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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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Kainuma Ryusei
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Ryusei is a mixed Japanese-Brazilian member of a Jpop group Ballistik Boyz (BBZ) from Exile Tribe, managed by LDH.
He was selected to join the group after being one of the finalists from the 2017 Vocal Battle Audition 5 (Rap category). The group made their official debut on May 22, 2019.
Prior to debut, he was a student in LDH's dance school EXPG in Omiya.
His dancing talent led him to join the EXPG special dance project Crasher Kidz where they used to perform in the streets. (Fellow BBZ bandmates Riki and Ryuta were also part of this project).
He's skilled in dancing, rapping and acrobatics. He's also fluent in Portuguese.
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Walter Carone
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Walter Carone, born July 19, 1920 in Genoa, and died May 29, 19823, was a French photojournalist, specializing in celebrity photographs and having spent most of his career at Paris Match. He was also one of the founding members of Photo magazine.
Walter Carone was born in July 1920 in Genoa, where his father was a neighborhood photographer. The family went into exile in Cannes, mainly because of "poverty and fascism". His father specializes in wedding and banquet photography. He trains his son in the technique, wishing him to take over. Walter Carone takes his first photos around the age of 15, with a Contax in 50 mm. Then photographs tourists on the beach, to sell them his prints. When the Second World War arrived, he closed his studio and became a traveling photographer. He meets a young woman of 16 who will become his wife in April 1942, and will be an actress under the name of Monique Artur. He is deported to Germany following a denunciation, but manages to escape before the border. In 1945, he went to Paris equipped with a Leica, two lenses and a few reels of film. He saves to be able to get a second-hand Rolleiflex, unobtainable during the destitution of the post-war period. The majority of his photos until the mid-1950s will be taken with a Rolleiflex. He is hired by the newspaper France Dimanche. It covers more than seven hundred topics in three years. For Roger Thérond, “Walter Carone launched neo-realism in photography. His photos of Doctor Marcel Petiot at his trial in 1946 caused a scandal. In 1948, he managed to persuade Miss Romania 1948 to allow himself to be photographed completely naked.
Noticed by André Lacaze, head of information for the future Paris Match, he was hired in January 1949 for the first issue. 1950, report on the actor Michel Simon with Catherine, his 28-year-old monkey, doing weights and dumbbells. In 1952, a series of 18-year-old Brigitte Bardot in a leotard and fishnet stockings on the roof of the building where she lives with her parents in Paris. 1956, Grace Kelly's wedding photos with Prince Rainier of Monaco. He then carried out around 200 photographic reports a year. In 1956 he became head of the photo department of Paris Match. In 1957, he was appointed deputy editor. He publishes twelve pages on Khrushchev in his dacha near Moscow. He married secondly and had two children (including Bruno Carone, musical artist, who was a member of the group Stinky Toys in the 1970s.)
In 1968, in solidarity with journalists who wanted to create a society of editors, he was fired with them, as well as Roger Thérond, by Jean Prouvost. He then created with Roger Thérond and André Lacaze, within the framework of Filipacchi publications, the monthly Photo, the magazine "professionals at the service of amateurs". He works for several agencies at the same time. He introduces Bettina Rheims to photography, which sometimes assists her. He was appointed editor in 1972. In 1979 he launched the magazine Photo Journal with Georges Bardawil, and published the book Le Portrait the following year with Chenz.
He died of cancer in 1982. In 1992, Serge Bramly devoted a book8 to him, a biography with many photos, including several unpublished.
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Jorge Bendersky
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Born and raised in Argentina, lifelong dog lover Jorge Bendersky had a dream of working with animals at a very young age. At 11 years old, his passion and hobby was breeding and showing dogs. He became a celebrity dog groomer soon after moving to New York City and today he is one of Manhattan's sought-after groomers. Trimming and fluffing the four-legged children of some of the New York City's elite. His clients include top models, notable actors, infamous billionaires and popular recording artists. Bendersky's talents have been seen on Animal Planet's reality show "Groomer Has It," as a judge on TLC's " Extreme Poodles" and as grooming expert on Animal Planet's "Dogs 101." When he's not preening pups for clients, Bendersky does volunteer work tending shelter dogs. His dedication has been recognized not only by thousands of wagging tails but with a North Shore Animal League America's Alex Lewyt Award for National Mill Dog Rescue.
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Hidaka Ryuta
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Ryuta is a member of a Jpop group Ballistik Boyz (BBZ) from Exile Tribe, managed by LDH.
He was selected to join the group after being one of the finalists from the 2017 Vocal Battle Audition 5 (Vocal category). The group made their official debut on May 22, 2019.
Prior to debut, he was a student in LDH's dance school EXPG in Tokyo.
His dancing talent led him to join the EXPG special dance project Crasher Kidz where they used to perform in the streets. (Fellow BBZ bandmates Riki and Ryusei were also part of this project).
He's was inspired to become a singer by his grandfather who was a member of a folk band The Shadracks.
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Christopher Murray
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Christopher Murray was born in 1985 in Santiago.
Director of the feature film "Manuel de Ribera" released at the Rotterdam Film Festival 2010 and winner of the award for "Best National Film" at SANFIC 2010.
He is co-founder of the documentary project "MAFI - Mapa Fílmico de un País" (www.mafi.tv), premiered internationally at IDFA 2012.
General Director of the collective documentaries "Propaganda" (2014) and "God" (2019) both premiered and awarded at the Visions du Réel festival.
He is the director and scriptwriter of the feature film "The Blind Christ" with which he competed for the Golden Lion in the Official Competition of the Venice Film Festival 2016 and winner of the International Critics' Award (FIPRESCI) at FICCI 2017.
He is also the creator and head of the program of the new Diploma in Anthropology and Audiovisual Creation at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
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Howard Bragman
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Howard Bragman is one of the most recognized public relations professionals in America. He has taken his 30+ years of agency experience, in virtually every area of PR, and become the "go-to" guy on television to explain celebrity misbehavior, corporate crisis and the role of "spin" in our everyday lives. He is a frequent contributor to ABC's Good Morning America (1975) and PR expert on CNN and MSNBC.
In addition, he is often quoted in magazines, newspapers and on-line media outlets. Bragman founded "Fifteen Minutes" in 2005 and it has evolved into one of the most respected boutique entertainment public relations agencies in the US. His personal participation includes high-level strategy, top-tier media contacts, crisis communications, media training and agency vision and values. Prior to "Fifteen Minutes", he founded "BNC", which has become the largest entertainment PR agency in the world. He sold the agency to "IPG" in 2000. Prior to that, he was a Vice President at PR giant, "Burson-Marsteller". In addition to his agency work, Bragman was an award-winning adjunct professor at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communications and is the author of the bestselling book, "Where's My Fifteen Minutes? (Penguin/Portfolio, 2008). He has received numerous awards and recognition for his work as a political activist for those with HIV/AIDS, GLBT Civil Rights and Jewish causes. He resides in Los Angeles with his husband, a nationally-respected horse trainer.
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Nikki Garcia
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Stephanie Nicole Chigvintsev (née Garcia-Colace; born November 21, 1983), known professionally as Nikki Garcia, is an American television personality and retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her time in WWE from 2007–2023, in which she performed under the ring name Nikki Bella alongside her twin sister, Brie, as The Bella Twins. She is currently the host of the game show, Barmageddon.
In 2007, Garcia signed with WWE and was assigned to the developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling alongside her twin sister Brie, forming the duo The Bella Twins. She made her debut for the SmackDown brand in 2008. She is a two-time WWE Divas Champion with her second reign of 301 days being the longest reign for the now defunct title. She and Brie were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021 as The Bella Twins. Also during her time in WWE, she starred in the reality TV series, Total Divas, and she and Brie got their own spin-off, Total Bellas. In her last few years in WWE, she only made sporadic appearances, but acted as an ambassador for the company. After her contract with WWE expired in 2023, she and Brie announced that they would be retiring the "Bella" surname and would be returning to their legal maiden name of "Garcia" professionally, and reintroduced themselves as The Garcia Twins.
Garcia ranked No. 1 in Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Female 50 in November 2015, and was named Diva of the Year by Rolling Stone in December 2015. She also won the award for Choice Female Athlete alongside her sister at the Teen Choice Awards in 2016.
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Ivana Wong
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Ivana Wong is a Canadian female singer-songwriter based in Hong Kong. She was acclaimed as a "star-quality singer with a celestial voice" when she first joined the musical industry in 2005. In subsequent years, she swept the board of creative singer awards as well as songwriting awards. She was awarded the Singer–Songwriter Awards in Commercial Radio's Ultimate Song Chart Awards Presentation for seven consecutive years, including four times of Singer–Songwriter Gold Awards, for which she was widely acclaimed as "the Queen of Singer–Songwriters".
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Victor Ireland
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Victor Ireland was born on May 27, 1966 in Los Angeles County, California, USA as Victor E. Ireland. He is a writer and director, known for LUNAR: Silver Star Story Complete (1999), Alundra (1997) and Summon Night 6: Lost Borders (2016).
Former president of Working Designs for over 15 years, until it closed in 2005. His new company is GAIJINWORKS, which was established to carry on the work he began at Working Designs localizing Japanese games for English-speaking audiences.
After attempting to bring Growlanser II, Growlanser III, and Goemon for the PlayStation 2 from Japan in the US, he and his company's efforts were unexpectedly rebuffed repeatedly by Sony Computer Entertainment America. The ongoing difficulties eventually led to the closure of Working Designs, and eventually, the birth of his new company, GAIJINWORKS.
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