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François Truffaut

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François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was an influential film critic and filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry. He was also a screenwriter, producer, and actor working on over twenty-five films. Along with Jean-Luc Godard, Truffaut was one of the most influential figures of the French New Wave, inspiring directors such as Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese and Wes Anderson.
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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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Randy Kent

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As of the start of 2024, Randy has wrapped shooting his 12th feature called "Loose Ends Down" with longtime filmmaking partner John Luksetich and is also completing post-production on the British folk horror tale, "Bring Me A Skin For Dancing In", which will mark the 4th collaboration with the UK based production company, Black Coppice Films. Expect both films to release in 2024. After a successful theatrical run in Bangalore, India last year, the Kannada film "Road King" will make it's worldwide streaming debut in 2024. This one-of-a-kind experiment was directed exclusively over Skype from Los Angeles and shot on location in Bangalore and racked up numerous award wins all around the world. He is also finishing up post-production on the sure-to-be-controversial television mini-series, "Cafe in the Void". Co-directed & produced alongside John Luksetich, this "of-the-times" fantasy/comedy/drama is the biggest production they have done to date and set for a 2023 release. Along with that, Randy is celebrating the release of the UK based horror film, "Demons At Dawn" along with the horror/comedy, "Chinese Speaking Vampires", both currently available across multiple VOD platforms. Throughout his career, Randy has garnered multiple awards as a producer, director and editor in the commercial and film arena. With his keen ability to make a little go a long way and look like it was made for a lot, Randy has earned a reputation for the work he has created across every genre and in many different countries - from his beginnings in the Atlanta comedy world, to directing heavy dramas in India over a computer, shooting tight thrillers in the streets of Holland, making straight-up horror in Buffalo and England, and then smaller, more experimental work he has done in his hometown of Los Angeles. Other recent projects out in the world include the first season of the BLK Prime web series, "Sweet As Pye"; The 1970s throwback thriller, "Blood Tulips", that is now setting up special screenings; And the indie feature, "Shadow Of The Monarch", which is available across most VOD platforms like Amazon Prime, DirecTV and iTunes. Kent won several Best Director awards for "Road King"; Best Film Maker and Best Short Film at the Glendale International Film Festival for "The Pursuit", Best Experimental Short Film and an Award of Merit for "Forgotten" and a Silver Ace Award at the Las Vegas International Film Festival for the feature film, "Life Of Lemon". Other awards include 2 Best Director and Best Feature Film Awards at 2 different festivals for the horror anthology feature, "The Perfect House" and an Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film for the short, "Timmy, The Bag Boy". A planned feature film version of "Timmy" is now in the works along with several other feature and short projects. Randy shot Bagboy Productions first feature film, "Life, Death & Mini-Golf", in the summer of 2002. The production was an entirely self-financed project and now sells on Amazon and various other sites. Filmed in three locations in 12 days, this drama ensemble stars comedy superstar actress, Kristen Wiig.
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Puddles Pity Party

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Geoffrey Michael Geier, known as Big Mike Geier (height: 6'8"), is a singer, entertainer, composer, and leader of the band Kingsized, which is based in Atlanta, GA. His most critically acclaimed act is his alter ego: a Pagliacci-type clown named Puddles Pity Party. In the early 1990s, Geier led a touring "Swing Noir" band, The Useless Playboys, before settling in Atlanta in 1995. Around this time, he started up an Elvis tribute band, Kingsized. Several years into Kingsized, he began experimenting with a clown-themed side project called Greasepaint, which laid the foundation for his later alter ego, Puddles. As Puddles, he has appeared in YouTube videos since 2013, including some with Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox. He now performs almost exclusively as Puddles, but he also refers to Puddles as a completely separate entity from himself. Likewise, "Puddles" also won't acknowledge himself as Geier. In 2017, Puddles participated in season 12 of the reality series America's Got Talent. He advanced to the quarterfinals at the Dolby Theatre, where he performed his version of "Royals". He was handpicked by Neil Patrick Harris to perform Just for Laugh’s “Circus Awesomeus,” gala filmed for HBO Canada, and Jack Black selected Puddles for multiple performances at Festival Supreme. In October 2017, Puddles made an appearance in a Cartoon Network ad promoting new episodes of Teen Titans Go! and OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes. In January 2019, Puddles, began a headline act residency at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas. In 2022, Puddles made a guest appearance on the season 4 season finale of The Conners. Music composed and performed by Geier has appeared in television shows including iCarly and Victorious (2010). He is also known for No Place to Fall (2015) and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015), among others.
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Momoko Tanabe

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Momoko Tanabe is a Japanese actress and model from Kanagawa. She is mostly known for her first main role as in Konna Mirai wa Kiitenai (aka Southern Beach Love Story; 2018), but has had a variety of supporting roles mostly in TV dramas and movies. She also had a support role as Higashino Natsuki in Girl Gun Lady alongside Laid-Back Camp live-action TV drama co-star Yuno Ohara and Season 2 co-star Anna Ishii (portrayed Ayano Toki). She started acting before middle school. She portrays Chiaki Oogaki in the Laid-Back Camp live-action TV drama and it's her second main role.
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Laura Dennis

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Laura Guilmette Dennis is a Canadian professional wrestler currently signed with All Elite Wrestling under the ring name Allie. She previously wrestled in Impact Wrestling where she is a former Knockouts Champion. She has also worked for Great Canadian Wrestling, NCW Femmes Fatales, Shimmer Women Athletes, Shine Wrestling, Women Superstars Uncensored (WSU) and Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) under the ring name Cherry Bomb. With tag team partner Kimber Lee, collectively known as The Kimber Bombs, they have held the Shine Tag Team Championship and the Shimmer Tag Team Championship both once. In Women Superstars Uncensored, she is also a former 1-time WSU Champion.
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Robert Bédard

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Robert Bédard was a Canadian professional wrestler. better known by his ring name, the "Number One Frenchman" Rene Goulet. Robert Bedard was born on July 12, 1932 in Quebec City and played hockey as a defenseman, and nearly dying after an opponent’s skate cut into his throat. In addition to hockey, Bedard trained as a bodybuilder and a boxer, but decided to try out wrestling after another boxer warned him he’d be "punch-drunk" by the time he was 25. Goulet began his career in Quebec City, Quebec, in 1957, with his first match being against Gerard Dugas. Bedard adopted his ring name Rene Goulet when he began working in Verne Gagne and Wally Karbo’s Minneapolis territory. Gagne and Karbo changed Bedard’s name to capitalize on his good looks (and the popularity of singer Robert Goulet). Despite not knowing English, he succeeded, and he and his wife would both work hard to learn the language. He spent the early part of his career traveling the territories, spending a significant amount of time in the AWA. He achieved his greatest fame in the 1970s and 1980s with the World Wrestling Federation, winning the WWWF Tag Team Championship with Karl Gotch on December 6, 1971 by defeating “Crazy” Luke Graham and Tarzan Tyler. Karl and Goulet dropped the belts to Baron Mikel Scicluna and King Curtis Iaukea at the next television taping on February 1, 1972, staying on a few more months before looking for new opportunities. Goulet worked briefly in Germany in the early ’70s, with promoters deciding to name him Buddy Rogers, Jr. He was in the first WWF match ever televised on the USA Network, with his opponent being Tito Santana. Goulet was well known as a very dependable wrestler who could always be trusted to have a good match. As a result, he was often selected to have matches with rookie wrestlers so he could carry the match. The list of wrestlers who had either had their first match or one of their first matches against Goulet includes Ric Flair, Chris Taylor, the Iron Sheik, Jim Brunzell, Greg Gagne and Ken Patera. He was the subject of a full-page photo in the third issue of People Magazine of March 11, 1974. The photo was taken of Bédard in a bear hug from Chris Taylor in Taylor's first professional match. While in the AWA in the early 1980s he was known as "Sgt. Jacques Goulet" and used a claw hold he called "le scorpion". He worked as a road agent for the WWF until 1997 and could frequently be seen coming to the ring to maintain control when wrestlers got into fights. He had a recurring role in the classic wrestling show, TNT, as the host of "Cafe Rene". Goulet died on May 25, 2019 at the age of 86. His death was reported that December.
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John Moschitta Jr.

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John Moschitta Jr., also known as "Motormouth" John Moschitta and The Fast Talking Guy (born August 6, 1954), is an American character actor, spokesman, and singer who is best known for his rapid speech delivery. He appeared in over 100 commercials as "The Micro Machines Man" and in a 1981 ad for FedEx. He provided the voice for Blurr in The Transformers: The Movie (1986), The Transformers (1986–1987), Transformers: Animated (2008–2009) and two direct-to-video films. Moschitta had been credited in The Guinness Book of World Records as the World's Fastest Talker, with the ability to articulate 586 words per minute. His record was broken in 1990 by Steve Woodmore who spoke 637 words per minute and then by Sean Shannon, who spoke 655 words per minute on August 30, 1995. However, Moschitta questions the legitimacy of those who claim to be faster than he is.
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Bernard Kouchner

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Bernard Kouchner (born 1 November 1939) is a French politician and doctor. He is the co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Médecins du Monde. From 2007 until 2010, he was the French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the center-right Fillon government under president Nicolas Sarkozy, although he had been in the past a minister in socialist governments. In 2010, The Jerusalem Post considered Kouchner the 15th most influential Jew in the world. Since 2015 Kouchner is workstream leader for the AMU (Agency for the Modernisation of Ukraine), where he contributes his expertise in healthcare. Kouchner was born in Avignon, to a Jewish father and a Protestant mother. Kouchner's paternal grandparents were Russian-born Jews who escaped the pogroms by immigrating to France, but perished decades later in Auschwitz. Kouchner began his political career as a member of the French Communist Party (PCF), from which he was expelled in 1966 for attempting to overthrow the leadership. On a visit to Cuba in 1964, Kouchner spent the night fishing and drinking with Fidel Castro. In the protests of May 1968, he ran the medical faculty strike committee at the Sorbonne. Kouchner worked as a physician for the Red Cross in Biafra in 1968 (during the Nigerian Civil War). His experience as a physician for the Red Cross led him to co-found Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in 1971, and then, due to a conflict of opinion with MSF chairman Claude Malhuret, he established Doctors of the World ('Médecins du Monde') in 1980. Kouchner worked as a humanitarian volunteer during the Siege of Naba'a refugee camp in Lebanon in East Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War taking risks that "other foreign aid workers weren't, even worked closely with the Shia cleric Imam Musa al-Sadr". From 1988, Kouchner began his government career in Socialist governments, though he was not always a member of the French Socialist Party. He became "Secrétaire d'état", a lower position in the Cabinet, for Humanitarian Action in 1988 in the Michel Rocard cabinet, then Minister of Health under Pierre Bérégovoy in 1992, during Mitterrand's presidency. Kouchner continued his political career in the European Parliament from 1994 to 1997. During the time, he chaired the Committee on Development and Cooperation and served on the Subcommittee on Human Rights. In addition to his committee assignments, he was a member of the Parliament's delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China. Together with Judge Andrée Ruffo, Kouchner established the International Bureau for Children's Rights (IBCR), a non-governmental organization based in Montreal, in 1994. When Lionel Jospin became Prime Minister in 1997, Kouchner became Minister of Health for the second time. He held the office until 1999. ... Source: Article "Bernard Kouchner" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Soufiane El Khalidy

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Soufiane El Khalidy is an actor who has appeared in dozens of Hollywood movies, television series and high budget European productions . In fact, Soufiane El Khalidy has recently finished filming a new Hollywood movie “Mary” with Anthony Hopkins. He also played next to Benoit Magimel on the 70 million dollars’ french movie “De Gaulle”. Moreover, he incarnated the character of Kerem on the Paramount Plus mini-series, "Ghosts Of Beirut", and will also appear on the upcoming German movie, "Klandestin WT", next to the French icon, Lambert Wilson. Soon, he will start filming a new Italian movie as a lead next to the Italian star, Sveva Alviti, mostly known for her portrayal of the legendary singer, Dalida, on the successful French movie of the same name, and Natalya on the new Netflix action movie, "AKA". During his career, Soufiane El Khalidy appeared and worked in various music videos from famous L.A rockstars like Train, One Ok Rock, BRMC. He recently starred in the new music video “ Tatooine/ Maintenance” by the French rapper , JXSH. Furthermore, Soufiane received several accolades from the international press and Hollywood professionals. He was named several times as one of the "Top 10 Most talented actors born in Africa and Morocco" or "The Moroccan with Multiple Talents in Hollywood". On the other hand, Soufiane is an award winning short-film director and screenwriter for "Flags and Masks Down", "Juke Box Zero" and "Just Like You Imagined". Moreover, Soufiane El Khalidy released his first novel " Les Riffs D'un Moroccan Rebel" with the French publisher, "Editions Amalthée", in 2022. It’s available in more than 400 book stores and retailers around the world. Soufiane El Khalidy earned his master degree in fine arts and Film Production from the prestigious " Full Sail University" in Florida with a global scholarship for excellency in filmmaking. He was also accepted to pass the preliminary auditions at the Actors Studio New York in order to become a lifetime member in 2017. In 2022, Soufiane El Khalidy married the french actress, Nadia Benzakour ( Seneca, No Man’s Land, Princes of The Desert, Killing Jesus, Bureau des légendes ) in a highly publicized ceremony in Tangier. Soufiane is from Agadir, Morocco. His father, El Khalidy Larbi, is a general practitioner and was a lieutenant for the Moroccan Army during the Sahara war in the 80's. His mom, Malika El Kaddouri, was a nurse for four decades.
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