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Winsor McCay
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Zenas Winsor McCay (c. 1866–71 – July 26, 1934) was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip Little Nemo (1905–14; 1924–26) and the animated film Gertie the Dinosaur (1914). For contractual reasons, he worked under the pen name Silas on the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend.
McCay was an early animation pioneer; between 1911 and 1921 he self-financed and animated ten films, some of which survive only as fragments. The first three served in his vaudeville act; Gertie the Dinosaur was an interactive routine in which McCay appeared to give orders to a trained dinosaur. McCay and his assistants worked for twenty-two months on his most ambitious film, The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918), a patriotic recreation of the German torpedoing in 1915 of the RMS Lusitania. Lusitania did not enjoy as much commercial success as the earlier films, and McCay's later movies attracted little attention. His animation, vaudeville, and comic strip work was gradually curtailed as newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, his employer since 1911, expected McCay to devote his energies to editorial illustrations.
In his drawing, McCay made bold, prodigious use of linear perspective, particularly in detailed architecture and cityscapes. He textured his editorial cartoons with copious fine hatching, and made color a central element in Little Nemo. His comic strip work has influenced generations of cartoonists and illustrators. The technical level of McCay's animation—its naturalism, smoothness, and scale—was unmatched until the work of Fleischer Studios in the late 1920s, followed by Walt Disney's feature films in the 1930s. He pioneered inbetweening, the use of registration marks, cycling, and other animation techniques that were to become standard.
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Rachel Perkins
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Rachel Perkins is an Australian film and television director, producer, and screenwriter. Her Australian Aboriginal heritage (Arrernte/Kalkadoon) has informed her entire filmmaking career. She founded Australia's premier Indigenous production company Blackfella Films in 1992, and has contributed extensively to the development of Indigenous filmmakers in Australia and, more broadly, to the Australian film and television industry. She is known for her films Radiance (1998), One Night the Moon (2001), Bran Nue Dae (2010), and Jasper Jones (2017).
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Michele Foresta
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Dopo aver aver ottenuto il diploma di Ragioniere e Perito Commerciale, si trasferisce a Milano, dove frequenta una scuola di mimo e teatro. Ingaggiato dalla compagnia "On the Road", si esibisce in molti cabaret milanesi per passare poi a Londra e Parigi. È in questo periodo che crea il suo personaggio, quello appunto del Mago Forest (chiamato anche Mr. Forest), indegno erede dei maghi Silvan ed Houdini. Notato da Renzo Arbore, nel 1988 egli partecipa alla trasmissione Indietro tutta!, suo primo approccio come intrattenitore televisivo. Inizia poi un rapporto lavorativo col conterraneo Nino Frassica, insieme al quale presenterà Acqua calda, La grande sfida e I cervelloni. Nel 1991 partecipa come intrattenitore alla 1ª edizione di Scommettiamo che...? assieme a Nino Frassica, protagonisti di alcune parodie. Nel 1990–93 lavora nei panni di un malato dell'ospedale nel cast della serie che vede come protagonista Cristina D'Avena, nel 1996 comincia a farsi chiamare Mr. Forest o Mago Forest e partecipa alla prima edizione del Seven Show. Con Frassica, Foresta scrive il libro comico Come diventare maghi in 15 minuti, che lo rende popolare al grande pubblico: la partecipazione prima al Seven Show e poi a Zelig (di cui detiene il record di presenze, essendo stato ospite fisso sia con Simona Ventura che con Claudio Bisio) dal 1997 al 2001, accentuerà la sua popolarità. Dopo alcune apparizioni al Maurizio Costanzo Show nel 1999, è l'attore protagonista in alcune rappresentazioni teatrali come Snaporaz-Fellini (in cui interpreta Mandrake) e Cos'ha Copperfield che io non ho, di cui è anche regista. Dal 2001 al 2009 viene scelto dalla Gialappa's band per condurre Mai dire Grande Fratello, Mai dire domenica, Mai dire Iene, Mai dire Lunedi, Mai dire Grande Fratello & Figli, Mai dire Candid, Mai dire Grande Fratello Show. Nell'estate del 2006, presenta il Festivalbar insieme a Cristina Chiabotto ed Ilary Blasi. Dal 23 gennaio 2007 ha condotto il programma Mai dire Martedì, con la Gialappa's band. A settembre invece ha condotto la trasmissione Mai dire Candid, con Ilary Blasi. Al Festival di Sanremo 2008 ha "duettato" in coppia con il cantautore Tricarico, illustrandone visivamente la canzone Vita tranquilla. Nel 2008 ha lavorato alla sit-com Taglia e cuci in coppia con Giovanni Cacioppo in onda sul canale satellitare Fox. Nel 2010 torna a lavorare, come comico, a Zelig, dove rimane anche nell'edizione 2011. Dal 2011 è nel cast del programma di Italia Uno Fenomenal. Il 2 maggio 2011ha iniziato a condurre insieme a Rossella Brescia il programma Uman - Take Control!, soppresso dopo la seconda puntata per bassi ascolti dal direttore di Italia 1 Luca Tiraboschi.
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Gerrit Graham
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Gerrit Graham (born November 27, 1949) is an American actor and songwriter. He's appeared in such films as Used Cars, TerrorVision, National Lampoon's Class Reunion, and Greetings, where he worked with Brian DePalma for the first time. He would again work with DePalma on Hi, Mom and Home Movies, as well as The Phantom of the Paradise, where he played Beef, the Alice Cooper-inspired rock star.
He has also appeared in two different roles on the Star Trek television series; as the Hunter of Tosk on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and as a member of the Q Continuum (adopting the name Quinn) in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Death Wish."
He was also the voice of Franklin Sherman in the animated series and has written songs with Bob Weir of Ratdog.
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Katariina Tamm
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Katariina Tamm (born March 2, 1989) is an Estonian actress.
In 2007, Katariina Tamm graduated from the theater class of the Tallinn Old Town College of Education, supervised by Lembit Peterson, and in 2011 from the Turku Art Academy, majoring in puppetry. She has also studied as an exchange student at the Physical Theater Department of the Barcelona Theater Institute. From autumn 2016 to 2019, she studied and lived in London, where she obtained a master's degree from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), one of the oldest theater schools in England.
In 2011-2016, she worked as an actor at NUKU Theatre. Since 2012, she has participated in the activities of the theater group Frank. While living in England, she played at the New Public Theater. In the years 2020-2022, Katariina Tamm was an actor at the Von Krahl Theater as a member of the joint troupe of Exepdition and the Von Krahl Theater. Since 2023, she has been an actor in the Expedition troupe.
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Lee Chae-kyung
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After debuting in the musical Empress Myeongseong in 1999, Chae Kyung worked for eight years as an actor for the renowned Seoul Performing Arts Company until 2007. For over 20 years, she has appeared in over 100 musicals, plays, TV shows and films including Horror Stories (2012), She Was Pretty (2015), Guardian (2016), Hide-and-Seek (2016), 100 Days My Prince (2018), Hotel del Luna (2019), and #Alive (2020). Originally a physical education major in college, she applies the same discipline in preparation for her roles as an actor. With utmost dedication to her craft, her powerful performances can be seen both on the stage and silver screen. @chaekyung_lee_
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Sam Harris
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Sam Harris is the author of the bestselling books The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, and Waking Up. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. His writing and public lectures cover a wide range of topics—neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, spirituality, violence, human reasoning—but generally focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. Mr. Harris and his work have been discussed in
The New York Times, Time, Scientific American, Nature,Rolling Stone, and many other journals. He has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Annals of Neurology, among others. His work has been published in more than 15 languages. Mr. Harris is a cofounder and the CEO of
Project Reason, a nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.
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Sándor Simó
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Sándor Simó was a prominent Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and producer. He graduated from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 1957 with a degree in chemical engineering and later pursued film directing at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest, graduating in 1964. Simó's directorial works include Those Who Wear Glasses (1969), which won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival, and My Father's Happy Years (1977), entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Ty Pennington
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Tygert Burton "Ty" Pennington is an American television host, artist, carpenter, author, philanthropist, and former model and actor.
His rise to prominence began with his role as carpenter on the TLC home improvement reality show Trading Spaces (2000–2003), and most notably for his work as host of the critically acclaimed ABC reality series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (2003–2012), for which he earned international recognition as an advocate for volunteerism and helping others.
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Tammy Wynette
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Tammy Wynette, born Virginia Wynette Pugh, was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female singers. She was called the "First Lady of Country Music", and her best-known song, "Stand by Your Man", is one of the best-selling hit singles by a woman in the history of country music. Many of her hits dealt with classic themes of loneliness, divorce, and the difficulties of life and relationships. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Wynette charted 23 No. 1 songs. Along with Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton, she is credited with having defined the role of women in country music during the 1970s. Wynette's marriage to country music singer George Jones in 1969, which ended in divorce in 1975, created a country music "couple", following the earlier success of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. Jones and Wynette recorded a sequence of albums and singles that hit the charts throughout the 1970s and early eighties.
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