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Fritz Lang
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Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German film director, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.
Lang's most famous films are the groundbreaking science-fiction film Metropolis (1927) - the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release - and the influential thriller film M (1931), made before he moved to the United States. Lang's work had a significant influence on the film noir genre and in Hollywood, he made some classics himself, such as Scarlet Street (1945) and The Big Heat (1953).
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Mya
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Mýa Marie Harrison (born October 10, 1979), professionally referred to as Mýa, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. Born and raised in Washington D.C., Harrison's eponymous debut album with Interscope Records was released in April 1998, and sold over one million copies in the United States, producing the gold-certified top ten single "It's All About Me" featuring Sisqó.
Her second studio album, platinum-selling Fear of Flying, was released in 2000 and became a success stateside and worldwide, with single "Case of the Ex" becoming Mýa's breakthrough hit, reaching number-one on the Australian Singles Chart. A year after, Harrison won her first Grammy Award for the worldwide number-one hit "Lady Marmalade", a cover version she recorded alongside Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, and Pink for the soundtrack of the film Moulin Rouge! (2001).
The singer's third studio album, Moodring, was released in July 2003 stateside and certified gold by the RIAA. Following several label changes, Mýa's often-delayed fourth studio album, Liberation (2007), received a download-release in Japan only and led to her 2008 Japan-exclusive album Sugar & Spice.
Having expanded her career to acting and product endorsement deals, Harrison has been engaged in product endorsement deals with brands such as Coca-Cola, Gap, Iceberg, Tommy Hilfiger, and Motorola and has had small roles in films such as Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004), Shall We Dance? (2004), and Cursed (2005). In 2002, she had a supporting role in the film adaptation of the 1975 Broadway musical Chicago, for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Harrison was the runner up on the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars. Billboard named Mýa the 97th Hot 100 Artists of 2000s.
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James Hayter
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James Hayter (23 April 1907 – 27 March 1983) was a British actor.
He was born in Lonavala, India, brought up in Scotland and died in Spain. His best remembered film roles include Friar Tuck in the 1952 film The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men and Samuel Pickwick in The Pickwick Papers of the same year. His rotund appearance and fruity voice made him a natural choice for such roles.
A pupil of Dollar Academy, he became a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, his film career began in 1936 in Sensation, but was interrupted by World War II during which he served in the Royal Armoured Corps. His later career included roles in TV series such as The Forsyte Saga (1967), The Onedin Line and Are You Being Served?. His 1946 television series Pinwright's Progress, shown on the BBC, is recognised as the first real example of the half-hour situation comedy format in the history of British television. He was also the original narrator of the UK television advertisements for Mr. Kipling cakes. In fact, these ads led to his departure from Are You Being Served?; the cake company paid him a significant bonus to withdraw from the series, as they felt his reputation lent an air of dignity to their snack advertisements.
In the film Oliver!, he played Mr Jessop the book shop owner. He appeared in scenes when Dodger steals a gentleman's wallet outside the book shop and also when Oliver is in court charged with the robbery.
Hayter used to have a tree house in his back garden where he would retire of an evening to learn and practise his lines from his current script.
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Minnie Driver
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Amelia Fiona Jessica "Minnie" Driver (born January 31, 1970) is an English actress and singer. She's best known for her roles as Skylar in Good Will Hunting, Maya DiMeo on the sitcom Speechless, Dahlia Molloy on the series The Riches, Fiona on the sitcom About a Boy, Frances Kelly on the series The Deep, Queen Beatrice in Cinderella (2021), Debi Newberry in Grosse Point Blank, Mandy in Ella Enchanted, Carlotta in The Phantom of the Opera, Bernadette 'Benny' Hogan in Circle of Friends, and the voice of Jane Porter in Disney's Tarzan.
She rose to prominence with her break-out role in 1995's Circle of Friends. She went on to star in a wide range of films including the cult classic Grosse Pointe Blank, Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting for which she was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award, the musical The Phantom of the Opera, Owning Mahowny, and providing the voice of Lady Eboshi in Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke.
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David Kross
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David Kross (born 4 July 1990) is a German actor. He began his career at a young age with a small role in the 2002 film Hilfe, ich bin ein Junge and worked sporadically, mainly focusing on his schoolwork. In 2008, he portrayed Michael Berg in the film The Reader. For his part, he was nominated for various awards. He went on to win the Sierra Award at the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards for his work in Youth in Film.
Kross has since worked in both German and English-speaking film roles, including War Horse, Race, and Into the White.
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Christian Lacroix
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Christian Marie Marc Lacroix (born 16 May 1951) is a French fashion designer. The name may also refer to the company he founded.
Lacroix's designs combine luxury and insouciance. He prefers artisanal trades, fringe, bead, and embroidery. He's characterized by a strong sense of colour, and patterns mix.
Lacroix was born in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône in southern France. At a young age he began sketching historical costumes and fashions. Lacroix graduated from secondary school in 1969 and moved to Montpellier, to study Art History at the University of Montpellier. In 1971, he enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris. While working on a dissertation on dress in French 18th-century painting, Lacroix also pursued a program in museum studies at the École du Louvre. His aspiration during this time was to become a museum curator. It was during this time he met his future wife Françoise Rosenthiel, whom he married in 1974.
In 1987, he opened his own haute couture house. He began putting out ready-to-wear in 1988 drawing inspiration from diverse cultures. Critics commented that he did not seem to understand the type of clothing the working woman needed. In 1989, Lacroix launched jewelry, handbags, shoes, glasses, scarves, and ties (along with ready-to-wear). In this same year, he opened boutiques within Paris, Arles, Aix-en-Provence, Toulouse, London, Geneva, and Japan.
With his background in historical costume and clothing, Lacroix soon made headlines with his opulent, fantasy creations, including the short puffball skirt ("le pouf"), rose prints, and low décolleté necklines. He referenced widely from other styles—from fashion history (the corset and the crinoline), from folklore, and from many parts of the world—and he mixed his references in a topsy-turvy manner. He favored the hot colors of the Mediterranean region, a hodgepodge of patterns, and experimental fabrics, sometimes handwoven in local workshops.
From 1987 to its purchase from LVMH by Falic Fashion Group in 2005, the fashion house had cumulative losses of more than €44 million.
In 2009, the fashion house, owned by duty-free retailer Falic Fashion Group, put the business into administration and laid off all but 12 workers. Lacroix's A/W 2009 Haute Couture was privately financed by Lacroix and each model was paid €50. "I didn't want to cry," said Lacroix "I want to continue, maybe in a different way, with a small atelier. What I really care about is the women who do this work" Lacroix said about his last Haute Couture collection. Throughout its history, it never turned a profit and reported a €10 million loss in 2008.
His collections during 1994 were based on old culture and folklore, as well as fables and the past. In 1995, he launched a towel line which contained a fashion and lifestyle side, which represent how the two intertwine ("two sides of the same coin").
In 1996, he launched a jeans line. He included past traditions from all around the world, continuing the line with even more on ethnic arts.
In 1997, the Art de la Table line was launched by him in partnership with Christofle. A licensing agreement was also reached in this year with Pronuptian in which he could launch his Christian Lacroix Marriage line. ...
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Vladimir Nabokov
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977) was a Russian-born multilingual novelist, poet, translator, critic and entomologist considered the foremost of the post-1917 émigré authors. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian while living in Berlin. He achieved international acclaim and prominence after moving to the United States, where he began writing in English. Nabokov was a professor of Russian literature at Cornell University from 1948 to 1959, before returning to Europe in 1961, where he settled in Montreux, Switzerland.
Beginning with King, Queen, Knave (1928), his writing began to feature intricate stylistic devices. His novels are principally concerned with the problem of art itself, presented in various disguises, as in Invitation to a Beheading (1938). Parody is frequent in The Gift (1937–38) and later works. His novels written in English include the notorious best seller Lolita (1955), which brought him wealth and international fame; Pale Fire (1962); and Ada (1969). His episodic novel about an émigré professor of Russian in the United States, Pnin (1957), is to some extent based on his experiences as a literature professor. His critical works include a monumental translation of and commentary on Aleksandr Pushkin’s Evgeny Onegin.
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Anna Babkova
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Ukraynalı Anna Babkova –‘Miss Ukrayna 2004’ yarışmanın finalisti, popüler sunucu ve yetenekli oyuncu – Türkiyeyi fethetti. Anna ‘Son Osmanlı Yandım Ali’ filminde baş röllerinden birini almış ve dünyanın her yerinde türk seyircilerin kalbini çalmış.
Anna nın babası (elektrik mühendisi ) ve annesi (koro müdürü) Ukraynaya Kafkas dan yerleşmiş.
Anna 5 yaşından beri annesinin öneriyle müzikle uğraşmaya başlamış ve saksofonu çalmayı öğrenmiş.
Lise yıllarında kendini mankenlik alanında denemiş. Onun ilk profesyonel çekimleri daha 17 yaşındayken gerçekleşmiş aynı zamanda Anna sunuculukla ilgilenmeye başlamış.
1998 yılına kadar Harkov pedagojik kolejinde ingilizcesi olan ilk okul öğretmeni bölümünde, 2003 yılında ise Harkov da Ukrayna Cumhurbaşkanlık Kamu Yönetimi Akademisinde organizasyon yöneteciliği bölümünden mezun olmuş.
2004 yılında Anna ‘Miss Ukrayna 2004’ yarışmasına katılmış ve finalisti olmuş , ayrıca ‘Miss Foto’ ödülüne de sahip olmuş .
Manken podyumunda kazandığı başarılardan sonra Annaya Türkiyeden sunuculuk teklifleri gelmiş.
2006 yılında ‘Son Osmalı Yandım Ali’ filminde baş rollerinden birini almış. Aynı sene Cosmopolitan dergisine göre Türkiyenin en ünlü 5 yabancının listesinde
yer almış.
2007 yılına kadar Anna radyo, televizyon, reklam, sosyal medya da çalışmış.
2007 yılında Anna nışanlısının hayatı kaybetmesi nedeniyle mankenliği bırakmış ve Ukraynaya dönmüş. Bu zamana kadar evlenmemiş.
Anna Ukraynada kendi işe başlamış ve onu çok başarılı bir noktaya getirmiş.
Aradan 8 sene geçmiş ... Yaşananların acısı dindikten sonra Anna tekrar Türkiyeye dönüp film dünyasında herşeyi baştan yazmaya karar vermiş. Hedefi çok zor olsa da, Anna güçlü bir kadındır.
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Sheila E.
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Sheila Escovedo (born December 12, 1957), known under the stage name Sheila E., is an American singer and drummer. She began her career in the mid-1970s as a percussionist for the George Duke Band. After separating from the group in 1983, Sheila began a solo career, starting with the release of her debut album in 1984, which included her biggest hit song, "The Glamorous Life". She also saw a hit with the single "A Love Bizarre". She is sometimes referred to as the "Queen of Percussion".
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Baltasar Breki Samper
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Baltasar Breki Samper (born 22 July 1989), sometimes referred to as Baltasar Breki Baltasarsson, is an Icelandic actor. He is the son of Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur and the grandson of Catalan painter Baltasar Samper. Before graduating from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2015 Baltasar Breki helped his father on several films as second assistant director. He is known for his role as Hjörtur in the Icelandic TV series Trapped.
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