Editing Alan Bates

{{short description|English actor (1934–2003)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Alan Bates
| honorific_prefix   = Sir
| honorific_suffix   = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|CBE}}
| image              = Alan Bates.jpg
| caption            = Bates in 1975
| birth_name         = Alan Arthur Bates
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1934|2|17|df=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Allestree]], [[Derby]], England
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|2003|12|27|1934|2|17|df=y}}
| death_place        = London, England
| occupation         = Actor
| years_active       = 1956–2003
| children           = 2, including [[Benedick Bates|Benedick]]
| education          = [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]]
}}
'''Sir Alan Arthur Bates''' (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor who came to prominence in the [[Cinema of the United Kingdom#The 1960s|1960s]], when he appeared in films ranging from ''[[Whistle Down the Wind (film)|Whistle Down the Wind]]'' to the [[Kitchen sink realism|kitchen sink drama]] ''[[A Kind of Loving (film)|A Kind of Loving]]''.

Bates is also known for his performance with [[Anthony Quinn]] in ''[[Zorba the Greek (film)|Zorba the Greek]]'', as well as his roles in ''[[King of Hearts (1966 film)|King of Hearts]]'', ''[[Georgy Girl]]'', ''[[Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film)|Far From the Madding Crowd]]'' and ''[[The Fixer (1968 film)|The Fixer]]'', for which he received an [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Academy Award nomination for Best Actor]]. In 1969, he starred in the [[Ken Russell]] film ''[[Women in Love (film)|Women in Love]]'' with [[Oliver Reed]] and [[Glenda Jackson]].

Bates went on to star in ''[[The Go-Between (1971 film)|The Go-Between]]'', ''[[An Unmarried Woman]]'', ''[[Nijinsky (film)|Nijinsky]]'' and in ''[[The Rose (film)|The Rose]]'' with [[Bette Midler]], as well as many television dramas, including ''[[The Mayor of Casterbridge (TV series)|The Mayor of Casterbridge]]'', [[Harold Pinter]]'s ''[[The Collection (play)|The Collection]]'', ''[[A Voyage Round My Father]]'', ''[[An Englishman Abroad]]'' (as [[Guy Burgess]]) and ''[[Pack of Lies]]''. He also appeared on the stage, notably in the plays of [[Simon Gray]], such as ''[[Butley (film)|Butley]]'' and ''[[Otherwise Engaged]]''.

==Early life==
[[File:Alan Bates BP IMG 0282.jpg|thumb|right|The [[blue plaque]] on Alan Bates's childhood home—in association with the [[British Film Institute]].]]
Bates was born at the Queen Mary Nursing Home, [[Darley Abbey]], [[Derby]], England, on 17 February 1934, the eldest of three boys born to Florence Mary (née Wheatcroft), a housewife and a pianist, and Harold Arthur Bates, an insurance broker and a cellist.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/5/Alan-Bates.html|title=Alan Bates Biography|work=filmreference.com|access-date=15 September 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070929111508/http://www.filmreference.com/film/5/Alan-Bates.html| archive-date= 29 September 2007 | url-status= live}}</ref> They lived in [[Allestree]], Derby, at the time of Bates' birth, but briefly moved to [[Mickleover]] before returning to Allestree.

Both his parents were amateur musicians who encouraged Bates to pursue music. By the age of 11, having decided to become an actor, he studied drama instead.<ref name=ABAbio>{{cite web|author=Karen Rappaport|url=http://alanbates.com/abfeatures/bio.html|title=Alan Bates Biography|work=The Alan Bates Archive|access-date=11 April 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420091452/http://alanbates.com/abfeatures/bio.html|archive-date=20 April 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> He further developed his vocation by attending productions at Derby's Little Theatre.

Bates was educated at the Herbert Strutt Grammar School, Derby Road, [[Belper]], Derbyshire (now "Strutts", a volunteer led business and community centre) and later gained a scholarship to the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] in London, where he studied with [[Albert Finney]] and [[Peter O'Toole]], before leaving to join the [[RAF]] for [[Conscription in the United Kingdom|National Service]] at [[RAF Newton]].

==Career==
===Early stage appearances===
Bates's stage debut was in 1955, in ''You and Your Wife'', in [[Coventry]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://alanbates.com/abfeatures/timeline.html|title=Alan Bates Archive Feature: Timeline I, 1954–69|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519032508/http://www.alanbates.com/abfeatures/timeline.html|archive-date=19 May 2011}}</ref>

In 1956, Bates made his West End debut as Cliff in ''[[Look Back in Anger]]'', a role he had originated at the [[Royal Court Theatre|Royal Court]] and which made him a star. He also played the role on television (for the ''[[ITV Play of the Week]]'') and on Broadway. He also was a member of the 1967 acting company at the [[Stratford Festival]] in Canada, playing the title role in [[Richard III (play)|Richard III]].<ref>{{cite web | url =https://archives.stratfordfestival.ca/AIS/Details/people/5295 | title = Alan Bates acting credits | website = Stratford Festival Archives | access-date = 3 June 2019}}</ref><ref name=whitaker>{{Citation|last=Whitaker|first=Herbert|title=The credo of Alan Bates: aim for variety|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|date=8 April 1967|page=26}}</ref>

===Television===
In the late 1950s, Bates appeared in several plays for television in Britain in shows such as ''ITV Play of the Week'', ''[[Armchair Theatre]]'' and ''ITV Television Playhouse''.

In 1960, Bates appeared as Giorgio in the final episode of ''[[The Four Just Men (TV series)]]'' entitled Treviso Dam.

Bates made his feature film debut in ''[[The Entertainer (1960 film)|The Entertainer]]'' (1960) opposite [[Laurence Olivier]]. Bates worked for the ''Padded Wagon Moving Company'' in the early 1960s while acting at the ''[[Circle in the Square Theatre]]'' in New York City.

===Film stardom===
Bates played the lead in his second feature, ''[[Whistle Down the Wind (film)|Whistle Down the Wind]]'' (1961), directed by [[Bryan Forbes]]. He followed it with the lead in ''[[A Kind of Loving (film)|A Kind of Loving]]'' (1962), directed by [[John Schlesinger]]. Both films were very popular, establishing Bates as a film star.<ref name="three">{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-british-moguls-nat-cohen-part-three-1962-68/|date=21 January 2025|access-date=21 January 2025|title=Forgotten British Moguls: Nat Cohen – Part Three (1962-68)}}</ref>
[[File:Alan Bates vintage headshot from "The Entertainer" (1960).jpg|thumb|left|Bates [[head shot]] for his film debut, ''[[The Entertainer (1960 film)|The Entertainer]]'' (1960).]]
Film critics cited the 1963 film noir ''[[The Running Man (1963 film)|The Running Man]]'' as being one of Bates' finest performances. The film starred Laurence Harvey as a man who fakes his death, with Bates in the supporting role of Stephen Maddox, an insurance company investigator.

Bates went into an adaptation of [[Harold Pinter]]'s ''[[The Caretaker (1963 film)|The Caretaker]]'' (1963) with Donald Pleasence and Robert Shaw. It was directed by [[Clive Donner]] who then made ''[[Nothing But the Best (film)|Nothing But the Best]]'' (1964) with Bates.

Bates supported [[Anthony Quinn]] in ''[[Zorba the Greek (film)|Zorba the Greek]]'' (1964) and [[James Mason]] in ''[[Georgy Girl]]'' (1966). Bates returned to TV doing episodes of ''[[Wednesday Theatre]]'' and starred in [[Philippe de Broca]]'s ''[[King of Hearts (1966 film)|King of Hearts]]'' (1966).

Bates was reunited with Schlesinger in ''[[Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film)|Far From the Madding Crowd]]'' (1967), starring [[Julie Christie]] then did the [[Bernard Malamud]] film ''[[The Fixer (1968 film)|The Fixer]]'' (1968), which earned him an [[Academy Award]] nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]].

In 1969 Bates starred in ''[[Women in Love (film)|Women in Love]]'' directed by [[Ken Russell]] with [[Oliver Reed]] and [[Glenda Jackson]], in which Bates and Reed wrestled naked. He followed it appearing as Col. Vershinin in the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre]]'s film of ''[[Three Sisters (1970 Olivier film)|Three Sisters]]'', directed by and co-starring [[Laurence Olivier]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066454/|title=Three Sisters (1970)|date=2 March 1973|publisher=IMDb}}</ref>

Bates was handpicked by director [[John Schlesinger]] (with whom he had previously worked on ''A Kind of Loving'' and ''Far From The Madding Crowd'') to play the starring role of Dr Daniel Hirsh in the film ''[[Sunday Bloody Sunday (film)|Sunday Bloody Sunday]]'' (1971). Bates was held up filming ''[[The Go-Between (1971 film)|The Go-Between]]'' (1971) for director [[Joseph Losey]] alongside Christie, and had also become a father around that time, and so he had to refuse the role. (The part then went first to [[Ian Bannen]], who balked at kissing and simulating sex with another man, and then to [[Peter Finch]] who earned an [[Academy Award]] nomination for the role.)

Bates starred in the film of ''[[A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (film)|A Day in the Death of Joe Egg]]'' (1972) and produced and appeared in a short, ''Second Best'' (1972).

Bates starred in ''[[Story of a Love Story]]'' (1973), and some play adaptations, ''[[Butley (film)|Butley]]'' (1974) and ''[[In Celebration]]'' (1975). He was the villain in ''[[Royal Flash (film)|Royal Flash]]'' (1975) and appeared on television in ''Plays for Today'' and the ''[[Laurence Olivier Presents]]'' version of [[Harold Pinter]]'s ''[[The Collection (play)|The Collection]]'' (1976).

===Television (1970s and 80s)===
[[File:Publicity still of Alan Bates (c.1960s).jpg|thumb|right|[[Press kit|Publicity]] [[film still|still]] of Bates, {{c.}}1970.]]
Bates starred in the TV movie ''Piccadilly Circus'' (1977) and ''[[The Mayor of Casterbridge (TV series)|The Mayor of Casterbridge]]'' (1978). In the latter he played Michael Henchard, the ultimately-disgraced lead, which he described as his favourite role.
He starred in such international films as ''[[An Unmarried Woman]]'' (1978) and ''[[Nijinsky (film)|Nijinsky]]'' (1980), and also played [[Bette Midler]]'s ruthless business manager in the film ''[[The Rose (film)|The Rose]]'' (1979). He was also in ''[[The Shout]]'' (1979) and ''[[John Osborne#Works|Very Like a Whale]]'' (1980).

Bates played two diametrically opposed roles in ''[[An Englishman Abroad]]'' (1983), as [[Guy Burgess]], a member of the Cambridge spy ring exiled in Moscow, and in ''[[Pack of Lies]]'' (1987), as a British Secret Service agent tracking several Soviet spies.

===Later career===
Bates continued working in film and television in the 1990s, including the role of Claudius in [[Franco Zeffirelli]]'s version of ''[[Hamlet (1990 film)|Hamlet]]'' (1990). In 2001 he joined an all-star cast in [[Robert Altman]]'s critically acclaimed period drama ''[[Gosford Park]]'', in which he played the [[butler]] Jennings. He later played Antonius Agrippa in the 2004 TV film ''[[Spartacus (miniseries)|Spartacus]]'', but died before it premiered. The film was dedicated to his memory and that of writer [[Howard Fast]], who wrote the [[Spartacus (Fast novel)|original novel]] that inspired the film ''[[Spartacus (film)|Spartacus]]'' by [[Stanley Kubrick]].

On stage, Bates had a particular association with the plays of [[Simon Gray]], appearing in ''[[Butley (play)|Butley]]'', ''[[Otherwise Engaged]]'', ''Stage Struck'', ''Melon'', ''Life Support'', and ''Simply Disconnected'', as well as the film of ''Butley'' and Gray's TV series ''Unnatural Pursuits''. In ''Otherwise Engaged'', his co-star was [[Ian Charleson]], who became a friend, and Bates later contributed a chapter to a 1990 book on his colleague after Charleson's early death.<ref>Ian McKellen, Alan Bates, Hugh Hudson, et al. ''For Ian Charleson: A Tribute''. London: Constable and Company, 1990. pp. 1–5.</ref>

Bates was made a [[Order of the British Empire|Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the [[1995 Birthday Honours]],<ref name="GB">The United Kingdom:{{London Gazette |issue=54066 |date=16 June 1995 |pages=8 |supp=1}}</ref> and was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in the [[2003 New Year Honours]], in both cases for services to drama.<ref name=GBR>{{London Gazette |issue=56797 |date=31 December 2002 |pages=1  |supp=y}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Taylor |first=Matthew |date=29 December 2003 |title=Actor Sir Alan Bates, 69, dies after cancer battle |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/dec/29/film.arts |access-date=23 March 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> {{Citation needed span|text=He was an Associate Member of RADA,|date=March 2023}} and was a patron of The Actors Centre, [[Covent Garden]], London, from 1994 until his death in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Learn More |url=https://actoratthecentre.com/learn-more/ |access-date=23 March 2023 |website=actor at the centre |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=3 September 2001 |title=In the Name of the Son: Alan Bates Bails Out UK's Actors Centre |url=https://playbill.com/article/in-the-name-of-the-son-alan-bates-bails-out-uks-actors-centre-com-98405 |website=Playbill}}</ref>

==Personal life==
[[File:Headshot of the actor Sir Alan Bates (1960s).jpg|thumb|left|Bates in the mid-1960s.]]
Bates was married to actress Victoria Ward from 1970 until her death from a heart attack in 1992, although they had separated many years earlier.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/features/famous_derby/alan_bates.shtml|title=BBC – Derby – Around Derby – Famous Derby – Sir Alan Bates biography}}</ref> They had twin sons, born in November 1970: the actors [[Benedick Bates]] and Tristan Bates. Tristan died following an asthma attack in Tokyo in 1990.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3666144/The-minute-they-got-close-he-ran.html | work=The Daily Telegraph| location=London | title= The Minute They Got Close, He Ran |last=Lewis |first=Roger |date=28 June 2007 | access-date=12 April 2019}}</ref>

Bates had numerous gay relationships, including those with actor [[Nickolas Grace]] <!-- See the Peter Wyngarde article before adding him. -->and Olympic skater [[John Curry]], as detailed in Donald Spoto's [[authorised biography]] ''Otherwise Engaged: The Life of Alan Bates''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.queerty.com/new-bio-outs-late-great-gay-alan-bates-20070521|title=New Bio Outs Late, Great, "Gay" Alan Bates / Queerty|last=Belonsky|first=Andrew|date=21 May 2007|website=[[Queerty]]|access-date=25 September 2019}}</ref> Spoto characterised Bates's sexuality as ambiguous, and said, "he loved women but enjoyed his closest relationships with men".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jun/16/featuresreviews.guardianreview8|title=Review: Otherwise Engaged by Donald Spoto|last=Coveney|first=Michael|date=16 June 2007|work=The Guardian|access-date=25 September 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Even after homosexuality was partially decriminalised in England in 1967,<ref name=Act>{{cite web|author=Albany Trust Homosexual Law Reform Society|title=GB 0097 HCA/Albany Trust|url=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=3213&inst_id=1|work=AIM25|publisher=British Library of Political and Economic Science|year=1984|access-date=10 April 2008|archive-date=23 October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023034225/http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=3213&inst_id=1|url-status=dead}}</ref> Bates rigorously avoided interviews and questions about his personal life, and even denied to his male lovers that there was a homosexual component in his nature.<ref name=":0" /> Throughout his life, Bates sought to be regarded as charming and charismatic, or at least as a man who, as an actor, could appear attractive to and attracted by women. He also chose some roles with an aspect of homosexuality or bisexuality,<ref name=":0" /> including the role of Rupert in the 1969 film ''[[Women in Love (film)|Women in Love]]'' and the role of Frank in the 1988 film ''[[We Think the World of You]]''.

In the later years of his life, Bates had a relationship with the Welsh actress [[Angharad Rees]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/9571643/Downton-Abbey-creator-Julian-Fellowes-leads-tributes-to-Angharad-Rees.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes leads tributes to Angharad Rees | date=28 September 2012}}</ref>

==Death==
Bates died of [[pancreatic cancer]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3666144/The-minute-they-got-close-he-ran.html|title = The minute they got close, he ran| date=28 June 2007 }}</ref> on 27 December 2003, after slipping into a coma. He was buried at [[All Saints' Church, Bradbourne]] in Derbyshire.<ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 2864). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref> Bates bequeathed companion and actress [[Joanna Pettet]] £95,000 ({{Inflation|UK|95000|2003|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}) upon his death. The two had been friends since 1964, and Pettet provided support and companionship during his final months after he had been diagnosed with [[pancreatic cancer]] in February 2003. Pettet was quoted as saying: "It was a very touching gesture because he had done everything while he was in hospital to make sure I would be looked after following his death."<ref>{{cite news |title=Alan Bates's £95,000 for secret lover who nursed him through his final days |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/alan-batess-95000-for-secret-lover-who-nursed-him-through-his-final-days-7281320.html |access-date=21 November 2019 |work=Evening Standard |publisher=ESI Media |date=3 February 2007}}</ref>

==''Otherwise Engaged: The Life of Alan Bates''==
[[Donald Spoto]]'s 2007 book, ''Otherwise Engaged: The Life of Alan Bates'',<ref>{{cite book|last=Spoto|first=Donald|title=Otherwise Engaged: The Life of Alan Bates|location=London|publisher=Hutchinson|year=2007|isbn=978-0-09-179735-5}}</ref> is a posthumous authorised biography of Alan Bates. It was written with the cooperation of his son [[Benedick Bates|Benedick]] and features more than one hundred interviews, including with Michael Linnit and Rosalind Chatto.

==Tristan Bates Theatre==
Bates and his family created the Tristan Bates Theatre at the Actors' Centre in [[Covent Garden]], in memory of his son Tristan who died at the age of 19.<ref name="guardianobit">{{cite news|url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Guardian/0,4029,1113685,00.html |title=Sir Alan Bates |author=Michael Billington |work=The Guardian |date=29 December 2003 |access-date=4 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114224632/http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Guardian/0%2C4029%2C1113685%2C00.html |archive-date=14 November 2007 |url-status=live |location=London }}</ref> Tristan's twin brother, [[Benedick Bates|Benedick]], is a vice-director.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tristanbatestheatre.co.uk/about.htm |title=About Tristan Bates Theatre |publisher=Tristan Bates Theatre |access-date=8 November 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070108070805/http://www.tristanbatestheatre.co.uk/about.htm |archive-date=8 January 2007 }}</ref>

==Selected credits==
'''<big>FILM:</big>'''{{Main list|Alan Bates, roles and awards#Film}}
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* ''[[The Entertainer (1960 film)|The Entertainer]]'' (1960)
* ''[[Whistle Down the Wind (film)|Whistle Down the Wind]]'' (1961)
* ''[[A Kind of Loving (film)|A Kind of Loving]]'' (1962)
* ''[[The Caretaker (film)|The Caretaker]]'' (1963)
* ''[[The Running Man (1963 film)|The Running Man]]'' (1963)
* ''[[Nothing but the Best (film)|Nothing but the Best]]'' (1964)
* ''[[Zorba the Greek (film)|Zorba the Greek]]'' (1964)
* ''[[Georgy Girl]]'' (1966)
* ''[[King of Hearts (1966 film)|King of Hearts]]'' (1966)
* ''[[Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film)|Far from the Madding Crowd]]'' (1967)
* ''[[The Fixer (1968 film)|The Fixer]]'' (1968)
* ''[[Women in Love (film)|Women in Love]]'' (1969)
* ''[[Three Sisters (1970 film)|Three Sisters]]'' (1970)
* ''[[The Go-Between (1971 film)|The Go-Between]]'' (1971)
* ''[[A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (film)|A Day in the Death of Joe Egg]]'' (1972)
* ''[[Butley (film)|Butley]]'' (1974)
* ''[[In Celebration]]'' (1975)
* ''[[The Shout]]'' (1978)
* ''[[An Unmarried Woman]]'' (1978)
* ''[[The Rose (film)|The Rose]]'' (1979)
* ''[[The Return of the Soldier (film)|The Return of the Soldier]]'' (1982)
* ''[[We Think the World of You]]'' (1988)
* ''[[Hamlet (1990 film)|Hamlet]]'' (1990)
* ''[[Gosford Park]]'' (2001)
* ''[[The Mothman Prophecies (film)|The Mothman Prophecies]]'' (2002)
* ''[[The Sum of All Fears (film)|The Sum of All Fears]]'' (2002)
}}
'''<big>STAGE:</big>'''{{Main list|Alan Bates, roles and awards#Stage}}
{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|
* ''[[Look Back in Anger]]'' (1956)
* ''[[Long Day's Journey into Night]]'' (1958)
* ''[[The Caretaker (play)|The Caretaker]]'' (1960)
* ''[[Butley (play)|Butley]]'' (1971; 1973)
* ''[[Otherwise Engaged]]'' (1975)
* ''[[A Patriot for Me]]'' (1983)
* ''[[One for the Road (Pinter play)|One for the Road]]'' (1984)
* ''[[Fortune's Fool (1848 play)|Fortune's Fool]]'' (1996; 2002)
}}
'''<big>TELEVISION:</big>'''{{Main list|Alan Bates, roles and awards#Television}}
{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|
* ''[[The Mayor of Casterbridge (TV series)|The Mayor of Casterbridge]]'' (1978)
* ''[[A Voyage Round My Father]]'' (1982)
* ''[[An Englishman Abroad]]'' (1983)
* ''[[The Dog It Was That Died]]'' (1989)
* ''[[102 Boulevard Haussmann]]'' (1991)<sup>‡</sup>
* ''[[Oliver's Travels]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Nicholas' Gift|Nicholas's Gift]]'' (1998)
* ''[[Love in a Cold Climate (2001 TV series)|Love in a Cold Climate]]'' (2001)
}}

<small><sup>‡</sup>This [[mini-film]] was shown as part of a presentation on the [[anthology series]], ''[[Screen Two]]''.</small>

==Accolades==
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==References==
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