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Daryll Triplett

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Laughter is the time-tested medicine that makes life’s realities digestible. Daryll “Officer Keep It Real” Triplett seamlessly intertwines 20+ years of law enforcement experience with tales of marriage and family to create barrier-transcending comedic relief. Audiences of all ages and races are pulled in by his explosive energy, provoked to think by his insight on current events, and pushed to the point of bent over belly laughs as Officer Keep It Real causes comedy and life to collide. His journey from humble beginnings in Columbus, Ohio, to filming his first hour long stand-up special (All Cops Ain’t Bad) which can be rented at www.OKIR.tv, to performing in Atlanta’s premier comedy clubs is one of outstanding achievement mixed with adversity and alternate routes. Becoming a police officer caused Daryll to take comedy seriously. Although friends and family always encouraged him to participate in talent shows and host impromptu events, it was life in the front seat that provided the content and clarity needed to take his craft to the next level. A unique perspective and unbelievable yet entertaining tales of reality combined to produce the personality of Officer Keep It Real. Today, Daryll Triplett is a standup comedian, professional emcee and event host, actor, podcast host, radio personality, and business owner. He is the host of Real Talk with Officer Keep It Real and plays the lead role in the reality series, Meet The Triplett’s.
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Michael Paris

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Michael Paris is a Filipino-American professional wrestler. He is best known for his time with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA)/Impact Wrestling under the ring names DJ Z and Zema Ion. In TNA/Impact Wrestling he is a former two-time X Division Champion and one-time World Tag Team Champion with Andrew Everett. He has also worked for various other promotions, such as Major League Wrestling (MLW), Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, and DDT Pro-Wrestling. He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he performs on the NXT brand under the ring name Joaquin Wilde.
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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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Silk Smitha

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Vijayalakshmi Vadlapati, known popularly as Silk Smitha, was an Indian film artiste who worked predominantly in the South Indian languages. She entered the industry as an extra actress and first got noticed for her role as "Silk" in the 1979 Tamil film Vandichakkaram. She became the most sought-after erotic actress in the early 1980s. In a career spanning 17 years, she appeared in over 450 films in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi languages. On September 23, 1996, she was found dead in her apartment in Chennai, apparently having committed suicide.
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Mike Bonanno

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Igor Vamos, born April 15, 1968, is an internationally known multimedia artist, leading member of The Yes Men (using the alias Mike Bonanno), and an associate professor of media arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.[1] He is also a co-founder of RTmark and the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship, granted for a project that used Global Positioning System (GPS) and other wireless technology to create a new medium with which to "view" his documentary Grounded, about an abandoned military base in Wendover, Utah. Vamos earned an undergraduate degree in Studio Art from Reed College and an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego. While at Reed, Vamos organized a student group called Guerrilla Theater of the Absurd. They performed and documented "culture jamming" acts of protest, including Reverse Peristalsis Painters, where 24 people in suits stood outside the downtown venue of Dan Quayle's fundraiser for Oregon senator Bob Packwood and drank ipecac, forcing themselves to vomit the red, white and blue remains of the mashed potatoes and food coloring they had consumed earlier; and a middle of the night contribution to the debate over re-naming Portland's Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, wherein the city awoke to find that all of the street signs and freeway exits for another major boulevard had been changed to read "Malcolm X Street." Another successful early project was the "Barbie Liberation Organization," where Vamos and his cohorts purchased three hundred Barbie and G.I. Joe dolls, exchanged their electronic voice boxes, and then returned them to the stores; the soldiers ended up saying things like "Let's go shopping!", while the Barbies exclaimed "Vengeance is mine!". It was a small-scale project and few people actually found themselves in possession of the switched dolls, but the stunt nevertheless attracted national media attention. Description above from the Wikipedia article Igor Vamos, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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Bill Pankow

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Bill Pankow is an American film editor with more than 32 film credits dating from 1982. He won the Seattle Film Critics Award for Best Editing in 2002 for his work on Femme Fatale. Femme Fatale was one of the nine films that Pankow has edited with director Brian De Palma commencing with Body Double in 1984. His other credits include: Body Double The Untouchables Parents The Comfort of Strangers The Funeral Snake Eyes The Black Dahlia Trespass Pankow has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors. He lives with his family in Scarsdale, New York.
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House Peters

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Robert House Peters, Sr. (12 March 1880 – 7 December 1967) was a British-born American silent film actor, known to filmgoers of the era as "The Star of a Thousand Emotions." Born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, Peters began his career on a high note, playing the handsome leading man in In the Bishop's Carriage (1913), co-starring Mary Pickford. While The Bishop's Carriage was filmed in an East Coast studio, Peters was in Los Angeles by 1914, becoming one of the first screen stars to permanently settle there. Although he stated publicly that he preferred playing villains, Peters, curly haired and pleasantly dimpled, was from the outset typecast as the romantic hero. After enjoying his greatest success as the good-bad hero of The Girl of the Golden West (1915), Peters found his career peak of the early 1920s. He signed with Universal Studios for six films in 1924, hoping for a comeback. The results, however, were mostly mediocre and he was soon demoted to supporting roles. Retired after 1928's Rose Marie, Peters returned for a guest appearance in The Old West, a 1952 Gene Autry film that also featured his son, House Peters, Jr., who subsequently enjoyed a lengthy film career. Peters was married to actress Mae King in 1914 with whom he had three children, Gregg, Patricia and Robert, Jr. (1916–2008). Peters died at the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.
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Jeff Nathanson

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jeff Nathanson is an American film writer, film producer, and director. He is best known for his work on the Rush Hour series, Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal, and The Last Shot, and has also co-written a story draft for the film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with George Lucas. The screenplay for that film was written by David Koepp; it was released on May 22, 2008. Currently, he is developing a Milli Vanilli biopic for Universal Pictures. He is currently adapting The 39 Clues: The Movie and writing the script for Men in Black III. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Nathanson, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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L. Frank Baum

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels), 82 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works predicted such century-later commonplaces as television, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work). Description above from the Wikipedia article L. Frank Baum, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​
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Robert MacNaughton

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert MacNaughton (born December 19, 1966) is an American actor, best known for his role as Elliott's brother Michael in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, for which he won a 1983 Young Artist Award as Best Young Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Robert also played the lead role of Adam Farmer in the film I Am the Cheese, based on the young adult novel by Robert Cormier. Born in New York City, MacNaughton primarily worked in the theater, both before and after E.T., performing with the Circle Repertory Company, where he originated the role of Buddy Layman in Jim Leonard's The Diviners. MacNaughton performed with Kevin Kline in Henry V at the New York Shakespeare Festival; played Hally in Athol Fugard's Master Harold. He worked at South Coast Repertory, the Long Wharf Theater, and Seattle Repertory, among many others. His TV appearances include Dennis Potter's Visitors for the BBC, Vietnam War Story for HBO, Newhart, and Amen, among other TV movies Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert MacNaughton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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