Jack Baker
Overview
John Anthony Bailey also known as Jack Baker, was an American
United States
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 actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

, writer
Writer
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 and pornographic actor
Pornographic actor
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.
Born in Ohio
Ohio
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, Bailey lived in San Francisco
San Francisco, California
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, California
California
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 during the early 1970s where he attended Merritt College
Merritt College
Merritt College is a two-year community college located in the Oakland Hills in Alameda County, California. The school's enrollment is approximately 6,000 students. The college is named after physician Dr...

 in Oakland
Oakland, California
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 and performed in numerous stage and film productions. His performances included Richard Wesley
Richard Wesley
Richard Wesley is an African American playwright, and screenwriter for television and cinema. He is an associate professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he is presently the chair of the Rita and Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing.Wesley was born in Newark, New...

's The Black Terror, for John Cochran's Black Repertory West, J. E. Franklin's Black Girl with Adilah Barnes, work with the improvisational theatre
Improvisational theatre
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 group, The Pitschel Players, and appearances with other San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area
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 theater companies.
Quotations

The political situation starts to cool a little, but then we get the Ashcroft news and the market freaks out.

There's going to be nervousness for the next few weeks. From an historical perspective, September tends to be one of the worst months. In addition, you have a lot of people moving off to the sidelines ahead of September 11.

It's like a vicious cycle. How the hell could you turn around and be a buyer with all of this stuff going on?

 
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