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Joe Romersa

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joseph M. Romersa (born July 27, 1956 in California) is an American song writer, drummer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, sound engineer and vocalist. While many know him from his singing and lyric writing on the "Silent Hill" game series, many people also know him from his former group "Soy Cowboy", which can only half-accurately be described as a "Thai-Western" band. During his long career, Joe has also worked with such other musicians as John Prine (where he was given a Grammy for participating as Recording engineer, and drums on Prine's 1991 Grammy winning album The Missing Years which won for best contemporary folk album), and Carlene Carter, eden ahbez, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Tom Petty, Laurence Juber, Bonnie Raitt, Bette Midler, David Lindley, Whoopi Goldberg, Poco, Thin White Rope, Bruce Springsteen, Angelyne, Havana, The Dickies, Melanie, The Lettermen, Peaches, Miki Howard, John Klemmer, Iron Butterfly, Egyptian Lover, Bitch, Dave Edmunds, Freddy Cannon, Don Julian & the Larks, Mary Wells, Big Mama Thornton, The Coasters, and Bob Dylan whom he has several humorous stories about. Joe also won an Electronic Music Award in 1973. He is also known for his voice-over work in several Japanese anime projects. Joe currently lives in California, and still produces music at Shadow Box Studios. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joe Romersa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Scott Olson

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Scott Olson is an American guitarist, bassist, music producer and recording engineer. He played guitar with Heart between 1995 and 1998 and between 2002 and 2003, and in 1996 he performed with Alice In Chains on their MTV Unplugged concert. Olson was a recording consultant for Cameron Crowe's 2000 film Almost Famous. He performed with Alice in Chains again on February 18, 2005, during a benefit concert in Seattle for the victims of the 2004 tsunami disaster, and joined the band one more time to perform the song "No Excuses" at their concert in Washington, D.C., on October 25, 2006. Olson produced and engineered albums for artists such as Heart, Jerry Cantrell, Queensrÿche, Deftones, Limp Bizkit, Pauline Oliveros, Powerman 5000, Unearth, Buckcherry and Dredg.
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Gavin Heffernan

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Canadian filmmaker, genre screenwriter based in Los Angeles. Co-writing credits with frequent collaborator Adam Robitel include the psychological horror hit The Taking (2014), Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015) for Paramount Pictures, and an upcoming supernatural thriller for Sony produced by Sam Raimi. On the television side, Heffernan and Robitel are developing an original horror series with Darren Aronofsky's Protozoa Pictures. Gavin is also known for directing experimental visual works, primarily timelapse, most notably featured in The Rolling Stones' 2015-2016 concerts, the 2016 Roger Waters tour, and Paul Simon's 2018 Homeward Bound Farewell Tour. An alumnus of McGill University and the American Film Institute, Heffernan first hit the independent scene by writing, directing and starring in his micro-budget feature film Expiration (2003). Catching the attention of Variety, Film Festival Today and Ain't it Cool News, the $10,000 Montreal feature took Grand Prize at the 2004 Canadian Filmmakers Festival in Toronto and was later named "the first major work of the Student-DV New Wave" by The Film Journal. Heffernan's experimental timelapses have been featured on Virgin America, BBC Earth, five seasons of Bravo's first scripted show Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce (2014), and many other press and TV outlets, including TIME Magazine, CNN, National Geographic, CBS News, and WIRED,among others. His shots have been used in Science Channel's Alien Encounters (2013) series, Travel Channel's Trip Flip (2012), and the celebrated LGBT documentary Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine (2014). Heffernan has also directed and produced many successful short and experimental films. Premiering at the 2008 SXSW Film Festival, his unconventional anti-war film Grand Wheel (2008) played more than forty festivals in over fifteen countries and was presented with the Silver Bear at the 37th Festival of Nations in Austria, Best Cinematography at the 2008 Canadian Filmmakers' Festival and Best Experimental Film at the 2009 Oxford Film Festival. Heffernan's subsequent collection of experimental HD Short Films titled Devolution (2010) won an Audience Choice Award at the 2010 Hollyshorts Film Festival in LA. The sequel, a sci-fi throwback about UFOs attacking earth, Devolution: Reckoning (2011) was also a popular draw, premiering at the Festival Nouveau Cinema in Montreal and playing over fifteen subsequent festivals.
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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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Viola Valentino

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Viola Valentino (born July 1, 1952 as Virginia Minnetti) is an Italiansinger. Virginia Minnetti was born in 1952. She started her career as a singer in 1968 under the name Virginia and later began to sing with her then husband in a duet named Renzo & Virginia. Some time later Virginia was noticed by Giancarlo Lucariello, a producer of the Italian rock band Pooh. It was he who created an image of a sexy but delicate woman for her as well as her manner to sing with a subdued voice. In 1979, Virginia starts singing under the name Viola Valentino. Her first song Comprami (“Buy Me”) made her famous and was sold in a great number of copies in Italy and Spain. In 1980, Viola sings two other songs that also become hits, Sei una bomba (“You Are a Bomb”) and Anche noi facciamo pace (“We Will Make Peace Too”). In the same year, her first album Cinema (“Cinema”) comes out. In 1982, Viola Valentino takes part in Festival di Sanremo for the first time with the song Romantici (“Romantic”) which also became a hit. In the same year, her second album In primo piano (“In the Foreground”) and another hit Sola (“Alone”) comes out. At that time, Viola Valentino was in the zenith of her fame and was invited to act in the film Delitto sull’autostrada (“A Crime on a Highway”). In 1983, she takes part in Festival di Sanremo again with the song Arriva arriva (“Come, Come”). Since then, the public interest in Viola Valentino began to fade. In the 1980s, Viola acted in the films Due strani papà (“Two Strange Daddies”, 1983) and Le volpi della notte (“Night Foxes”, 1986). In 1986, Viola sings the song Il posto della luna (“The Place of the Moon”), which had moderate success. In 1991, an album Un angelo dal cielo (“An Angel from Heaven”) came out which included the best songs by Viola Valentino. For some time, Viola Valentino was married to a well-known Italian singer Riccardo Fogli, which contributed to her popularity; later, however, they divorced. Two times Viola’s photos were cover photos of Playboy.
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Nathan Wiley

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Nathan Wiley is an English-born American actor that works in theater, TV, film, and voice acting. (He is not the English singer with the same name.) He is most known for his role in the stage production of The Glass Menagerie. He has also appeared in Teddy Ferrara at the Donmar 2015, and Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (Bath Theatre Royal). Wiley was nominated for best newcomer at the Manchester Theatre Awards in 2014. He also worked along with Fiona Hampton in The Good Neighbour (film), The Glass Menagerie (play), and the short film Run. He has had several acting gigs in films including The Commuter (2018), Justice League (2017) and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), Red 2 (2013). He has also appeared on TV shows including Absentia (2017) and The Program (2015). He is the voice narrator of ID's true-crime series Web of Lies (seasons 1,2,4-6). He has had other voice roles in video games and promos.
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Xander Berkeley

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Alexander Harper Berkeley (born December 16, 1955) is an American actor. He is known for his television roles as Sheriff Thomas McAllister on the crime drama The Mentalist, George Mason on the political thriller series 24, Percy Rose on the action thriller series Nikita, the Man on The Booth At The End and Gregory in AMC's The Walking Dead. His notable film roles include Todd Voight in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Agent Gibbs in Air Force One, Bowery Snax in Sid and Nancy, Dr. Lamar in Gattaca, Trevor Lyle in Candyman and Ralph in Heat.
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Keye Luke

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Keye Luke (Chinese: 陸錫麒, Cantonese: Luk Shek Kee; June 18, 1904 – January 12, 1991) was a Chinese-American actor. He was known for playing Lee Chan, the "Number One Son" in the Charlie Chan films, the original Kato in the 1939–1941 Green Hornet film serials, Brak in the 1960s Space Ghost cartoons, Master Po in the television series Kung Fu, and Mr. Wing in the Gremlins films. He was the first Chinese-American contract player signed by RKO, Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was one of the most prominent Asian actors of American cinema in the mid-twentieth century.
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Seiya Sanada

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Seiya Sanada, better known by his mononymous ring name SANADA, is a Japanese professional wrestler signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) who debuted in 2007 for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW). He is a one-time IWGP World Heavyweight Champion, holding the longest reign at 271 days, a one-time IWGP United States Heavyweight Champion, a three-time IWGP Tag Team Champion, and a three-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion alongside BUSHI and EVIL. Additionally, SANADA won the World Tag League in 2017 and 2018 with EVIL and captured the New Japan Cup in 2023. He has also received recognition from Pro Wrestling Illustrated, being ranked No. 11 in the PWI 500 in 2023, and won the Tokyo Sports Best Bout Award in 2019 for his match against Kazuchika Okada on October 14 at King of Pro-Wrestling.
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Joanne Guest

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Joanne Guest, known as Jo Guest, was born on February 22, 1972, in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, and grew up on Poplar Drive in Glapwell. Of English descent, she attended the former Heath School (1963-1991) and studied Hotel Management at Chesterfield College while working as a magician’s assistant and taking a catering course. At the height of her popularity in the 90s there was a long-standing rumor that Guest was the pretty magician's assistant who was working with Tommy Cooper when he died on stage during a televised magic show in 1984 of a massive heart attack. But as the internet became more prevalent in the early 2000s, and older TV shows were getting uploaded on platforms like YouTube, it was clear that Guest was not the assistant. Born in 1972, she also would have been only 12 years old in 1984. She began modeling after responding to a local advertisement. When she first went into the agency with her medium-length dark brown hair, she was told to wait in the lobby, and they might get to her. She left after 20 minutes. She went home and dyed her hair blonde. She returned the next day and was immediately ushered into meeting the owner and was shooting that day with their photographer, who would send her pics to every lad's mag in Britain. Known professionally as Jo Guest, with aliases like Hollie Dahlberg and Joanne Guest in some publications, she appeared as a Page 3 girl in The Sun (1993-1998) and featured in British “top shelf” magazines like Mayfair, Men Only, Men’s World, Escort, Razzle, and Whitehouse. Her Loaded cover was projected onto the Houses of Parliament in May 1998, and she starred in the Playboy video Shagalicious British Babes.
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