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James R. Schlesinger
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James Rodney Schlesinger (February 15, 1929 – March 27, 2014) was an American economist and public servant who was best known for serving as Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Prior to becoming Secretary of Defense, he served as Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) from 1971 to 1973, and as CIA Director for a few months in 1973. He became America's first Secretary of Energy under Jimmy Carter in 1977, serving until 1979.
While Secretary of Defense, he opposed amnesty for draft resisters and pressed for development of more sophisticated nuclear weapon systems. Additionally, his support for the A-10 and the lightweight fighter program (later the F-16) helped ensure that they were carried to completion.
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Paul Guth
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Paul Guth (5 March 1910 – 29 October 1997) was a French humorist, journalist and writer, and the President of the Académie des provinces françaises.
A novelist, essayist, columnist, memoirist, historian, pamphleteer, he distinguished himself in every genre with a combination of sensitivity and savagery. He wrote about fifty works on various subjects, ranging from straight history to personal anecdotes, never holding back in criticism of contemporary failings.
Paul Guth was born in Ossun on 5 March 1910 to a family of modest means. His parents used to live in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, but his mother, a bigourdane, gave birth to him at her family's hometown of Ossun, in the canton of Hautes-Pyrénées.
Guth began his education at Villeneuve-sur-Lot. He studied literature in Paris, where he passed his agrégation in 1933, and pursued an ordinary academic career until the Second World War. He was a teacher for ten years at schools in Dijon and Rouen, as well as at Janson de Sailly in Paris.
After the war, Guth devoted himself to literature and journalism, including radio. He won the Prix du Théâtre in 1946 for Fugues.
In 1953, Guth published Les Mémoires d'un Naïf ("The Memoirs of a Naïf"), a bestseller which was to be the first in a series of seven volumes. It tells the story of the Naïf ("Simpleton"), a teacher of French who hides a grandiose imagination beneath a naïve exterior. The series comprises Les Mémoires d'un Naïf (1953 – Prix Courteline), Le Naïf aux quarante enfants ("Forty Kids and a Naïf", 1955), Le Naïf locataire ("The Naïf as Lodger", 1956 – Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française), Le Naïf sous les drapeaux ("Naïf at Arms", 1964), Le mariage du Naïf ("The Naïf's Wedding", 1965), Le Naïf amoureux ("The Naïf in Love", 1968) and finally Saint Naïf (1970).
The works of Paul Guth include a romantic four-volume series, Jeanne la Mince, published between 1960 and 1969: Jeanne la mince, Jeanne la mince à Paris, Jeanne la mince et l'amour, and Jeanne la mince et la jalousie. This series is told in the first person by a (fictional) young woman, Jeanne la Mince, who grows up in a provincial town in the southwest of France in the years before World War I. In the early 1920s, she leaves that narrow but secure world behind when she goes to Paris and gradually adapts to the very different life there, centering for her and her female compatriots on art, fashion, Dada, dancing, and love affairs. She spends many dissipated years in Paris, and completes her sentimental education before finding love (and jealousy) in the arms of the journalist Paul Bagnac.
Occupied for 12 years with historical writing, Guth returned to novels in 1977 with Le Chat Beauté (a pun on "Puss-in-Boots", Le Chat botté). In this book, he takes stock of himself, his relationships with others, and his life. The same year, he published Notre drôle d'époque comme si vous y étiez ("Those Funny Times of Ours; As If You Were There"), a characteristically sarcastic and politically conservative collection of anecdotes about TV, love, religion and many other topics, in which he invites the readers to smile at their own habits and way of life. ...
Source: Article "Paul Guth" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
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Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (French pronunciation: [ma.ama sale aʁun]; Arabic: محمد الصالح هارون; born 1961; Abéché). is a Chadian filmmaker. Loaded with complex moral and political themes, Haroun’s films confront questions of individual, familial, and national responsibility with unerring compassion and profound personal insight. He left Chad during the civil wars of the 1980s. Haroun is the first Chadian full-length film director. He both writes and directs his films. Though he has lived in France since 1982, most of his films have been set in and made in Chad. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun was Minister of Tourism, Culture and Crafts of Chad from February 5, 2017, to February 8, 2018.
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Elang El Gibran
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Elang El Gibran Rosadi (born January 12, 2000) is an Indonesian actor. Elang received his first Citra Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film Srimulat: Hil yang Mustahal - Babak Pertama in 2022. Following in his father's footsteps, Elang entered the world of acting in 2010 by starring in his first feature film, Sang Pencerah. He gained widespread recognition for his role in the film Habibie & Ainun 3, where he replaced Reza Rahadian as the young Habibie.
Elang made his debut as a lead actor through the film Srimulat: Hil yang Mustahal - Babak Pertama, directed by Fajar Nugros. In the film, Elang played the role of Basuki, one of the members of the Srimulat comedy group. From this film, he received widespread recognition and critical acclaim from the public and critics.
Elang was nominated for his first Citra Award alongside his father in the same category for Best Supporting Actor at the 2022 Indonesian Film Festival.
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Yves Camdeborde
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Yves Camdeborde (born 7 December 1964) is a French chef. He specializes in bistro cuisine. Journalists call him the chef of "bistronomy" (a portmanteau of the words bistro and gastronomy).
He left school at 14 to become a cooking assistant. After obtaining his CAP (Certificat d'Aptitude Professionnelle), he continued his training in Paris at the Ritz, the restaurant La Marée, then the restaurant La Tour d'Argent and the Hôtel de Crillon. In 1992, he acquired the restaurant La Régalade in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. In 2005, he bought a hotel at the Quartier de l'Odéon and founded Le Comptoir du Relais Saint-Germain.
Since 2010, he is a member of the jury in the French version of MasterChef with journalist and food critic Sébastien Demorand, chefs Frédéric Anton and Amandine Chaignot (since 2013). He announced on 30 November 2013 on Sud Radio, that he will not participate at the fifth season in 2014.
Source: Article "Yves Camdeborde" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Anne Suzuki
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Anne Suzuki (born April 27, 1987) is a Japanese actress.
A model since the age of three, she got an early break in her acting career at 12 when she starred in the Hollywood film Snow Falling on Cedars with Ethan Hawke. She was next featured in the action movie Returner opposite Takeshi Kaneshiro, and won the Best New Actor at the 26th Japan Academy Awards. She could also be seen in Hana and Alice, a film from director Shunji Iwai, and Juvenile. She has also voice-acted the main character in Katsuhiro Otomo's 2004 anime film, Steamboy, and also takes the main female role of Natsuki Mogi in the Hong Kong race movie Initial D (頭文字 D) - based on the manga and anime series with the same title.
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Brianni Walker
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6x nominee 4x award & Jr. Oscar winner, Brianni Walker currently known globally for role in Dhar Mann Motivational Series (her videos has generate over 1 billion views & as Jenna on Brattv "Mani" & Nina on Nickelodeon Sam & Cat. Brianni a rapper, singer song writer, model, music producer with Girls Make Beats, film critic, red carpet host, anti-bully advocate, 2 feature films "Tell Her" as Aisha released on Disney Russia May 21, 2021, and Dhar Mann's Girl Finds Out She's Adopted On Thanksgiving as Toni released Nov 22, 2021, 2 songs "Step Back, No Bullies" & "We Must Rise Up, Stop Bullying." released Nov 20 2021 on all social media platform, has an article in New York Wire 2021, upcoming projects with Barbie Makes Beat & Grammy winner Andra Day, and recently added a her remix to MTV Moon Man Theme.
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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. He 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, Connery died at the age of 90.
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Mike O'Malley
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Michael Edward O'Malley (born October 31, 1966) is an American actor and writer who has appeared in films and television series. Born in Boston and raised in New Hampshire, O'Malley hosted the early 1990s children's game show Nickelodeon Guts before moving to Los Angeles later that decade to star in his own sitcom for NBC called The Mike O'Malley Show. He is best known for his role as Jimmy Hughes on Yes, Dear, a CBS series which aired from 2000 to 2006. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role as Burt Hummel on the Fox series Glee.
O'Malley has also guest-starred in series including My Name Is Earl, Raising Hope, Parenthood and Parks and Recreation, and has appeared in films including 28 Days, Deep Impact, Leatherheads, Eat, Pray, Love, R.I.P.D., Concussion and Sully.
O'Malley is also a published playwright whose plays include Three Years From Thirty and Diverting Devotion. He adapted another play called Searching for Certainty for Peter Askin's film Certainty, which premiered at the Boston Film Festival in 2011. O'Malley is also a writer on Showtime's hit drama Shameless.
O'Malley was the creator and an executive producer of the Starz series Survivor's Remorse, which ran for four seasons between 2014 and 2017.
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Theodore James Perkins
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Theodore James Perkins, better known by the ring name T. J. Perkins (or simply TJP), is an American professional wrestler of Filipino descent. Perkins is best known for his time with WWE, Impact Wrestling, and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he was the second leader of United Empire and a former three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion with Francesco Akira. Perkins began his professional wrestling career in 1998. In 2001, he went to the NJPW Dojo, where he became the youngest wrestler to perform in a NJPW ring. Since then, Perkins worked in various U.S. promotions, such as Ring of Honor (ROH), Major League Wrestling (MLW), TNA Wrestling, and WWE, as well as Japanese promotions, like NJPW and Dragon Gate.
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