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Jean-Pierre Coffe

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Jean-Pierre Coffe (24 March 1938 – 29 March 2016) was a French radio and television presenter, food critic, and author. Jean-Pierre Coffe spent a major part of his childhood in the town where he was born, Lunéville. He never knew his father, mobilized in 1937 and killed on the field of battle in 1940. He was raised by his mother, who took over the family hairdressing salon. His grandmother was a cook and his grandfather a market gardener. His mother left Lorraine for Paris where he studied at boarding school. At the age of 13, he was seized by a passion for theatre. After completing his studies, he took classes at the Cours Simon and had a number of small jobs at the same time. Jean-Pierre Coffe then began a career in television in the early 1980s. He joined Canal+ on November 4, 1984 and appeared on a number of occasions in the programs hosted by Michel Denisot. In 1992 and 1993, he made his first appearances in La Grande Famille hosted by Jean-Luc Delarue and Demain hosted by Michel Denisot for the cooking theme. He then joined the French public television channels where he hosted a cooking program with children titled Comment c'est fait ? ("How is it done?") from 1992 to 1993 on France 3, followed in 1994 by C'est tout Coffe ("This is all Coffe") on France 2. He joined private channel TF1 in 1999 to present Bien jardiner ("Gardening well"), produced by Jean-Luc Delarue, who finally decided to end the broadcast soon after, which marked the end of their friendship. In 2003, he joined Michel Drucker on France 2 where he served as a food critic in the program Vivement dimanche prochain. On 5 September 2012 he announced his departure of the program to spend more time on writing.
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Rick Reed

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Rick Alan Reed (March 3, 1950 – July 16, 2020) was an American umpire in Major League Baseball. He joined the American League staff in 1979, and worked throughout both major leagues from 2000 to 2009. He was named a crew chief in 1999. Reed wore uniform number 23. He had a brief acting career in the off season playing an Umpire in the movie For Love of the Game starring Kevin Costner. Having survived two strokes late in his umpiring career and subsequently joining the league office as an observer of umpires in Detroit, Reed died on July 16, 2020, at the age of 70. He left behind his two loving sons Tyler and Ryan and wife Cindy.
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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 31 October 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sean Connery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Eric Losfeld

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Éric Losfeld (Mouscron, 1922 – Paris, 1979) was a Belgian-born French publisher who had a reputation for publishing controversial material with his publishing imprint Éditions Le Terrain Vague. He was the publisher of Emmanuelle (1967), two film magazines (Midi Minuit Fantastique and Positif) founded by Ado Kyrou. He published a series of controversial erotic cult comic books, like Barbarella, created by Jean-Claude Forest, Scarlett Dream by Robert Gigi, Epoxy by Paul Cuvelier and Jean van Hamme, the French edition of Phoebe Zeit-Geist, The Adventures of Jodelle and Pravda, both by Guy Peellaert. In 1967, he also published legendary psychedelic feminist comic book Saga de Xam by Jean Rollin. In 1970, Xiris by Serge San Juan. And Kris Kool by Caza. Losfeld's tombstone inscription reads, "Tout ce qu'il éditait avait le souffle de la liberté." ("Everything he edited had the breath of freedom."). Source: Article "Éric Losfeld" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Pierre Rabhi

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Pierre Rabhi (born Rabah Rabhi; 29 May 1938 – 4 December 2021) was a French writer, farmer, and environmentalist. Originally a Muslim, he converted to Christianity before abandoning that religion as well. Rabhi studied in France, and is considered an important figure in French agroecology. He invented the concept of an oasis en tous lieux ("an oasis in any place"). Rabhi advocated a society which respects its population and land, supporting the development of agricultural techniques which preserve natural resources. His theories relate particularly, although not exclusively, to arid countries. His use of anthroposophically-based biodynamic agriculture was controversial. He died on 4 December 2021, at the age of 83. ... Source: Article "Pierre Rabhi" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Ashley Johnson

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Ashley Suzanne Johnson (born August 9, 1983) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Chrissy Seaver on ABC's sitcom Growing Pains and its' subsequent TV movies, Patterson on NBC's FBI drama Blindspot, Mary Beth Caldwell in The Help, Amber Ahmed on AMC's The Killing, and Alex Marshall (daughter of Mel Gibson's character) in What Women Want. She also starred on the live stream show Critical and its' spinoffs. She's also known for her voice roles in animated television series including Gwen Tennyson on Ben 10: Alien Force and its' spinoffs, Gretchen Grundler on Recess and all its' spinoffs, Terra on Teen Titans, and Peter Shepherd on Jumanji (animated series).
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Nicole Nabi

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Nicole is a British Actress known for Awakening of the Troll (2021), Bats: The Awakening (2021) and Hatched (2021). She began her career in dance and theatre, appearing in Billy Elliot at The Nottingham Playhouse at age 13. She went on to perform in more theatre productions at The Nottingham Playhouse and around the centre. At age 16 she directed the short film Black Pudding (2014) with the BFI and from there began to train in screen acting. She graduated from The University of Reading in 2017 and continued to pursue her acting career. She has appeared in feature films in leading roles. She also works as a commercial model.
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Nour

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Marianne Philip Aby Habib, known professionally as Nour, is a Lebanese actress. She began her career as an advertisement model after graduation from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Beirut in 1995. Her first major film role was in “Short w' Fanella w' Kab” (Shorts, T-Shirt and a Cap) opposite Ahmed El Sakka in 2000. She then starred in many Egyptian blockbusters like “Ashab Walla Business” (Friends or Business) in 2001, “Okal,” (2004), “Matab Senaa'y” (Artificial Speed Bump) and “Zarf Tareq” (Urgent Incident) opposite with Ahmed Helmy in 2006. She also starred in the television series “Al Amil 1001” (Agent 1001) in 2005, and “Domoa' Al Qamar” (Moon's Tears) in 2008.
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Olavo Fernandes

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Straight out of Goiás, Olavo Fernandes is a filmmaker with a degree in Cinema and Audiovisual from UFMT (Federal University of Mato Grosso). Working as video editor since 2019, he also acts in production, cinematography, camera assistance, original score, direction and writter in several productions. By now, he is the author of three short films: Chimeric Desire to Belog to Another World (A Quimérica Vontade de Pertencer a Outro Mundo, 2020), The Untamed Uprising of the Killer Strawberries (A Indômita Revolta dos Morangos Assassinos, 2022) and Estelar (2024). Awarded and exhibited in the five regions of Brazil, Europe and North America. His works are usually original genre stories, mainly horror and trash cinema, generally elaborating social commentary with acid humor. Always focusing in character study through the audiovisual language.
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Khalid

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In 2016, Khalid Robinson was voted Most Likely to Go Platinum by his high school class. About a year later, he proved them right. A military kid, Robinson split his childhood between Georgia, Kentucky, upstate New York and Heidelberg, Germany, eventually settling in El Paso, Texas—a pattern of dislocation that often made him feel like an outsider. Self-described as “an awkward teen,” he picked up songwriting primarily to stave off loneliness, sharing music through SoundCloud and quickly catching the ears of both his peers and the industry. (His breakout single, 2016’s “Location”, was recorded during spring break of his senior year; a few weeks after it came out, he won Prom King; within a couple of years, the song had sold more than five million copies in the U.S. alone.) In 2017, he released American Teen, a celebratory but bittersweet mix of synth-pop and neon-lit R&B that garnered five Grammy nominations—proof that you’re rarely an outsider alone. In between, Robinson featured on high-profile collaborations with Logic (“1-800-273-8255”), Calvin Harris (“Rollin”) and Normani (“Love Lies”), among others. An EP, Suncity, arrived in late 2018, opening with audio of Khalid being given keys to the city of El Paso—not bad for a kid who’d moved there only a few years before. Reflecting on his evolution from spectator to artist for Apple Music’s Up Next series, Robinson said, “I would sit in this apartment, I would look at the mountain behind me, I would watch all the lightning and I would listen to music. I was like, ‘You know what? I need something to help me a little bit more.’” So he took it on himself and started to write.
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