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Rita Marcotulli
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Rita Marcotulli (born 10 March 1959) is an Italian jazz pianist and composer.
Born in Rome, Marcotulli is the daughter of a sound engineer who collaborated with Nino Rota and Ennio Morricone, among others. She started playing piano at five years old and graduated in classical music from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory.
Marcotulli began her professional career in the early 1980s and made her first recording in 1984. Thanks to a series of prestigious collaborations, including Richard Galliano, Chet Baker, Enrico Rava, Kenny Wheeler, Peter Erskine, and Steve Grossman, in a few years she established herself as an important figure in the contemporary jazz scene.
In 1987 Marcotulli was nominated for the Best Young Talent Award in the NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll. In 1988 she toured in the U.S. and in Europe with Billy Cobham, also appearing in Cobham 's album Incoming. In 1996 she duetted with Pat Metheny at the Sanremo Music Festival. She has also had a long-term musical relationship with Dewey Redman.
Marcotulli's style largely relies on improvisation, and her influences include Brazilian music, African music and Indian music.
Also active as a composer of incidental music and musical scores for films, in 2010 Marcotulli won the David di Donatello for Best Score as well as the Ciak d'oro and the Nastro d'Argento in the same category for the score of Rocco Papaleo's Basilicata Coast to Coast.
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Kate Dickie
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Kate Dickie (born March 23, 1971) is a Scottish actress. She is best-known for her portrayal as the security camera operative Jackie in her starring debut Red Road (2006), for which she won Best Actres at the BAFTA Scotland Awards and the British Independent Film Awards. She has also starred in the films Prometheus (2012), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), and The Green Knight (2021), as well as the Robert Eggers films The Witch (2015) and The Northman (2022). Dickie also supports the theatre company Solar Bear, which is known for its collaborations with deaf people.
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Christine Vachon
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Christine Vachon (born November 21, 1962) is an American film producer active in the American independent film sector. Vachon produced Todd Haynes' first feature, Poison (1991), which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Since then, she has gone on to produce many acclaimed independent films, including Far from Heaven (nominated for four Academy Awards), Boys Don't Cry (Academy Award winner), One Hour Photo, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, Go Fish, Swoon, I'm Not There, and Carol. She also produced the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce.
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Masamichi Matsumoto
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Masamichi Matsumoto (松本 正道, Matsumoto Masamichi, born in 1950, Hiroshima Prefecture) is a Japanese film programmer, educator, and cultural promoter. Since 1979, he has served as the director of the Athénée Français Cultural Center in Tokyo, where he curates over 200 films annually, introducing Japanese audiences to lesser-known international auteurs such as Daniel Schmid, Jacques Rivette, and Straub-Huillet.
In 1997, he co-founded the Film School of Tokyo (映画美学校) with Kenzo Horikoshi, fostering education in filmmaking and visual arts. Matsumoto has coordinated numerous symposia, served on international film festival juries, and held positions in cultural institutions including the Kawakita Memorial Film Institute and the Community Cinema Center.
He was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2008, and received the 27th Kawakita Award in 2009. As an actor, he appeared in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's The Great Illusion (大いなる幻影, 1999), portraying the character Murai.
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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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Jacob Newton
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Jacob Newton is a native of Louisville, Kentucky, where he enrolled as a theatre major at the University of Louisville and was immediately cast in the first Mainstage Production of the season, Alan Ayckbourn’s “Woman in Mind.” During this time Jacob was also hired for numerous stage play productions outside the University including “Dial M for Murder,” “The Sound of Music,” and “Dangerous Liaisons,” as well as “The Great American Sex Play” with the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Jacob made his way to Los Angeles, where he was soon cast in his first Taft-Hartley role in 2009’s Star Trek. He has appeared in numerous short films and plays including Everything Is Real which he also wrote and produced along with Jeff Fukuhara, Mr. Glitter, T.V., Thrifting, and Longhorns.
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Stephen Matzke
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Stephen Matzke grew up in Estes Park, Colorado, and developed a love for performing and storytelling at an early age. As a child, he often recited laxative commercials to entertain his family. He spent his adolescent years shooting movies with his friends, dabbling frequently in writing, directing, and acting. After high school and a very brief visit to college, he wrote, directed, and starred in his first full-length feature film, The Reunion, a shoestring-budget horror romp that saw several local screenings throughout Colorado. Though the film lacked in production quality, it showed clear signs of promise for many involved, and the ambitious young filmmaker eventually moved to Los Angeles at age twenty-two.
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Bonnie Marion
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Bonnie Marion was born in Sitka, Alaska, and was raised all across the United States. Bonnie has been an active member in the Bay Area theater and film community since before her graduation from San Francisco State University with a BA in Theater. Her performances include: “Tartuffe,” “Death,” “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” “Christmas Carol,” and “The Vagina Monologues” to name a few; but she feels one of her greatest achievements was her award-winning portrayal of Blanche DuBois for the Tennessee Williams Theater Festival.
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Bill McCutcheon
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James William McCutcheon (May 23, 1924 - January 9, 2002) was an American character actor known for his roles in film, television, and theatre, several of which won him Emmy and Tony awards.
McCutcheon was born in Russell, Kentucky, the son of Florence Louise (née Elam) and Robert Kenna McCutcheon, who was a railroad conductor. McCutcheon's first major role was Leo the Leprechaun on The Howdy Doody Show. He followed this appearance with a recurring role (from 1984 to 1992) as Uncle Wally on the children's television series Sesame Street, for which he won an Emmy.
McCutcheon was also active in film and on the stage. His first film appearance was in 1964's Santa Claus Conquers the Martians; later on, he was seen in movies including Family Business and Steel Magnolias. McCutcheon's theatre credits include a role as Moonface Martin in Anything Goes, which won him a Tony for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical. Other stage appearances include You Can't Take It With You and The Man Who Came to Dinner.
McCutcheon had three children, Carol, Jay, and Kenna.
McCutcheon died in 2002 of natural causes, at age 77.
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Bing Russell
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Neil Oliver "Bing" Russell (May 5, 1926 – April 8, 2003) was an American actor and Class A minor-league baseball club owner. He was the father of Hollywood actor Kurt Russell.
Although best known as the deputy on Bonanza (1959) and Robert in The Magnificent Seven (1960), Russell's was also well known on a national level as the owner of the Portland Mavericks Baseball Club. Helming the only independent team in the class A Northwest League, Russell was an innovator. Before Bull Durham (1988), there were the Mavericks. Russell kept a 30 man roster because he believed that some of the players deserved to have one last season. His motto was simply one three lettered word - not WIN - although the Mavericks did just that - no, the word was FUN. He created a park that kept all corporate sponsorship outside the gates, hired the first female general manager in professional baseball, and the following year hired the first Asian American GM/Manager. That same season his team set a record for the highest attendance in Minor league history, and went on to win the pennant. Ex-major leaguers and never-weres who couldn't stop playing the game flocked to his June tryouts, which were always open to anyone that showed up. From as far away as Capetown, and France, players would head to Portland for a chance with Russell's Mavericks.
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