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Pauline Chan Bo-Lin
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Born in Shanghai, China, as Chen Baolian, Pauline Chan Bo-Lin emigrated to Hong Kong at age 12 with her mother when her parents divorced. A beautiful young girl, it didn't take long for photographers and agents to notice her and she began modeling at 15. In 1990 she entered the Miss Asia beauty pageant. She didn't win, but her striking looks, lithe body and classy bearing attracted the attention of several producers in Hong Kong's adult film industry. At age 18 she made her adult-film debut and her enthusiastic performances shot her to the top of the Chinese porn field. In 1997 she hooked up with a much older man, a Taiwanese millionaire, and they had a short (two-year) but stormy relationship. After their break-up in 1999, Chan's personal and professional lives began to unravel. She had had a drug problem for several years and it got worse--during one television interview in which she was apparently high on drugs she actually tried to commit suicide. A series of brushes with the law ensued, resulting in her being deported from several countries, and she was briefly sent to prison in the UK for assault. These and other incidents pretty much pulled the plug on her film career.
She moved back to her hometown of Shanghai and in July of 2002 gave birth to a baby boy. Motherhood didn't solve her problems, however, and on July 31, 2002, she leaped out of the window of her 24th-floor apartment and plunged to her death.
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Garry McFadden
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Garry L. McFadden is an American Sheriff and former homicide detective. He was elected to serve as the 45th Sheriff of Mecklenburg County, NC, and was sworn into office on December 4, 2018. Prior to being elected as Sheriff, he had a distinguished 36 year law enforcement career with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department where he served for over 20 years as a legendary homicide detective.
As a detective, he had one of the highest solve rates in police department history which lead to him starring in his own television series, “I Am Homicide.” The series highlights some of Garry’s biggest cases and how the perpetrators were caught. Sheriff McFadden can still be seen on television in the series “Homicide City” on the Investigation Discovery (ID) network.
In 2015, Garry was recognized by President Barack Obama for his work on the 21st Century Policing Initiative and his involvement in the development of an outstanding community program titled “Cops and Barbers.”
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David Leland
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David Louis Leland (6 January 1932 in Alassio, Italy – 7 November 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was an Italian-born American child actor who appeared in several Hollywood films in the 1940s.
His father Louis Leland (1879-1963) was born in Rome to an American father and Italian mother; his mother Helena Leland (1901/02-1989) was born in London. He moved to the US in the early 1940s and appeared in several films, notably alongside Laurel and Hardy in one of their later efforts, Nothing But Trouble.
He died aged sixteen while suffering from sepsis.
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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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He Landou
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He Landou (何蓝逗) is a Chinese actress born on October 16, 1999, in Huizhou City, Guangdong Province. She began her acting career in 2015 after being discovered during her high school years. Known for her versatility, He Landou has appeared in various dramas and films, including Moonshine and Valentine, My Best Summer, and Star-Crossed Lovers. She has also played leading roles in productions like My Dearest and Spring of Life. Her performances have earned her recognition and popularity in the Chinese entertainment industry.
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Bruno Ferreira
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Brazilian filmmaker graduated from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) in cinema and arts & design.
Experimenting with language studies in short film format, Bruno Ferreira produced EPIDEMIA NACIONAL (2020) in a pandemic context and in the same year CADA MINUTO (2020); Next year he produced two more politic short films entitled DOMINGO NO ASFALTO (2021) and POPULAÇÃO SOLITÁRIA (2021) and an abstract short film Não ME ABALO (2021) In 2022 on his trip to Europe, he shot the short film in the city of Braga in Portugal QUANDO TUDO ACABAR (2022) entirely with non-actors. The next work in the same year was a study with long inverse shots entitled O NÃO VISTO (2022). At the end of the year, on the verge of the Brazilian presidential election, he promoted a personal family analysis in abstraction with SEGUNDA NA URNA (2022); The following year, with his first work, he ends the "Abstract Brazilian Political Trilogy" with DANO LUNÁTICO (2023). Then, in partnership with regional musicians, he performs O CONCERTO DE ONTEM (2023) in homage to Paul McCartney and with an emotional mother-son vein.
He returns to a familiar format seeking to study alternation in editing with "Blue Portrait".
A postponed project, TEMPORADAS AO SOL, due to the availability of his old friend who played the main character, is realized, achieving international exposure at short film festivals.
Bruno Ferreira makes an abstract documentary, in three parts, about the gradual process of an Ayahuasca ritual carried out by the Shawãdawa indigenous "Arara Encantada" family, named "TRILOGIA DA FORÇA", the strength trilogy.
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Mark Rappaport
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Mark Rappaport, a native of New York, worked as a film editor before making his own films, including The Scenic Route (1978), Impostors (1980), Postcards (1990) and Exterior Night (1994). His fictional film-essays include Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992), From the Journals of Jean Seberg (1995) and The Silver Screen / Color Me Lavender (1998). Many of his articles on cinema have been published in Trafic over the years, as well as in Cinema. The spectator who knew too much is the first collection of his writings. In 2008, his photomontage film was screened for the first time at the Lincoln Center in New York, as part of the New York Film Festival. Mark Rappaport currently lives in Paris.
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Michael Wong
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Michael Fitzgerald Wong aka Wong Man-Tak (Chinese: 王敏德, born in Troy, New York, 16 April 1965) is a Chinese-American and a Hong Kong based actor, director, singer and producer.
He is fluent in English, but not so in Chinese, which is reflected in many of the characters he has portrayed. His most notable film is the 1998 film Beast Cops which won a Hong Kong Film Award with Wong in the lead role. As of 2024, he has appeared in over a hundred films in twenty-one years, often as wealthy characters.
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Campbell Grant
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Disney as an animator and story director for 12 years. He was also an expert on the rock paintings of the Chumash Indians of California. His work for Disney included animation on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, character designs for Pinocchio, the story development for the "Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria" segment of Fantasia, writer for the Goofy cartoon They're Off and the voice of Angus MacBadger in the "Wind in the Willows" segment of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.-http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Campbell_Grant
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Brian Beacock
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An actor, writer, and musician from the San Francisco Bay Area, Brian won the UK's Royal Television Society "Best Main Title Theme" Award for his lyrical composition work in "Playing It Straight", the UK's hit musical reality program, for which he wrote and produced 30 songs on location, performing them live on-set. After completing the National Tour of "Les Miserables", he moved to Los Angeles where he created a diverse career including voice overs, TV and Film, music direction, writing and composing. Brian has been seen playing a Broadway Axl Rose in Andy Prieboy's cult favorite "White Trash Wins Lotto" at PS 122 in NYC, the world famous Roxy on The Sunset Strip, and as the featured musical guest on "The Conan O'Brien Show". Other theatre credits include: the West Coast Premiere of "Elegies", "When Pigs Fly", "Pageant", "The Last Hairdresser", "Naked Boys Singing", and the insane 35-character one-man show "Fully Committed". He is shopping his scripted comedy "McCracken Live!", feature film "Rewrite", and his arsenal of reality shows.
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