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Randolph Winters
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J. Randolph Winters was an American author, researcher, and lecturer who specialized in the fields of UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) and extraterrestrial life. He was born on February 18, 1954, in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
He devoted a significant portion of his life to studying the works of Swiss UFO contactee, Billy Meier. He became fascinated with Meier's stories about encounters with extraterrestrial beings and spent years researching his claims.
Winters wrote extensively on the subject, authoring several books about Meier's experiences and the messages he received from the Pleiadian extraterrestrial group. His books include "The Pleiadian Mission," "UFO Contact from the Pleiades," and "Conversations with Extraterrestrials."
He traveled extensively, giving lectures and workshops to promote Meier's teachings and to help others understand the profound implications of the information he had brought back from his interactions with extraterrestrial beings.
Winters passed away in 2018, leaving behind a legacy of work that continues to inspire and challenge curious minds to explore the mysteries of the universe and our place in it.
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Carlo Ponti
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Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit. Along with Dino De Laurentiis, he is credited with reinvigorating and popularizing Italian cinema post-World War II, producing some of the country's most acclaimed and financially-successful films of the 1950s and 1960s.
Ponti worked with many of the most important directors of Italian cinema of the era, including Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Vittorio De Sica, as well as many international directors. He helped launch the career of his wife, international film star Sophia Loren. He won the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film for La Strada (1954) and was nominated for Best Picture for producing Doctor Zhivago (1965). In 1996, he was ascended as a Knight Grand Cross to the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
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Ben Maddow
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Benjamin D. Maddow (August 7, 1909 in Passaic, New Jersey – October 9, 1992 in Los Angeles, California) was a prolific screenwriter and documentarian from the 1930s through the 1970s. Educated at Columbia University, Maddow began his career working within the American documentary movement in the 1930s.
In 1936 he co-founded the short-lived left-wing newsreel The World Today. Under the pseudonym of David Wolff, Maddow co-wrote the screenplay to the Paul Strand–Leo Hurwitz documentary landmark, Native Land (1942).
He earned his first feature screenplay credit with Framed (1947). Other screenplays include Clarence Brown's Intruder in the Dust (1949, an adaptation of the William Faulkner novel), John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination), Johnny Guitar (1954, credited to Philip Yordan, God's Little Acre (1958, an adaptation of the Erskine Caldwell novel officially credited to Philip Yordan as a HUAC-era "front" for Maddow), and, again with Huston, an Edgar Award for Best Mystery Screenplay) and The Unforgiven (1960).
As a documentarian he directed and wrote such films as Storm of Strangers, The Stairs, and The Savage Eye (1959), which won the BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award. Maddow made his solo feature directorial debut with the striking, offbeat feature An Affair of the Skin (1963), a well-acted story of several loves and friendships gone sour and marked by the rich characterisations which had distinguished his best screenplays.
In 1961, Maddow and Huston co-wrote the episode "The Professor" of the 1961 television series The Asphalt Jungle. In 1968 he wrote a screenplay based on Edmund Naughton's novel McCabe; while a film adaptation of the novel was ultimately produced as McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Maddow wasn't credited on the film. His final screenplay was for the horror melodrama The Mephisto Waltz (1970).
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Chika Ikogwe
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Chika Ikogwe is an African-Australian actor, playwright, and screenwriter. She is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney. Chika co-wrote "The House at Boundary Road Liverpool" which made its world premiere at The Old 505 Theatre in November of 2019. Chika was the recipient of the 2018 BBM Youth Support Award in Drama, the 2018 Leslie Walford AM Award, the winner of ‘Best Newcomer’ at the Sydney Theatre Awards in 2019 and the recipient of the 2020 ATYP Rose Byrne Emerging Female Leader in the Arts scholarship.
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Delilah Hefner
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Delilah is an authentic and animated child actor based in Illinois. She has appeared in films, commercials, network television, music videos, web series, web advertisements and has provided voice overs for animation and an audio book.
Delilah is dedicated to her craft and is a method actress. She possesses strong improv skills and when allowed the opportunity she rises to occasion to contribute to a scene and to make a character her own. Second to acting is her love of music, singing, learning piano and beginning guitar.
She has been acting since spring of 2020. She continues to train on improv, voice and technique to continually refine her craft. She has participated in two 48 hour film projects which have given her experience with being extremely adaptive to changes on set. Delilah can speak in both a British and southern accent.
Delilah enjoys being a Girl Scout, riding roller coasters, drawing characters from some of her favorite shows, snuggling with her two cats, Sassy and Rusty and spending time with her family.
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Gustavo Graef-Marino
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Gustavo took the independent film scene by storm in the 90's with his very original and highly acclaimed take on post-Pinochet Chile with "Johnny 100 Pesos". The film became Chile's highest grossing movie and was selected as its official candidate for both the "Best Foreign Language Film" category in the 1993 Academy Awards, as well as the Spanish Goya Awards that same year. In the US, the film premiered at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival where it became an instant success and was commercially released in the US to rave reviews from the indie press. Crowning its success, the film was invited to participate in A-list festivals such as Tokyo International Film Festival, New Directors New Films at the MOMA in New York, Toronto, and other prestigious festivals like Montreal, Los Angeles, San Sebastian, Munich, London, Stockholm, V'iennale, Sydney, Rio; and winning numerous awards including the Chilean film critics' Best Movie of the Year and 1st place at the "Mystery Film Festival" in Italy. "Johnny" went on to obtain worldwide distribution.
His prestige as an international filmmaker has also led Gustavo to become President of the Jury of the Latin American Cinema Award at the Sundance Film Festival 1999.
Gustavo's desire to become a filmmaker started at an early age. After attending law school at the prestigious Universidad Catolica in Chile, he left to pursue his film career as a student at the highly selective and celebrated HFF -Munich Film and Television University- in Germany, where he spent five years. He remained in Germany where he developed a career as a screenwriter and director, beginning with films such as "Filming with Douglas Sirk" -a documentary about the master of melodrama in Hollywood, featuring the late great post-war German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Gustavo directed in Germany his first English language feature, "The voice", with British actors Jon Finch and Suzanna Hamilton, and late rock star Ian Dury.
Gustavo returned to Chile after 15 years in Europe to write, produce and direct "Johnny 100 Pesos". With this success under his belt he was invited to work in the United States and offered his first American feature "Diplomatic Siege" starring Darryl Hannah, Peter Weller and Tom Berenger. His second American film "Instinct to kill" features martial arts star Mark Dacascos.
Gustavo has most recently been directing, writing and producing greatly admired big budget movies for Chilean TV like "Balmaceda," for which he won the Altazor Television award in the best drama category. His next TV movie "Prat" reached a record audience in that country. In 2017 he directs and produces "Johnny 100 Pesos - Chapter Two".
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Giselle Brasseur
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Born into a family of creative characters, from poets and writers to painters and photographers (not to mention a cast of clowns), Giselle's acting career came naturally, and literally began in her crib in New York City where she performed for her brothers and sister instead of falling to sleep. It was a daily routine and a very fond memory of her family who knew then that she was meant to be in the lights. Her first acting role was as a lady bug in James and the Giant Peach. She has been living and loving acting ever since. Being both an American and French citizen, Giselle had a bilingual education and has lived a bicultural life both in New York City and Paris, France. Upon completion of her studies and Certification at Lee Strasberg in New York, she landed the lead role in Perfect Match, an independent feature film, and has since completed several other independent features where she was cast in leading roles. Giselle currently resides in New York City as a working actor.
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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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Okuda Rikiya
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Rikiya, aka Ricky, is a member of a Jpop group Ballistik Boyz (BBZ) from Exile Tribe, managed by LDH.
He was a student in LDH's dance school EXPG in Osaka. As a child, he used to feature in some of Exile's music videos and concerts.
In 2013 through an audition he managed to earn a spot in Project TARO which was an entertainment based educational program organized by LDH and Avex. For the 3-year duration of the project he lived, trained and studied in NYC. (Fellow BBZ bandmates Masa and Miku were also part of this project).
After returning from New York, Rikiya was selected to part of LDH's newest boy group Ballistik Boyz. The group made their official debut on May 22, 2019.
He's skilled in dancing, rapping, and karate.
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Steve Amani
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Steve Amani is an American professional wrestler who has been in the ring for over 20 years. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and is 5’ 8" tall, weighing 185 lbs. Amani is known for his technical wrestling style and has been trained by Shane Morton and Dan Severn. He has been a part of Mr. Chainsaw Productions Wrestling and has been nicknamed “The Untouchable”. Amani’s signature moves include “Just Untouchable”. In addition to his work with Mr. Chainsaw Productions Wrestling, Amani has also wrestled for UWE and NWA affiliates in the states of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Tennessee
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