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John Platt

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Award-winning Writer/Producer/Director, John Platt began his showbiz career right out of college as a Video Game Writer/Designer at the San Diego company RDI, which created the hit laser disc games Dragon's Lair and Space Ace. At the same time, he was continuing to write screenplays. Platt and co-writer Roy Langsdon were hired to write their first paid film script on Halloween, 1985...a talking dog movie for producer Chris Whittaker, called Police Dog. That film was never produced, but is believed to have inspired the later Jim Belushi hit K-9. The Police Dog assignment earned Platt & Langsdon their first agent, and the pair went on to write a number of low-budget feature films, including the cult-classic Lambada movie "The Forbidden Dance". Between screenplays, Platt also went into television, writing and producing shows for E! Entertainment Television and the Sci-Fi Channel. It was on a Sci-Fi project called "Masters of Fantasy" that Platt met later collaborator, producer Jon Kroll, and the two became fast friends. Kroll pulled Platt into reality TV in 2001. Platt then went on to help produce the second season of The Amazing Race, where he was the only story producer to circumnavigate the globe that season. Platt was also highly influential in the 'celeb-reality' phenomenon, as a producer on the first season of The Surreal Life, a series that spawned more spin-offs than almost any other show in history. He became the Co-Executive Producer of "Big Brother" on season 7's All Stars edition, and continued to oversee story on that series through Season 11. During his years on "Big Brother", Platt was also Co-Executive Producer of ABC's highly controversial and critically acclaimed docu-series Brat Camp, which was nominated for the Director's Guild of America's first-ever reality TV award. Platt also produced ABC's critically acclaimed reality comedy The Family, which The New York Times television critic Virginia Heffernan named as one of her Top 10 Programs of the Year. Platt was also instrumental in developing CBS' ground-breaking, yet controversial series Kid Nation, considered by many to be one of the best, most ambitious reality TV shows ever produced. Also a pioneer in online entertainment, Platt executive produced Hulu's first ever original series If I Can Dream with "American Idol" creator Simon Fuller, as well as Showrunning Bravo's Emmy Award® winning, multi-media dating series The Singles Project. Platt was also the Showrunner of A&E's long-running house flipping hit Flipping Vegas, and the internationally franchised FYI Series Bride & Prejudice, among many others. Platt's teenage love of playing Dungeons & Dragons became an asset in 2023, when he was asked to produce over 60 hours of original content to launch the new "Dungeons & Dragons Adventures" FAST Channel for eOne and Hasbro. The D&D series include Matthew Lillard's improv comedy show Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill!, the video version of the podcast hit Encounter Party, and the Dungeons & Dragons-themed cooking show Heroes' Feast, bringing Platt's body of work to well over 500 hours of produced television. Platt lives in Sherman Oaks, CA, with his wife, schoolteacher Carrie Wong.
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Satomi Ishihara

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Satomi Ishihara, a prominent Japanese actress, has made significant marks in both film and television. Born on December 24, 1986, in Tokyo, Japan, Ishihara quickly rose to fame in the Japanese entertainment industry due to her compelling performances and versatile acting skills. She gained widespread recognition for her roles in major films such as "Shin Godzilla" and the live-action adaptation of "Attack on Titan," where her performances were critically acclaimed for adding depth and emotion to the films. Apart from her successful film career, Ishihara has also starred in a variety of TV dramas that have been popular both domestically and internationally. Notable among these is "Shitsuren Chocolatier," a romantic drama series that further solidified her status as a leading actress in Japan. Beyond her professional life, Ishihara has been involved in high-profile relationships, including a notable relationship with Yuji Maeda, the president of the IT company "SHOWROOM". This relationship was highlighted during their stay at a luxury hotel in Taketomijima, which attracted significant media attention. Ishihara continues to be a significant figure in Japanese media, contributing to various genres and continuously engaging her audience with new and challenging roles.
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Jesús Mora

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After a few years of work in the industry, Jesús Mora (Madrid, 1964) debuted in the direction with A tiro limpio (1996), the version of a Spanish policeman of the sixties, and two years later directed the documentary Arrebatos, which relives the filming of the film by Ivan Zulueta. With My Sweet (2000) returns to fiction to tell the story of two sisters faced, halfway between the drama and, again, the police plot. Operation Algeciras (2004) documents the impossible attack that was intended to end the Falklands war. In the three characters live off-site, with the clear intentions and the wrong course, fought with a law that banishes them. With Villa Tranquila (2007), Jesús Mora climbs one more step in his approach to the territory where cinema and life meet, because for him life and cinema can only be the same.
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Yuuka Sugai

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The current captain of the group, Sugai Yuuka is also known as the "Ojousama" (lady/princess) because of her privileged upbringing. She loves horses and was a member of her university's Equestrian Club, where she participated in tournaments before she entered Keyakizaka46. Yuuka is now the special ambassador of Japan Equestrian Federation, and has been for 3 years straight. She's also known to have a bad enunciation and cannot say certain words properly, like "fondue" and "captain". A self-proclaimed "do-M" (masochist), the members often love teasing Yuuka. Her catchphrase "Ganbariki," which comes from "Ganbare" (doing one's best) and "Bariki" (horsepower), is popular among members and fans. Yuuka calls her fans "barizu."
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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 who 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. On October 31, 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Art Clokey

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arthur "Art" Clokey (October 12, 1921 - January 8, 2010) was a pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California. From the Gumbasia project, Art Clokey and his wife Ruth invented Gumby. Since then Gumby and his horse Pokey have been a familiar presence on television, appearing in several series beginning with the Howdy Doody Show and later The Adventures of Gumby. The characters enjoyed a renewal of interest in the 1980s when American actor and comedian Eddie Murphy parodied Gumby in a skit on Saturday Night Live. In the 1990s Gumby: The Movie was released, sparking even more interest. Clokey's second most famous production is the duo of Davey and Goliath, funded by the Lutheran Church in America. Description above from the Wikipedia article Art Clokey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Ben Burtt

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Benjamin "Ben" Burtt, Jr. is a sound designer, film editor, director, screenwriter, and voice actor. He has worked as sound designer on various films, including the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film series, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, WALL-E, and Star Trek. He is responsible for creating many of the iconic sound effects heard in the Star Wars film franchise, including the binary speech of R2-D2, the lightsaber hum, the sound of the blaster guns, and the heavy-breathing sound of Darth Vader, which he made by breathing into a scuba regulator. Burtt has a reputation for popularizing a sound effect dubbed the "Wilhelm scream", which was taken from a character named Wilhelm in the 1953 film The Charge at Feather River.
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Rory Gulak

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Rory Gulak is an American Professional wrestler. Rory Gulak began training at the age of 14 in June of 2004 with Chikara Wrestle Factory. In June of 2008 he had his professional debut vs. his brother Drew Gulak at CZW's Summer School as Little Mondo. He portrayed a tribute to his idol Sick Nick Mondo. In 2011 Little Mondo became Rory Mondo and had his first Deathmatch for CZW. In October of 2011 he traveled to Big Japan Pro Wrestling for the Tag League of Death. In 2012 He returned to BJPW for a three month stay. In December of 2013 at Cage of Death Rory Mondo shocked the crowd and locker room with a returning Sick Nick Mondo and retired. in 2015 Rory would return to help his Brother Drew in a battle with Nick Gage. They would then form The Amazing Gulaks. With Drew's signing to the WWE and current 205Live wrestler Rory now competes as a singles competitor for Chikara Pro and other promotions. He is a trainer at the Chikara Wrestle Factory.
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Joey Marquez

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Joselito Perez Marquez (born Artemio Perez Marquez Jr.) better known as Joey Marquez, is a Filipino actor, comedian, politician and former professional basketball player in the Philippine Basketball Association. He was city mayor of Parañaque, Philippines from 1995 to 2004. He is retired from politics and is focused on his TV and movie projects. Before embarking on a career as an actor-comedian, Marquez played for Presto Fun Drinks, later known as the Great Taste Coffee Makers, from 1981 to 1983 before moving to Gilbey's Gin Tonics, which would later be popularly known as Barangay Ginebra San Miguel, under legendary playing-coach Robert Jaworski beginning the 1984 season. He played briefly for Hills Bros. Coffee Kings in 1987 before leaving the game for good to become a full-time actor.
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Zoe Beloff

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Zoe Beloff works across a wide range of media, including film, stereoscopic projection performance, interactive media, installation and drawing. Seeking to graphically manifest the mind's unconscious processes in her work, she uses both archaic apparatuses and new analog/digital hybrids. Beloff has written that she considers herself a medium, an interface between the living and the dead, the real and the imaginary. With each project she aims to connect the present with the past, to create new visual languages where, she writes, "modern media will once again be invested with the uncanny." Beloff, who has directed many independent films, has also created numerous interactive digital media projects. Her interest in early cinema has led her to explore links between 19th-century industrial mechanics and 20th- and 21st-century computer technologies, in the transition from the "real" world to virtual space. Writes Beloff: "Interactive cinema is itself an emerging media. Its language is in the process of being invented. This is my ongoing project." Beloff has collaborated with artists from other disciplines, including composer John Cale, the Wooster Group Theater Company, and composer, singer and performance artist Shelley Hirsch. Beloff was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and moved to New York in 1980. She received an MA from Edinburgh University and an MFA in film studies from Columbia University, and was in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (2003), The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts (1997), NYFA (1997, 2001), The Graham foundation, The Radcliffe Institute at Harvard and Change City College to Queens College CUNY. She has received individual artist grants from foundations including NYSCA, Jerome Foundation and the Experimental Television Center, and has had residencies at Harvestworks, Hallwalls in Buffalo and Tesla in Berlin. She teaches digital media at City College in New York. Her work has been shown internationally at venues that include The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Freud Dream Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Biennial de l'image, Paris; Galerie Vox, Montreal; San Francisco Cinematheque, 2009 Athens Biennale; and MuHKA Museum. Antwerp, among others. Her exhibition The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and their Circle was exhibited at the Coney Island Museum in Brooklyn from October 2009 to November 2010. Beloff lives in New York.
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