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Boualem Titiche

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Boualem Titiche (بوعلام تيتيشي), real name Boualem Mansouri, born in the Casbah of Algiers in Algeria on April 27, 1908, and died on December 1, 1989 in Algiers, is an Algerian ghaïta musician. He is considered the master of the zarnadji genre. From a young age, Boualem, born in 1908 in El Biar (Algiers), accompanied his father Hadj Ahmed on the percussion (tbilette). Hadj Ahmed, himself a zornadji master, bequeathed to his son the love of this music, the rigor in interpretation, the importance given to costume, but also the pseudonym “Titiche”. Boualemn Titiche, whose real name is Boualem Mansouri, was the most famous instrumentalist of zornadjia, a musical style inherited from the Ottoman era. He is at the Zorna, or Ghaita, this Mustapha Skandrani is on the piano, Abdelghani Belkaïd-Ahmed on the violin, or even Alilou (Debbah Ali) on the derbouka. He made it a point of honor to perpetuate the Zorna, worn by the ghaïta, the tbilett and the tbel, dressed in traditional Algerian costume: “serwal testifa” (traditional pants), “bediaa” (embroidered vest), chechia stamboul ( the headgear specific to city dwellers) and slippers on their feet, thus becoming the ambassador of a clothing style in decline. This costume would later become a festive outfit for children and would be used in several variations in shows, notably those of the national ballet. Boualem will also put his exceptional breath at the service of sport, by joining the running section of Mouloudia D’Algiers. In 1932, Boualem Titiche created his own orchestra, joined forces with the Andalusian music associations El Mossilia and El Djazaïria and won, the same year, the street cross organized between Bologhine and Ain Benian. After independence, he began to host shows and accompany successful singers of the time. Boualem Titiche will subsequently devote himself to teaching Zorna - music of military origin played in the open air - at the conservatory in his neighborhood in El Biar. Boualem Titiche died on December 1, 1989 in Algiers. He remains the greatest musician in Zorna, and still lives on through a prolific succession who perpetuate this art to the point of adopting in all circumstances the traditional Algerian costume, so dear to the illustrious Zernadji.
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Rob Stewart

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Was an award-winning biologist, photographer, conservationist and filmmaker. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Stewart began photographing underwater when he was 13. By the age of 18 he became a scuba instructor and then moved on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, studying in Ontario, Jamaica and Kenya. Before making Sharkwater (2007), Stewart spent four years travelling the world as chief photographer for the Canadian Wildlife Federation's magazines. Leading expeditions to the most remote areas of the world, Stewart has logged thousands of hours underwater using the latest in camera and rebreather technologies. Stewart's highly sought after images have appeared in nearly every media form worldwide. While on assignment to photograph sharks in the Galapagos Islands, Stewart discovered illegal longlining, indiscriminately killing sharks within the marine reserve. He tried promoting awareness through print media, but when the public didn't respond, Stewart decided to make a film to bring people closer to sharks. At the age of 22 he left his photography career behind and embarked on a remarkable journey over four years and 12 countries, resulting in the epic Sharkwater. When Stewart boarded Sea Shepherd's ship, Sharkwater took a turn from a beautiful underwater film into an incredible human drama filled with corruption, espionage, attempted murder charges and mafia rings, forcing Stewart and his crew to become part of the story. During filming, Stewart encountered life threatening obstacles, including diseases such as West Nile, Tuberculosis, Dengue Fever and flesh eating disease. Sharkwater has been hugely successful, premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival and winning a "Canada's Top Ten" award. Sharkwater made history with the largest opening weekend of any Canadian documentary, and was the most award-winning documentary of the year, winning over 35 awards at prestigious film festivals around the world. As of 2012 it is the third highest grossing Canadian documentary in the last ten years, next to the high budget films, Nascar and Oceans. Stewart's hardcover book, Sharkwater: An Odyssey to Save the Planet, was released in October 2007 by Key Porter Books. His book Save the Humans will be released in the Fall of 2012 by Random House. Stewart continues to work towards conservation and environmental education, speaking at the University of Victoria, Yale University, Vancouver Aquarium, ROM, various TEDx events, and others. Stewart is on the board of numerous conservation groups including WildAid, Shark Savers and the Shark Research Institute, and recently founded his own charity, United Conservationists, based in Los Angeles and Toronto. He has made featured appearances on numerous high profile TV shows including Larry King Live, The Today Show, Tonight Show, The Late Show, Nightline, Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, ET Canada, Bloomberg, The Hour, BBC1, MTV and others. In a 2011 The Grid Magazine survey, he was voted top living resident for making Toronto a better place. Stewart is currently completing work on his second film, Revolution, due in theatres in 2013, with a companion rich digital media component, and How-to Guide to save humanity.
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Hermione Gingold

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Hermione Gingold (9 December 1897 – 24 May 1987) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona, an image enhanced by her sharp nose and chin, as well as her deepening voice, a result of vocal nodes which her mother reportedly encouraged her not to remove. She starred on stage, on radio, in films, on television, and in recordings. She also appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hermione Gingold, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Jack Dempsey

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey (June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983), nicknamed "Kid Blackie" and "The Manassa Mauler", was an American professional boxer who competed from 1914 to 1927, and reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1919 to 1926. A cultural icon of the 1920s, Dempsey's aggressive fighting style and exceptional punching power made him one of the most popular boxers in history. Many of his fights set financial and attendance records, including the first million-dollar gate. Dempsey is ranked as tenth on The Ring magazine's list of all-time heavyweights and seventh among its Top 100 Greatest Punchers, while in 1950 the Associated Press voted him as the greatest fighter of the past 50 years. He is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, and was inducted into The Ring's Boxing Hall of Fame in 1951.
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Severn Darden

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Severn Teakle Darden Jr. (November 9, 1929 – May 27, 1995) was an American comedian and actor, and a founding member of The Second City Chicago-based comedy troupe as well as its predecessor, the Compass Players. He is known from his film appearances for playing the human leader Kolp in the fourth and fifth Planet of the Apes films. His live comedy improv skit under the character of "Walther von der Vogelweide" was influential with two generations of comic performers. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he attended the University of Chicago, where he was a "campus legend" according to poet Paul Carroll. Darden’s offbeat and intellectual sense of humor was a major element in the style of The Second City at that time, and is evident throughout his work. Carroll described him as a combination of surrealistic New Orleans and tough, caustic "Chicago Style" comedy. An example of his offbeat humor is the way he squeezed the phrase "Know thyself" into the seven-character limitation of a New Mexico license plate: NOYOSEF. Darden was a core comedian in Paul Sills' Compass Players, the first improvisation theater in the US; it performed around the Chicago area during the mid-1950s. Sills went on to found The Second City in 1959 and brought in many of the comedians from Compass Players, including Darden.
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Elisa Sednaoui

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Elisa Sednaoui (born December 14, 1987) is a model, actress, philanthropist and film director of Italian, Egyptian, and French descent.She has appeared in such films as Eastern Drift,La Baie du renard, Bus Palladium,Les Gamins, and Remember Now,as well as in fashion campaigns for Chanel Eyewear, Giorgio Armani, Missoni and Roberto Cavalli.In 2013, she created the Elisa Sednaoui Foundation, dedicated to promoting creative learning, after-school initiatives for youngsters. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elisa Sednaoui, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Jaycie Dotin

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Jaycie is an American born actor who now calls Vancouver, British Columbia home. She started her "one-woman show" at the ripe age of 3 atop the coffee table in her living room and no one has been able to stop her since. Hailing from Akron, Ohio (no, she doesn't know [link-nm1429908]) she was inspired to pursue a career in the arts by her father, Richard Dotin, former lead vocalist and keyboard player of the Billboard Award nominated disco band, LaFlavour. After years of early childhood training in small theatres, performing arts programs, and dance studios (shout out to Theatre 8:15) Jaycie attended Wright State University's BFA program and declared Musical Theatre as her major. After two short years in the program, Jaycie was hired as a lead vocalist on Holland America Cruise Lines and proceeded to work for Royal Caribbean and Princess where she was a backup vocalist for Adrian Zmed. She then went on to become a lead vocalist in "Donn Arden's: Jubilee" at Bally's hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. After her stint in Vegas, Jaycie moved to Los Angeles where she started her commercial career representing international brands such as Clorox, Crayola, and Dr. Scholls. Shortly after her move, Jaycie was nominated for a Los Angeles Ovation Award for her performance as Brooke Wyndham in Legally Blonde the Musical. After her well deserved nomination, Jaycie joined the Broadway National Tour of Jersey Boys the Musical as "Loraine". Once her time on tour ended, Jaycie took her talents over the border and became a permanent resident of Canada, where she currently resides. Once settled in Vancouver (otherwise known as Hollywood North), Jaycie decided to focus on her film and television career and the industry welcomed her with open arms. Within the first few years, she was honored to work with some heavy-hitters like Marc Webb on the CBS pilot Republic of Sarah (2019), J.D. Dillard on CBS's The Twilight Zone (2019), and Christina Voros for a recurring role on ABC's hit show Big Sky (2020). Jaycie has accumulated over 28 film/TV credits, appeared in a dozen print/commercial campaigns, and is currently co-writing her first feature screenplay (2021). She attributes her success to the never ending support of her family, her dog, and a steady supply of snacks.
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Ana Serradilla

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Ana Isabel Serradilla Garcia, known simply as Ana Serradilla in the art world, is an actress born in the city of M xico, on August 9, 1978. Because of its beautiful image and great presence gave start to his career in television, doing business and being part of the Mexican campaign "live drug-free". While he was studying graphic design at the Universidad Intercontinental, she was invited by the school of TV azteca in 1998, to hone his skills as an actress, therefore only it could be part of higher education for five months. Very diligent to his acting classes at the mentioned school of dramatic art, Ana nor could follow studies at all, because soon become student was discovered and was selected for the lead role in the production of "Chiquititas", a production of Azteca and Telefe in Argentina. Then do the telenovela in the Argentina capital, Ana returns to his country where again takes up his acting classes at the CEFAC, on this occasion their teachers would be H ctor Mendoza and Raul Quintanilla. Again selected to participate in the Mexican soap opera "Life in the mirror", he shared his time recording sets and classes. In this production, Ana gives life to Paulita, partner of actor Diego Luna. After time, would have a special series performance "Bewitch me", Mexican version of the remembered series Bewitched American, played by the late Elizabeth Montgomery. Would be the actress protagonist in the series "Lo que callamos las mujeres" and "Moment of decision" some time later. Ana Serradilla also had some shares on the big screen, and made his debut with the short film Tomas Farkas the Goblin of the clock in 1999, subsequently awarded and recognized as best short film at the Film Festival in Milan. He received a nomination for female revelation in the goddesses of silver, for his first leading role in the feature film a rare world. Between September 2003 and March 2004 becomes member of the cast of the telenovela "Mirada de mujer, the return", in the role of Carolina and sharing credits with Ang lica Aragon cr, Ari Telch, Evangelina Elizondo and Mauricio Ochman, among others. Several other projects led her to participate in 2006 on "Champions" in the role of Isabel Chaparro. That same year he appears in the film Cansada de besar sapos, where she plays a girl tired of men, became staying in "Hombreriega". This production was one of the best contemporary comedies made in M xico. A year after working in film directed and which also acts Gael Garcia Bernal "D deficit" and for 2008 it participates in the series "Desperate housewives" version in Spanish of "Desesperate Housewives" in the role of Gabriela Solis. His most recent work has been in the series of TV Azteca of 2010 titled "Drowning", playing the role of Lucia Santos.
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Shiva Shrestha

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Shiva Shrestha, widely revered as the "Action King" of Nepali cinema, is a legendary superstar whose career defined the industry's golden era throughout the 1980s and 90s. After making a massive debut in the 1982 hit Jeevan Rekha, he became a household name through iconic films like Kanchhi and Chino, the latter of which remains one of the most successful films in Nepali history. Shrestha is uniquely distinguished as the only Nepali actor to achieve significant international stardom in Pakistan, where he headlined numerous Urdu-language blockbusters such as Lawa and Hum Ek Hai during the mid-1980s. Known for his high-energy stunts, distinct dancing style, and his persona as the beloved "Thuldai," he has successfully transitioned from a leading action hero to a respected producer and mentor, continuing to influence the industry into 2026 by supporting new talent and appearing in major projects like Prem Geet 3.
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