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Michele Rech (Italian: [miˈkɛːle ˈrɛk]; born 12 December 1983), known as Zerocalcare ([ˌdzɛrokalˈkaːre]), is an Italian cartoonist. His pen name, meaning "zero limescale", is based from a TV commercial jingle for a descaler product that came to his mind when he had to quickly come up with a Internet nickname.
Rech was born in Cortona, Tuscany, Italy, to an Italian father from Rome and a French mother. He was raised in France and later in Rome (Rebibbia-Ponte Mammolo area), where he graduated at the Lycée français Chateaubriand. In 2003, at the age of 20, he began working as an illustrator for several newspapers. At the same time, he worked on a webcomic for Zuda Comics, the online division of DC Comics. In 2004 he created a comic about the 2001 G8 summit protests in which he took part.
He published his first graphic novel, The Armadillo Prophecy, in October 2011 and in November he created zerocalcare.it, a website where he published autobiographical comic strips. In September 2012, the blog won the Macchianera Award as 'Best draftsman-Cartoonist' and the Gran Guinigi Award at Lucca Comics for best short story with The Armadillo Prophecy.
In April 2016, his fourth graphic novel Kobane Calling: Greetings from Northern Syria was published. The work had been previously published in 'Internazionale' and focused on the conflict between the Kurds and the Islamic State. Kobane Calling won the Micheluzzi Award as best cartoon at Naples Comicon, 2017. The same year, he was invited to attend San Diego Comic Con following the English release of Kobane Calling, but only obtained his US Visa last minute, due to his travels to Rojava.
On September 2018 a live-action adaptation of The Armadillo Prophecy was released. In November, the MAXXI museum of Rome hosted an exhibition of his works, titled Zerocalcare: Scavare fossati, Nutrire coccodrilli, which lasted until March of 2019. The same month a theatrical adaptation of Kobane Calling debuted at Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, during the Lucca Comics & Games, and toured Italy as part of the 2019/2020 theatre season. In 2020 he gained further exposure thanks to his animated short series "Rebibbia Quarantine", broadcast on LA7 inside the variety show Propaganda Live during lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.
On December 2020 he announced that he would be creating an animated series for Netflix titled Tear Along the Dotted Line. The show premiered on 18 October 2021 at the Rome Film Festival. On 16 November, Ablaze Publishing announced that they would be releasing English translations of Zerocalcare's first three graphic novels, The Armadillo Prophecy (2011), Tentacles At My Throat (2012) and Forget My Name (2014). Tear Along the Dotted Line was released on Netflix on 17 November 2021 to positive reviews. A follow-up, titled This World Won't Tear Me Down, was released on 9 June 2023.
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Chieko Shiratori
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Born in Yokohama , Kanagawa Prefecture. Graduated from Yokohama Municipal Ushioda Junior High School . Special skills include kendo, swimming, and calligraphy .
She made her debut in the movie "The Cherry Orchard". Initially, she focused on gravure modeling , and made one-off guest appearances in dramas. In 1994, she was chosen as the campaign girl for Suntory's beer-based Happoshu, due her outstanding proportions with beautiful large breasts, and her activities began to take off. Soon she began to actively expose her voluptuous body in movies, TV shows and photo books, and even published a photo book with her pubic hair nude. Following the release of her last photobook Sirene, she suddenly disappeared from the media, and her whereabouts were the focus of attention, but a few years later, in an interview, she revealed that she had become pregnant with the child of a man she had been dating since graduating from high school with the intention of marrying him, so she registered her marriage with him and gave birth to a boy, and that she would like to gradually start working again in the future, but this never happened.
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Sean Connery
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 – October 31, 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer. He won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award. Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films (every film from Dr. No to You Only Live Twice, plus Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again), between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His films also include Marnie (1964), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000).
Connery was polled in a 2004 The Sunday Herald as "The Greatest Living Scot" and in a 2011 EuroMillions survey as "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". He was voted by People magazine as both the “Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century” in 1999. He received a lifetime achievement award in the United States with a Kennedy Center Honor in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama.
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Sergio Busquets
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A one-club man, he arrived in Barcelona's first team in July 2008, and eventually made a name for himself in a relatively short period of time. He reached the Spain national team less than one year after making his senior club debut.
Busquets helped Spain win the 2010 World Cup and the Euro 2012 tournaments. He also represented the nation at two other World Cups and Euro 2016.
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Mohamed Henedi
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Mohamed Henedy [Arabic: محمد هنيدى] is an Egyptian comedy actor born in Giza, Egypt, on 1 February 1965 and has gained a cinematic bachelor's degree.
Henedi started his career in 1991 in short appearances in theaters and cinemas, and he achieved huge success in his two films Esma'eleya Rayeh Gaii and Sa'ede Fel Gam'a Al Amrekya. He later starred in the movies Hamam fi Amesterdam, Belya we Demagho el Alya, Saheb Sahbo and Andaleeb Al Dokki. Mohamed Henedi also dubbed the voices of Timon, Mike Wazowski and Homer Simpson for the Egyptian versions of The Lion King, Monsters, Inc., and The Simpsons respectively. After acting in many Egyptian movies, he is famous all over the Arabic world.
Yasmine El-Reshidi, of The Wall Street Journal, said that Henedi was "considered the Robert De Niro of the Middle East."
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Anasuya Bharadwaj
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Anasuya Bharadwaj (born May 15, 1985) is an Indian actress and television presenter who works predominantly in Telugu cinema. After working as a news presenter and television host, she made her formal feature film acting debut in *Soggade Chinni Nayana* (2016), followed that same year by *Kshanam* (2016), which won her the IIFA Utsavam Award for Best Supporting Actress – Telugu.
Bharadwaj gained wider recognition for her performance in the period action drama *Rangasthalam* (2018), winning the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – Telugu and the SIIMA Award for Best Supporting Actress – Telugu. Her subsequent releases included *Yatra* (2019), *F2: Fun and Frustration* (2019), *Thank You Brother!* (2021), and *Pushpa: The Rise* (2021).
In 2022, she made her Malayalam cinema debut in *Bheeshma Parvam*, alongside roles in *Khiladi* and *GodFather*. She later appeared in *Rangamarthanda* (2023), *Vimanam* (2023), *Peddha Kapu 1* (2023), *Razakar – The Silent Genocide of Hyderabad* (2024), and reprised her role in *Pushpa 2: The Rule* (2024).
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Mohamed Fawzi
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Mohamed Fawzi (1918-1966) is one of the most famous Egyptian singers of the 20th century. He also worked as a music composer, actor and producer. Fawzy was born in 1918 in the village of Kafr Abu Gendy in the center of the Tanta Governorate and finished his schooling in Tanta ing in Tanta in 1931. His interest in music started while he was still in elementary school, during which time he began training with Mohamed El Kharbatly, who brought Fawzy along to sing at weddings and other celebrations. He was deeply influenced by the music of Om Kulthoum and Mohammed Abdel Wahab and would sing their songs for the people at Al Montazah Park in Alexandria and during the Mawlid of Said El Bedawi. Fawzy’s songs have been included in many films and performed by many of the great actors of his age including Mohammed Abdel Motelib, Leila Murad, Hoda Soltan (Fawzy’s sister) and others. He also composed the melody for the Algerian national anthem.
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Haifa Wehbe
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Haifa Wehbe (born 1974 in Mahrouna, Lebanon), is a Lebanese model, actress, and singer born to a Lebanese father and Egyptian mother who rose to fame in the Arab world as runner up for Miss Lebanon and later through the release of her debut album Houwa El-Zaman in 2002. She is known through her music for her sex appeal, provocative mannerisms and image. She has so far released four studio albums and made her acting debut in 2008 Pepsi-produced film Sea of Stars. Wehbe is one of the most well-known female singers in the Arab World and is considered one of the most successful Lebanese singers. In 2006, she was on People Magazine's 50 most beautiful people list.
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Leonid Kuravlyov
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Soviet and Russian film actor. He became a People’s Artist of the RSFSR in 1976.
Kuravlyov was born in Moscow into a working-class family. His father Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Kuravlyov (1909–1979) worked as a locksmith at the Salyut Machine-Building Association and his mother Valentina Dmitriyevna Kuravlyova (1916–1993) was a hairdresser. In 1941 with the start of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union (known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War) his mother was arrested on false report, accused of counter-revolutionary activity (Article 58) and exiled to Karaganda, Kazakh SSR to work at the local plant. In five years she was freed without a right to live in Moscow and sent to Zasheyek, Murmansk Oblast in the Russian far north where she continued working as a hairdresser. In 1948 she managed to get a permission to see her son who spent a year with her at Zasheyek, and in 1951 she finally returned to Moscow.
In 1955 Kuravlyov entered VGIK to study acting under Boris Bibikov. He graduated in 1960 and joined the Theater Studio of Film Actors. He made his first movie appearances while still a student. In 1960 he was noted by Vasily Shukshin and took part in his diploma film Reported From Lebyazhye. In 1961 they both starred in the popular melodrama When the Trees Were Tall, and in 1964 Shukshin gave him the leading role in his comedy movie There Is Such a Lad which brought Kuravlyov true fame and which he considered to be the start of his successful movie career. He also acted in Your Son and Brother (1965) and felt so grateful for what the director did for him that he later named his son after Shukshin.
The role of Shura Balaganov in Mikhail Schweitzer’s comedy The Little Golden Calf based on the book by Ilf and Petrov was one of his first successful roles: he managed to create an image of a brash yet charming petty thief. His other notable roles of that period include Khoma Brut in one of the first Soviet horror movies Viy (1967), antagonist Sorokin in a psychological melodrama Not Under the Jurisdiction (1969), Robinson Crusoe in Stanislav Govorukhin’s Life and Amazing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1972), a Nazi officer Kurt Eismann in Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) and Lavr Mironovich in Pyotr Todorovsky’s The Last Victim (1975).
In the 1970s he appeared in three to four films per year. Even though Kuravlyov was adept at playing serious dramatic roles, he is still best known for his leading roles in top-grossing comedy movies such as Afonya (1975) by Georgiy Daneliya (11th highest-grossing Soviet film, highest grossing film of the year, 62.2 mln viewers), Leonid Gaidai’s Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973, 17th highest-grossing film, 60 mln viewers) and It Can’t Be! (1975, 46th highest-grossing film with 46.9 mln viewers), The Most Charming and Attractive (1985) by Gerald Bezhanov (the highest-grossing film of 1985, 44.9 mln viewers) and others.
During the late 1990s he hosted a popular TV programme The World of Books with Leonid Kuravlyov where he talked about new book releases. In two years it was closed and then relaunched with new hosts. In 2012 he was awarded the IV class Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”.
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Alla Pugacheva
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Alla Pugacheva, born on April 15, 1949, in Moscow, is a legendary Russian singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen of Soviet Pop Music," she gained fame with the 1975 hit "Harlequin" and has since become an iconic figure in Russian music. Her powerful voice and emotional performances have made songs like "Million Roses" classics. In recent years, Pugacheva remains influential in the music industry, mentoring young artists and making occasional public appearances. Despite her semi-retirement, she continues to be celebrated for her enduring contributions to Russian culture and entertainment.
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