Master Higgins, known in Japan as Takahashi Meijin, is a fictional character who is the star of the Adventure Island video game series. In the series, he lives with his lovely wife, Tina, in the wilderness of Adventure Island, where things never get boring. Time and time again, he rescues her from aliens, sorcerers, witch doctors, and simply mean things in general. In the course of the series, Tina didn't appear to be his wife from the start; she was originally described in manuals as his girlfriend, but they (apparently) got married in New Adventure Island right before the next kidnapping. Super Adventure Island 2, the last game in the series as of yet, shows them travel to their eventual honeymoon. It's worth mentioning that the early English manuals changed Tina's name, but it was always the same woman, and this is further shown in-game and in Japanese sources.
He is a slightly pudgy man who wears only a red baseball cap (with the Hudson Soft trademark bee) and a Hawaiian-style grass skirt. He is based off of Toshiyuki Takahashi, the current executive of Hudson Soft.
If he looks familiar it is because he is a doppelganger of Wonder Boy. The main character of the Sega Master System game of the same name, he is identical in everything but name to his NES counterpart. Westone originally developed the game for Sega, but looking to port it to the more popular Nintendo Entertainment System through an arrangement with Hudsonsoft, they simply changed his name to avoid any copyright infringement. Sega countered by uprooting the Wonder Boy franchise from its prehistoric roots to a medieval theme for the second game, Wonder Boy in Monster Land. In this game, and every subsequent Wonder Boy game, the character no longer bore any resemblance to the original Master Higgins character.
Higgins is one of many silent protagonists in the video game world, and rarely speaks to other characters.
He also makes an appearance in a Smash Bros.-like game called DreamMix TV World Fighters (available for the Nintendo GameCube and Sony PlayStation 2) which also features several other companies' characters and products.
Higgins (along with other Hudson Soft characters like Bonk and Milon) appeared in Saturn Bomberman.
He is a slightly pudgy man who wears only a red baseball cap (with the Hudson Soft trademark bee) and a Hawaiian-style grass skirt. He is based off of Toshiyuki Takahashi, the current executive of Hudson Soft.
If he looks familiar it is because he is a doppelganger of Wonder Boy. The main character of the Sega Master System game of the same name, he is identical in everything but name to his NES counterpart. Westone originally developed the game for Sega, but looking to port it to the more popular Nintendo Entertainment System through an arrangement with Hudsonsoft, they simply changed his name to avoid any copyright infringement. Sega countered by uprooting the Wonder Boy franchise from its prehistoric roots to a medieval theme for the second game, Wonder Boy in Monster Land. In this game, and every subsequent Wonder Boy game, the character no longer bore any resemblance to the original Master Higgins character.
Higgins is one of many silent protagonists in the video game world, and rarely speaks to other characters.
He also makes an appearance in a Smash Bros.-like game called DreamMix TV World Fighters (available for the Nintendo GameCube and Sony PlayStation 2) which also features several other companies' characters and products.
Higgins (along with other Hudson Soft characters like Bonk and Milon) appeared in Saturn Bomberman.
Woodside Middle School
Woodside Middle School is a middle school located in Fort Wayne, IN. It's school nickname is the Warriors and its colors are red and white. The school plays basketball, football, track & field, cross country, and wrestling. Its subjects include math, science, social studies, language arts, gym, home ec, skills, industrial ed, art, band, choir, strings, and orchestra. The following is a link to the school website:
Woodside Middle School is a middle school located in Fort Wayne, IN. It's school nickname is the Warriors and its colors are red and white. The school plays basketball, football, track & field, cross country, and wrestling. Its subjects include math, science, social studies, language arts, gym, home ec, skills, industrial ed, art, band, choir, strings, and orchestra. The following is a link to the school website:
Kathryn Grace McCarty (born 10 December 1963) is the Artistic Director of Galatean Players Ensemble Theatre Company, a director of plays and musicals, an American playwright, and author of the recently-published Defining Form and Other Plays. Known for her homespun wit, McCarty is the author of numerous plays, including the critically acclaimed comedy, The Fitting Room.
Biography
Early life
Born in Duluth, Minnesota, she spent her early years in Wisconsin, South Carolina, Washington, DC and the Azores, as her father was in the United States Air Force, before the family settled in Benton, Illinois. McCarty is a direct descendant of John Rutledge (signatore of the US Constitution, US Supreme Court, Governor of South Carolina) who was brother to Edward Rutledge (a signatore of the Declaration of Independence and the Governor of South Carolina). McCarty is proud of her Southern heritage. McCarty's hometown of Benton, Illinois is just south of the Mason-Dixon line, and has also produced actor John Malkovich and Doug Collins of NBA fame both of whom also graduated from BCHS.
Professional life
After completing college at Southern Illinois University, McCarty spent a year at the prestigious McCarter Theatre on the campus of Princeton University before moving to Chicago. While in the Windy City, she worked in the offices of "Forbidden Broadway" and for the Payne Levitt Company at the Royal George Theatre and the Palmer House.
Later in Chicago, she directed the likes of the young Andy Dick, Hope Davis, Tom Lennon.
A life on the road enticed her to travel Europe where she performed in the Broadway Musical Company's West Side Story. Afterwards, she returned to Chicago and worked for Casting Director Cherie Mann before moving to California.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, McCarty, and the rogue thespian Calvin Landis, founded Galatean Players Ensemble Theatre, with original ensemble members Rob Knox, Marty Orton, Andrea Chamberlain, and Shari Oret, later joined by Rachel Hauser (Pergamit) and Brian Pergamit. McCarty has received critical acclaim for her work as a writer, director and actress.
Through Galatean Players, she has fostered the writing talents of several area writers including Craig Brewer (Hustle and Flow, Black Snake Moan), Marci Karr (Making Mary, IO), Lucina Paquet-Gabbard (The Wayward Spirit) and Caroline Altman (The Tower, Whiskers).
As a playwright, McCarty has 17 works produced in theaters throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago and Los Angeles. Drawing heavily on life experience, and a life well and happily lived, she crafts comedy from the darkest of circumstances. "In perspective, it's cathartic laughter in dealing with the subjects that all humans must go through."
Contra Costa theatre critics point out that she writes with a unique comic voice, exploring the pitfalls and triumphs of human nature through laughter and wisdom. Her characters illustrate the eccentricities of every day life.
McCarty is also a passionate educator working in both public and private schools, currently on faculty at Contra Costa College.
Plays
* DEFINING FORM (1997)
* CRICKET ON THE HEARTH (1998) (W/Stewart, Nott, Altman, Karr)
* BREAD BAKING TIME* (1998) (One Act Verse Play)
* HENRY EVER AFTER (1999)
* MODERN WOOLY MAMMOTHS** (2002) (Screenplay)
* THE GARDEN CLUB* (2000)
* FAULTY ANGELS* (2000)
* WHEN WE DANCED (2002)
* STAR POLISHER* (2002)
* VIRGIN SACRIFICES* (2002)
* BESSIE! A Celebration of Bessie Smith (2003)
* NOEL (2003)
* THE LAST HOORAH (2003)
* STRAIGHT LACED: A CANTATA (2004)
* THE LADIES QUINTET (2005)
* ON THE VERGE** 2006 (New Screenplay)
*indicates one-act play
**indicates screenplay
Biography
Early life
Born in Duluth, Minnesota, she spent her early years in Wisconsin, South Carolina, Washington, DC and the Azores, as her father was in the United States Air Force, before the family settled in Benton, Illinois. McCarty is a direct descendant of John Rutledge (signatore of the US Constitution, US Supreme Court, Governor of South Carolina) who was brother to Edward Rutledge (a signatore of the Declaration of Independence and the Governor of South Carolina). McCarty is proud of her Southern heritage. McCarty's hometown of Benton, Illinois is just south of the Mason-Dixon line, and has also produced actor John Malkovich and Doug Collins of NBA fame both of whom also graduated from BCHS.
Professional life
After completing college at Southern Illinois University, McCarty spent a year at the prestigious McCarter Theatre on the campus of Princeton University before moving to Chicago. While in the Windy City, she worked in the offices of "Forbidden Broadway" and for the Payne Levitt Company at the Royal George Theatre and the Palmer House.
Later in Chicago, she directed the likes of the young Andy Dick, Hope Davis, Tom Lennon.
A life on the road enticed her to travel Europe where she performed in the Broadway Musical Company's West Side Story. Afterwards, she returned to Chicago and worked for Casting Director Cherie Mann before moving to California.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, McCarty, and the rogue thespian Calvin Landis, founded Galatean Players Ensemble Theatre, with original ensemble members Rob Knox, Marty Orton, Andrea Chamberlain, and Shari Oret, later joined by Rachel Hauser (Pergamit) and Brian Pergamit. McCarty has received critical acclaim for her work as a writer, director and actress.
Through Galatean Players, she has fostered the writing talents of several area writers including Craig Brewer (Hustle and Flow, Black Snake Moan), Marci Karr (Making Mary, IO), Lucina Paquet-Gabbard (The Wayward Spirit) and Caroline Altman (The Tower, Whiskers).
As a playwright, McCarty has 17 works produced in theaters throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago and Los Angeles. Drawing heavily on life experience, and a life well and happily lived, she crafts comedy from the darkest of circumstances. "In perspective, it's cathartic laughter in dealing with the subjects that all humans must go through."
Contra Costa theatre critics point out that she writes with a unique comic voice, exploring the pitfalls and triumphs of human nature through laughter and wisdom. Her characters illustrate the eccentricities of every day life.
McCarty is also a passionate educator working in both public and private schools, currently on faculty at Contra Costa College.
Plays
* DEFINING FORM (1997)
* CRICKET ON THE HEARTH (1998) (W/Stewart, Nott, Altman, Karr)
* BREAD BAKING TIME* (1998) (One Act Verse Play)
* HENRY EVER AFTER (1999)
* MODERN WOOLY MAMMOTHS** (2002) (Screenplay)
* THE GARDEN CLUB* (2000)
* FAULTY ANGELS* (2000)
* WHEN WE DANCED (2002)
* STAR POLISHER* (2002)
* VIRGIN SACRIFICES* (2002)
* BESSIE! A Celebration of Bessie Smith (2003)
* NOEL (2003)
* THE LAST HOORAH (2003)
* STRAIGHT LACED: A CANTATA (2004)
* THE LADIES QUINTET (2005)
* ON THE VERGE** 2006 (New Screenplay)
*indicates one-act play
**indicates screenplay
Sultan Uddin'is a martial artist, the youngest person and first African-American to achieve Master status under Cabales Serrada Eskrima founder Angel Cabales.
Uddin achieved his Master rank before the age of 21. In 1989, he created the International Eskrima Serrada Association with the blessing of Angel Cabales.
Uddin is recognized as one of the fastest stick-fighters, as well as blade-fighters, in the world. The Supreme Council of Grandmasters in the Philippines has also recognized his skills. He conducted the first workshop and demonstration of Eskrima Serrada in Pangasinan, Philippines and was acknowledged by the Philippines Sports Commission.
He also studied Capoeira with some of the most notable Mestres such as:
*Mestre Di Mola, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
*Mestre Cesar Carneiro, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil/S.F.Ca.
*Mestre Zambi, Sao Paulo, Brazil
*James Hundon
Honors, Ranks, & Awards
Uddin is the Weapons Director and West-Coast representative for the Kifaru Jitsu system under Stanford McNeal, Sr. On March 25, 2000, he was inducted into The World Martial Arts Hall of Fame and was nominated for the Outstanding Martial Artist 21st Century Sports Award. On March 23, 2001 Uddin received a Referee Certification from Stanford McNeal Sr., Chairman Referee’s Committee.
On September 20, 2001, he was commissioned as an honorary Kentucky Colonel by Governor Paul E. Patton, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the highest honor afforded by the State. Secretary of State John Y. Brown III also signed this certificate.
TV and Movies
Uddin has applied his skills and talent to the big screen, making an uncredited appearance as one of two “Reptile” characters in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997), and choreographing fight sequences that demonstrate Eskrima Serrada and African martial arts culture in that same film.
He made several guest appearances in the 2000 television series Mortal Kombat: Conquest as Noob Saibot, and a Shadow Priest. His movements were motion-captured for the video game Mortal Kombat 4 which were used for the character of Kai.
Trivia
*Uddin is a member of the Screen Actors Guild.
*He enjoys restoring and racing classic cars.
*He currently makes his home in Beverly Hills, California.
Uddin achieved his Master rank before the age of 21. In 1989, he created the International Eskrima Serrada Association with the blessing of Angel Cabales.
Uddin is recognized as one of the fastest stick-fighters, as well as blade-fighters, in the world. The Supreme Council of Grandmasters in the Philippines has also recognized his skills. He conducted the first workshop and demonstration of Eskrima Serrada in Pangasinan, Philippines and was acknowledged by the Philippines Sports Commission.
He also studied Capoeira with some of the most notable Mestres such as:
*Mestre Di Mola, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
*Mestre Cesar Carneiro, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil/S.F.Ca.
*Mestre Zambi, Sao Paulo, Brazil
*James Hundon
Honors, Ranks, & Awards
Uddin is the Weapons Director and West-Coast representative for the Kifaru Jitsu system under Stanford McNeal, Sr. On March 25, 2000, he was inducted into The World Martial Arts Hall of Fame and was nominated for the Outstanding Martial Artist 21st Century Sports Award. On March 23, 2001 Uddin received a Referee Certification from Stanford McNeal Sr., Chairman Referee’s Committee.
On September 20, 2001, he was commissioned as an honorary Kentucky Colonel by Governor Paul E. Patton, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the highest honor afforded by the State. Secretary of State John Y. Brown III also signed this certificate.
TV and Movies
Uddin has applied his skills and talent to the big screen, making an uncredited appearance as one of two “Reptile” characters in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997), and choreographing fight sequences that demonstrate Eskrima Serrada and African martial arts culture in that same film.
He made several guest appearances in the 2000 television series Mortal Kombat: Conquest as Noob Saibot, and a Shadow Priest. His movements were motion-captured for the video game Mortal Kombat 4 which were used for the character of Kai.
Trivia
*Uddin is a member of the Screen Actors Guild.
*He enjoys restoring and racing classic cars.
*He currently makes his home in Beverly Hills, California.