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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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Simon House
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Simon House (born 29 August 1948 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England) is a composer and classically trained violinist and keyboard player, perhaps best known for his work with space rock band Hawkwind. His arrival in 1974 introduced a new element to the band's style. He was the first conspicuously trained musician, and the sound which emerged on Hall of the Mountain Grill was a previously unheard, lush chaos which sounded a little like Black Sabbath meets The Moody Blues.
Before Hawkwind, House played in High Tide and the Third Ear Band, who contributed the soundtrack to Roman Polanski's Macbeth. Guitarist Tony Hill recounted how House became a member of High Tide: "[Pete Pavli and I were] hanging out with and crashing where we could at Mike's or Wayne's. Simon ended up crashing there as well. He joined Hawkwind in 1974, playing on some of their albums, before leaving for David Bowie's band in 1978, which, along with Robert Calvert's depressive phase, led to Hawkwind breaking up in mid-tour.
Along with other Hawkwind members, he guested on science fiction author Michael Moorcock's New World's Fair in 1975 and has also played on solo projects by former Hawkwind members Robert Calvert and Nik Turner.
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Alissa Filoramo
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Filoramo was responsible for the production of the short film Young Liars, which was shown at the HP Lovecraft Film Festival & CthuluCon in 2018. In the same film she took on one of the leading roles. From 2019 she took acting classes at various acting studios. That same year she was cast in the short film VEM Exotic Rentals. In 2020 she had a major film role and an additional supporting role in the feature film Battle Star Wars. She had newer casts in the feature film The Transcenders and in two episodes of the television series The Family Business and many more.
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Suzee Slater
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Buxom, shapely, and attractive blonde bombshell Suzee Slater was born on June 13 in Goodland, Kansas. Slater was raised in Omaha, Nebraska. Suzee was a cheerleader in high school and attended the University of Nebraska. Slater worked as a flight attendant for MGM Grand airlines prior to embarking on an acting career in the mid-1980's. Often cast for her physical attributes and sensuous screen presence, Suzee was especially memorable as the slutty and enticing Leslie Todd in the deliciously cheesy horror cult favorite "Chopping Mall." She retired from the acting profession in the mid-1990's.
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Ben Jones
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Benjamin Quincy "Ben" Jones (born 1977) is an American director, fine artist, voice actor, animator, producer, writer and storyboard artist. He was a co-founder and member of the art collective Paper Rad from 2001–2008. He has worked on various animated television programs and web series for Animation Domination High-Def (ADHD). Since 2017, Jones is the creative director of Bento Box Entertainment. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
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Talia Schlanger
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Talia Hannah Schlanger is a Canadian musician and radio broadcaster, who has worked in both Canada and the United States. Her debut album of original music “Grace For The Going” will be released in early 2024 via Latent Recordings. The first single “Attention” was released on Sept 6.
Formerly a weekend host of Radio 2 Morning on CBC Radio 2 and TV host of CBC Music Backstage Pass, and a part-time host on CBC Radio 3, her selection as host of NPR's music program World Cafe was announced in February 2017. She joined World Cafe in October 2016 as a contributing producer, and was named the program's new host after the retirement of David Dye. In June 2019, she announced her departure from the program to return to other creative projects. In September 2019, Raina Douris was announced as her successor.
Schlanger grew up in a Jewish family in Thornhill, Ontario. She is a graduate of Ryerson University's program in radio and television arts. Prior to joining the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Schlanger was an actress, whose credits included the supporting role of Madison in Strange Days at Blake Holsey High, guest roles in System Crash and Degrassi: The Next Generation, and musical theatre roles in Mirvish Productions' Mamma Mia, the original Canadian company of Queen's We Will Rock You and the first national U.S. tour of Green Day's American Idiot.
She won a Canadian Screen Award in 2014 as a coproducer with Brent Hodge, Bryan Ward, Grant Lawrence and Kai Black of The Beetle Roadtrip Sessions, a web series on CBC Music in which Lawrence travelled across Canada meeting local musicians and other personalities.
Since leaving World Cafe, Schlanger has again been heard as a fill-in host on CBC Radio programming including ‘Here and Now’ and ‘q with Tom Power’ as well as guest host on 'Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin'.
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Laura Flannery
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Laura Flannery is a Los Angeles based SAG AFTRA actress. Born in New Orleans, La. Laura began her acting career at Story Land in City Park, New Orleans and then a children's theater group called Summer Stages. Looking to expand beyond the stage, she signed with a talent agent at 13 years of age and took on-screen acting classes. A week later she booked her first principal role in a national commercial.
Known for Americal Horror Story: Freak Show, Astronaut Wives Club, Tattooed Love and Exit 14.
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Catherine Frot
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Catherine Frot (born 1 May 1956) is a French actress. A ten-time César Award nominee, she won the awards for Best Actress for Marguerite (2015) and Best Supporting Actress for Family Resemblances (1996). Her other films include Le Dîner de Cons (1998), La Dilettante (1999), and Haute Cuisine (2012).
Frot was born in Paris, France, the daughter of an engineer and a mathematics teacher. Her younger sister, Dominique, is also an actress. Catherine demonstrated comic talent at an early age, and enrolled in the Versailles conservatory when she was fourteen and still at school. In 1974, she began her education at the Rue Blanche school and afterwards took up full-time studies at the conservatory.
In 1975, Frot appeared at the Festival d'Avignon with the Compagnie du Chapeau Rouge (Red Hat Company) which she founded with the help of others. From then on, Catherine put all her energy into theatre performances in roles such as the Présidente de Tourvel in the play Les Liaisons dangereuses in 1987. She performed in a number of classical plays such as La Cerisaie, directed by Peter Brook in 1982, and La Mouette directed by Pierre Pradinas in 1985.
In films, Frot won the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1996, for playing Yolande, 'the sweet silly wife of a provincial bully' in Cédric Klapisch's Un air de famille and was funny and moving as a wealthy, rebellious nuisance in La Dilettante (1999). In 7 ans de mariage, she played a prudish banker, wife and mother, who is drawn by her bored, sexually frustrated husband into the world of Parisian "clubs échangistes" ("wife-swapping clubs"). She is an officer of the Ordre national du Mérite.
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Hal Hartley
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Hal Hartley (born November 3, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter and composer, who became a key figure in the American independent film movement of the 1980s and 1990s. He is best known for his films Trust, Amateur and Henry Fool, which are notable for deadpan humour and offbeat characters quoting philosophical dialogue. His films provided a career launch for a number of actors, including Adrienne Shelly, Edie Falco, Martin Donovan, Parker Posey, Karen Sillas and Elina Löwensohn. Hartley frequently scores his own films using his pseudonym Ned Rifle, and his soundtracks regularly feature music by indie rock acts Yo La Tengo and PJ Harvey.
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Fiona Tan
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Fiona Tan is a visual artist and filmmaker. She is best known for her skillfully crafted video and film installations, in which explorations of memory, time, history, and the role of visual images are key. Her installations and photographic works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in international venues. She has written and directed to date two feature-length films.
Her work is represented in numerous international public and private collections including the Tate Modern, London, the Guggenheim Museum New York, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Neue National Galerie, Berlin, and the MCA, Chicago.
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