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Dave Hunt
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David Charles "Dave" Haddon Hunt (September 30, 1926 – April 5, 2013) was an American Christian apologist, speaker, radio commentator and author. He was in full-time ministry from 1973 until his death. The Berean Call, which highlights Hunt's material, was started in 1992. From 1999 to 2010, he also hosted Search the Scriptures Daily radio ministry alongside T.A. McMahon. Hunt traveled to the Near East, lived in Egypt, and wrote numerous books on theology, prophecy, cults, and other religions, including critiques of Catholicism, Islam, Mormonism, and Calvinism, among others. Hunt's Christian theology was evangelical dispensational and he was associated with the Plymouth Brethren movement.
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Abdelhalim Rais
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Abdelhalim Rais (birth name Boualem Raïs) is an Algerian actor and comedian, born January 4, 1924 in the casbah of Algiers and died November 8, 1979.
Boualem Raïs, chose the pseudonym "Abdelhalim" after the name of Abdelhalim Hafid whom he adored so much, grew up alongside the mujahideen and worked as a postman, public writer and was also employed in an electricity and gas company. However, what fascinated him was song, music and comedy. From time to time, he went to the Mahieddine-Bachtarzi rehearsal room (located rue du Lézard in Algiers) where he began to meet and know the artists. At the beginning of his career, when he was only twenty years old, he began writing ditties and participating in theatrical plays. At this time in 1934 he wrote the play "El Yatime" (the orphan) and joined the troupe El Hilal El Djazairi of which he was a founding member.
In 1946, he left for Morocco where he played in two films "Chadad El Adil" alongside Djeloul Bach Djarah and Maarouf with Mohamed Touri. Back in Algiers, he joined the Algerian Radio team and began preparing programs on police theater. In 1947, Mahieddine Bachtarzi, who initiated the Arab theater season at the former Algiers Opera (currently the National Theater), presented the play "Monserrat" with Mustapha Kateb. The latter was presented for the first time to the Algerian public by the MTLD troupe (of which Raïs was a member) in November 1949 and, let us emphasize, in the presence of the French author Emmanuel Roblès. Raïs will subsequently play in the play "Chemchoum El Djazair" by Mohamed Ouadah, "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" by Molière... He then writes several plays including "Hya El Hayat" (C'est La Vie) and "Bin Narain" (Entre Deux Feux) at a time when theater had a good relationship with the National Movement. In 1950, the MTLD troupe had participated in several festivals in communist countries (Berlin in 1952, Budapest in 1953, Warsaw 1955...).
In 1953, Raïs wrote, "Sidi El Hadj", "Mourad Wahid" and "Hadi Hya Dounia". In 1954, at the outbreak of the war of national liberation, the FLN ordered the cessation of all artistic and cultural activities. At the beginning of 1956, Raïs was forced to leave for France like many Algerian artists of the time and joined the Algerian theater troupe founded by Mustapha Kateb in 1940. At the end of 1956, the Federation planned to found the FLN artistic troupe and at the beginning of 1957 , Boumendjel contacted Mustapha Kateb to set up this troupe which was formed and gave birth to the epic Nahw Ennour in 1958. At this time, Raïs began to write plays on the Revolution and the Algerian people. The most famous of his plays "Les Enfants de la Casbah" (May 10, 1959), "El Ahidoun", "Dam Elahrare" tour throughout the country. After independence in 1962, Raïs joined Algerian Radio and Television and played in several films such as "The Night Afraid of the Sun" (1965), "Hassan Térro" (1965), "Chronicle of the Ember Years", "Opium and the Stick", "El Moukafeh"...
And while he was in the middle of shooting a film in Bousaâda in 1979, Raïs suffered a cardiac arrest and died on the spot. He is buried in the El Kettar cemetery in Algiers.
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Andy Lau
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Andy Lau Tak-Wah (Chinese: 劉德華, born 27 September 1961) is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer, actor, presenter, and film producer. Lau has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, performing in more than 160 films while maintaining a successful singing career at the same time. The media refer to Aaron Kwok Fu-Shing, Jacky Cheung Hok-Yau, Leon Lai Ming and him as the Cantopop Four Kings (四大天王).
For his contributions, a wax figure of Lau was unveiled on 1 June 2005 at the Madame Tussauds Hong Kong. He also entered into Guinness World Records for "Most Awards Won by a Cantopop Male Artist". By April 2000, he had already won a total unprecedented 292 awards.
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Kelly Cheung
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Cheung was born in Hong Kong and was raised there until she was ten years old before moving to Chicago. She graduated from University of Illinois Chicago with a degree in Business Administration.
Cheung, Miss Chinese International Pageant 2012, represented Hong Kong, at Miss World 2012 in Ordos, Inner Mongolia. Cheung also had a successful modeling career prior to her pageant wins. Cheung relocated to Hong Kong in 2013 and joined the English language channel TVB Pearl and TVB Jade as a television presenter, hosting Dolce Vita and Pearl Entertainment Tonight, and Scoop.
In 2016, Cheung made her acting debut in the legal drama "Law dis-Order". In 2019, she starred in the critical acclaimed medical drama "Big White Duel", receiving attention from netizens. She gained recognition by winning the Most Improved Female Artiste award at the 2019 TVB Anniversary Awards.
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Kathleen Gati
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Kathleen Gati (born 1967) is a Canadian TV and movie actress.
Daughter of Hungarian immigrants in Canada, a symphony conductor and an opera singer, her career spanning the early 80s to present day. She has appeared in many productions, including All My Children, The Practice, NYPD Blue, ER, Meet the Fockers, Desperate Housewives and Las Vegas. She currently plays Russian First Lady Anya Suvarov on 24. Starred in the 2008 film The House Bunny.
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John O'Hurley
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John George O'Hurley Jr. (born October 9, 1954) is an American actor, comedian, singer, author, game show host, and television personality. He is known for his portrayal of J. Peterman on the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, his voice acting as the original King Neptune on SpongeBob SquarePants, and for hosting the game show Family Feud from 2006 to 2010. He also hosted To Tell the Truth from 2000 to 2002 in syndication.
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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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Javier Batiz
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Mexican guitarist from Tijuana and precursor of rock in Mexico. In 1957 he founded a group called Los TJ's with which he picked up musical influences that were received in the Mexican border cities of black music, blues and R&B from people like T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, James Brown, among others.
Bátiz moved to Mexico City. By 1968 Javier Bátiz became a famous figure in the Mexican blues world and was hired to play at the Terraza Casino bar, which turned out to be a successful season. Personalities from all walks of life gathered there every night to draw impressive crowds, including politicians, artists and intellectuals. That popularity led him to perform in 1969 at the first massive open-air concert in Mexico held by authorities of the then Mexico City Department in the Alameda Central, where according to eyewitness estimates, Javier played to an audience of at least 18,000 people. Known as a teacher of people such as: Carlos Santana, Alex Lora, Abraham Laboriel, Fito de la Parra (Canned Heat), and Guillermo Briseño. Carlos Santana has always been recognized as the creator of Javier Bátiz's sound. In the year 2000 he participated in Canned Heat's Boogie 2000 album, with the song ¨The world of make believe¨ song that took the first places in Europe, which allowed him to travel with Canned Heat on tour in Milan, Ceseña, Terramo and Naples, in Italy. He presented his Metromental Recording which featured the seventies genius with a modern treatment in arrangements and production by Tony and Beto Méndez and special collaborations by Álex Lora, Lalo Toral (Locos de Ritmo), Guillermo Briseño, Nando Estevane and Fernando Vahaux among others.
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Vivian Fleming-Alvarez
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Vivian Fleming-Alvarez was born Vivian Celeste Fleming in Tampa Florida. Her interest in the arts was first discovered when she spontaneously decided at age 15 to try-out for her high school cheerleading squad. After she failed to make the squad, Vivian was approached by the school's baseball coach who said, "Sorry you didn't make the squad, but I heard your dance routine was awesome...you should try-out for the dance squad". So she did...and she made the squad! Sparking her love of dance and performing. After graduating from high school, Vivian continued performing through dance as an NFL Football Cheerleader for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for 4 years. Both experiences were precursors to her acting career. Vivian has held her own in many industries and has earned the admiration and respect of her family, friends and peers alike. There is no limit for Vivian, who is very focused, determined and has a sense of humor to balance. Be sure to stay tuned! Vivian studies (ongoing) at Performer's Studio Workshop (PSW) in Tampa Florida.
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Alexander Adabashyan
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Actor, writer, designer and director Aleksandr Artyomovich Adabashyan was born in Moscow in 1945 the same year as his friend and steady collaborator Nikita Mikhalkov. The two men’s varied pairings began in 1974 when Adabashyan production designed Mikhalkov’s feature debut “At Home Among Strangers, Strangers at Home”, a low budget “Borscht Western” set during the bloody Russian civil war following the Bolshevik revolution. Adabashyan has designed eight Mikhalkov films in all, physically realizing such disparate visions as Moscow during the Khrushchev regime in 1979’s “Five Evenings,” mid-nineteenth century St. Petersburg in 1980’s “Oblomov”, and the infant Soviet film industry in 1976’s “Slave of Love”. In addition, Adabashyan has some two dozen writing credits to his name including multiple pairings with Mikhalkov. After making his onscreen debut in “At Home Among Strangers”, Adabashyan has made frequent appearances in Russian film and television, primarily in character roles.
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