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Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Jiddu Krishnamurti lived from 1895 to 1986, and is regarded as one of the greatest philosophical and spiritual figures of the twentieth century. Krishnamurti claimed no allegiance to any caste, nationality or religion and was bound by no tradition. His purpose was to set humankind unconditionally free from the destructive limitations of conditioned mind. For nearly sixty years he traveled the world and spoke spontaneously to large audiences until the end of his life in 1986 at the age of ninety. He had no permanent home, but when not traveling, he often stayed in Ojai, California, Brockwood Park, England, and in Chennai, India. In his talks, he pointed out to people the need to transform themselves through self knowledge, by being aware of the subtleties of their thoughts and feelings in daily life, and how this movement can be observed through the mirror of relationship.
Jiddu Krishnamurti was born on 11 May 1895 in Madanapalle, a small town in south India. He and his brother were adopted in their youth by Dr Annie Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society. Dr Besant and others proclaimed that Krishnamurti was to be a world teacher whose coming the Theosophists had predicted. To prepare the world for this coming, a world-wide organization called the Order of the Star in the East was formed and the young Krishnamurti was made its head.
In 1929, however, Krishnamurti renounced the role that he was expected to play, dissolved the Order with its huge following, and returned all the money and property that had been donated for this work. He resigned as figure head of the Theosophists, and cut all ties to any notion of a religious or spiritual organization. This was followed immediately by a “core” statement, summarized as “Truth Is A Pathless Land: man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.”
For the rest of his long life, he taught not as an authority but as an investigator looking into life’s fundamental issues through questioning all assumptions, and challenging his listeners to do the same.
The body of Krishnamurti’s work is enormous, some estimate it at more than 100 million words; 60 years of more or less uninterrupted appearances around the world. His charge to the Foundations at his death in 1986 was to spread his un-interpreted, authentic body of work around the world. His talks and dialogues have been compiled and published in more than sixty books and translated into as many different languages. His books include The Ending of Time, Freedom from the Known, Commentaries on Living, Education and the Significance of Life, The Awakening of Intelligence, and The First and Last Freedom.
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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 31 October 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Hwang Jeong-min
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Actress Hwang Jeong-min, not to be confused with male actor of the same name, will be recognizable to many as Shin Ha-kyun’s tight-rope walking girlfriend in Jang Joon-hwan’s cult phenomenon Save the Green Planet (2003). She later took on small roles in films such as Jang Jin’s thriller Murder, Take One (2005) and the erotic comedy A Good Day to Have an Affair (2007), she also performed in Im Sang-soo’s The Housemaid (2010) and The Taste of Money (2012). In late 2011 she appeared in her first lead role in the independent film Jesus Hospital, for which she was nominated as Best Actress at the 2012 Grand Bell Awards.
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Thamiris Carvalho
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Thamiris Carvalho is a Brazilian director who left her studies in Physics to pursue a career in Art Direction at the Escuela Nacional de Experimentación y Realización Cinematográfica (ENERC), a school of the Instituto Nacional de Cinema e Artes Audiovisuais (INCAA) in Argentina. In her stop motion work, Thamiris adopts a deliberately rustic approach, challenging the pursuit of perfect fluidity in conventional animation. Instead, she focuses on materiality and textures, celebrating the beauty of imperfections and errors as essential elements of her visual narrative
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Christopher McDonald
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Christopher McDonald (born February 15, 1955) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in Happy Gilmore and 61. Other notable starring roles for McDonald in film include "T-Birds" member Goose McKenzie in Grease 2 (1982), Darryl Dickinson opposite his former fiancée Geena Davis in Thelma & Louise (1991), Ward Cleaver in the film adaptation Leave It to Beaver (1997), and Tappy Tibbons in Requiem for a Dream (2000). Along with numerous independent and small-budget film roles, he played supporting characters in box-office hits Grumpy Old Men (1993), Flubber (1997), Rumor Has It (2005), The House Bunny (2008) and About Last Night (2014). On television, McDonald was a series regular on network TV shows Walter & Emily (1991–1992, NBC), Good Advice (1993–1994, CBS), Family Law (1999–2002, CBS), Cracking Up (2004-2006, FOX) and Harry's Law, (2011–2012, NBC). In 2022, McDonald was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his role as casino CEO Marty Ghilain on the HBO Max show Hacks.
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Pascale Audret
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Pascale Audret (12 October 1935, Neuilly-sur-Seine – 17 July 2000) was a French actress who was most active during the 1950s through the 1960s.
While she starred in over 25 films between 1955 and 1968, her success never crossed over internationally. Her career in film, television, stage and music stayed in France. One of her most high-profile films came when she starred opposite Orson Welles in the 1961 film La Fayette. The following year she starred in Give Me Ten Desperate Men, which was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.
Audret was born as Pascale Aiguionne Louise Jacqueline Marie Auffray to Henry Auffray, an industrialist, and Amyelle de Caubios d'Andiran, a musician, second cousin of the French author François Mauriac (respectively by their maternal grandfather and maternal grandmother). Her brother is singer Hugues Aufray.
Audret was married twice, first to actor Roger Coggio and later to music producer Francis Dreyfus. It was her second marriage that produced her daughter Julie Dreyfus, an actress who co-starred in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill & Inglourious Basterds. Audret put her career on the back burner after the birth of her daughter Julie in 1966.
Audret died in a road accident in 2000, aged 64. She was in the passenger seat of a car being driven by her companion.
Source: Article "Pascale Audret" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Chad Ayers
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Chad Ayers is an American actor that grew up in South Carolina. In middle school he was that boy in the schoolyard surrounded by a crowd of kids while he did goofy routines made famous by Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy. He and his best buddy were always making tapes or videos doing magic shows and clowning around. One year they did a full blown audio drama western with sound effects. They were tireless.. Chad's grandparents owned drive in movie theaters and his father was a developer and owned several businesses. His mother spent a great deal of time in Saudi Arabia growing up due to the fact her father was an oil executive. She sold Real-estate and raised three kids
At the age of ten through fifteen Chad trained and competed in Boxing and Martial Arts. He completed an JROTC program in Military School where he ran track and played football and was on the Drill Team. He achieved the rank of second lieutenant. He stumbled into acting in college where he enjoyed some early success and met his future wife who blessed him with three spectacular daughters. In college he started on stage in lead roles in such great productions such as Shakespeare's The Tempest , Bell Book and Candle, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe and musicals like South Pacific and Biloxi Blues. When Chad finished his college years he knew he wanted to act professionally and set out on that journey.
His career led him to work with French Television Super Star Veronique Jannot in Madame Le Consul. Chad has also worked with some of the best that Hollywood has to offer. He has worked with Dana Carvey and John Lovitz of Saturday Night Live fame in a Super Bowl commercial. He was also fortunate to have worked with such acting legends as Burt Reynolds, Mickey Rooney, Elliott Gould and Judith Light and credited alongside Demi Moore, Beau Bridges, Sam Robards, Armand Assante, Ving Rhames and Robert Patrick to name a few. Chad co starred in a Feature Film thriller titled The Stalker Directed by Atlanta Film Maker John Giorgio Produced by Michelle Lewis..
Chad portrays an array of characters from the antagonist to the professor to the detective. Chad was trained by Caroline Serine with her Minimalist Film acting technique. Chad has just wrapped a TV Pilot "Black Creek and is the co-creator of another TV Pilot " The Watcher"
Versatility is his specialty. Chad prides himself on being a family man and an acting professional. He is always up for the challenge.
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Saif Mohsen
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Saif Mohsen is an Egyptian Actor, born November 11, 2001, born in Giza, his birth name is Saif Eldeen Mohammed Mohsen. He studied at Misr University for science and technology, Faculty of Businsess, where he excelled, but he preferred his hobby to acting. He participated in many works at a young age, as he recently participated in some films including black crab (2022), Welad Rizk (2015), Welad Rizk 2 (2019), 122 (2019) and Al Mamar (2019). Despite his young age, he recently directed a movie Mr.Ex (2022)
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Abigail Breslin
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Abigail Kathleen Breslin (born April 14, 1996) is an American actress and singer. Born and raised in New York City, Breslin began acting in commercials when she was three years old and made her film debut in M. Night Shyamalan's science fiction horror film Signs (2002), for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award. Her early roles also included Raising Helen (2004) and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004).
Breslin rose to prominence with the comedy-drama film Little Miss Sunshine (2006), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 10. She went on to establish herself as a mainstream actress with roles in the films No Reservations (2007), Nim's Island (2008), Definitely, Maybe (2008), My Sister's Keeper (2009), Zombieland (2009), Rango (2011), The Call (2013), August: Osage County (2013), Maggie (2015), Freak Show (2017), Zombieland: Double Tap (2019), and Stillwater (2021). Between 2015 and 2016, she had a starring role in the horror-comedy series Scream Queens on Fox, her first regular role in a television series.
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Jason Bateman
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Jason Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American television and film actor. He is known for his starring roles in numerous comedy films and for his role as Michael Bluth in the Fox / Netflix sitcom Arrested Development and Marty Byrde in the Netflix crime drama series Ozark (2017–2022). He has received several awards including a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2017 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
After appearing in several 1980s and 1990s sitcoms including Silver Spoons, It's Your Move, and The Hogan Family, he came to prominence in the early 2000s for playing Michael Bluth on Arrested Development, for which he won a TV Land, a Golden Globe, and two Satellite Awards. He has since established himself in Hollywood by appearing in numerous films.
His sister is actress Justine Bateman. He has been married to Amanda Anka, singer Paul Ana's daughter, since 2001 and they have 2 daughters. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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