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Yūzō Kayama

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Yūzō Kayama (加山 雄三 Kayama Yūzō) is a Japanese popular musician and film star, born on 11 April 1937. His father, Ken Uehara, was a film star during the 1930s. Yuzo Kayama became a big star in the 1960s in the Wakadaishō (Young Guy) film series. He showed his ability for drama when Akira Kurosawa cast him for his 1965 film, Red Beard, starring Toshirō Mifune. Kayama reported that he found the two years spent making this film the most difficult, but proudest work of his life. As a guitarist, he took inspiration from the American instrumental group The Ventures, and performed a form of psychedelic surf music in the 1960s with his Mosrite guitar. One of his best-known instrumentals is "Black Sand Beach". "Kimi to Itsumademo" ("Love Forever"), another of his compositions, sold over two million copies, and was awarded a gold disc in 1965. At that point it was the biggest selling disc in the Japanese recording industry's history. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yūzō Kayama, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Kevin Wade

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Kevin Wade (born March 9, 1954) is an American screenwriter and television producer. Born in Chappaqua, New York, Wade is a graduate of Connecticut College. He wrote the play Key Exchange, which was produced off-Broadway in 1981. Seven years later he received his first screen credit for Working Girl, which earned him nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. Additional film credits include True Colors, Mr. Baseball, Junior, Meet Joe Black, and Maid in Manhattan. Wade's most recent project was the short-lived ABC drama series Cashmere Mafia which he created and executive produced. He also wrote the seven episodes that were broadcast by the network before the show was canceled. He was married to Polly Draper (1983–1990; divorced).
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Robin Antin

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Regarded as one the most highly respected choreographers in the business, Robin Antin has incorporated her innate passion for the art of dance and her deeply rooted drive into a long roster of top-quality projects. Robin's career in dance began when when she was just a child and her knowledge has paved the way for her to build a resume including some of the most innovative and impressive choreography the world has seen. Tapping into her undeniable skills have also been numerous music video producers, who have brought her on board for such versatile productions as Sting, Pink, and No Doubt, among many others. Robin's most recent television and feature film choreography experience includes several episodes of Friends (1994), one of which earned her an ACA nomination, and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003). Robin possesses a constant desire to seek out and define the new and revolutionary and she has become a true catalyst in the evolution of dance as both a connoisseur of classic art form, and a groundbreaking pioneer in the infinitely growing industry of performance.
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Edwin Hodge

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Edwin Martel Basil Hodge (born January 26, 1985) is an American actor and the older brother of actor Aldis Hodge. He is known for portraying Dante Bishop in The Purge film series, and is the only actor to appear in all of the first three films.  He played the role of "the Bloody Stranger" in the horror film The Purge (2013) and its sequels The Purge: Anarchy (2014) and The Purge: Election Year (2016); "the Bloody Stranger" was revealed to be named Dante Bishop in the third film. He also appeared in the horror film As Above, So Below (2014). He's appeared in other films including Die Hard with a Vengeance, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Big Momma's House, Take Me Home Tonight, Red Dawn (2012), Bumblebee, and The Tomorrow War. On TV, he guest starred on an episode of the TNT series Leverage, which stars his younger brother Aldis Hodge. His other guest roles include 7th Heaven, Angel, Boston Public, Touched by an Angel, Cold Case, Grey's Anatomy, Ghost Whisperer, Heroes, Bones, One Tree Hill, CSI: Miami, NCIS, Private Practice, NCIS: LA, Rosewood, and All Rise. His major TV recurring roles were as Jamaal Crenshaw on Boston Public, Brett on Invasion, Malcolm Darius Washington on Mental, Wade on Cougar Town, firefighter Rick Newhouse on Chicago Fire, Dr. Greg Young on Secrets & Lies, Benjamin Banneker on Sleepy Hollow, and Clayton Poole on For All Mankind. He's starred as Marcus Ride on Jack & Bobby, Robert Chase on SIX, and Dr. Malcolm Kingsley on Good Sam. He stars as Ray Cannon on FBI: Most Wanted, starting in Season 4, fall of 2022.
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bell hooks

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Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 - December 15, 2021) better known by her pen name as bell hooks, was a professor, social activist, public intellectual, cultural critic, feminist and author of 40 books, including Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism, Black Looks: Race and Representation, Reel to Real, and All About Love: New Visions. In 2014, the bell hooks Center was founded at Berea College in Kentucky. In 2021, hooks died of kidney failure at her home, following a brief period of illness.
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Tim Hartnagel

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Timothy Frank Hartnagel (October 6, 1941 - July 15, 2024) was an American-Canadian sociologist and child actor. He appeared in the Mickey Mouse Club serial Spin and Marty (1955 - 1957) as Clarence "Speckle" Smith. Later he gave up acting to pursue a life in academics, graduating from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and earning a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Indiana. After serving in the army, he was a researcher at Maryland before moving to Edmonton, Alberta. He had a nearly 40-year career as a Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta, specializing in criminology. He had two children with his wife, Patricia.
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Cynthia Gibb

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Cynthia Gibb (born December 14, 1963 in Bennington, Vermont, U.S.) is an American actress and former model who has starred in film and on television. Gibb grew up in Westport, Connecticut and got her big break at the age of 14 when she was discovered by the Eileen Ford Agency in New York City. She was on the cover of Vogue and Young Miss. Fate then intervened, as director Woody Allen saw her in one of those magazines and gave her her first film role in his 1980 movie Stardust Memories. In the 1986 war film, Salvador, directed by Oliver Stone and starring James Woods, she portrayed an American nun in El Salvador who was raped and murdered. Gibb's best known TV role was on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow as Susan "Suzi" Martin Wyatt Carter from 1981-1983. She was also a regular for three seasons on the original Fame TV show and appeared in the first three Diagnosis: Murder movies in 1992 as Dr. Amanda Bentley. In the TV adaptation of Gypsy she starred as the adult Rose Louise/Gypsy Rose Lee, opposite Bette Midler as Mama Rose. She later starred in the 1995 short lived TV series Deadly Games. She has also played in many TV movies, including the role of Karen Carpenter in The Karen Carpenter Story (1989). She has three children Description above from the Wikipedia article Cynthia Gibb, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Doug Durdle

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Douglas Clayton Durdle is an English professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Doug Williams. He is best known for his work in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he was a one–time Television Champion, two–time X Division Champion and a two-time tag team champion, having held the TNA World Tag Team Championship and the IWGP Tag Team Championship once each as part of The British Invasion. He also worked as a trainer for TNA's developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), where he was a one-time OVW Heavyweight Champion. Throughout his career, Williams has also worked in various independent promotions in the United Kingdom and abroad, including the Frontier Wrestling Alliance (FWA), One Pro Wrestling (1PW), Pro Wrestling Noah and Ring of Honor (ROH).
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Pily Gaos

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Born as María del Pilar Gaos Meizoso in La Coruña, Spain, in 1949, she made her debut in Mexico in 1962. Her presence was like a fresh drop in the world of modern singers and young Rock & Roll performers. She was the younger sister of Mayté Gaos, another "rock and roller." Pily was beautiful, charming, cheerful, petite, and had a childlike appearance. She sang like a girl in the process of growing up. Her most notable hits included "Las trencitas," "Mi novio esquimal," and "Aburrida y sola." She retired from the music world and passed away from cancer on April 10, 2009, in Spain. She also appeared in Mexican cinema, starring in Demonios sobre ruedas (1967), La batalla de los pasteles (1966), and Un ángel de mal genio (1964).
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Vivek

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Vivek was an Indian film actor, comedian, television personality, playback singer and activist working in the Tamil film industry. Introduced in films by director K. Balachander, he won 3 Filmfare Best Comedian – Tamil Awards for his performances in movies such as Run (2002), Saamy (2003), Perazhagan (2004) and 5 Tamil Nadu State Film Awards for Best Comedian for Unnaruge Naan Irundhal (1999), Run (2002) Parthiban Kanavu (2003), Anniyan (2005) and Sivaji (2007). He has acted more than 220 films. In 2009, Government of India awarded Vivek with the Padma Shri award for his contribution to the arts. Sathyabama University has conferred actor Vivek with an honorary doctorate for his contribution to the society through cinema. As a television personality, Vivek has hosted a number of events and has interviewed media personalities, notably A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. Inspired by Kalam's environmentalism, Vivek founded the Green Kalam initiative in 2010 with the mission of planting one billion trees across Tamil Nadu.
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