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Angelo Rizzoli

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Angelo Rizzoli (31 October 1889 – 24 September 1970) was an Italian publisher and film producer. Rizzoli was born in Milan on 31 October 1889. Orphaned at a young age and raised in poverty, he rose to prosperity. He apprenticed in the printer trade and later became an entrepreneur in his twenties. In 1927, Rizzoli founded company A. Rizzoli & Co. (later RCS MediaGroup). In 1927 Rizzoli acquired Novella magazine, a bi-weekly primarily for women that reached a circulation of 130,000 copies, from Mondadori an independent publisher who specialized in books and magazines. After his initial purchase, he added several new publications including Annabella, Bertoldo, Candido, Omnibus, and Oggi e L'Europeo. In 1949 he began publishing books including both classics and popular novels. He purchased Cartiera di Lama di Reno in 1954, the foundation for what would become an Italian publishing empire. His operations were moved in 1960 to a complex on Via Civitavecchia in Milan. He was amongst the first producers of daily newspapers within the relatively newly established nation of Italy. Active in film, he had control of the French company Francinex with which he co-produced Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960) and 8½ (1963), as well as French films such as Une Parisienne (1957). In 1964 Rizzoli opened the original Rizzoli International Bookstore in New York City at 712 Fifth Avenue, designed by architect Ferdinand Gottlieb. The bookstore was featured in various Hollywood films, most notably, Woody Allen's Manhattan and Falling in Love with Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep. He also produced the controversial documentary film Africa Addio. A museum about Rizzoli's life and career is located at Villa Arbusto within the guest house of that place,[8] at Lacco Ameno. Within this are held 500 photographic-records or evidence of his activities taken on-set during production. The museum also holds the Pithekoussai Archaeological Museum. Rizzoli married Anna Marzorati with whom he had two children, Andrea and Giuseppina. Rizzoli died aged 81 years of age. Source: Article "Angelo Rizzoli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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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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Jet Li

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Li Lian Jie (born April 26, 1963), better known by his stage name Jet Li, is a Chinese martial artist, actor, film producer, wushu champion, and international film star who was born in Beijing, China, and who has currently taken up Singapore citizenship. After three years of intensive training with Wu Bin, Li won his first national championship for the Beijing Wushu Team. After retiring from wushu at age 17, he went on to win great acclaim in China as an actor making his debut with the film Shaolin Temple (1982). He went on to star in many critically acclaimed martial arts epic films, most notably the Once Upon A Time In China series, in which he portrayed folk hero Wong Fei-hung. Li's first role in a Hollywood film was as a villain in Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), but his first Hollywood film leading role was in Romeo Must Die (2000). He has gone on to star in many Hollywood action films, most recently starring beside Jackie Chan in The Forbidden Kingdom (2008), and as the title character villain in The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor (2008) opposite Brendan Fraser. Recently, he appeared in the 2010 film The Expendables.
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Sabrina Impacciatore

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Ha seguito corsi di recitazione presso l'Actor's Studio di New York e a Roma con Cosimo Cinieri, Lucia Poli, Francesca de Sapio, Michael Margott, Jack Waltzer. Viene scoperta da Gianni Boncompagni che la lancia come ragazza pon pon aDomenica In. Finita quell'esperienza Sabrina porta a termine gli studi (maturità scientifica e corso parauniversitario sulle telecomunicazioni) e inizia a lavorare nella redazione di Rock 'n' Roll (1993), uno spin-off di Non è la RAI, programma al quale prende parte nel 1993 e nel 1994 curando l'angolo della posta, del dibattito con le ragazze del programma e interpretando alcuni sketch comici. All'interno del programma ha anche interpretato due pezzi come cantante e condotto il gioco di uno sponsor. Successivamente, è tornata in TV nel 1997 interpretando il ruolo di "Darla" in Macao, sempre con Boncompagni. Nel 1997 è anche protagonista della sitcom di Rai 2 Disokkupati, insieme a Paolo Ferrari, Pierfrancesco Loche, Adolfo Margiotta eStefano Masciarelli, per la regia di Franza Di Rosa. Negli anni duemila ha condotto su LA7 la trasmissione La valigia dei sogni, e nello stesso periodo, con il film ...e se domani, ha vinto il premio come migliore interpretazione femminile al Festival di Annecy. Sempre nei primi anni duemila ha partecipato a varie trasmissioni televisive interpretando personaggi irriverenti, tra cui una parodia di Lara Croft, protagonista del celebre videogioco Tomb Raider, in programmi come Ciro presenta Visitors. Interpreta inoltre ruoli in radiodrammi o radiosceneggiati. Nel 2001 ha vinto al Flaiano Film Festival come migliore attrice non protagonista per L'ultimo bacio. Nel 2008 ha recitato nel videoclip Drammaturgia del gruppo musicale rock italiano Le Vibrazioni, e ha inoltre ricevuto due candidature di fila ai David di Donatello come migliore attrice non protagonista: una nel 2007 per N (Io e Napoleone) e l'altra nel 2008 per Signorina Effe. Nel 2009 è protagonista nella miniserie televisiva Due mamme di troppo, su Canale 5. Nel 2010torna sul grande schermo con il film Baciami ancora di Gabriele Muccino, ed è scelta come conduttrice del Concerto del Primo Maggio (prima donna in assoluto nella storia della manifestazione) insieme al collega Rolando Ravello. Nel giugno2010 partecipa a La camera scura, una mostra di foto d'attori, organizzata da Amnesty International e presentata a Roma, per dire no alla pena di morte.
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Owen Teale

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Owen Teale (born 20 May 1961) is a Welsh actor. Trained at the Guildford School of Acting, Teale made his television debut in The Mimosa Boys in 1984. He later appeared in Knights of God (1989), Great Expectations (1989), Waterfront Beat (1990) and Boon (1990) before being cast as Will Scarlet in the 1991 TV movie Robin Hood. He went on to appear in such series as Dangerfield, Ballykissangel and the long-running Belonging, and later Spooks and Murphy's Law. In 2005, he played a lead role in Marian, Again—opposite Stephen Tompkinson, Samantha Beckinsale and Kelly Harrison—in which he was the abusive husband of Harrison's eponymous character. His film debut was in War Requiem in 1989. He later appeared as Lophakin in the 1999 adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, opposite Charlotte Rampling as Ranevskaya and Alan Bates as Gayev. His appearance in King Arthur, as Pelagius, was relegated to the DVD extended edition. He played Nazi Judge Roland Freisler in the HBO film Conspiracy. In 2006 he appeared in the Torchwood episode "Countrycide"; in 1985, he had appeared in the Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos as "Maldak". In 2006 he had a role in the HBO UK TV movie Tsunami: The Aftermath. In 2007, he guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio drama The Mind's Eye. In the same year, he starred in The Last Legion. In 2011, appeared as Ser Alliser Thorne in the HBO TV adaptation of George R. R. Martin's novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, called Game of Thrones. Teale has been married twice: to Dilys Watling and then to Sylvestra Le Touzel. Description above from the Wikipedia article Owen Teale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Sisse Marie

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sisse Marie Holzmann Søby (born 21 November 1985) is a Danish singer, model, TV hostess and songwriter. She was born in Aalborg. In 2001 she won the most prestigious song contest for young people on Danish national television, which led to a gold certified album. The following year she received a Grammy for Best Teen Album. Since then, she worked as a model in Milan, London, Atlanta, Copenhagen, Oslo, Munich, Amsterdam, Istanbul and Stockholm. She has done model photos, catalogues and billboards for Tiffany Bridal, O'Neill, Heineken, Volvo, Citroën and Wonderbra. She has done photo series and covers of Cosmopolitan, T3, Ché and Marie Claire and runway for Italian Vogue. In 2005 she released the single "Boom", which went in at No. 4 on the official Danish single chart. The following year she began as a hostess at the Danish MTV, and made the subsequent two seasons. Her program was MTV's most watched. On 25 October 2010 she released the now gold certified single "Every Time (You Look at Me)". The song went straight to number 1 in Denmark and the music video was on the release day the 8th most watched on YouTube in the world. On 9 May 2011 she released the single "Dirty Hands" which went No. 1 on MTV Denmark and Brazil. 19 February she released the single "Kill for Your Love" which went No. 1 on MTV Denmark and on the national TV-channel DR MAMA. On 15 November 2012 Sisse Marie had her song "Paralyzed" featured in the best selling video game of all time The Sims. She was also designed as a digital character in the game. The game has sold more than 150 million copies worldwide.
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RuPaul

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RuPaul Andre Charles (born November 17, 1960), known mononymously as RuPaul, is an American drag queen, television judge, musician, and model. Best known for producing, hosting, and judging the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race, he has received several accolades, including eleven Primetime Emmy Awards, three GLAAD Media Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award, two Billboard Music Awards, and a Tony Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article RuPaul, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Peter Hewitt

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Peter Hewitt (b. October, 9 1962, Brighton, England, United Kingdom) is an English film director and writer, known for Garfield (2004) (credited as Pete Hewitt), Thunderpants (2002), Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) and The Candy Show (1989). Upon graduating from England's National Film and Television School in 1990, Hewitt flew to Hollywood with his BAFTA award-winning short film, The Candy Show, in hand. Once there, he called executives from major U.S. studios and asked if he could show them his film. Soon after, he landed an agent and made his feature film directorial debut with Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. Although not as big a success as the original, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, the movie made a profit. He turned to TV next, directing the first two hours of the mini-series Wild Palms. He directed Disney's Tom and Huck in 1995 which was based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hewitt returned to Britain to film The Borrowers, loosely based on a children's novel by Mary Norton of the same name. He remained in England to helm Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999), then tried his hand at TV work again with The Princess of Thieves (2001), filmed in Romania but featuring a mostly British cast, including a young Keira Knightley as Robin Hood's daughter, Gwyn. Hewitt co-wrote the script for his next film, Thunderpants. It was filmed in the U.K.
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Hassan Youssef

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(Hassan Youssef Hassan) is an Egyptian artist, born in the Sayyida Zeinab neighborhood in Cairo in 1934, graduated from the Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts, and he studied at the College of Commerce in 1955, and after that he worked as an artistic supervisor in the school theater of the Benha Educational District, and in the national theater discovered by the artist (Hussein Riad) He presented him as a new face in the movie (I Am Free) starring Lubna Abdel Aziz in 1959 and played the role of her cousin. After that, he presented several works that brightened his star in the world of art, and the sixties was the stage of his artistic glow. The stars of cinema participated in the championship, the most important of them is Souad Hosni .. At this time he married the artist (Lebleba), then he married the artist (Shams Al-Baroudi) in 1972, He participated in acting in a number of films, and then directed a number of other films for her, including the movie (2 on the road) in 1984 with the star (Adel Imam), which is her last work before announcing her permanent retirement from acting .. and one of his most prominent roles is the role of Adel in the movie (Women Al-Layl) in 1973 .. He retired from acting in 1990, and his last movie was (The Two Sisters) .. Then, in 2003, he returned to art, presenting his most important and most successful television work, which is the series (Imam al-Dawa), in which he embodied the biography of the late Imam Sheikh Muhammad Metwally Al-Shaarawy. After that, he was satisfied with participating in soap operas and television dramas, most of which are religious, but he recently stated that he welcomes any role other than religious works, as long as it is within the framework of clean, purposeful art.  
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Satsuki Yukino

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Satsuki Yukino (ゆきの さつき, Yukino Satsuki, previously 雪乃 五月, 雪野 五月), real name Yuki Inoue (井上 由起, Inoue Yuki), born May 25, 1970, is a popular Japanese voice actress from Ōtsu, Shiga. Yukino is also a singer as part of the Hinata Girls. She was a member of Ken Production until 2016. Yukino's most well-known voice roles include Kagome Higurashi in Inuyasha, Mutsumi Otohime in Love Hina, Yoruichi Shihouin in Bleach, Kaname Chidori in all the Full Metal Panic series, Mion and Shion Sonozaki in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Milly Thompson in Trigun and Kira Yukyou in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Description above from the Wikipedia article Satsuki Yukino, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia .
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