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Georges Laraque
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Georges Laraque is a 13-year NHL veteran who has played for the Edmonton Oilers, Phoenix Coyotes, Pittsburgh Penguins and Montreal Canadiens. He was known as “The Rock”, acting primarily as an enforcer on these teams. The son of Haitian immigrants, Laraque campaigned for World Vision to help with Haitian relief and the rebuilding of the Grace Children’s Hospital in Port-au-Prince. A committed believer in animal rights and a spokesperson for PETA, he became a vegan in 2009 and has, ever since, contributed to the vegetarian movement in Montreal by becoming co-owner of two raw vegan restaurants called Crudessence and Rise Kombucha. A conscientious environmentalist, Laraque stepped up in July 2010 to be the deputy leader of the Green Party. Since his retirement, Georges has been very active as a speaker. He has been invited to hundreds of events and has spoken on various topics such as sports, motivation, racism, bullying, veganism, business, charities and politics.
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Osamu Goto
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Osamu Goto, born on November 27, 1948, in Tokyo, Japan, is a distinguished mechanical engineer renowned for his significant contributions to Formula 1 racing. After earning his degree from Tokyo's Metropolitan College of Aeronautical Engineering in 1970, he joined Honda's research department, focusing initially on exhaust emissions. In the mid-1980s, as Honda intensified its involvement in Formula 1, Goto transitioned to the racing division. He played a pivotal role in developing Honda's turbocharged engines, which powered teams like Williams and McLaren to multiple Constructors' and Drivers' Championships. Notably, under his leadership, Honda achieved remarkable success with the McLaren-Honda partnership, securing four consecutive Constructors' titles from 1988 to 1991. Following Honda's withdrawal from Formula 1, Goto joined Ferrari in 1993 as head of engine research and development, contributing to the team's engine advancements. In 1997, he became head of the engine department at Sauber Petronas Engineering AG. After his tenure in Formula 1, Goto founded Geo Technology in 2006, an engineering consultancy specializing in high-performance powertrains for the automotive and motorcycle industries.
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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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Jolene Rae Harrington
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Jolene Rae Harrington was born on Oct. 7, 1958 in Los Angeles, CA, USA as Jolene Rae Glabman, she is the daughter of actress Frances Stevenson (Gregoli) and brother of composer/musician David Vito Gregoli. Theater-trained at ACT and Drama Studio London. Degrees with honors in History and Dramatic Arts from University of Santa Barbara. Co-starred in two festival-winning films, and went on to become an award-winning writer. An expert in the field of UFO research, Jolene is also the talent manager for researcher Derrel Sims, aka the Alien Hunter, who has appeared in many television programs. She married Eric Harrington on Sept. 7 1994 and is currently still married. They have no children, but many animals.
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Keegan Allen
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Keegan Phillip Allen (born July 22, 1989) is an American actor and musician. Allen is best known for his current role as Toby Cavanaugh on theABC Family hit series Pretty Little Liars. Keegan’s passion in his younger years tended towards photography, cinematography and other roles behind the camera. This coupled with his parents' background led up to his job as an actor on the front stage. At the age of thirteen Keegan landed his first paid job for a small, non-speaking role in a documentary for Animal Planet. He went on to star in a short film, Small Emergencies, as the Parakeet Owner’s Son in 2002. In 2010, after a long break from acting, Keegan starred in Nickelodeon’s TV show Big Time Rush. In the same year, he starred in a short film entitled As A Last Resort. Shortly after, Keegan secured his breakthrough role as Toby Cavanaugh, Spencer Hastings’ (played byTroian Bellisario) love interest on ABC’s Pretty Little Liars. He also made an appearance in CBS’ CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in 2011. This year, Allen played the role of Jake in an episode of Fox’s sitcom I Hate My Teenage Daughterand is currently working on a movie titled Bukowski, produced and directed by Hollywood star James Franco. Allen was nominated as Choice Summer TV Star: Male, for the 2011 Teen Choice Awards. Allen did not win, but he was nominated again in 2013 and won.
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Elsie Janis
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Elsie Janis (March 16, 1889 – February 26, 1956) was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter. Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as "the sweetheart of the AEF" (American Expeditionary Force). Janis was a tireless advocate for British and American soldiers fighting in World War I. She raised funds for Liberty Bonds. Janis also took her act on the road, entertaining troops stationed near the front lines - one of the first popular American artists to do so in a war fought on foreign soil. Ten days after the armistice she recorded for HMV several numbers from her revue Hullo, America, including Give Me the Moonlight, Give Me the Girl.
She wrote about her wartime experiences in The Big Show: My Six Months with the American Expeditionary Forces (published in 1919), and recreated them in a 1926 Vitaphone musical short, Behind the Lines. A new musical about this period of her life called "Elsie Janis and the Boys", written by Carol J. Crittenden and composer John T. Prestianni, premiered as part of the Rotunda Theatre Series in the Wortley-Peabody Theater in Dallas, TX on August 15, 2014. Her final film was the 1940 Women in War co-starring Wendy Barrie and Peter Cushing.
Elsie Janis died in 1956 at her home in Beverly Hills, California, aged 66, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Elsie Janis has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6776 Hollywood Blvd.
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Kyrstyn Kumor
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Kyrstyn Kumor (also known as kk) is a professional theatre director, filmmaker, writer, actress, dancer, singer, composer, cellist, popstar, knitter, photographer, video editor, and installation artist currently working in Montreal, Québec.
She enjoys investigating every creative impulse and loves getting obsessed with an idea until it fully consumes her. Kyrstyn Kumor thinks of art and ideas as things that are alive with their own wants, needs, and agency. She endlessly asks “How does this idea want to be materialized? What does this idea need from me? Want from me?” until some kind of truth gets revealed. Her work is multidisciplinary because the ideas demand versatility in form!
You can view all her work at kyrstynkumor.com
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Rob Simonsen
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Rob Simonsen (born March 11, 1978) is an American composer and conductor. He is best known for his scores in films such as 500 Days of Summer (2009), The Age of Adaline (2015), Gifted (2017), The Only Living Boy in New York (2017), Tully (2018), Love, Simon (2018), The Front Runner (2018), The Way Back (2020), Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), The Adam Project (2022), The Whale (2022), Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), and It Ends with Us (2024), and the television series Life in Pieces (2015–2019). He also collaborates with the directors Marc Webb, Jason Reitman and Shawn Levy.
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Heather Holley
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Heather Noelle Holley is an American music producer, songwriter, vocalist, vocal producer, composer, pianist, and Pro Tools engineer. Her work has contributed to the sale of over 29 million albums. Holley specializes in artist development and is widely recognized for her pivotal role in launching Christina Aguilera’s career. Alongside Elicit Productions partner Rob Hoffman (who has worked with Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, and Etta James), she wrote and produced recordings that ultimately led to Aguilera’s signing with RCA Records.
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Callum McDougall
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Callum McDougall is a British film producer and unit production manager.
McDougall began his journey in the film industry in 1979 as a production runner on projects like Victor/Victoria and the Hammer House of Horror television series. He progressed to roles such as third assistant director on films including Curse of the Pink Panther, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, The Keep, Sheena: Queen of the Jungle, and The Bride.
As a key second assistant director, McDougall worked on over twenty films and television series, notably Club Paradise, Gothic, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, Air America, The Witches, Jim Henson's The Storyteller, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Inspector Morse, and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, where he was later promoted to unit manager for two additional seasons.
In the 1990s, McDougall transitioned into production management. His credits as a unit production manager include GoldenEye, Fierce Creatures, 101 Dalmatians (live-action), Tomorrow Never Dies, and Alien Love Triangle. He also served as the executive in charge of production for DNA Films on Beautiful Creatures, Strictly Sinatra, and The Final Curtain.
McDougall's producing credits are extensive. He co-produced The Beach and Die Another Day, produced the comedy film The Parole Officer, and served as executive producer on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Wrath of the Titans, Skyfall, Spectre, Into the Woods, We Are Many, and Mary Poppins Returns.
His most acclaimed work was the 2019 World War I film 1917, which he produced. The film received critical acclaim and numerous awards, including two BAFTA Awards for Best Film and Outstanding British Film, the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture—Drama, the Producers Guild of America Award, and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
He is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), the Producers Guild of America (PGA), and the Directors Guild of America (DGA).
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