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Madaleine Sorkin
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Madaleine has been climbing since 1998 and guiding since 2002. An elite big wall free climber, she has led up to 5.13+ on 35-pitch routes on El Capitan in Yosemite, California and the Diamond of Longs Peak, Colorado. She has made several first or early ascents of 5.12/5.13 Grade VI (multi-day) climbs, often in female teams and in remote areas around the world. With any goal, she plays with a balance of adventure, fun and pushing herself to perform her best. Finding her sweet spot is a little different every day. She continues to be motivated for her personal climbing goals, and is honored to be guiding and coaching climbers of all levels to meet their own next wall.
She is a certified Rock Guide through the American Mountain Guides Association. She guides predominantly in Colorado or Red Rocks, Nevada for the Colorado Mountain School, Jackson Hole Mountain Guides, Red Rock Climbing Center and the Women’s Wilderness Institute.
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Asha Parekh
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Asha Parekh (born October 2, 1942) is an Indian actress, film director, and producer who works in Hindi cinema. Regarded as one of Hindi cinema's finest actresses, she was highest paid actress of during her heydays and one of the most successful actresses of the 1960s and 1970s. In a career spanning over four decades, Parekh has received several accolades, including two Filmfare Awards. In 1992, she was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India, India's fourth-highest civilian honour.
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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.
On October 31, 2020, Connery died at the age of 90.
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Karuna Bhushan
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Born on 15th June 1988 in Hyderabad to Marathi mother and Telugu father. Her Father served as Central Government Employee in ESIC Hyderabad. Spending a lot of her childhood in Maharashtra with her mother and siblings she has a more command over Marathi than Telugu. Later her schooling and further education happened in Hyderabad. Seeing her interest in cultural activities her parents encouraged her to join Bal Bhavan Since then she has been trained in classical dancing and western as well which helped her a lot in her future in her acting career.
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Ken Curtis
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Ken Curtis (born Curtis Wain Gates; July 2, 1916 – April 28, 1991) was an American actor and singer best known for his role as Festus Haggen on the Western television series Gunsmoke.
Early years
Born on July 2, 1916 as the youngest of three boys in Lamar in Prowers County in southeastern Colorado, Curtis lived his first 10 years on a ranch on Muddy Creek in eastern Bent County. In 1926, the family moved to Las Animas, the county seat of Bent County, so that his father, Dan Sullivan Gates, could run for sheriff. The campaign was successful, and Gates served from 1926 to 1931 as Bent County sheriff.
Curtis was the quarterback of his Bent County High School football team and played clarinet in the school band. He graduated in 1935. During World War II, Curtis served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1945.
He attended Colorado College to study medicine, but left after a short time to pursue his musical career.
Film
Columbia Pictures signed Curtis to a contract in 1945. He starred in a series of musical Westerns with the Hoosier Hot Shots, playing singing cowboy romantic leads.
By virtue of his second marriage, Curtis was a son-in-law of film director John Ford. Curtis teamed with Ford and John Wayne in Rio Grande. He was a singer in the movie's fictional band, The Regimental Singers, who actually consisted of the Sons of the Pioneers; Curtis is not listed as a member of the principal cast. Possibly, he played a bit part, but Curtis is best remembered as Charlie McCorry in The Searchers, and for his appearances in The Quiet Man, The Wings of Eagles, The Horse Soldiers, The Alamo, and How the West Was Won. Curtis also joined Ford, along with Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, and Jack Lemmon, in the comedy Navy classic Mister Roberts. He was featured in all three of the only films produced by Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's C. V. Whitney Pictures: The Searchers (1956); The Missouri Traveler (1958) with Brandon deWilde and Lee Marvin; and The Young Land (1959) with Patrick Wayne and Dennis Hopper. In 5 Steps to Danger (1957 film), he is uncredited as FBI Agent Jim Anderson.
Curtis remains best known for his role as Festus Haggen, the scruffy, cantankerous, and illiterate deputy in Gunsmoke. He first appeared in 1962 and joined the regular Gunsmoke cast in 1964, replacing Chester Goode, played by Dennis Weaver. While Marshal Matt Dillon had a total of five deputies over two decades, Festus held the role the longest (11 years), in 304 episodes. Festus was patterned after "Cedar Jack" (Frederick Munden), a man from Curtis' Las Animas childhood. Cedar Jack, who lived 15 miles south of town, made a living cutting cedar fence posts. Curtis observed many times that Jack came to Las Animas, where he would often end up drunk and in Curtis' father's jail. Festus' character was known, in part, for the nasally, twangy, rural accent which Curtis developed for the role, but which did not reflect Curtis' actual voice.
Curtis married Torrie Connelly in 1966. They were married until his death in 1991 and he had two step-children.
Death
Curtis died on April 28, 1991, in his sleep in Fresno, California, after suffering a heart attack. He was 74. He was cremated, and his ashes were scattered in the Colorado flatlands. CLR
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Jason Alexander
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Jay Scott Greenspan (born September 23, 1959), better known by his professional name of Jason Alexander, is an American actor, writer, comedian, television director and producer, and singer. He is best known for his role as George Costanza on the television series Seinfeld, appearing in the sitcom from 1989 to 1998. He also has had an active career on the stage, appearing in several Broadway musicals including Jerome Robbins' Broadway in 1989, for which he won the Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical. He appeared in the Los Angeles production of The Producers with Martin Short. He is the Artistic Director of "Reprise! Broadway's Best in Los Angeles," where he has directed several musicals. Alexander is also an avid poker player.
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Chuck Daniel
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Charles Edward Daniel was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Detroit Tigers during the 1957 season. Listed at 6 ft 2 in, 195., Daniel batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Bluffton, Arkansas. Daniel was a major league player whose career, statistically speaking, was only slightly different from that of Moonlight Graham. On September 21, 1957 Daniel faced the Kansas City Athletics as a second-inning replacement for starter Jim Bunning, giving up two runs, three hits and no walks to go with a pair of strikeouts. In 2⅓ innings of work he posted a 7.71 ERA and never appeared in a major league game again.He is married to Rita Daniel. He is the father to Robin Daniel, Denise Baker, and Thomas Daniel. He is also a grandfather to Jessica Christianson, Hunter Daniel, Page Daniel, Austin Baker, Nathan Baker, Cameron Baker, Keaton Baker, Anna Daniel, Charles Daniel, and Melanie Daniel. He is also a great-grandfather to Rita Christianson. Daniel died in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas at age 74.
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Philipp Baron
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Russian actor Philipp Baron (or Filipp Baron) was born on December 20, 1982, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
In 2004, he graduated from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (formerly known as the Saint-Petersburg Theatre Arts Academy). In the theater, he performed in productions of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard, J.B. Priestley’s Dangerous Corner, and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita.
The first appearance in the movie was in the extras in movie Russian Ark (2002), which are filled with a cast of over 2,000 actors and three orchestras.
In 2006, he played a supporting role in the TV romance movie Where Love Lives (2006). The same year, he appeared in Russia’s first interactive drama series, Alice's Dreams (2006).
Since 2010, he has appeared in TV series about police officers broadcast on the NTV channel. For example, he played a bandit in episodes of Sea Devils 4 (2010) and The Chief (2012). He also appeared in two episodes of the series Streets of Broken Lights (since 1998).
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Roman Mikhailov
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Roman Valeryevich Mikhailov (Russian: Рома́н Вале́рьевич Миха́йлов; born October 2, 1978; Jurmala) is a Russian mathematician, writer, as well as screenwriter, theater director and film director. Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In 2001, he graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. In 2003, at the Steklov Mathematical Institute, he defended his PhD thesis on the topic "Filtration of groups, homology and engagement spaces", in 2004 he became an employee of the algebra department of the Institute. In 2010, he defended his doctoral thesis on the topic "Homotopy theory of normal series in groups". He was also an employee of the laboratory "Modern Algebra and Applications" of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of St. Petersburg State University, the Institute for Advanced Studies, the Institute of Chemical Physics of the University of Latvia. He is the author of more than 60 scientific papers, including a monograph and a series of articles jointly with Inder Bir Singh Passi. In 2022 Mikhailov announced the completion of his scientific activities.
Mikhailov's prose was highly appreciated by the writer Mikhail Elizarov and the philosopher Yoel Regev. The editor of Kommersant magazine called Mikhailov's novel "Ravinagar" "more a magical object than a work of art". In 2020, quotes from his books served as the title and epigraph of the Second Triennial of Contemporary Russian Art. The play "The Tale of the Last Angel", staged by Andrei the Mighty based on Mikhailov's stories, received the Golden Mask Award in 2021. In 2021, he became the winner of the Andrei Bely Prize in the prose category for the novel "Wait for Summer and See what Happens."
In October 2022, Mikhailov's directorial film debut was released — the film "A Fairy Tale for the Old", which Roman shot together with actor Fyodor Lavrov; both of them played the main roles in the film. For the first time, the painting was shown as part of the Spirit of Fire festival, where it received a prize. According to Mikhailov, "A Fairy Tale for the Old" is "an esoteric treatise or just a fairy tale". Mikhailov's second film "Snow, Sister and Wolverine" was released in theaters in February 2023, the third "Heritage" — in June of the same year. Almost simultaneously, the shooting of another picture "October Vacation" was completed. "Let's Go to Macau With You" is his fourth film, released in 2023.
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Morjana Alaoui
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Morjana Alaoui (born November 30, 1982) is a Moroccan actress. She starred in Marock, Pascal Laugier's horror film Martyrs, and Rock the Casbah.
Alaoui spent her early life in the Anfa neighborhood of Casablanca, Morocco, and studied at the Casablanca American School. At 18, Alaoui moved to Paris, France, where she studied at the American University of Paris. While attending the university, she met director Laila Marrakchi, who offered her a role in the film Marock (2005). Marock was critically acclaimed and provided Alaoui national fame. In 2007, she began filming Martyrs, for which she is also known. In 2016 Alaoui starred in psychological thriller Broken directed by Shaun Robert Smith.
Source: Article "Morjana Alaoui" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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