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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.
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Joanna Newsom
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Joanna Caroline Newsom (born January 18, 1982) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and actress. Born and raised in Northern California, Newsom was classically trained on the harp in her youth, and began her musical career as a keyboardist in the San Francisco–based indie band The Pleased.
After recording and self-releasing two EPs in 2002, Newsom was signed to the independent label Drag City. Her debut album, The Milk-Eyed Mender, was released in 2004 to critical acclaim, and garnered Newsom an underground following. She would receive wider exposure with the release of Ys (2006), which charted at number 134 on the Billboard 200, and was nominated for a 2007 Shortlist Music Prize.
She released two further albums: Have One on Me (2010), and Divers (2015), the latter of which outsold all of her previous albums. Newsom has been noted by critics for her unique musical style, sometimes characterized as psychedelic folk, and her prominent use of harp instrumentation. She has also appeared as an actress, with roles in the television series Portlandia, and Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice (2014).
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David Warren Gibson
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David Warren Gibson was raised in Minnesota, Texas and New York City, the son of Samuel Warren, a diplomat at the Embassy in Berlin and the Hague, and Sonja Würfel, a ballet dancer from Leipzig. He was attending the University of Houston and St. Thomas University when the Willhemina Agency invited him to come to NYC to work with them. He also attended the Otis Parsons School. His first audition in NYC was for Bob Fosse, who hired him for his new Broadway show, 'Dancin'. He then acted in 2 off-Broadway plays, "The Rainmaker" and "Long Days Journey into Night" before he stepped back on the Broadway stage again working with Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon on the revival of "Sweet Charity". Other Broadway credits include "Dreamgirls", and the original current revival "Chicago"(Aaron). His screen credits include, "The Last Dragon", "Havanah", Bugsy", "Postcards from the Edge", "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas", and "Annie". He has done numerous commercials and was the international spokesman for Toshiba. David traveled with Liza Minnelli for a year performing in "By Myself" directed by Fred Ebb. He has appeared on Jay Leno, David Letterman, Rosie O'Donnell, the CBS Morning Show, The Kennedy Center Honors, and several Academy and Tony Award Shows. His paintings are sold throughout the world.
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Betty Loh Ti
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Betty Loh Ti (Chinese: 樂蒂, 24 July 1937 – 27 December 1968), also known as Le Di or Loh Tih, was a Hong Kong actress originally from Shanghai. Known as the "Classic Beauty", she was one of the most celebrated actresses of Hong Kong cinema. She is most famous for her roles in the 1960 film The Enchanting Shadow, for which she was called "China's most beautiful actress" by the jury of the 1960 Cannes Film Festival, and The Love Eterne, which earned her the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress in 1963. She died from barbiturate overdose at the age of 31.
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Ivan Van Norman
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Ivan Van Norman is a storyteller, host, and producer. He is currently head of Critical Role's Darrington Press and a co-owner and Head of Media and Publishing at Hunters Entertainment.
Formerly, he was a Geek & Sundry Twitch host. Ivan has been producing tabletop games and media content for ten years for both Hunter Entertainment and as a consultant to many other companies, including Wizards of the Coast and Hersch Games (Taboo). He was a game producer on Wil Wheaton’s TableTop and briefly served as executive producer of International Tabletop Day.
He guest starred as Grizznak Snompstork on a Critical Role special episode, "To the Poop! Goblins: A Critical Role Pathfinder One-Shot", and was one of the hosts/co-creators of the UnDeadwood mini saga, being known as 'the Bartender' during the game.
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John A. Lee
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John Andre Lee is an English consultant histopathologist at Rotherham General Hospital and clinical professor of pathology at Hull York Medical School. Lee gained his medical degree, a BSc and a PhD in physiology at University College London. He is most notable to the wider public as co-presenter (with Gunther von Hagens) of Anatomy for Beginners (screened in the UK on Channel 4 in 2005), Autopsy: Life and Death (Channel 4, 2006) and Autopsy: Emergency Room (Channel 4, 2007).
In the first series, various aspects human anatomy were explored, with von Hagens dissecting cadavers to illustrate certain points. In the later series particular diseases were highlighted and explained, again with dissections of cadavers, allowing direct observation of the symptoms in humans.
During these programmes, Lee provided the background information about, and elucidation regarding, von Hagens' ongoing dissections. In essence, he was used to 'cut away' whilst the less telegenic parts of the dissection proceeded. This background information was usually shown on a television monitor and ensured that the audience could follow the doctors as they worked. Further anatomical and medical information was demonstrated on live models (naked persons with the relevant internal organs drawn and/or projected on to their body).
He is a distinguished supporter of the British Humanist Association.
On 15 September 2010, Lee, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in The Guardian, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK.
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Melanie Case
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Melanie Case (born January 10, 1978), a.k.a. Melanie Salazar Case, is a Colombian-American actor, comedian, writer, theater director, filmmaker, producer, and teacher. She is the President and Co-founder of The Farm Hands Entertainment, with her partner Victoria Hope Martin, a media production company focusing on comedy, documentary, and LGBT films.
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Garrett Palm
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Garrett Palm is the show-runner and co-host of the hit Youtube show Eat It or Yeet It on Smosh. He is a Los Angeles based creative producer, director, show-runner, actor, host, podcaster, and writer: a true multi-hyphenate. Originally from Portland, OR (which explains all the Earth tones), Garrett leads from a place of kindness and empathy, spurred on by the belief that people do their best work when they feel safe.
Domestically, Garrett has produced, directed, and show-run for Smosh, UPROXX, and Misfits Gaming Group, working with clients like Ubisoft, Activision, Warner Brothers, Pandora Jewelry, among others. Garrett has also had the pleasure of producing several projects internationally including a travel show highlighting the locations in Assassin’s Creed: Origins in and around Cairo, a program for Malian television at The Festival In The Desert in Timbuktu, and 7 years of stage shows for musical improv comedy troupe Baby Wants Candy in Edinburgh, London, Adelaide, and Reykjavik. Garrett has a BA in Theater from Principia College. He studied and performed improv at the Magnet and UCB Theaters in New York and has taught improv around the world. He co-founded Kickstand Comedy Theater in Portland, OR. Garrett has lived many lives: he’s been a Ranch Hand in Colorado, a Hedge Fund assistant on Wall Street, an improv teacher to business students in Copenhagen, a travel photographer for a small paper, a Barista in the East Village, NY, but the best life by far was the one in which he was choked out by Danny Trejo for making bad tacos.
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Giorgos Kapoutzidis
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Giorgos Kapoutzidis is a Greek screenwriter and actor. He is the creator of the critically successful television series Saturday Born (original title "Σαββατογεννημένες") In the Nick of Time (original title "Στο Παρά 5") and Greek National (original title "Εθνική Ελλάδος"), one of the most part successful shows in Greek television history, the finale attracting 3 million viewers). He has won three television awards, for the best screenplay, for the series Savatogennimenes and Sto Para Pente (twice).
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Regina Spektor
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Regina Ilyinichna Spektor is a Russian-American singer, songwriter, and pianist.
Spektor was born in 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union, to a musical Russian-Jewish family. Her father, Ilya Spektor, is a photographer and amateur violinist. Her mother, Bella Spektor, was a music professor in a Soviet college of music and teaches at a public elementary school in Mount Vernon, New York. Spektor has a brother, Boruch (also known as Bear). Growing up in Moscow, Regina started taking piano lessons when she was seven and learned how to play the piano by practicing on a Petrof upright that her grandfather gave her mother. She grew up listening to classical music and famous Russian bards like Vladimir Vysotsky and Bulat Okudzhava. Her father, who obtained recordings in Eastern Europe and traded cassettes with friends in the Soviet Union, also exposed her to rock and roll bands such as the Beatles, Queen, and the Moody Blues.
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