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Andrew W.K.
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Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier (born May 9, 1979), known professionally as Andrew W.K., is an American rock singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and motivational speaker. He is known for his combination of rock, metal and pop music and anthemic songs about partying. Raised in Michigan, Wilkes-Krier began his musical career in the mid-1990s. He performed in a number of local bands before eventually moving to New York, where he produced his first recordings under the Andrew W.K. moniker.
After gaining initial attention with the 2000 EP Girls Own Juice, Wilkes-Krier rose to prominence with the release of his debut studio album I Get Wet in November 2001. In the years following its release, he has undertaken a number of other musical and non-musical ventures including television and radio work, motivational speaking and writing.
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Tarika Thidathit
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Tarika Thidathit, nicknamed Koi, is an actress, singer, and theater producer born in Chiang Mai, Thailand. She graduated from elementary school at Sattasuanwittaya School, from high school at Benjamarachalai School, and at the Faculty of Agriculture from Chiang Mai University Major in Horticulture Initially.
She practiced singing from the introduction of Mr. Pengkalin, then became a singer at the Moulin Rouge nightclub. Later had the opportunity to walk fashion to various beautiful places. After that, Khun Pimpon Burana Pim led her to become the TV movie heroine of Ratchfilm, Khun Payungnung Sin, The Three Sodom Girls, and Scarecrow on Channel 5.
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Alison Bagnall
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Alison Bagnall is an American director, writer and producer.
Before collaborating with Vincent Gallo on Buffalo '66 (1998), Alison wrote and directed numerous short films, including One Night Stand starring Pasolini's leading man, actor Franco Citti featured at the Florence International Festival of Independent Cinema and Love Perfect, which screened at festivals at Bellaria and Torino, Italy; in Annecy, France, and was bought by Italian television for broadcast.
Alison is a graduate of Yale University, where she studied Humanities, along with theater and directing. After Yale, she was a directing fellow at the American Film Institute where she made three short films. While at AFI, she also directed an episode of 'Femmes" for the French television channel M6.
After Buffalo '66, Ms. Bagnall joined up with another actor/writer Savannah Haske for her next project. That project became Piggie (2003), which was shot on location in Delaware County in upstate New York.
In 2011 she directed and wrote The Dish & the Spoon , starring Greta Gerwig and in 2015 another film called Funny Bunny.
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Dimitris Horn
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Dimitris Horn (Greek: Δημήτρης Χορν) (9 March 1921 – 16 January 1998) was a Greek theatrical and film performer of modern times.
Horn was born in Athens in 1921, the son of playwright Pantelis Horn (himself descended from an Austrian father and Greek mother), and Euterpi, a Pontic Greek. He studied Drama at the National Theatre of Greece Drama School, where he made his stage debut in 1941. During his career, he co-operated many times with the Greek National Theater and made personal stage troops with actors such as Mary Aroni, Alekos Alexandrakis and Ellie Lambeti. The latter was also his companion from 1953 to 1958.
From an early stage he developed a reputation as "the best actor of his generation," performing many classics such as "Diary of a Madman" by Nikolai Gogol, Richard III by William Shakespeare, Dom Juan by Molière, and Enrico IV by Luigi Pirandello to critical acclaim.
His screen work was less important to him; he disliked cinema,[2] only starring in ten films. His most notable films were The Counterfeit Coin (1954) and A Girl in Black (1956). He later married shipping heiress Anna Goulandri, and became the first director of the Greek State Radio and Television after the restoration of democracy. He died of cancer on 16 January 1998, aged 76.
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Rita Chatterton
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Rita Filicoski is a retired professional wrestling referee, best known for being the first woman to referee in the WWF (now WWE) in 1984. She was born in Albany, New York, and became involved in wrestling after the death of her brother, who dreamed of becoming a wrestler. Unable to pursue a career as a wrestler due to health issues, she trained as a referee.
Chatterton gained recognition during WWF's "Rock 'n' Wrestling" era, but her career was marked by a sexual assault accusation against Vince McMahon in 1986, which she publicly revealed in 1992. After leaving WWF in 1993, she worked as a youth counselor. In the 2020s, she returned to the wrestling world, being inducted into the Wrestling Hall of Fame and signing with AEW in 2025, though she did not participate actively.
In 2022, her allegations against McMahon resurfaced, leading her to file a lawsuit. McMahon settled for a multimillion-dollar amount in 2022. Her story is significant both for her pioneering career as a referee and her brave fight for justice.
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Richard Sakai
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Richard Sakai (born January 28, 1954) is an American television and film producer. He is best known for his work on the animated sitcom The Simpsons, for which he is one of the original producers. In 1997, Sakai was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture for his work on the film Jerry Maguire (1996).
Sakai began his career as an assistant to James L. Brooks in 1977. In 1984, Brooks invited Sakai to become a producer in his new film production company, Gracie Films. Sakai ultimately produced many of Brooks' films, such as Jerry Maguire, As Good as It Gets (1997), and Spanglish (2004). Sakai also produced Bottle Rocket (1996) and Riding in Cars with Boys (2001). Additionally, he was a producer for The Simpsons Movie (2007).
As a television producer and director, Sakai has worked on many different shows. He has directed episodes of Taxi, Newhart, and Who's the Boss?. He has also produced episodes of The Tracey Ullman Show, The Critic, Phenom, and What About Joan? in addition to his work on The Simpsons, for which he has won several Emmy Awards.
On The Simpsons, Sakai has been animated several times, most notably as: a karaoke singer in the episode "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish"; an escaping prisoner in a commercial about "revolving door prisons" in "Sideshow Bob Roberts"; and a jazz vibraphone player in "Jazzy and the Pussycats".
Sakai is currently president of Gracie Films.
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Mel Fronckowiak
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Daughter of the psychologist Berenice Nunes and André Fronckowiak, Mel Fronckowiak was born in Araranguá, in the state of Santa Catarina, but she grew up in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, the hometown of her family. The actress was quite active in school and from early childhood had always dreamed of having an artistic career. She participated in the Grêmio estudantil and was several times representative of her class. In high school she won a scholarship to a university in Santa Cruz do Sul, where her paternal uncle lived. At 15 years of age, she left home for the first time. She studied journalism in college, with evident support of her family. Her surname, Fronckowiak, is of Polish origin.
Fronckowiak has been in a relationship with Brazilian actor Rodrigo Santoro since 2013. On May 22, 2017, they welcomed their first child, a daughter named Nina.
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René Ferlet
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René Ferlet, born in Accolay (Yonne) on January 22, 1920 and died on April 9, 19891 in Montpellier, was a mountaineer who participated in 1946 in the third ascent of the Walker spur on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses.
René Ferlet was born in Accolay, in Yonne, in 1920. Before the Second World War, he met Pierre Allain on the rocks of Fontainebleau. Engaged as a volunteer in 1939, he was incorporated into a section of scouts-skiers in the Queyras then was demobilized in 19412. In 1943, he met Lionel Terray in Chamonix with whom he made a series of ascents including the first ascent of the face direct northwest of the Peigne. In the post-war years, the party was one of the best climbers in the forest of Fontainebleau, around the "master" Pierre Allain. Ferlet particularly distinguished himself in 1946 at Bas-Cuvier, by completing the first climb of the Marie-Rose, the first boulder rated 6a, a slab highly coveted by the “bleausards”. Pierre Allain did the first rehearsal immediately afterwards. At the time, the Marie-Rose was rated 6b, the Angle Allain being considered the first 6a (opened in 1935). But with advances in climbing shoes, these two historic passages have been given a notch discount: the Angle Allain at 5c and the Marie-Rose at 6a. They retain the "obligatory passages" highly respected by bouldering enthusiasts.
In 1951, René Ferlet led the first French expedition to the Patagonian Cordillera during which Lionel Terray and Guido Magnone succeeded in the first ascent of Fitz Roy (February 2, 1952). In 1953, he supervised the French expedition which climbed the south face of Aconcagua for the first time.
René Ferlet was a member of the Groupe de Haute Montagne and of the Société des Explorateurs Français and administrative secretary of the French Alpine Club and the Club Alpin Français and Fédération Française de la Montagne et de l'Escalade.
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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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Justin John Harvey
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Justin John Harvey (born March 27, 1991) is a South African model, actor and television personality based in South Korea. He obtained a law degree before relocating to South Korea at the age of 24 to pursue modeling. He has since become active in entertainment, films and commercials. Harvey is most recognized for his role in Park Hoon-jung's 2022 film The Witch: Part 2 - The Other One. He has also appeared in Ashfall (2020) and The Childe (2023). Additionally, he has made appearances on various variety shows, including the popular television shows Welcome, First Time in Korea? South Korean Foreigners, and season 2 of Netflix show Physical: 100.
Justin John Harvey was born on March 27, 1991 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. When he was six, Harvey and his mother moved to the East Rand in Gauteng following his parents' divorce. Harvey enjoyed playing rugby and cricket as a child. His interest in acting began at the age of seven through school plays in elementary school. In high school, he choreographed and directed plays. However, Harvey chose law as major at the University of Pretoria, thinking it was a safer career path. However, his dream of becoming an actor remained.
Harvey arrived in South Korea at the age of 24, intending a short-term visit. He became captivated by the country and decided to stay indefinitely. He enrolled in a formal Korean language school for a month before deciding to teach himself the language, fully immersing himself in the process. Even when learning new skills such as yoga or scuba diving, he opted for lessons conducted in Korean.
In 2019, Harvey made his television debut on the MBC Every 1 reality show "Welcome, First Time in Korea." The show, along with "South Korean Foreigners," aired in 2020. "Welcome, First Time in Korea" features a foreigner living in South Korea who invites friends from their home country to visit for the first time, while "South Korean Foreigners" pits 10 non-Koreans against five Koreans in a competition. These programs have helped many foreigners gain recognition and become TV personalities in South Korea.
In 2022, following years of modeling and television appearances, he secured a role in the sci-fi horror film The Witch: Part 2 - The Other One. Initially, Harvey believed he got the role of Tom due to his Korean language abilities, despite his limited experience. However, director Park Hoon-jung later revealed that Harvey embodied the Tom he had envisioned, even though Harvey had to gain 10 kilograms for the role. Harvey worked again with Director Park Hoon-jung in his 2023 action film The Childe as a Western man who makes Marco an offer in a bar.
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