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Louise Ekland

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Louise Ekland (born 22 July 1978) is a British television presenter active on the French media. After presenting on France Télévisions, BFM TV and the M6 Group, she joined France 3 in 2017. From 2005 to 2006, Louise Ekland presented Le big show on Game One and Play hit from 2006 to 2007. In late 2007, she joined Direct 8 to present On aura tout vu in the early evening. From 2007 to 2008, she presented M6 music hits flash on M6 from Monday to Friday in the early morning and then the chronicle Le Morning. In 2008, she joined France Télévisions to present on France 2 the program Cote & Match, dedicated to lottery games with sport prognostics of the Française des Jeux. The same year, she joined the news channel BFM TV to present a chronicle on show business from Monday to Friday. In 2009, while still presenting on BFM TV, she presents on France 4 the FA Cup. Since April 2009, succeeding to Ray Cokes, she presents on the same channel the musical program Louise Contre Attaque, which covers different musical festivals. In December 2010, she participated at the presentation of the Telethon on France Télévisions. In February 2011, she presents Frog & Rosbif with Énora Malagré on France 4. In March 2011, she participated as a member of the jury in the French version of Top Chef on M6. In 2012 while still on BFM TV where she presents a daily program in the evening, she presented in May La Nuit Doctor Who on France 4 and during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she visits the city in a bus every morning at the preamble of the sports broadcasts on France Télévisions. In June 2012, she participated at the game Fort Boyard for the association "Enfants de la Lune" with Nelson Monfort, Stéphane Diagana, Frédérique Jossinet, Richard Dacoury and Jérôme Alonzo. In September 2012, she joined the team of the talk show C à vous on France 5 and also participated as a guest in many programs of the public service like Oh les filles or Toute la télé chante pour Sidaction. In July 2014, she presented the daily program 100% Mag on M6, and then replacing Faustine Bollaert since September until the end of the broadcast in November of that year. She has also replaced Sandrine Corman at the presentation of La France a un incroyable talent. In September 2017, she returns on France Télévisions to present the program On a la solution! on France 3 on Saturday morning. Source: Article "Louise Ekland" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Manoj Bhargava

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Manoj Bhargava is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder and CEO of 5-hour Energy, the company which markets the energy shot. He was born in Lucknow, India, and moved to the United States in 1967 at the age of 14. Crain's Detroit Business awarded Bhargava its "Newsmaker of the Year 2011" and he was named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year for 2012. In 2012 Forbes reported his net worth to be around $4 billion, possibly making him the wealthiest Indian in America. (Wikipedia)
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Pierre Mondy

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Pierre Mondy (born Pierre Cuq; 10 February 1925 – 15 September 2012) was a French film and theatre actor and director. He was married four times: to Claude Gensac, Pascale Roberts, Annie Fournier, and Catherine Allary, all actresses. He died on 15 September 2012, aged 87, from lymphoma. Mondy's first on-screen appearance was in 1949 in Jacques Becker's Rendez-vous de juillet and he appeared in over 140 films over the course of his career. In 1960, he received international recognition for the role of Napoléon Bonaparte in the film Austerlitz directed by Abel Gance. In the 1970s, his most successful film was the comedy Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie?. From 1992 until 2005, he appeared in the French television series Les Cordier, juge et flic. As a voice actor, he voiced Caius Obtus in Asterix et la Surprise de Cesar (Asterix vs. Caesar; 1985) and Cetinlapsus in Asterix Chez Le Bretons (Asterix in Britain; 1986). Mondy directed four films and thirteen television episodes, and wrote two television screenplay adaptions. He also directed over 60 theatre productions, many of them at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris. In 1973 he directed the first production of La Cage aux folles starring Jean Poiret and Michel Serrault. Source: Article "Pierre Mondy" 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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IRyS

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Diva of hololive English Project: HOPE IRyS IRyS, a half-demon, half-angel also known as a Nephilim, once brought hope to "The Paradise" during the ancient age. Her full name is ---------- Irys. This current era, riddled with despair and desperation, has brought upon her second awakening. She has arrived to deliver hope, with her feelings put into her lyrics and songs, and determination in her voice. Though she tends to retain her Nephilim form, she is still quite young within her race. With emotion and "other factors," it is possible that her form may lean to either side. When that occurs, she bears a brief change in her appearance. She does not speak of the events that preceded her second awakening. She faces ever forward, perhaps because she is Hope Incarnate, though no one knows for sure. Or could it be... "The future is not what helps people; the future is made with our own hands. Salvation is hypocrisy. If people know they are to be saved, they simply will not try. From the depths of despair: a glimmer of light, the warmth of recovery. As long as we are with hope, we live. We stand tall."
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Joel Salatin

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Joel F. Salatin (born February 24, 1957) is an American farmer, lecturer, and author. Salatin raises livestock on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Meat from the farm is sold by direct marketing to consumers and restaurants. Salatin has been editor of the monthly agriculture magazine Stockman Grass Farmer promoting pasture-grazed lifestock, and teaches a two-day course on agribusiness marketing in conjunction with this magazine. He has authored twelve books including Folks, This Ain't Normal; You Can Farm; and Salad Bar Beef. He has spoken as a farming educator at a wide range of organizations including the University of California at Berkeley, and the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. In 2020, he spoke at the Libertarian National Convention about limiting regulation.
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Cristiano Carotti

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Educated at the Academy of Fine Arts of Terni, he articulates his research between painting and installation. His work investigates social dynamics in their most extreme expressions, through the study of the archetypical power of the symbol among communities. He was given recognition in museum establishment: in 2013 the sculpture “Hai Paura del Buio”, after been shown in Torino and Milan was presented at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome; at the end of 2014 the work “Italianrocket1861” was acquired in the permanent collection of the M.A.C.I.S.T. of Biella; in 2015 the project “Blackswallow V14” was presented during the Venice Biennale ; in 2016 HALLE 14 – Spinnerai Center of Contemporary Art of Leipzig exhibited the corpus of works produced during the art residency in the space of the museum. He exhibited in several national and international occasions and he operates in music, theatre and cinema: in 2016 his video “Camera Red”, realized for RRUNA brand, was selected among the finalists of the Istanbul Fashion Film Festival.
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Sammo Hung

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Sammo Hung (Chinese: 洪金寶, born Hung Kam Po, 7 January 1952) is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, producer and director, known for his work in many kung fu films and Hong Kong action cinema. He has been a fight choreographer for, amongst others, Jackie Chan, King Hu, and John Woo. Hung is one of the pivotal figures who spearheaded the Hong Kong New Wave movement of the 1980s, helped reinvent the martial arts genre and started the vampire-like Jiang Shi genre. He is widely credited with assisting many of his compatriots, giving them their starts in the Hong Kong film industry, by casting them in the films he produced, or giving them roles in the production crew. In East Asia, it is common for people to address their elders or influential people with familial nouns as a sign of familiarity and respect. Jackie Chan, for example, is often addressed as "Dai Goh", meaning Big Brother. Hung was also known as "Dai Goh", until the filming of Project A, which featured both actors. As Hung was the eldest of the kung fu "brothers", and the first to make a mark on the industry, he was given the nickname "Dai Goh Dai", meaning, Big, Big Brother or Biggest Big Brother. Was a member of the"Seven Little Fortunes" in Yu Jim-Yuen's China Drama Academy's Peking Opera School.
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La La Anthony

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Alani Nicole 'La La' Anthony (née Vazquez) is an American television personality. In the early 2000s, she worked as an MTV VJ on Total Request Live. She was the host of the VH1 reality television reunion shows Flavor of Love, I Love New York, For the Love of Ray J, and Real Chance of Love, and was a dean on Charm School with Ricki Lake. She also hosted the reality television series La La's Full Court Wedding and La La's Full Court Life, along with her husband, former NBA player Carmelo Anthony whom she married in 2010.
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Andrea Eckert

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Andrea Eckert (born 17 September 1958) is an Austrian stage and film actress, singer and documentary filmmaker. Born in Vienna, Eckert first studied literature in Paris, France, then decided on a stage career and trained with Dorothea Neff. Her roles have included the eponymous heroines in Hebbel's Judith, Schiller's Maria Stuart, Jelinek's Clara S., Sophocles's Elektra, Kleist's Penthesilea, and Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's Meisterklasse (Master Class). Eckert has frequently appeared on television (for example in guest roles on Kommissar Rex) and in the cinema. She also made documentaries about Lucia Westerguard, Turhan Bey, and Leopold and Josefine Hawelka. She lives in Vienna. Description above from the Wikipedia article Andrea Eckert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.    
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