basically tells his wife he loves her and he wants someone to check on the child.. Mark Medoff, a provocative playwright whose "Children of a Lesser God" won Tony and Olivier awards and whose screen adaptation of his play earned an Oscar nomination, has died in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Medoff wrote 30 plays and is best known for the groundbreaking Children of a Lesser God, the story of a young deaf woman and her love affair with her speech teacher. Medoff also taught by doing. Remembering the moment, I have a sense at last of this, he wrote: Everything I will ever know, everything I will ever pass on to my students, to my children, to the people who see my plays is an inseparable part of an ongoing legacy of our shared frailty and curiosity and fear of our shared wonder at the peculiar predicament in which we find ourselves, of our infernal and eternal hope that we can, must, make ourselves better., Warren Adler, best-selling author of The War of the Roses, dies at 91, Henry Bloch, whose H&R Block became worlds largest tax-services provider, dies at 96, Kazuo Koike, creator of Lone Wolf and Cub, Lady Snowblood manga, dies at 82. Medoffs other works include the plays The Wager, The Hand of Its Enemy, The Heart Outright, The Majestic Kid and the screenplay for the HBO movie thriller Apology. [2] [3] He was at one time chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange. CEO discusses flight plans in earnings call. Medoffs other works include the plays The Wager, The Hand of Its Enemy, The Heart Outright, The Majestic Kid and the screenplay for the HBO movie thriller Apology. He also penned the 1978 Chuck Norris action film, Good Guys Wear Black and the black comedy Refuge starring Linda Hamilton in 2010. Mark Medoff, who won a Tony Award for writing Children of a Lesser God and earned an Oscar nom for its movie adaptation, died Tuesday at Mesilla Valley Hospice in Las Cruces, NM. Medoff wrote 30 plays and wrote, produced or directed 19 movies. Medoffs first marriage, to Vicki Eisler, ended in divorce. She died in 2014. Trevor Eve and Elizabeth Quinn won Olivier awards for their leading roles in the London production, in 1981, with Medoff winning best new play, and play of the year. Medoff was born in Mount Carmel, Illinois, grew up in Miami Beach, Florida, and received his bachelors in English from the University of Miami in 1962. Refuge: Directed by Mark Medoff. He had planned to write novels in his spare time, but at the suggestion of a colleague, he wrote his first play, a one-act called The Wager. In 1974, it opened at the Eastside Playhouse in Manhattan in expanded form, leading Times reviewer Clive Barnes to hail Medoff as a dexterous and extraordinarily witty playwright.. Matlin tweeted on Wednesday: "Mark Medoff, the brilliant mind behind the Tony Award winning play, 'Children Of A Lesser God,' has passed at 79. Mark Madoff, the older of Bernard L. Madoffs two sons, hanged himself in his Manhattan apartment on Saturday, the second anniversary of his fathers arrest for running a gigantic Ponzi scheme that shattered thousands of lives around the world. His adaptation of the play for the 1986 film version was nominated for an Academy award. Gregarious and handsome, Mark was the more outgoing of Mr. Madoffs two sons. Entered Eternal Rest November 17, 2021. Includes the names: Mark Medoff, Mark Howard Medoff. But Im very sure he has been informed, Mr. Sorkin said, adding, This is a great tragedy on many, many levels., A spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Traci Billingsley, said, Any time there is a death of a family member, and the agency is notified, we immediately notify the inmate.. Published: Thursday, April 25th, 2019 at 4:38PMUpdated: Friday, April 26th, 2019 at 3:14PM. Mark Medoff, a provocative playwright whose "Children of a Lesser God" won Tony and Olivier awards and whose screen adaptation of his play earned an Oscar nomination, has died in Las Cruces,. I told him there were no roles for deaf actresses, Frelich recalled. Mark Medoff, who helped bring unhearing characters and actors to Broadway in his play Children of a Lesser God, a vibrant portrait of deaf identity that earned him a Tony Award and an Oscar nomination after he helped adapt it into a hit film, died April 23 at a hospice center in Las Cruces, New Mexico. RIP Dear Mark.. He said there was no evidence of foul play. What term do you want to search? Mark Medoff co-wrote the screenplay. Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.riversidestanetsky.com for the Medoff family. Rather, we focus on discussions related to local stories by our own staff. Mark Medoff, a provocative playwright whose "Children of a Lesser God" won Tony and Olivier awards and whose screen adaptation of his play earned an Oscar nomination, has died in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was 79. "When the Creative Media Institute was just getting going, Mark told the faculty, 'Look, we can sit around and talk about how to teach people to make movies, or we can just go make movies,' which reflected his philosophy across life," said Amy Lanasa, a friend who now heads the institute, in the family statement. When, how and why music should be incorporated into a funeral service, Making the holiday season bearable during grief, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. Richardson "The Big Bopper" and Roger Peterson. 83, formerly of Brookline.. A number of Marks oldest childhood friends from Roslyn, N.Y., invested with the Madoff firm and lost their savings in the fraud, said another person who was close to the family. [4] He was raised in Miami Beach. He was 82. Best personalized Valentine's gifts for him BestReviews / 30 mins ago He had been battling both multiple myeloma, a cancer, and renal failure, she said Wednesday in a family statement. "Children of a Lesser God"was revived on Broadway. In a departure from that works brutal, drug-addled atmosphere, Marks then wrote Children of a Lesser God, a romantic drama about an idealistic speech therapist who falls in love with a deaf woman at his school. He received his medical degree from Vrije Universiteit Brussels and has been in practice for more than 20 years. Mark Madoff married his college girlfriend, Susan, and moved to Greenwich, Conn., where they raised two children. The building is also home to the performer Jon Bon Jovi. Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter. "Everything I do probably starts more from a social-issue impulse than anything else," the playwright told The Associated Press in 2004. In recent years, he worked closely with his son-in-law, film director Ross Marks, also a professor at CMI. Among his many plays, his landmark work, Children of a Lesser God, about the relationship between a young deaf woman and her speech teacher, opened on Broadway in 1979 and won him the 1980 Tony award for Best Play. Sponsored by Ancestry. Medoff and his family have created The Hope E. Harrison Foundation to raise awareness and finance research to end the chromosomal anomaly Trisomy 18, which afflicts his 5-year old granddaughter, Hope. Consumers are willing to pay monthly subscription fees for streaming services, pet food and even toilet paper. Fiorentina captain Astori found dead aged 31 before match. ", Medoff was inspired to write "Children of a Lesser God" after meeting Frelich and her husband, Robert Steinberg, a lighting designer. [4] Mark David Madoff. William Hurt and Marlee Matlin in Children of a Lesser God. He was 79. Everything I do probably starts more from a social-issue impulse than anything else, the playwright told The Associated Press in 2004. Mark Medoff, whose acclaimed play "Children of a Lesser God," featuring a deaf central character, won the Tony Award for best play in 1980 and was turned into a 1986 movie that won an Oscar. He had been suffering from multiple myeloma and renal failure, The Associated Press reported, citing his daughter Jessica Bunchman. PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Angela Bassett PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Angela Bassett won entertainer of the year at Saturday's NAACP Image Awards on a night that also saw her take Nipsey Hussle's killer gets 60 years to life in LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday sentenced the man convicted of gunning down Nipsey Hussle to 60 years to life Pay-Per-Chew: More restaurants trying subscription programs. He died on April 23, 2019, from complications at age 79.[9]. He helped form the Creative Media Institute for Film & Digital Arts in 2005. Mark Medoff, whose Tony Award-winning play Children of a Lesser God opened the stage for deaf actresses, died Tuesday at his home in Las Cruces, N.M., at the age of 79. Medoff is survived by his second wife, Stephanie Thorne, whom he wed in 1972, three daughters and eight grandchildren. He was. Medoff wrote 30 plays, and worked on 19 films. He also penned the 1978 Chuck Norris action film, "Good Guys Wear Black" and the black comedy "Refuge" starring Linda Hamilton in 2010. Mr. Medoff often spoke of the central role teaching held in his life, and of the influence teachers had on him. Mark Medoff, who wrote the award-winning play 'Children of a Lesser God,' has died in New Mexico at age 79 on Wednesday. "I told him there were no roles for deaf actresses," Frelich recalled. Medoff was a caring adviser to many in the business, according to the statement. Mark Medoff, a provocative playwright whose "Children of a Lesser God" won Tony and Olivier awards and whose screen adaptation of his play earned an Oscar nomination, has died in Las Cruces, New . Mark and Stephanie Medoff moved to Las Cruces in 1966. [8] He was the winner of the Kennedy Center Medallion for Excellence in Education and Artistic Achievement, given periodically to professionals in theater who also teach and mentor students. Check other contact information for Marc A Medoff. He said, OK, Ill write a play for you. He did. Many of those projects featured NMSU students on crew and production teams. Medoff was co-founder of the American Southwest Theatre Company and head of the Department of Theatre Arts for nine years at New Mexico State University, where he taught for years. Medoff first won acclaim as a playwright in the early 1970s with When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? This was soon followed by "Children of a Lesser God," which won the Tony award for best play in 1980, among other honors. He wanted to write a good play.". He was 79. MARK MEDOFF OBITUARY Mark Medoff, playwright whose 'Children of a Lesser God' won a Tony and an Oscar, dies Playwright Mark Medoff and actress Phyllis Frelich in New York City in April 2004. premiered at the Rio Grande Theatre in 2015. In addition to his wife, survivors include three daughters from his second marriage and eight grandchildren. He was 79. 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