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Mouloud Mimoun
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Mouloud Mimoun is a journalist, editor-in-chief, director. He was one of the columnists and then the editor-in-chief between 1977 and 1987 of Mosaïque, France 3's pioneering program on immigration issues. In 2009, he created the Le Maghreb des Films association.
Mouloud Mimoun was born in France to an Algerian family that immigrated during the First World War. In 1954 his family returned to Algeria, Mouloud was 10 years old. From his childhood in Paris, his passion for the seventh art remained. Even before he was 10 years old, he frequented the now-defunct Artistic Voltaire room with his friends. The good student will then join the Normal School of Teachers in Algiers, where he notices how few Algerians are compared to the “Europeans”. Until then, he felt French: that is now impossible. Especially since, during the last year of the war, he saw his establishment burned by supporters of the OAS. An FLN official then asked him to help him as “organizing secretary”.
A few months later, he joined the press agency created by the first Algerian government. Aged just over 18, he is the youngest journalist at APS (Algérie Presse Service) where, responsible for covering youth and sports, he often rubs shoulders with the very young minister responsible for this area, Abdelaziz Bouteflika. He continued to frequent cinemas and began to write about cinema, notably in the daily El Moudjahid and the weekly Algérie-Actualité, becoming a pioneer of film criticism in his country. In 1965, it was quite natural that he joined the Algerian News Office, headed by filmmaker Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina, of which he would become editor-in-chief. From now on, he will no longer leave the world of images, becoming one of the main animators of the Algiers cinema library, then at the height of its glory: it regularly receives the greatest filmmakers on the planet such as Jean-Luc Godard, Youssef Chahine , Glauber Rocha or Sembène Ousmane. “Paradoxically, a period of great freedom and excitement in terms of culture under Boumédiène, even though the single party reigned. »
Badly seen by the authorities, particularly for his union activities and his links with the PAGS, a rehash of the Communist Party, shaken by a lightning strike, he decided once again to cross the sea and became a buyer of foreign films for the Office of Algerian news, press officer for young filmmakers like Merzak Allouache or Mohamed Bouamari, and finally cinema columnist for Mosaïque since its creation by the director Tewfik Farès, a friend. When the show disappeared, Mimoun produced documentaries for Arte, wrote articles in the Algerian press, presented La Nuit Du Ramadan on France 2…
In 2009, with L'Humanité critic Gérard Vaugeois and a few cinema-mad friends, he noted the extent to which Maghreb films had almost disappeared from screens, in theaters and on television, on both sides of the Mediterranean. . Almost without means, he created with them the Maghreb Des Films (maghrebdesfilms.fr), where he moderates, of course, a good part of the debates which accompany the screenings. His life, at 70, is still cinema, cinemas.
He died in November 2023.
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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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Luiza Brunet
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is a Brazilian businesswoman , actress , activist and model .
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Daughter of Luiz da Silva, a farmer from Ceará from Sobral , and Alzira Botelho, a seamstress from Minas Gerais from Almenara , Luiza was born in a humble wooden house in Itaporã, in the interior of Mato Grosso do Sul . She was the second daughter of eight siblings. [ 2 ] When she turned 9, her parents decided to leave Itaporã in search of better job opportunities and went to live in the neighborhood of Inhaúma , in Morro do Engenho , a suburb of Rio . Unable to find formal work, her father became a street vendor , and her mother, a cleaner . Luiza started working at the age of twelve as a nanny . During her adolescence she also worked as a maid , a bagger in a supermarket and a saleswoman in a clothing store.
Career
Brunet then decided that she also wanted to try her hand at modeling. After participating in and winning some fashion show and photography competitions, she became an exclusive top model for Dijon pants. She did nude shoots for several men's magazines , such as Ele e Ela and Playboy , [ 3 ] becoming one of Brazil's greatest sex symbols in the 1980s and 1990s . [ 4 ]
Luiza Brunet had a brief acting career with some special appearances, acting in Anjo Mau (1997–1998), Araponga (1990–1991), O Mapa da Mina (1993), as well as the film Os Trapalhões e o Rei do Futebol (1986) . ).
In her debut at São Paulo Fashion Week , on June 13, 2007, after a successful career on the catwalks, Luiza modeled for her friend Tereza Santos' brand. [ 5 ] The model had the following measurements: 1.76 m, 63 kg, 89 cm bust, 64 cm waist and 91 cm hips. [ 6 ]
Carnival
Brunet as drum queen of Imperatriz Leopoldinense at the 2010 Rio carnival
Luiza Brunet was queen of the drums of Portela from 1986 to 1994. From 1995, she was queen of Imperatriz Leopoldinense where she participated in four titles: 1995, 1999, 2000 and 2001. She left the parades after the 2005 carnival, but returned to his post at the 2008 carnival.
Personal life
At the age of 16, in 1978, she met her first boyfriend, engineer Gumercindo Brunet. After a year of dating, Luiza discovered she was pregnant and opted for an abortion . In interviews, Luiza stated that she is in favor of the decriminalization of abortion in Brazil. [ 7 ] She has also stated that she is a feminist and in favor of decriminalizing recreational drug use
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Nancy Carroll
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Nancy Carroll (November 19, 1903 – August 6, 1965) was an American actress.She began her acting career in Broadway musicals. She became a successful actress in "talkies" because her musical background enabled her to play in the movie musicals of the 1930s. Her film debut was in Ladies Must Dress in 1927.
In 1928 she made eight films. One of them, Easy Come, Easy Go, co-starring Richard Dix, made her a star. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1930 for The Devil's Holiday. Among her other films are Laughter (1930), Paramount on Parade (1930), Hot Saturday (1932) with Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933) directed by James Whale, and Broken Lullaby aka The Man I Killed (1932) directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Carroll retired from films in 1938, returned to the stage, and starred in the early television series The Aldrich Family in 1950. In the following year, she guest starred in the television version of The Egg and I, starring her daughter, Patricia Kirkland.
On August 6, 1965, she was found dead after failing to arrive at the theatre for a performance. The cause of her death was an aneurysm. She was 61 years old.
For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Nancy Carroll has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1719 Vine Street.
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Steve Miner
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Stephen C. "Steve" Miner is an American film and television director. Miner was born in Westport, Connecticut. Television programs Miner have directed include The Wonder Years, Jake 2.0, Felicity, Dawson's Creek (including the pilot and four of the other episodes of the first season), and Diagnosis: Murder. However, Miner first made his big splash as an associate-producer on the 1980 hit, Friday the 13th. He would go on to successfully direct the following sequels, Friday the 13th Part 2 and its 3D sequel Friday the 13th Part III. To this day, Steve Miner is the only director to direct more than one film in the Friday the 13th series. In 1986, he directed the horror comedy House which featured his real life son playing a kid who the main character (played by William Katt) must protect from monsters. In later years, Miner would direct Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, and Lake Placid. Miner directed the 2008 film Day of the Dead, a remake of the George A. Romero film of the same name. The remake stars Ving Rhames, Mena Suvari, Nick Cannon and 2001 Maniacs' Christa Campbell, and was penned by Jeffrey Reddick (Final Destination).
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Angélica María
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In 1943, Arnold Frederic Hartman, of American origin, married Angélica de Jesús Ortiz Sandoval. Being a musician from the American Union, he toured almost the entire country with his wife, but his place of residence was the city of Los Angeles, California, until the news of his wife's pregnancy arrived.
From a very young age, Angélica María experienced the stage and music up close, thanks to the vocation of her father. However, the union of her parents ended when the girl was five years old. For this reason, Angélica Ortiz returned to live in Mexico City with her daughter, next to her parents and siblings.
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Katie Hill
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Katherine Lauren Hill (born August 25, 1987) is an American former politician and social services administrator from Agua Dulce, California. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as the U.S. representative for California's 25th congressional district from January to November 2019. Hill is the former executive director of People Assisting the Homeless (PATH), a statewide non-profit organization working to end homelessness throughout California. She won her seat by defeating incumbent Republican Steve Knight in the 2018 midterm elections.
On October 18, 2019, RedState, a conservative blog, published a report on an alleged affair between Hill and her Legislative Director, which they both denied. On October 23, 2019, Hill admitted that she had had an inappropriate relationship with a campaign staffer before she became a Member of Congress. On October 27, 2019, she announced that she would resign from Congress. Nude photos of Hill were published by the Daily Mail, a British tabloid. Hill blamed the release of the photos on her ex-husband, called them an invasion of privacy and vowed to advocate for victims of revenge porn. She resigned on November 3, 2019, and left office two days later.
In June 2021, Hill was ordered to pay US$220,000 to the Daily Mail and other media, to reimburse the legal fees these companies spent defending themselves against her accusations.
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Roxanna Bina
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Roxanna Bina is an actress that appeared in Scarecrow, a horror movie with a cult following.
She is the fashion editor at Buzzine.com and also has a fashion blog called 'Teacups and Couture' on Twolia.com, which focuses on unusual fashion from emerging designers and artists. In addition to being a writer, she also covers movie junkets as an international television journalist for the French territory on a regular basis.
Her entrepreneurial ventures include a Bed & Breakfast in historic Providence, Rhode Island and a frozen, organic baby food company called Fifibear’s. She also acts as the head of Acquisitions at Wonderland Entertainment and an associate producer on the Emmanuel Itier film, ‘The Invocation’.
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John Moore
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John Moore produced award-winning documentaries for over twenty years. His programs sold to ABC TV, SBS, Channel 4, ARTE, the Canadian History Channel and TV Ontario.
His programs made for the Film Australia History Scheme included Menzies & Churchill at War and Monash the Forgotten Anzac.
His 2005 documentary about Bertram Wainer Abortion, Corruption & Cops was nominated at the 2005 Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards and the 2006 Sydney Film Festival.
In 2001 John produced and directed Thomson of Arnhem Land for Film Australia and the ABC. Thomson won the $15,000 NSW Premiers History Award, an AFI Award for Editing and was nominated for awards at Banff and Shanghai TV Festivals.
John's awards included a United Nations Peace Award for Barefoot Student Army in 1994, Best Documentary at the Melbourne and Sydney Film Festivals for Black Man's Houses (1993) and an Australian Film Institute Award for Best TV Documentary for Guns & Roses (1991).
John was also a board member of the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC).
He passed away on 23 July 2019, sadly missed by the documentary community and leaving behind him a huge legacy of social documentaries which responsibly addressed key issues of the day.
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Sarah Hay
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Sarah Hay, born in 1987, was brought up in Princeton, New Jersey, with her older brother, who is an opera singer, and sister. Her grandmother was an art dealer in New York, and her grandfather is a member of the New York Philharmonic. Hay's parents are both amateur dancers and psychologists. She began attending dancing classes at the age of three, and joined the School of American Ballet in New York City when she was eight, and later attended the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School of Ballet at the American Ballet Theatre. She later explained that while she was popular at normal school, at the ballet school she was considered to be a "loser" because she wasn't from a wealthy background. She described herself a "troublemaker" during her childhood, and only decided to pursue ballet professionally when she was a teenager.
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