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Andre Alexsen
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USA RELENTLESS is Andre Alexsen’s real life journey from a Hollywood stuntman/ stunt coordinator/ actor hitting bottom using drugs and alcohol ending up on the streets, then being delivered and becoming sober only by the grace of God. He makes a come back and works with the US Military Special Ops, Seal teams ,Dillon Minigun, AZ Border Patrol, Law Enforcement, and undercover with LAPD. ex DoD contractor , He also trains with living legends in Self Defense and Martial Arts; Grand Master Sensei Gokor Chivichyan, Sensei Benny “the Jet” Urquidez to Uncle Judo Gene LeBell. It includes many near death experiences from parachute malfunctions, wild animal attacks, prison riots to inside Vegas crime families, major auto wrecks, stunts gone wrong, beating a terminal cancer battle, and working with the biggest names from Speilberg to Ron Howard to Clint Eastwood. And now becoming the Adrenaline Man most extreme TV show host ever real live stunts .He also exposes the dirty workings of Hollywood and the modern day globalist madness that is here and around the world from President Trump, Q, Deep State takedown, Globalists gone wild , fake news, California fires, weather manipulation, satanic pedophiles , attempted gun grabs ,active shooter set ups, civil wars coming soon,training and preparing for it, E.O.P.G. And much more life and soul saving info.
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Sidney J. Furie
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Toronto-born Sidney J. Furie has enjoyed a distinguished career that has spanned over six decades. Having worked in every genre, Furie has directed films starring Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Robert Redford, Diana Ross, Michael Caine, Peter O'Toole, Rodney Dangerfield, Barbara Hershey, Gene Hackman, Donald Sutherland, Laurence Olivier, and countless others. He is most known for the espionage classic The Ipcress File (1965), the landmark biopic Lady Sings the Blues (1972), the franchise-generating Iron Eagle (1986), the Scorsese-beloved horror saga The Entity (1982), and the Vietnam combat chronicle The Boys in Company C (1978), which later partly inspired Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. His first two films, A Dangerous Age (1957) and A Cool Sound from Hell (1959), both independently financed, were two of the first English Canadian features ever made, produced before he emigrated to London in 1960. He became an important figure in the British New Wave, especially with The Boys (1962) and his realist drama The Leather Boys (1964), a critical darling that became a popular cult film.
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Toru Shinohara
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Shinohara Tooru was born in Niihama, Ehime. After graduating from high school on March 1955, he started working at a factory in Osaka making car parts but quit after only ten months. He studied manga via a mail-offered course and wrote to various manga magazines. In 1958 came his first commercially printed work Fukumenhakushi (覆面博士) and he began his career as a manga artist.
He is best known for Nippon Keibaden that detailed the history of Japan's horse racing industry and its horses. He is also known for beautiful amazon-like heroines who are never daunted by the hardship they endure. Since 1970, he has written a series of works titled Sasori, lit. scorpion, which is the name for a female inmate and heroine. Director Shunya Ito started a series of ten films starring Meiko Kaji based on the manga. However, Ito withdrew from the project after three, and Kaji four films. Many of his works have been turned into movies since 1972.
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Anders Thomas Jensen
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Anders Thomas Jensen (born 6 April 1972 in Frederiksværk) is a Danish screenwriter and film director. Jensen won the Oscar for his 1998 film Election Night. He also received Oscar nominations in the live-action short category for his films Ernst & The Light (1996) and Wolfgang (1997). From the end of the 1990s and into the new millennium he wrote the screenplays for most of the Danish movie blockbusters of the period, including Mifune's Last Song (co-written with Søren Kragh-Jacobsen), In China They Eat Dogs, Open Hearts, Stealing Rembrandt, and Brothers. In 2000 Anders Thomas Jensen for the first time directed a feature film: the action-comedy Flickering Lights, and since then directed The Green Butchers and Adam's Apples. In 2005 he received the Nordisk Film Award (1000 Danish kroner times the age of Nordisk Film).
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Holly Williams
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Holly Williams is a television journalist currently serving as a Foreign Correspondent for CBS News, based in Istanbul, Turkey. She joined CBS News in 2012 and has more than 15 years of experience covering major news events and international conflicts across Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Before joining CBS she was a Beijing-based producer for Sky News, eventually transitioning to working in front of the camera as the network's Asia Correspondent. She was born in Australia and holds a bachelor's degree in Asian Studies from the Australian National University and a master's degree in International Relations from Deakin University.
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Branden Nadon
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Branden Nadon (April 21, 1986 – October 1, 2023) was a Canadian actor. Born in Calgary, Alberta, he was raised in Kelowna, British Columbia, where he spent most of his childhood.
Nadon began his career working in modeling and advertising before pursuing acting. As a teenager, he made his screen debut with the lead role in Jet Boy (2001), a performance that remains his most widely recognized work. He later appeared in guest and supporting roles across various film and television productions. During his career, he also took time away from acting to focus on his education before returning to the industry.
Nadon passed away in 2023 at the age of 37. He is remembered for his early breakout performance in Jet Boy and his contributions to Canadian film and television.
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Salim Aggar
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Salim Aggar was born on June 21, 1968 in Algiers. A graduate in French literature, he spent more than 22 years of his career in the Algerian press. Journalist in the country's most important newspapers such as L'Expression, Le Quotidien d'Oran and Horizons, he had in the meantime started a career as a director in 1989 by signing his first short film in super 8 at the age of 21 years old, entitled “God made the mountain and man made the city”.
He will then direct several other short films in the same format, the most prolific of which remains a documentary on children and war entitled Soldat à 13 ans. In another register, he worked as an assistant on the medium-length film “Cousines” by Lyès Salem (César for best short film in 2005) and in several documentaries and participated in the production of advertising spots.
He wrote several articles and theses on Algerian cinema, such as the review on “The 40 years of Algerian cinema” published by the Year of Algeria in France 2003, but also devoted himself to the promotion of short films with his association “To us the screens”, of which he has been president since 2002. He will be the first to launch a website dedicated to Algerian cinema. With this association he also launched the first film festival in the Algerian capital: The Algiers Cinematographic Days (JCA).
Since 2001, he has been preparing the production of a series of documentaries on Algerian cinema: The first part was completed in 2007 "It turns in Algiers", which shows the difficulties of Algerian filmmakers during the period of terrorism and which was presented in several festivals around the world: in San Francisco, Cork in Ireland, Amiens in France and the Al Jazeera Documentary Festival. In 2010, he made a second documentary entitled “Words of a French ALN Prisoner”, on the testimony of a French prisoner of the Algerian War. This documentary produced by ENTV was presented at the Paris Images Forum in 2012 and selected in several festivals: Amiens, at the Mediterranean Prize for Reporting and Documentary in Marseille in 2010, at meetings on the history and archives of Ciné- memory of Marseille and at the Henri Langlois international cinematographic meetings in Paris in 2012. A specialist in Arab and Western cinema, in 2017 he directed a documentary on one of the most important Arab directors, Youcef Chahine and on his relations with Algeria: “ Chahine, Algeria and cinema”. He concludes his filmography with an equally important documentary “The history of the film The Battle of Algiers” where he found 50 years later the main Algerian actors and technicians of Gillo Pontecorvo’s film.
Salim Aggar, who is very active in the world of cinema, has published several articles and contributions in several daily newspapers and magazines and has established himself on the media scene as an essential specialist in the field of cinema and television.
Since December 2018, he has held the position of director of the “Algerian Cinematography Center” (CAC), which notably manages the “Algerian Cinematheque”. Since his arrival in this position, he launched the site of the Algerian Cinematheque "www.cinematheque.dz", promoting the urgent management of the archives of Algerian and foreign cinema.
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Jacqueline du Pré
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Jacqueline du Pré, was born into a middle-class English family in Oxford on 26 January 1945. Hers was a musical household, and at the age of four the young Jackie was famously struck by the sound of a cello playing on the radio. She told her mother, ‘I want to make that sound'.
Cello and piano lessons followed with her mother Iris, a concert pianist and, by all accounts, an inspirational teacher who turned her children’s music lessons into a journey of play and discovery. She moved on to lessons with the celebrated cellist William Pleeth (whom she nicknamed her ‘cello-daddy’) at the age of 10.
At the age of 17 she astonished audiences and critics with her fiery performance of Elgar’s Cello Concerto, a work that has remained synonymous with her name ever since.
Du Pré embarked on a glittering international career, performing and recording with fellow young musical stars such as Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Zubin Mehta and Daniel Barenboim, whom she married in 1967.
But just six years later in 1973 the increasing ill health she had begun to experience was diagnosed as multiple sclerosis. She was just 28 when her playing career came to an end, but she continued, while she was able, to teach and give masterclasses. She died in October 1987 at the age of 42.
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Jeff Celentano
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Jeff Celentano (born 24 May 1960), also credited as Jeff Weston, is an American actor, screenwriter, and director. As a character actor, Celentano has starred in such films as American Ninja 2: The Confrontation, Puppet Master II, and Demonic Toys. In 1994, he turned to directing with his first short film, Dickwad. He also directed Under the Hula Moon, Gunshy, and most recently Moscow Heat. Celentano is an acting teacher and is the Executive Director of Drama at The Performer's Academy in Laguna Woods, California. Celentano was born and raised in Pemberton, New Jersey. He has been married to the actress Musetta Vander since 1988.
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Hannah Jones
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Hannah Jones is a Farm carbon and soils adviser with the Farm Carbon Toolkit. She has a PhD in plant pathology from Oxford University, a degree in plant sciences from Birmingham University, a Masters in postgraduate teaching from the University of Reading, and is FACTS qualified. Hannah has taught crop sciences at Duchy College and the University of Reading, supervised 10 PhD students, and various masters and undergraduate students. She has contributed to a range of refereed papers relating to organic farming systems, wheat breeding, herbal leys, climate change effects on crops and plant breeding for diversity.
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