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Craig Brewer
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Craig Houston Brewer (born December 6, 1971) is an American filmmaker.
His 2005 movie Hustle & Flow won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and achieved commercial success, along with an Academy Award for Best Original Song, "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp". He is also known for directing the 2011 remake of Footloose, the 2019 film Dolemite Is My Name and the 2021 film Coming 2 America, the latter two films starring Academy Award nominee Eddie Murphy.
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Kylie Minogue
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Kylie Ann Minogue (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian singer, songwriter, and actress. Frequently referred to as the "Princess of Pop", she has achieved recognition in both the music industry and the fashion world as a major style icon. Her accolades include two Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards and eighteen ARIA Music Awards. Minogue is the highest-selling Australian female artist of all time, with sales surpassing 80 million records worldwide. In 2024, Time listed her in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Born and raised in Melbourne, Minogue first achieved recognition starring as Charlene Robinson in the Australian soap opera Neighbours (1986–1988). She began her music career in the late 1980s, releasing four dance-pop studio albums under PWL. By the early 1990s, Minogue had amassed several hit singles in Australia and the UK, including "The Loco-Motion", "I Should Be So Lucky", "Especially for You", "Hand on Your Heart", and "Better the Devil You Know". Taking more creative control over her music, she signed with Deconstruction Records in 1993 and released the albums Kylie Minogue (1994) and Impossible Princess (1997).
By joining Parlophone in 1999, Minogue returned to mainstream dance-oriented music with Light Years (2000), including the number-one hits "Spinning Around" and "On a Night Like This". The follow-up, Fever (2001), was an international breakthrough for Minogue, becoming her best-selling album to date. The lead single, "Can't Get You Out of My Head", was a worldwide chart-topper and became one of the most successful singles of the 2000s, selling over five million units. Follow-up singles "In Your Eyes" and "Love at First Sight" became hits as well. She continued reinventing her image and experimenting with a range of genres on her subsequent albums, which spawned successful singles such as "Slow", "I Believe in You", "2 Hearts" and "All the Lovers". In 2017, she signed with BMG Rights Management, leading to several number-one albums in Australia and the UK – Golden (2018), Step Back in Time: The Definitive Collection (2019), Disco (2020), Tension (2023) and Tension II (2024). She is the only female artist in the UK charts with chart-topping albums and a top ten single in five consecutive decades.
In film, Minogue made her debut in The Delinquents (1989), and appeared in Street Fighter (1994), Moulin Rouge! (2001), Holy Motors (2012) and San Andreas (2015). In reality television, she appeared as a judge on The Voice UK and The Voice Australia, both in 2014. Her other ventures include product endorsements, books, perfumes, charitable work and a wine brand. Minogue's achievements include being an ARIA Hall of Fame inductee, Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Chevalier (knight) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and an honorary Doctor of Health Science (D.H.Sc.).
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Erinn Bartlett
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Erinn Anne Bartlett (born February 26, 1973) is an American actress who has competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant.
Bartlett was born near Longmeadow, Massachusetts and first competed in the Miss Massachusetts Teen USA title in 1989, when she placed first runner-up. She went on to win the Miss Massachusetts Teen USA crown in 1991 and represented Massachusetts in the Miss Teen USA 1991 held in Biloxi, Mississippi on August 19, 1991. Barlett made in the top twelve of the nationally televised event, placing sixth in interview, last in swimsuit and tenth in evening gown. Her average competition score put her in tenth place overall.
She graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in communications. She became engaged to actor Oliver Hudson, son of Goldie Hawn, on 21 February 2004 and the two married on 9 June 2006. In March 2007 it was announced that the couple were expecting their first child. On August 23, 2007, Bartlett gave birth to a boy, Wilder Brooks Hudson, in Los Angeles. It was announced in October 2009 that the couple are expecting their second child. Bartlett gave birth to the couple's second son, Bodhi Hawn Hudson, on March 19, 2010.
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Felisa Rincón de Gautier
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Felisa Rincón de Gautier, better know as Doña Fela, was the first woman to hold the office of mayor of an important city in the Western Hemisphere. She served as mayor of San Juan for a period of 22 years, from 1946 to 1968. She was a pioneer in the movement for political rights for women, in establishing daycare programs for preschool children, and in establishing the first legal aid and medical assistance centers for indigents. A leader and role model for Hispanics, she also served as Goodwill Ambassador under four North American presidents. She is one of the most prominent Puerto Rican figures in the political history of our capital city.
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Cheb Hasni
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Cheb Hasni (الشاب حسني), whose real name Hasni Chakroun (شقرون حسني), is an Algerian raï singer, nicknamed the "Rossignol du Raï", he was born on February 1, 1968 in Oran, Algeria, and died on the 29 September 1994 in the same city. He is considered the king of sentimental raï.
Hasni Chakroun, his name in the civil register, was born on February 1, 1968 in Gambetta, a popular suburb of Oran, the son of a welder father of seven children. Young, he pushed his voice as soon as he left school. He was also a football player, which he started at the age of 9 with ASMO. At 15, he injured himself and stayed in hospital for several weeks. Back on the field, his weight had increased, and despite the encouragement of the coaches he could not continue his sporting career. Hasni reportedly performed for the first time during the club leader's brother's wedding. In the process, one of the wedding guests offers him to perform in the cabarets of Oran.
In 1986, Hasni Chakroun recorded his first cassette with the Saint-Crépain publishing house. In 1987, he performed songs in duet with the raï singer Chaba Zahouania. He married in 1987, at the age of 19, and had one child, named Abdallah, born in 1989. His wife "Melouka" whose real name is Zahzouh Malika, was for years the main inspiration of his greatest titles like "Tal Ghyabek ya ghzali" or "El Bayda mon amour".
Singer adored by young people in Algeria and around the world, Cheb Hasni likes to sing sentimental love, and becomes the most prolific and biggest seller of cassettes in the country. Coming from the second generation of raï, which appeared after 1985, the year of the first raï festival in Algeria, and of which Cheb Hasni and his emulator cheb Nasro were the first representatives. Their music is labeled "Raï sentimental" or "Raï love" compared to the "vulgar" and harsh raï of their predecessors. More melodious, the genre is widely popularized through weddings, so the bar and the cabaret are no longer essential spaces for the dissemination of the genre. In 1990, prolific, he recorded 10 clips with a French company, and in 1992, he signed a contract with the manager Nourredine Gafaïti (Manager of Chaba Zahouania, Cheb Sahraoui and Chaba Fadela) and went on tours all over the world with the other stars. Inducted King of "Raï love", Hasni recorded more than 150 cassettes during his career, with at least six songs per audio tape. At the height of his art, on September 29, 1994, Hasni was assassinated in his neighborhood of Oran (Gambetta) at the age of 26. The Armed Islamic Group (G.I.A) claimed responsibility for the assassination, the news set the whole country ablaze and a huge crowd gathered in his neighborhood. Every Algerian, wherever he is on earth, carries his memory within him, the memory of a time when Hasni gave a little hope in the midst of the chaos of the "black decade". He will leave behind him the image of a martyr, man of the people, attached to his district of Oran and to Algeria that he will never want to leave us even under the threat of terrorism, and remains the idol of a whole people. , Algeria but also the whole Maghreb and its diaspora.
He will be decorated with the medal of the Order of National Merit in the rank of "Achir" posthumously.
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Gabriel Salazar
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Gabriel Salazar is a Brazilian actor, director, writer, producer and composer born in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul.
Graduated in Performing Arts (UFSC), Gabriel started acting in 2013. He was a part of the lead cast in "180 Graus" ("180 Degrees" - 2016-2018), a web series directed by Phil Rocha - the first season was also released as a feature film and presented at the 2017 Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival. He also had a recurring role in the HBO/O2 Filmes series "Pico da Neblina" ("Joint Venture" - 2019-2022) directed by Fernando Meirelles and Quico Meirelles.
He began his directing career with the short documentary "Sonata Julieta" (2022); then directed "Devaneio" (2023) and "Duração-Diferença" (2023), both experimental documentaries.
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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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Mick Brown
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Michael J. Brown (born September 8, 1956), a.k.a. "Wild" Mick Brown, is an American retired drummer who played in the rock bands Dokken, Lynch Mob, The End Machine, and Xciter, as well as in Ted Nugent's band.
He joined Dokken in 1981, replacing Gary Holland, who left Dokken to join Dante Fox and later Great White. Before that, Brown played drums in The Boyz (1975–1977) and then in Xciter (1977–1981). Both bands also featured future Dokken bandmate George Lynch. Apart from Don Dokken, Brown was the only person to appear on every Dokken album. He is credited on Broken Bones, but Jimmy Degrasso played on the record, not Brown.
In 2006, Brown played drums for Nugent on Nugent's Unleash the Beast Tour, and in 2013 Brown played drums for Nugent on Nugent's Mid-West Rock-n-Roll Express 2013 Tour.
He is also a member of Tooth and Nail, a band that features classic-era Dokken members George Lynch and Jeff Pilson. Their debut album Slave to the Empire was released in October 2012. The band was renamed T&N.
He had a solo band called The Bourbon Ballet with lead singer Scott Hammons from the band Tunnel.
In July 2019, Brown said he was taking a break from touring and playing live.
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Constance Shulman
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Constance Ann Shulman (born April 4, 1958) is an American actress. She is best known for voicing Patti Mayonnaise on Doug and for her recurring role as Yoga Jones in Orange Is the New Black. Shulman originated the role of Annelle in the first production of Steel Magnolias Off-Broadway.
Shulman was born in Johnson City, Tennessee, to a Jewish family. In 1980, she graduated from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor's degree in both speech and theater. She moved to New York City to study acting at the Circle in the Square Theatre School and pursue an acting career. In 1989, she made her screen debut in the comedy film Fletch Lives, playing Cindy Mae. She later had supporting parts in the films Lost Angels, Men Don't Leave, and Fried Green Tomatoes.
On television, Shulman worked as a voice actress, playing Patti Mayonnaise on Doug from 1991 to 1999. In the early 1990s, Shulman appeared in a series of Kraft mayonnaise commercials.
She was also a regular cast member in the short-lived 1996 ABC sitcom, The Faculty, playing the best friend of Meredith Baxter's character. In the late 1990s, Shulman left the screen to raise her two children.
In 2013, Shulman was cast in a recurring role as "Yoga Jones" in the Netflix comedy-drama series, Orange Is the New Black. Along with the rest of the cast, she received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2015.
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Ralf Scheepers
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Ralf Scheepers is the current vocalist for German power metal outfit Primal Fear. He has a relatively high-pitched, tenor-esque singing voice and sometimes uses a shriek reminiscent of Judas Priest's Rob Halford, although it is his baritone lows which give him a near four octave range in the modal register.
He's also sung in Gamma Ray, Tyran Pace, and is rumoured to have done live work on a session basis for Helloween on their 1986 tour. This, however, has been denied by Michael Weikath in several interviews. Scheepers has also performed guest vocals for the bands Scanner, Therion, Ayreon and Shadow Gallery.
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