Angelo Serafini
Vincent Irizarry as David Chow (2007)
The Young and the Restless
Portrayed by	Vincent Irizarry
First appearance	Episode 8553 January 9, 2007
Last appearance	Episode 8950 August 1, 2008
Created by	Lynn Marie Latham
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Nickname(s)	Davey (by Neil Winters) Dave (by Brad Carlton)
Aliases	Angelo Serafini (birthname) Clark
Gender	Male
Date of birth	1968
Date of death	Monday, July 28, 2008 (car crash/murdered by Walter)
Age	40
Occupation	Co-CEO of Jabot Cosmetics
Residence	Genoa City, Wisconsin
[show]Relationships Spouse(s) Terri Chow (1st wife; deceased) Angela Perkins (2nd wife; deceased) Elizabeth Hartford (3rd wife; divorced) Nikki Newman (married at death; 2008) Romances Carmen Mesta (ex-lover) Children Mina King (ex-stepdaughter; deceased)

David John Chow (born Angelo Serafini) was a fictional character in the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, portrayed by actor Vincent Irizarry from January 9, 2007 to August 1, 2008.

[edit] Character biography

David Chow is a savvy political operative who arrived in Genoa City seeking to avenge the murder of his former fiancée, Carmen Mesta. He quickly zeroed in on Drucilla Winters and Devon Hamilton as the chief suspects in Carmen’s murder. He had a tape of an angry confrontation between Dru and his former fiancée, which he released to the press that put Dru’s name at the top of the suspect list. David waged an ugly campaign to drive Dru crazy by hiring a Carmen look-a-like (her cousin, Ines) to appear around town for only Dru to see, which worked until Neil saw her as well.

[edit] Senate Campaigns

Meanwhile, Victor Newman made David a lucrative offer to work on Jack Abbott‘s campaign for state senator. After David released a video of Jack’s opposition (and Victor’s then-wife) Nikki stripping in order to make her look bad to the public, Jack and Victor fired him. Nikki saw this as an opportunity to get him to work for her, and she then had two campaign managers in the forms of David and Karen Taylor. Working with Nikki, David got to know her better and continued to support her, especially after her son Nicholas allegedly died. The pair then shared a kiss, which Victor, unfortunately, saw.

This added to Victor and Nikki’s marital problems, even after they found out that Nicholas was still alive. Victor, Victoria, and Nick later caught Nikki and David leaving the Athletic Club after it caught on fire. Later still, when Victoria was comatose, Nikki insisted that she and David end their relationship, but the pair could not keep away from each other. Nobody is quite sure if David really loves Nikki, or if he is using her to get to her money, though he has professed time and time again that he loves Nikki (both to his loan shark and to Nikki herself). He has, however, told Walter he’s planning a hit and attempted to poison Nikki with a glass of sparkling cider.

[edit] Dark Past

David has had a severe gambling addiction for years. He owed money to a man named Walter Palin, a loan shark, who seems to be the only one that knows about David’s “Clark” identity. After getting into a fist-fight with Walter at a restaurant, he had to tell a shocked Nikki the truth, altering their relationship to a lethal point. Nikki eventually decided to forgive him. His debt was paid off by Nikki and he presumably wanted to win back her trust and gain notoriety as an upstanding executive at Jabot Cosmetics.

In late May 2008 Paul Williams discovered that David had been married three times prior to his union with Nikki. As part of his investigation Paul flew to Bermuda to meet with David’s third ex-wife, Elizabeth “Bitsy” Hartford, who shared her suspicions about David: his previous wives—all wealthy women—had met with untimely, suspicious ends. Once back in Genoa City, Paul met with Mina King, the daughter of David’s former spouse Angela Perkins. Mina, convinced that David murdered her mother, told Paul that her stepfather convinced Angela to cut her out of the will entirely, leaving David the sole beneficiary. Paul later confronted David with this information, but David denied the allegation, stating that Mina was cut from the will due to her addiction to cocaine. Eventually, David had no choice but to tell Nikki about Paul’s investigation and the reasons why anyone would think he had killed his ex-wives.

David explained how he had met Terri, his first wife, in college. (NOTE: David’s first wife was originally referred to as “Jeanette” by Paul, although this seems to have been retconnected.) Together, David and Terri traveled the world on humanitarian missions–going from Cambodia to Africa, andescelate until so-on. At times they also shared “dark times,” where Terri was unable to get out of bed due to heavy sleeping medication. Eventually, Terri died due to an overdose of sleeping pills. Fortunately for David, he was never charged for her murder, although the accusation that he had anything to do with it has left him scarred. According to David, his second wife–Angela–was a hedonist who loved fast cars and flying. At the time of their marriage David’s gambling addiction was out of control, and the couple would fight often. One night, following a heated argument, Angela stormed out and, unfortunately, wrapped her car around a telephone pole soon thereafter. David also told Nikki about Angela’s daughter, Mina, and how she accused David of her mother’s death while at the funeral. Next, David revealed how he met his third wife, Elizabeth, at a congressional fundraiser, and how she eventually offered him a job at Granville Global. Nikki asked what went wrong with that marriage, and David answered that she suffered from extreme paranoia–physically attacking him when he got home from work because he was “having an affair”, accusing him of spying, etc. Once David and Elizabeth separated, David started his affair with Carmen. Elizabeth, like Mina, accused David of killing his ex-wives, forcing him to finally seek a divorce. ^[1]

Nikki seemed to accept David’s explanation, but was called away suddenly when she received a phone call about an important legal action concerning Jabot Cosmetics. Later, she accused Paul of overstepping, and demanded that he cease his investigation.

As of June 2008 David’s debts were starting to build up once more, forcing him to seek a loan from Walter after losing $40,000 in a horse race. His gambling habits continued to escalate until finally he demanded a divorce from Nikki because he feared that he would gamble away her money just as he had with his ex-wives’. Soon thereafter, while on a business trip, he met with Walter in Las Vegas at a casino. While there it was revealed that David, acting on Walter’s behalf, played a part in the death of Ji Min Kim. It was also revealed a few weeks later that Mina King died under suspicious circumstances. In mid-July 2008 detective Paul Williams discovered that David Chow’s real name was Angelo Sarafini, and that he was a hit man for the mob.

Nikki, after having learned about another lie of David’s, told him it’s over, but they both agreed to announce their separation after the Charity Ball gala that was being held in Genoa City. David ordered a vial of liquid morphine and poured it in Nikki’s drink, intending to kill her, but he never saw his plan develop because she was rescued by Paul and J.T. Later that night, David was killed in a car accident orchestrated by Walter Palin. David reappeared once in Nikki’s dream.

Melody Thomas Scott
Melody Thomas Scott in 2007. Photo credit to JPI Studios
Born	Melody Ann Thomas April 18, 1956 (1956-04-18) (age 52) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Edward J. Scott

Melody Thomas Scott (born April 18, 1956 in Los Angeles, California) is an Emmy Award-nominated American actress best known for playing Nikki Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless.^[1]

Her first film credit was as a child actress^[1] in the 1964 Alfred Hitchcock movie Marnie. After bit parts in movies the mid-’70s ( most notably in John Wayne’s final film The Shootist in 1976), she was offered bit parts on nighttime series such as The Waltons, The Rockford Files, and Charlie’s Angels.

In 1979, at the age of 23,^[1] she began playing the part of stripper Nikki Reed on the daytime serial The Young and the Restless, choosing the part over a sitcom pilot that in the end was not picked up.^[1] She was a replacement for the previous Nikki, who had lasted six months.^[1] Over time, her character reformed and became an important part of Genoa City society, as she married Victor Newman (Eric Braeden). Thomas Scott has said, “It’s a miracle for an actor to have a job last 28 years,” although she finds it frustrating to go through periods when she doesn’t have a storyline.^[1]

Thomas Scott was parodied in the satire publication The Onion in 1999, in which a picture was edited to show her holding a Daytime Emmy (that year, Susan Lucci won the Emmy after 19 nominations). The caption read: “Awards Given Out Randomly To Skinny Blonde Women“.

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[edit] Personal life

She has been married to the supervising producer of Y&R, Edward J. Scott,^[1] since October 1985. The couple, who have three daughters, Elizabeth, Alexandra, and Jennifer,^[1] renewed their vows in an elaborate ceremony that doubled as their 20th wedding anniversary in June 2005.

Thomas Scott has said that her closest friend on the set is Sharon Case.^[1]

Scott was one of the original board members of the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Jamestown, New York. She resigned in protest of the Center’s behavior under its Executive Director Ric Wyman, on July 17, 2008.^[2] (See also SaveLucyDesiCenter.org.)

[edit] Roles

• Dirty Harry – Ann Mary Deacon [photographs] (uncredited) (1971)
• The Young And The Restless – Nikki Reed Newman (February 1979 – Present)
• Posse – Laurie (1975)
• The Beguiled – Abigail (1971)
• Marnie – Young Marnie (1964)
• Piranha – Laura Dickinson (1978)
• The Car – Girl on bike (1977)
• The Paradise Virus (written by Peter Layton, co-starring Lorenzo Lamas, and directed and produced by Brian Trenchard-Smith)

[edit] Awards and nominations

• Daytime Emmys Nomination, Outstanding Lead Actress (1999)
• Daytime Emmys Pre-Nomination, Outstanding Lead Actress (2005, 2008)

[edit] See also

• Victor Newman and Nikki Reed
• Supercouple

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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Song #21 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time is called Born to Run, written by Bruce Springsteen and performed Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

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Born to Run (song)

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“Born to Run”
Single by Bruce Springsteen from the album Born to Run
Released	August 25, 1975
Format	7″
Recorded	914 Sound Studios Blauvelt, New York up to August 6, 1974
Genre	Rock
Length	4:30
Label	CBS Records
Producer	Bruce Springsteen Mike Appel
Bruce Springsteen singles chronology
Spirit in the Night (1973) Born to Run/Meeting Across the River (1975) Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out/She’s the One (1976)

“Born to Run” is the signature song of the American singer songwriter Bruce Springsteen, and the title song of his album Born to Run.

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[edit] Songwriting

Written in a small house in Long Branch, New Jersey in early 1974, the song was Bruce Springsteen’s last-ditch effort to make it big. The prior year, Springsteen had released two albums to critical acclaim but with little commercial success. The lyrics to the song are appropriately epic for his last-ditch, all-or-nothing shot at the stars, yet they remain rooted in the universal desperation of adolescence: We gotta get out while we’re young, ’cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.

Written in the first person, the song is a love letter to a girl named Wendy (Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend I wanna guard your dreams and visions…; I wanna die with you Wendy on the streets tonight/in an everlasting kiss!), for whom the motorcycle-riding protagonist certainly has enough passion to love, but perhaps not the patience. However, Springsteen has noted that it has a much simpler core: getting out of Asbury Park.

In his 1996 book Songs, Springsteen relates that while the beginning of the song was written on guitar around the opening riff, the song’s writing was finished on piano, the instrument that most of the Born to Run album was composed on.

In the period prior to the release of Born to Run Springsteen was becoming well-known (especially in his native northeast) for his epic live shows. “Born to Run” joined his concert repertoire well before the release of the album, being performed in concert by May 1974 if not earlier.

[edit] Recording

In recording the song, Springsteen first earned his noted reputation for perfectionism, laying down as many as eleven guitar tracks to get the sound just right. The recording process and alternate ideas for the song’s arrangement are described in the Wings For Wheels documentary DVD included in the 2005 reissue Born to Run 30th Anniversary Edition package.

The track was recorded at 914 Sound Studios in Blauvelt, New York amidst touring breaks during 1974, with final recording done on August 6, well in advance of the rest of the album, and featured Ernest “Boom” Carter on the drums and David Sancious on keyboards; they would be replaced by Max Weinberg and Roy Bittan for the rest of the album and in the ongoing E Street Band (which was still uncredited on Springsteen’s records at the time). The song was also recorded with only Springsteen and Mike Appel as producers; it would be later in the following year, when work on the album bogged down, that Jon Landau was brought in as an additional producer.

A pre-release version of the song, with a slightly different mix, was given by Appel to disc jockey Ed Sciaky of WMMR in Philadelphia in early November 1974, and within a couple of weeks was given to other progressive rock radio outlets as well, including WNEW-FM in New York, WMMS-FM in Cleveland, WBCN in Boston, and WVBR in Ithaca, New York. It immediately became quite popular on these stations, and led to cuts from Springsteen’s first two albums being frequently played as well as building anticipation for the album release.

Upon release in August 1975, the song and the album became unparalleled successes for Springsteen, springing him into stardom, and resulting in simultaneous cover stories in Time and Newsweek magazines.

[edit] Honors and accolades

In 2004, “Born to Run” was ranked #6 in WXPN’s list of The 885 All-Time Greatest Songs. Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time placed it at #21, while the song came in at #920 in Q’s list of the “1001 Greatest Songs Ever” in 2003, in which they described the song as “best for working class heroes.” It is one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In 2001 the RIAA‘s Songs of the Century placed the song 135th (out of 365). It was ranked the #1 greatest song of all time on Vh1‘s recent Top 1000 Songs Of All Time countdown.

On June 12, 1979, “Born to Run” was named New Jersey’s “Unofficial Youth Rock Anthem” by the New Jersey State Legislature, something Springsteen always considered ironic because it was “about leaving Jersey.”

[edit] Track listing

1. Born to Run – 4:31
2. Meeting Across the River – 3:18

The B-side was simply another cut from the album; Springsteen would not begin releasing unused tracks as B-sides until 1980.

[edit] Chart performance

“Born to Run” was Springsteen’s first world-wide single release, although it achieved little initial success outside of the United States.

Within the U.S. it received extensive airplay on progressive and album-oriented rock radio stations, but as a pop single it was only a minor hit, reaching #23 on the The Billboard Hot 100. ^[1]

[edit] Live performance history

House lights on for a typical performance of “Born to Run”. Hartford Civic Center, October 2, 2007.

The song has been played at nearly every non-solo Springsteen concert since 1975 (although it was not included in the 2006 Sessions Band Tour). Most of the time the house lights are turned fully on and fans consistently sing along with Springsteen’s signature wordless vocalizations throughout the song’s performance.

The song has also been released in live versions on five albums or DVDs:

• A 1975 Born to Run Tour rendition on Hammersmith Odeon London ’75, released in 2006;
• A 1985 Born in the U.S.A. Tour runthrough on Live/1975-85, released in 1986;
• A starkly different 1988 solo acoustic guitar performance from the Tunnel of Love Express on Chimes of Freedom, a 1988 EP;
• A 2000 E-United Tour version on Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band: Live In New York City, released in 2001 (the song closes disc one but does not appear on the track listing of the album cover);
• A 2002 Rising Tour take on the Live in Barcelona DVD, released in 2003.

[edit] Music videos

“Born to Run” predates the music video era and no film or video clip was made of it at the time.

In 1987 a video was released to MTV and other channels, featuring a live performance of “Born to Run” from Springsteen and the E Street Band’s 1984-1985 Born in the U.S.A. Tour, with the video interspersed with clips from other songs’ performances from that tour as well. It closed with a “Thank you” graphic to Springsteen’s fans.

In 1988 director Meiert Avis shot a video of an acoustic version of the song during the Tunnel of Love Express tour.

Both videos are included in the compilations:

• Video Anthology / 1978-88
• The Complete Video Anthology / 1978-2000

[edit] Cultural references

In 1999, National Public Radio included the song in the “NPR 100,” in which NPR’s music editors sought to compile the one hundred most important American musical works of the 20th century.

The children’s show Sesame Street featured a song about arithmetic called “Born To Add”, sung by a Springsteen-like Muppet. Its background music, however, sounded more like Springsteen’s “Jungleland”, though it did feature a “Born to Run”-ish saxophone solo. The British comedy program Spitting Image once featured a Bruce Springsteen puppet singing a parody entitled “Born To Teach Woodwork”.

In the Japanese novel Battle Royale, the main character Shuya Nanahara is a Bruce Springsteen fanatic, despite the fictional Republic of East Asia’s ban on rock music. The lyrics to “Born to Run” are quoted a few times in the book, as Shuya applies them to his own need to get out of Japan, down to singing them, replacing Wendy with his Noriko, in the very closing of the book. They also appear in the opening quotes of the book.

In an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Joel Robinson chides Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot for teaching Gypsy some racy lyrics (“Just wrap your legs ’round these velvet rims / and strap your hands across my engines”) from “Born to Run”.

In “Long Term Parking”, an episode of The Sopranos, Tony Soprano and Silvio Dante are waiting for Christopher Moltisanti to arrive; when he shows up late he explains that “the highway was jammed with broken heroes on a last-chance power drive,” quoting the lyrics to “Born to Run”. Dante is played by E Street bandmate Steven Van Zandt.

Melissa Etheridge sang “Born to Run” at the September 11th benefit The Concert for New York City. Australian band Something for Kate are known to perform a cover of “Born to Run” at frequent live performances. British band Frankie Goes to Hollywood covered the song on their album Welcome to the Pleasuredome. British band McFly also performed the song for BBC Radio 1′s Live Lounge on the 10th of December 2007.

In one strip of Zits, Jeremy Duncan’s father, Walt, sings the song while washing his car, wearing flip-flops and his boxers.

Comedian Robert Wuhl discussed and performed parts of this song in his act inquiring as to whether a song with the phrases ‘suicide machine’ and ‘we gotta get out (of New Jersey?) while we’re young’ was appropriate for a state anthem.

[edit] External links

• “‘Born to Run’ review”, AllMusic.
• Lyrics & Audio clips from Brucespringsteen.net

Ian Andrew Schneider
August 16, 2008

Revised and extended July 4, 2009]

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