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Charles H. Joffe

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Charles H. Joffe (July 16, 1929 – July 9, 2008) was an American film producer and comedy talent manager. He is best known as, in partnership with Jack Rollins, the producer or executive producer of most of Woody Allen's films. Joffe won the 1977 Academy Award for Best Picture as producer of Allen's Annie Hall. Annie Hall was listed as "A Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production", though only Joffe took producer credit and received the Academy Award for Best Picture. Both were Allen's longtime managers and had that credit on all his films from 1969 to 1993. Joffe focused more on Allen, with Rollins focusing on others. Their clients also included Robert Klein and David Letterman. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Glenn Berggoetz

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Glenn Berggoetz is the writer and director of twelve feature films. His newest releases are the 2018 comedy "Poetry Slammed" and the 2018 thriller/horror film "Paralyzed with Fear" that stars Kane Hodder of "Friday the 13th" fame. His comedy "The Death of Ivan Nussbaum" that stars stand-up comic Pete Buchbauer is slated for a 2019 release. Berggoetz's films are screened at film festivals around the world, and many of his films are now available for streaming on Amazon and for DVD purchase on many websites. Crowned "the king of indie comedy" by Examiner.com, "Paste" magazine (which ranked Berggoetz's film "To Die is Hard" as the 16th-best B movie in cinema history) has said of Berggoetz that, "It's impossible to not be charmed by him" and "The man is a genius." Berggoetz is the author of the book "The Independent Filmmaker's Guide: Make Your Feature Film for $2,000" and frequently makes speaking appearances.
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Michael Vick

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Michael Dwayne Vick (/vɪk/; VIK; born June 26, 1980) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Atlanta Falcons and the Philadelphia Eagles. Renowned for his rushing ability and dynamic play, he was a four-time Pro Bowl selection and became the first quarterback in NFL history to rush for over 1,000 yards in a single season. Vick played 13 seasons in the league: with the Falcons from 2001 to 2006, the Eagles from 2009 to 2013, the New York Jets in 2014, and the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2015. He retired as the NFL’s all-time leader in quarterback rushing yards, revolutionizing the position with his dual-threat style.
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Michel Rocard

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Michel Rocard (23 August 1930 – 2 July 2016) was a French politician and a member of the Socialist Party (PS). He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991 during which he created the Revenu minimum d'insertion (RMI), a social minimum welfare program for indigents, and achieved the Matignon Accords regarding the status of New Caledonia. He was a member of the European Parliament, and was strongly involved in European policies until 2009. In 2007, he joined a Commission under the authority of Nicolas Sarkozy's Minister of Education, Xavier Darcos. Rocard was born in Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, to a Protestant family. The son of nuclear physicist Yves Rocard, he entered politics as a student leader while he was studying at Sciences Po. He became chair of the French Socialist Students affiliated to the main French Socialist party at the time, the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), and studied at the École nationale d'administration (ENA), after which he chose to enter the prestigious Inspection des finances. As an anti-colonialist, he went to Algeria and wrote a report regarding the widely-ignored refugee camps of the Algerian War (1954–1962). The report was leaked to the newspapers Le Monde and France Observateur in April 1959, which almost cost Rocard his position. Michel Rocard was a certified glider pilot. Having left the SFIO because of Guy Mollet's position towards the Algerian War, Rocard led the dissident Unified Socialist Party (PSU) from 1967 to 1974. He was a prominent figure during the May 1968 crisis, supporting the auto-gestionary project. He ran in the 1969 presidential election but obtained only 3.6% of the vote. Some months later, he was elected deputy for the Yvelines département, defeating the former Prime minister Maurice Couve de Murville. He lost his parliamentary seat in 1973, but retook it in 1978. In 1973–74, he participated in the LIP conflict, selling watches with the workers and participating, behind the scenes, in the attempts to find an employer who would take back the factory, which was on the verge of being liquidated. In 1974, he joined François Mitterrand and the renewed Socialist Party (PS), which had replaced the old SFIO. Most of the PSU members and a part of the French and Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT) trade union – the non-Marxist section of the left that Rocard famously defined as the "Second Left" – followed him. Elected mayor of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in 1977, he led the opposition to Mitterrand inside the Socialist Party (as a candidate of the right wing of the party). After the defeat of the left at the 1978 legislative election, he tried to take over the leadership of the party. In spite of his alliance with Pierre Mauroy, the number 2 of the PS, he lost at the Metz Congress (1979). As the Socialist Party's most popular politician at the time (including Mitterrand himself), he announced that he would run for president; but his "Call of Conflans" did not result in majority support within the PS, and he withdrew his candidacy. Mitterrand was the successful Socialist candidate in the 1981 presidential election. ... Source: Article "Michel Rocard" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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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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Steve Jobs

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Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur, marketer,[ and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he is widely recognized as a charismatic and design-driven pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields, transforming "one industry after another, from computers and smartphones to music and movies." Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar. Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa and, a year later, the Macintosh. He also played a role in introducing the LaserWriter, one of the first widely available laser printers, to the market. After a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm, which was spun off as Pixar. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer. He served as CEO and majority shareholder until Disney's purchase of Pixar in 2006. In 1996, after Apple had failed to deliver its operating system, Copland, Gil Amelio turned to NeXT Computer, and the NeXTSTEP platform became the foundation for the Mac OS X. Jobs returned to Apple as an advisor, and took control of the company as an interim CEO. Jobs brought Apple from near bankruptcy to profitability by 1998. As the new CEO of the company, Jobs oversaw the development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and on the services side, the company's Apple Retail Stores, iTunes Store and the App Store. The success of these products and services provided several years of stable financial returns, and propelled Apple to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company in 2011. The reinvigoration of the company is regarded by many commentators as one of the greatest turnarounds in business history. In 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreas neuroendocrine tumor. Though it was initially treated, he reported a hormone imbalance, underwent a liver transplant in 2009, and appeared progressively thinner as his health declined. On medical leave for most of 2011, Jobs resigned in August that year, and was elected Chairman of the Board. He died of respiratory arrest related to the tumor on October 5, 2011. Jobs received a number of honors and public recognition for his influence in the technology and music industries. He has been referred to as "legendary", a "futurist" and a "visionary", and has been described as the "Father of the Digital Revolution," a "master of innovation," "the master evangelist of the digital age" and a "design perfectionist."
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Chutavuth Pattarakampol

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Chutavuth Pattarakhumphol, nicknamed March, is a Thai actor and Host of Play Channel under GTH On Air. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy, Chulalongkorn University in 2015. March’s passion to pursue an acting career was rediscovered after he watched the romantic comedy Hello Stranger and felt deeply inspired by the film. His journey in the entertainment industry started right after he won the first prize in the “Friend For Film” contest, which was hosted by Thailand’s most successful film studio GTH in 2011.
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Liu Wei

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Liu Wei, born in Anshan, Liaoning Province, is a Chinese singer, actor, and presenter. In 2005, Liu Wei participated in the second Leica my style show to win the championship. In October, he won the global Chinese rookie singing contest. In November 2009, he participated in the film "Song and Dance Youth"; in 2013, he participated in the comedy "One Night Surprise", and in December recorded the fifth season of "Amazing Big Coffee Show". In April 2014, the debut album "SomeOne" was released; in January 2015, he participated in the military-themed TV series "Born by Perfection". In July 2018, he participated in the Oriental TV variety show "New Dance Forest Conference".
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Erlend Mørch

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A Norwegian comedian, actor, director, writer and journalist from Oslo. Mørch studied at Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology, a university dedicated to media studies and creative subjects. In his early career, Mørch worked with comedy collective Humornieu producing short skits published to YouTube. Later working as a journalist for the culture focused magazine NATT&DAG, writing articles focused on politics and social media. In 2020 he co-created and co-wrote the show, Sigurd Fåkke Pult, with Steinar Klouman Hallert for Discovery Norway, launching his career in mainstream Norwegian media. In early 2023 Mørch started the podcast Radio Mørch, a one-on-one dialogue format with guests for each episode. Later the same year, it was announced that he had signed with the Norwegian national broadcasting channel NRK, where he would create new content in addition to producing Radio Mørch. Soon after the move to NRK, a new podcast named Både Erlend og Steinar was launched with Steinar Klouman Hallert as co-host, where the focus of each episode would be discussion of thought experiments from both the audience and the hosts themselves. This collaboration with Steinar Klouman Hallert continued when the two co-wrote and co-created the animated show Hellerudsvingen for NRK in 2024.
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Ross McCormack

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Ross McCormack's career began on the West End stage aged 9 where he played lead roles in no less than three West End musicals for Cameron Mackintosh. His training was at the New York Film Academy and the prestigious Tring Park School for the Performing Arts (formerly Arts educational School). Ross is of Anglo-Irish descent and was raised in Essex, not only a very talented actor, he is also an highly skilled drummer and played the world famous drummer; Kenny Jones of The Small Faces in a biographical play about that very same group. Ross has gone on to appear in a number of television series and films in the UK. Ross played Young Singe in the feature film Mum's List, Ross's character in adult life is played by the English actor Rafe Spall, the film, written and directed by Niall Johnson (White Noise, Keeping Mum), is based on the best-selling book by St John (Singe) Greene. Ross is also a professional DJ, playing in clubs across the world.
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