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Stefano Modena
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Stefano Modena, born in Modena, Italy, is a former professional racing driver known for his participation in Formula 1 during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He began his motorsport career in karting, securing the 125cc Junior Karting Championship in Italy. Progressing through the ranks, Modena competed in Italian Formula Ford and Formula 3, achieving notable success. In 1987, he clinched the International Formula 3000 Championship with the Onyx team, marking him as a promising talent. Modena made his Formula 1 debut at the 1987 Australian Grand Prix with Brabham. Over his F1 career, he raced for teams including EuroBrun, Tyrrell, and Jordan, participating in 81 Grands Prix and securing two podium finishes, amassing a total of 17 championship points. His most notable results were a third-place finish at the 1989 Monaco Grand Prix and a second-place at the 1991 Canadian Grand Prix. After retiring from Formula 1 in 1992, Modena transitioned to touring car racing, competing in the Italian and German championships with manufacturers like Alfa Romeo and Opel until 2000. Post-retirement, he collaborated with Bridgestone, contributing to tire development and testing. Modena resides in Rome with his wife, Sveva Altieri, and their two children.
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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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Colleen Miller
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Colleen Joy Miller is an American former actress. She starred in several films, such as the Westerns Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963) and Four Guns to the Border (1954).
The daughter of Elias and Lillian Miller, she was born in Yakima, Washington, and raised in Portland, Oregon. Miller attended Lincoln High School in Portland and graduated at age fifteen. In 1949, she was chosen "Miss Portland". Her mother named her after actress Colleen Moore. As a child, Miller studied ballet, but when she was older she changed to popular dancing. After graduating, she worked as a professional dancer in a San Francisco ballet company, and relocated to Las Vegas after three seasons to work at the Flamingo.
While dancing in Las Vegas, Miller was spotted by a talent agent who signed her to a contract with Howard Hughes for his RKO Pictures company. She was 19 when she made her first film appearance in The Las Vegas Story, starring Jane Russell.
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Michèle Bernier
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Michèle Bernier (born 2 August 1956) is a French actress, writer and director.
She is the daughter of Georges Bernier (1929-2005), better known by the name of Professeur Choron and Odile Vaudelle (1934-1985).
From 1982 to 1997, she was in a relationship with the author Bruno Gaccio. They had two children, Charlotte (born in 1987) and Enzo (born in 1997).
After a theatrical training, she joined Le Petit Théâtre de Bouvard with many other comedians. There, she created a female comedy trio, "The Girls", together with Mimie Mathy and Isabelle de Botton.
Source: Article "Michèle Bernier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Cooper Hoffman
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Cooper Hoffman (born March 20, 2003) is an American actor. The son of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, he made his acting debut with a leading role in Paul Thomas Anderson's coming-of-age film Licorice Pizza (2021), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. He has since portrayed Dick Ebersol in the comedy-drama Saturday Night (2024) and made his stage debut in an Off-Broadway production of Sam Shepard's tragedy play Curse of the Starving Class (2025).
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Nadine Rousselot
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Nadine Rousselot was champion of France, veteran in title in 2015 and in 2019. Teacher of S.V.T at the Lycée Joliot-Curie in Aubagne, she was crowned twice champion of France in climbing (veteran in title).
In 2011, Nadine Rousselot and her companion Fabrice Maillet set themselves the challenge, to climb six peaks in six days for a cumulative drop of more than 8000 meters, to attack each of the highest peaks of the six departments of the Provence-Alpes-Côtes region. of Azure; The Barre des Écrins (Hautes Alpes), the Aiguille du Chambeyron (Alpes de Haute Provence), Mont Lachens (Var), Le Gelas (Alpes Maritimes), the Pic de Bertagne (Bouches-du-Rhône) and Mont Ventoux (Vaucluse). A busy program which includes the particularity of practicing a different type of discipline by ascent. Thus, this couple will alternate between mountaineering, climbing in adventure and sports terrain, trail running, mountain biking and cycling for Mont Ventoux.
She is also an instructor at Roqvertical, in Roquevaire. Despite this busy schedule, she invests in Mauritania with the association Médecine et Montagne du Monde, contributing to the development of mountain villages by developing hiking trails, new routes for more tourism in Africa.
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Leslee Bremmer
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Bremmer participated in and frequently won numerous bikini contests held throughout Southern California from the mid-1980's to the early 1990's. Among the notable titles that Leslee won are Miss Hot Rod Show World and Miss Golden State 100 for the years 1986 and 1987, respectively. She also was a trophy girl at a lot of stock car racing events around this same time. Moreover, Bremmer not only appeared in minor roles in a handful of lowbrow comedies that were made and released in the mid-1980's, but also was featured in the 1988 California Girls calendar and graced the cover of the April, 1993 issue of Hot Rod magazine. Leslee was last reported living somewhere in the Northwest Rockies.
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José Luis Guerín
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José Luis Guerín (born 1960) is a Spanish filmmaker and educator, known for his meditative and intellectually curious work in both documentary and narrative filmmaking.
Describing Guerin in an introduction to a series of his films, the programmers of the Harvard Film Archive wrote: "Guerín's films purposefully confound narrative and documentary traditions, discovering rich narrative threads woven into the tapestries of his real life subjects and unraveling mysteries without solutions that nevertheless leave the viewer deeply satisfied."
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Noël Mitrani
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Born in Toronto in 1969 from French parents, Noël Mitrani is a film director, producer and screenwriter. He shared his childhood between Ontario and France. A graduate of History and Philosophy at the Sorbonne, Noël Mitrani directed his first short film After Shave in 1999, a comedy set in a suburban supermarket. Three other short films followed, the last of which Les Siens addresses the confusion possible between dream and reality. In 2004, he moved to Montreal and directed his first feature film, Sur la trace d'Igor Rizzi, a black comedy starring Laurent Lucas. This film won the Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at 2006’s Toronto Film Festival. His second picture The Kate Logan Affair (2010), a dark and mysterious thriller starring Alexis Bledel, is widely distributed in the world. His third picture The Military man is a drama about a former French soldier, the trauma caused by his memories of the conflict leads him towards an unhealthy relationship with women. In Après coup (2017), Mitrani dissects the insidiousness of guilt as well as the unsuspected possibilities of survival. In Cassy (2019), childhood and grieving confront some hot-button issues when sexual harassment enters the scene. Natacha Mitrani, the director’s daughter, is heartbreaking in the challenging role of Cassy. Toutes les deux (Between Them, 2021) is a spy comedy that tells the attraction between two women against a background of male jealousy.
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Amy Taubin
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Amy Taubin (born September 10, 1939) is an American film critic. She is a contributing editor for two prominent film magazines, the British Sight & Sound and the American Film Comment. She has also written regularly for The Village Voice, The Millennium Film Journal, and Artforum, and used to be curator of video and film at the non-profit experimental performance space The Kitchen.
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