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Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a writer of Czech origin who lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and The Joke. Kundera has written in both Czech and French. He revises the French translations of all his books; these therefore are not considered translations but original works. His books were banned by the Communist regimes of Czechoslovakia until the downfall of the regime in the Velvet Revolution in 1989.
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Michael Colleary

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Michael Colleary is an American screenwriter, film producer and television writer. His writing credits include Face/Off, Firehouse Dog, The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the story for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. He is a frequent collaborator with Mike Werb in which they won a Saturn Award for their work on Face/Off. Colleary most recently wrote for the Cartoon Network live-action series Unnatural History. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Colleary, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Joe Bini

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Joe Bini is an American film editor born in 1963 in San Mateo, California. As a film editor, he has collaborated with Werner Herzog on numerous documentaries and feature films in twenty years, including: Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), Invincible (2001), Grizzly Man (2005), Rescue Dawn (2007), and Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Into the abyss (2011) or Into the Inferno (2016). He has also collaborated with Marina Zenovich (Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, 2008), Andrea Arnold (American Honey, 2016) or Lynne Ramsay (We Need to talk about Kevin, 2011; You Were Never Really Here, 2017).
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Anatoli Sofronov

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Anatoly Vladimirovich Sofronov (Russian: Анато́лий Влади́мирович Софро́нов; 19 January 1911 – 9 September 1990) was a Soviet Russian writer, poet, playwright, scriptwriter, editor (Ogonyok, 1953-1986) and literary administrator, the Union of Soviet Writers' secretary in 1948-1953. Sofronov was a Stalin Prize laureate (twice, 1948, 1949) and a recipient of the Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour (1981). An ominous figure with the reputation of "one of the most feared literary hangmen of the Stalinist era," Sofronov is best remembered for his play Stryapukha (Стряпуха, The Kookie) which was followed by three sequels and the popular comedy film of the same name. Working with composers like Semyon Zaslavsky, Matvey Blanter, Sigizmund Kats, he co-authored dozens of songs, made popular by the artists like Vladimir Bunchikov, Vladimir Nechayev, Vadim Kozin, Nikolai Ruban, Vladimir Troshin, Olga Voronets, Maya Kristalinskaya, Iosif Kobzon and Nani Bregvadze. Source: Article Anatoly Sofronov"" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Lotfy Labib

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Lotfy Labib, born on August 18, 1947, is an Egyptian stage, television, and film actor. He also worked as an announcer at one point. Despite having graduated from the Institute of Theatrical Arts in 1970, Labib's career was delayed for a whole decade. First, he was drafted into the army for six years, and then traveled outside Egypt for four years. His career truly started in 1981, when he acted in the play "The Bald Singer," which he followed with another stage production "The Hostages." Labib has since then worked profusely, in many supporting but memorable roles, with over 200 film and television credits. Though many of his screen appearances have been brief, Labib has performed admirably and has shown himself to be one of the strongest performers of his generation.
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Ryan Higa

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Ryan Higa (born June 6, 1990), also known by his YouTube username nigahiga (/ˈniːɡɑːhiːɡɑː/), is an American comedian, YouTube personality, and actor. He is known for his comedy videos on YouTube, which have been viewed over 3 billion times. Higa's YouTube channel, nigahiga, was the most subscribed channel on YouTube for 677 consecutive days from 2009–2011, longer than any other channel besides PewDiePie. As of August 2017, he has over 20 million subscribers, making his channel the 20th most subscribed on YouTube. (From wikipedia the free encyclopedia)
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Jean Gaven

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Jean Gaven (16 January 1922 – 5 May 2014) was a French actor. He appeared in more than sixty films between 1945 and 1996. Born in Saint-Rome-de-Cernon, France on January 16, 1922, Gaven began acting sometime after the end of World War II, amassing a filmography of more than 60 motion pictures during a career spanning more than five decades. Married to the actress Dominique Wilms, he died at the age of 92 in Paris, France, on May 5, 2014. Source: Article "Jean Gaven" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Vojislav Brajović

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Vojislav "Voja" Brajović (born May 11, 1949 in Belgrade) is a prominent Serbian actor. He graduated from the Belgrade Faculty of Drama Arts in 1971. He has been member of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre since 1969. He has played in over 30 movies and a number of TV series and dramas. He won almost all relevant domestic theatre awards, including three Sterija awards for acting, an annual award of the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad, an annual award of CNP from Podgorica, eight annual awards of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade, etc. Of all of his roles arguably the best known is Tihi, wisecracking World War II resistance fighter whom he portrayed in cult 1970s TV series Otpisani and Povratak otpisanih.
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Will Fyffe

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From Wikipedia Will Fyffe, CBE (16 February 1885 – 14 December 1947) was a Scottish music hall artist, a star of the 1930s and 1940s, on stage, screen and records. Fyffe made his debut in his father's stock company at the age of six. He travelled extensively throughout Scotland and the rest of the UK, playing the numerous music halls of the time, where he performed his sketches and sang his songs in his own inimitable style. During the 1930s, he was one of the highest paid musical hall artistes in Britain. In addition, Fyffe appeared in 23 major films of the era (American and British), sometimes starring, and recorded over 30 songs, delivered with his own unique style. Fyffe died whilst staying at Rusacks Hotel in St Andrews. After a few too many the star fell from a window in the hotel on the 14th December 1947. It is unknown if this fall was sheer accident or if Fyfe was taking his own life.
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Danica McKellar

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Danica Mae McKellar (born January 3, 1975) is an American actress, author, and education advocate. She is best known for her role as Winnie Cooper in the television show The Wonder Years, and later as author of the three The New York Times bestsellers, Math Doesn't Suck, Kiss My Math, and Hot X: Algebra Exposed, which encourage middle-school girls to have confidence and succeed in mathematics. Description above from the Wikipedia article Danica McKellar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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