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KOTOKO
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a Japanese J-pop musician, singer and songwriter from Sapporo, Hokkaido. Kotoko began her singing career as a member of I've Sound in 2000, and was later signed to Rondorobe under Geneon from 2004 to 2010. Kotoko left Geneon in 2010, left I've Sound and signed to Warner Home Video in 2011. She composes and writes lyrics (for herself as well as other singers in I've Sound) for numerous other song collections. She has contributed songs to numerous anime and video games including Please Teacher!, Maria-sama ga Miteru, Hourglass of Summer, Hayate the Combat Butler, Kannazuki no Miko, Shakugan no Shana, BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, To Love-Ru, Accel World, Phantasy Star Online and Argevollen, among others.
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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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Mickey Deymon
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Mickey Deymon is very talented and her imagination is prodigious. She enjoys painting, writing, acting, filming and music. She developed a passion for Film after her first project in 2010 in which she Directed and Acted. Besides her passion in the film industry, she also wrote her first book Detarru Island in 2012 and had the opportunity to published in the year 2018.
She passionately networked with many in the industry and got some Acting and Directing skills. She filmed her second short film called El Barbero in 2014, who's idea was by her friend, Albert Nouel. Within a week, it reached a ton of views. Because the audience loved the Horror comedy short so much, she decided to film other bigger productions in which she Involved more people. In 2014, she filmed her Third project El Exorcismo de Anna which got her into Telemundo 47 Acceso Total show on a LIVE interview and many radio talk shows. She later filmed her Fourth Project called Robin (Teaser) which she directed, acted and wrote. Robin Teaser was produced by John Thomas and Co-Directed by Deshon Hardy, Director of The Lake on Clinton Road. Robin was accepted at the Best Short Competition Film Festival and at the Urban Action Showcase which was nominated by HBO/CINEMAX. Her film was also accepted at the Winter Film Awards Festival, and was also Nominated for an award in 2016. Robin teaser was a huge learning experience and it jump-started her film career. It challenged her to take her skills to a whole new level. In 2016, she filmed Short Action Film DUO and it won a Special Mention Award at the Global Shorts Film Festival. Besides her recent film nominations and Award, she was also nominated by Telemundo 47 as best Actress of the year 2016 by Premios Urbano.
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Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco OMRI (Italian: [umˈbɛrto ˈɛːko]; 5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is best known internationally for his 1980 novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, was a best-seller.
Eco also wrote academic texts, children's books, and essays. He was the founder of the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Republic of San Marino, president of the Graduate School for the Study of the Humanities at the University of Bologna, member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and an honorary fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.
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Michael Saquella
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Born in Rochester, New York, Michael Saquella -Paloma has been entertaining for over 37 years. Aside for his versatile acting, he has been influential in all aspects of the entertainment industry ranging from film, live entertainment, network and cable television, live stage productions and commercials. These experiences have placed in him a unique position of being able to work as an actor, singer, producer, and even a live entertainer, which can been seen in his road tour for his recently released album entitled Michael Paloma and His New York Blues. His famous quote "The smell of the grease paint and the roar of the crowd - Nothing else in life even comes close!" sums up Michael Paloma's aspiration to entertain the world, and there is no sign of him slowing down.Michael is currently starring in a film / series entitled El Coyote. Michael Directed, wrote and starred in the horror film Blue Lake Massacre and his leading role in Forget About It with Burt Reynolds and Raquel Welch did not yield any vacation time for Paloma, directly following he started recording Michael Paloma and His New York Blues, including two music videos produced by Richard Grieco, and his very own live concerts. Under the spot light, Paloma puts on a spectacular show inspired by his stage credits which start with stand up comedy for opening acts such as The Beach Boys, Charo, Tony Bennett and Raquel Welch to impersonating John Belushi in a Blues Brothers act for Legends In Concert and Legendary Superstars that has performed all over the world for over twenty years. With the releases of titles such as Used Cars, O'Hara's Wife, and Assassin to more recent films such as Lady Blues, News Traveler, and Desert Rose, Paloma has once again shown that he is a creative entertainer.
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Frank Williams
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Franklin “Frank” Delano Williams, a gospel music vocalist, musician, recording artist and record company executive, was born to Leon “Pop” and Amanda Williams on June 27, 1947, in Smithville, Mississippi. He began his quartet singing career as a preteen, joining the Southern Gospel Singers and becoming one of the earliest members of the Williams Brothers, the family quartet Pop organized in 1960.
By 1964, Frank had exited the Williams Brothers to join his brother, Huey Paul Williams, in the Jackson Southernaires. Founded in the 1940s in Jackson, Mississippi, the Jackson Southernaires started out as a local group. Anchored by the combined talents of Frank and Huey and vocalist Willie Banks, the quartet scored a record deal in 1963 with Song Bird, a subsidiary of Peacock Records. Between 1963 and 1974, the group waxed several hits for Song Bird, though none were bigger than 1968’s mournful Too Late, led by Huey. In 1973, the quartet was popular enough to host its own television program called Gospel Unlimited.
The Jackson Southernaires signed with Malaco Records in 1975 and released a string of albums over the following 20-plus years. In 1979, Frank became head of the label’s gospel division. His 1985 signing of the Williams Brothers brought the rest of the family aboard. Frank even reunited with the group for its 1986 Malaco album, Hand in Hand.
In addition to being an accomplished vocalist, Frank was a gifted musician. A guitarist, he accompanied Malaco artists such as the Angelic Gospel Singers, Louise “Candy” Davis, the Evereadys, the Gospel Keynotes and the world-famous Pilgrim Jubilees and Soul Stirrers.
His work was not limited to the quartet community. Williams was among the lead singers on the Florida Mass Choir’s 1987 Malaco release, Let the Holy Ghost Lead You. Possibly buoyed by the success of the Florida Mass Choir, Frank was determined to gather the best voices in Mississippi into a mass choir. With the support of Malaco and music director David R. Curry Jr., Frank’s dream was made manifest as the Mississippi Mass Choir. The choir’s debut recording in 1988 hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top Gospel Albums chart and set a gospel industry record for most consecutive weeks on the albums chart (45).
On March 22, 1993, Frank was at the airport in Savannah, Georgia, returning home from a gospel program, when he suffered a fatal heart attack. He was 45 years old, cut down in his prime. He was buried at Garden Memorial Park in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Hadas Yaron
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Hadas Yaron, born in 1990, who portrayed an ultra-orthodox fiance, wife and mother and finally the lover of a Canadian gentile in two films on the run, first in Rama Burshtein's Fill the Void (2012), then in Maxime Giroux's Félix & Meira (2014). Her gentle face, her simple and fresh beauty and her innocent eyes make irresistible the two characters she embodies, Shira, an 18-year-old young lady pressured by her family to marry the widowed husband of her older sister in the former film and Meira, the repressed wife (with child) of a Hasidic husband in the latter. But a moving face and figure would not have been enough if Hadas Yaron had not also been an excellent performer. Her having been awarded the 2012 Ophir Award is not a pure question of chance! And as she is only in her mid-twenties, Hadas Yaron can reasonably expect a lot of those rewarding roles her talent deserves.
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Omar Metwally
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Omar Metwally (born April 10, 1974) is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Dr. Vik Ullah in the Showtime television series The Affair, as well as for Rendition (2007), Munich (2005), and Miral (2010). He has also appeared in the roles of Dr. Fahim Nasir in Non-Stop (2014), Agent Santiago in the USA Network television series Mr. Robot, and CIA agent Matt Edwards in the Bourne spin-off television series Treadstone.
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Joyce Bulifant
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Joyce Collins Bulifant (born December 16, 1937) is an American actress and author. In addition to recurring roles on television, including The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Marie Slaughter, she is recognized for film roles in The Happiest Millionaire and Airplane!. She was also a frequent panelist on game shows including Chain Reaction, Match Game, and Password Plus.
She has been married a total of 5 times: actor James MacArthur (m. 1958; div. 1968), actor Edward Mallory (m. 1969; div. 1974), producer/director William Asher (m. 1976; div. 1993), Glade Bruce Hansen (m. 2000; div. 2001), and actor Roger Perry (m. 2002; died 2018). She had 2 children with her first husband James MacArthur and 1 son, actor/director John Mallory Asher, with her second husband Edward Mallory. John was also adopted by her third husband William Asher.
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Sourav Chakraborty
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Sourav Chakraborty (Bengali: সৌরভ চক্রবর্তী; born October 11, 1988) is an Indian actor, director, writer and producer. He started his career with the Bengali television series Bodhu Kon Alo Laaglo Chokhe. He got fame for his character as Sourav Mitra from Bodhu Kon Alo Laaglo Chokhe. Besides acting, Chakraborty has great interest in poetry and direction. He made his directorial debut through Bengali web series Cartoon. His other notable works are- "Japani Toy", "Murder in The Hills", "Paanch Phoron", "Jotugriha", "Dhanbad Blues", "Lift", and “Rajneeti”.
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