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Sandy Farina

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Sandy Farina is a singer-songwriter, best known for her role in the film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. She also wrote the song "Kiss Me in the Rain" for Barbra Streisand. She is currently a session singer for television commercials. -Wiki Farina surfaced in a coast-to-coast talent search in which Pepper director Michael Schultz interviewed some 1,500 women for the part of Strawberry Fields. In the funky tradition of dreams come true, Farina got her shot because a Stigwood executive happened to have his car serviced at a gas station owned by a friend of the Farinas. Besides the unleaded gas, he got a tape of Sandy. Impressed, he flew her to L.A. for an audition. “Her voice stood out,” explains Schultz of his eventual choice. “Also, she had a genuinely naive country look that none of the other girls had.” -People Magazine 8/21/78
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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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Paul Currie

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Paul Currie (b. 1974) is a puppeteer, circus/street performer and stand up comedian who plays lead Muppet Potto on Sesame Tree, the Sesame Street co-production in Northern Ireland. He also performs on the non-Muppet Jim Henson Company series Pajanimals, as an assistant puppeteer and in many recurring and guest roles (including Coach Whistler, Otis the Owl, Edwin the Magician, and Frank the beaver). A native of Newtownabbey Co. Antrim Northern Ireland, Curriemakes and performs his own puppets and claims "Like kids from my generation I always wanted to be Jim Henson, but at age 10 I couldn't grow the beard. I would always be asked to perform muppet voices for other kids in school like Fozzie and Gonzo." He learned of the planned Northern Irish Sesame show from a festival encounter with Lisa Henson. As with the other Sesame Tree performers, he trained with Martin P. Robinson in the initial audition workshop and in preparation for the series. Currie makes and performs puppets around Ireland, for various festivals and theatre shows. He recently designed and built a "spide" puppet for the BBC Northern Ireland show "Teethgrinder", the puppet is called DJ Scrunter, named by Paul after a generic nick name used by young Belfast street delinquents also known as "spides". Currie first started performing puppets professionally in 1991 when he was asked by his Performing Arts tutor Paddy Scully (who had a Punch and Judy show) to stand in for him for a few summer gigs around Northern Ireland. Then in 2001 Paul met Michael McNulty (Sesame Tree, Brothers Dimm) through a mutual friend. McNulty was also a Punch and Judy performer and the two started making foam puppets and writing very unusual and surreal puppet shows together under the name Kernal Trapps Puppets. They performed several times at the Queens Festival Belfast and the Belfast Childrens Festival to great critical success.
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Jonathan Karl

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Jonathan Karl is ABC News chief Washington correspondent and co-anchor of This Week with George Stephanopoulos. He is also the President of the White House Correspondents' Association and author of the forthcoming book "Front Row at the Trump Show" (March 2020). Karl has broad experience covering U.S. politics, foreign policy and the military, and has reported from more than 30 countries. His reporting drives news cycles and has been recognized with some of the most prestigious honors in journalism, including the Walter Cronkite Award for National Individual Achievement and the National Press Foundation's Everett McKinley Dirksen Award, the highest honor for Congressional reporting. He is also one of the few journalists to win the Radio and TV Correspondents' Association's Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for excellence in Washington-based reporting twice, in 2010 and 2015. He won an Emmy® Award for coverage of the 2009 Inauguration of President Barack Obama. Karl was named The Tyndall Report’s most used reporter in 2017 and 2018, logging more airtime than any other network reporter for the first two years of the Trump presidency. Karl has covered every major beat in Washington, including the White House, Capitol Hill, the Pentagon and the State Department. He's reported from the White House under four presidents and more than a dozen press secretaries. Karl has covered seven presidential elections. During the 2016 cycle, he did the first network interview with Donald Trump, the first interview with Bernie Sanders as a presidential candidate and a rare, exclusive interview with the reclusive billionaire Charles Koch. Prior to his current post, Karl served as ABC’s senior political correspondent, covering national political news, including presidential politics and Congress. In his 15 years in Washington, Karl earned a reputation as a fierce government watchdog for his aggressive investigations of government waste. Karl joined ABC News in January 2003 as the network’s senior foreign affairs correspondent covering the State Department. He traveled around the world with Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. In December 2005, Karl was named senior national security correspondent. He reported extensively on the situation in Darfur, Sudan, visiting the war-torn country three times in 2005, and earning an Emmy nomination for his reporting. Karl has interviewed singer Elton John, Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera, singer and actress Barbra Streisand, Pete Townshend of “The Who,” actor George Clooney, baseball legend Ernie Banks, Yoko Ono, the Dalai Lama, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, singer/songwriter James Taylor and other leading figures in sports and popular culture. Before joining ABC News, he served as a congressional correspondent for CNN. Karl graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.
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Peter Warr

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Peter Warr, born on June 18, 1938, in England, was a prominent Formula 1 team manager known for his leadership roles with Lotus and Wolf Racing. Warr initially worked as a Lotus salesman in the late 1950s before moving into racing management. By the 1960s, he had joined Lotus as team manager under founder Colin Chapman. His sharp managerial skills and strategic insight contributed to Lotus’s successes during this period, including multiple championships. In 1976, Warr took on a new challenge by managing Wolf Racing, guiding the team to a remarkable debut season with driver Jody Scheckter, who won three races. He later returned to Lotus in 1981, this time leading the team through a transformative period with emerging talents like Ayrton Senna and Elio de Angelis. Known for his disciplined approach and loyalty to Chapman’s vision, Warr was instrumental in guiding young drivers and building competitive teams. Warr passed away on October 4, 2010, leaving a legacy as one of Formula 1’s respected managers and team leaders. His contributions to Lotus and Wolf Racing are remembered for shaping both teams’ competitiveness and nurturing driving talent in Formula 1’s golden years.
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Luca Grazioli

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Luca Grazioli, class 1998. He was born in Brescia, but he trained in Milan where he still lives. In 2021, he graduated with honors from the Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti with a thesis on Takeshi Kitano. He made his debut the same year with the short film Donne Senza Uomini. His Super 8 diptych Portrait de Rosa, à la française and Ritratto di Rosa, all’italiana explores form and memory through an experimental lens. His latest short film, Dolci Acque (2024), has been selected for Dieci Corti in giro per il Mondo 2025, an initiative by the Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio. In 2025, he made a video essay with and about Oscar-winning editor Joe Walker, titled A Life in Frames. He works primarily as art director and head of post-production at Karmachina, focusing on large-scale multimedia projects. Since 2023, he has been a university lecturer in editing and multimedia at the Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti.
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Jim Cummings

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James Jonah Cummings (born November 3, 1952) is an American voice actor. Since beginning his career in the 1980s, he has appeared in almost 400 roles. Cummings has frequently worked with The Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros., including as the official voice of Winnie the Pooh since 1988, Tigger since 1989, the Tasmanian Devil since 1991, and Pete since 1992. Other notable roles include Fat Cat and Monterey Jack on Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (1989–1990), the title character of Darkwing Duck (1991–1992), Dr. Robotnik on the Sonic the Hedgehog animated series (1993–1994), Kaa on Jungle Cubs (1996–1998), and Cat on CatDog (1998–2005).
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Anal Shah

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Anal Shah is an Indian filmmaker and photographer. As someone who straddles multiple cultures between his academic and creative practice, Anal’s work explores issues of identity, migration, and other things that are usually "lost in translation". His work has been shown at numerous Festivals including premieres at the Vienna International Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival and Detroit Docs to name just a few. Anal received both his undergraduate as well as graduate education at the California Institute of the Arts.
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Shukri R. Abdi

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Shukri R. Abdi, is a writer, actor, and TV producer from Potomac, Maryland. She is currently a writer on ERIN & AARON, a new Nickelodeon/Netflix musical, as well as STRANDED, a comedy for Broadway Video/Audible. Shukri's other writing credits include KEVIN CAN F**K HIMSELF (AMC), BLACK CARD REVOKED (BET), and DANGER FORCE (Nickelodeon). As an actor, Shukri has been featured in UNITED WE FALL (ABC) and ADAM RUINS EVERYTHING (TruTV), the animated series ALPHA BETAS (YouTube), and several narrative podcasts including FISHPRIEST (AUDIBLE) and SOUNDS SCARY (AUDIBLE). Shukri is a sketch comedy actor/writer at the UCB Theatre on Maude Night's MONEY PLEASE, and in 2019 was named a New Face of Comedy by the JUST FOR LAUGHS FESTIVAL. A lover of game and competition shows, she has produced on programs such as BIG BROTHER (CBS), MINUTE TO WIN IT (NBC), and THE APPRENTICE (sorry). Before landing in LA, Shukri attended Wellesley College, and also lived in Mexico where she spent 3 years studying, teaching, and modeling. Good for her.
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Jane Birkin

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Jane Mallory Birkin, OBE (December 14, 1946 – July 16, 2023) was a British-French actress, singer, and designer. She attained international fame and notability for her decade-long musical and romantic partnership with Serge Gainsbourg. In addition to her prolific career in French cinema, she appeared in several English-language films including Blowup (1966), Death on the Nile (1978), Evil Under the Sun (1982), and A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998). She was the mother of photographer Kate Barry with her first husband composer John Barry; of actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg with Serge Gainsbourg; and of musician Lou Doillon with Jacques Doillon.
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