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Yogi Lonich

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Yogi Lonich, California born and raised artist, Yogi Lonich most recent projects include recording for Shakira, breakout superstar Interscope artist “LP” as well as Chart topping DJ Zedd. He is also a member of Japanese superstar, Koshi Inaba’s (B'z’s) touring band, a member of the platinum selling band, “Fuel” as of winter 2009 and Since 2006, Yogi has been lead guitarist/backup vocalist for rock legend, Chris Cornell. In ’08, Yogi recorded an album with the one and only Yusuf (AKA Cat Stevens). As former Buckcherry and Wallflowers member, Yogi has a curriculum vitae which reads like an encyclopedia of musical legends sharing the stage with artists including, Melissa Etheridge, Booker T Jones, Natasha Bedingfield, Nikka Costa, Anastacia, Five For Fighting, Daniel Powter and Meredith Brooks. He was also honored to play with Jimi Hendrix’s own Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox at the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame opening of the Jimi Hendrix exhibit. Touring support with rock icons The Rolling Stones, Robert Plant, Aerosmith, AC/DC, KISS, Lenny Kravitz, Linkin Park and Korn are a mere few included in an impressive career, which just keeps getting stronger.
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Mistah F.A.B.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Stanley Petey Cox (born January 23, 1982), better known by his stage name Mistah F.A.B.(Faeva Afta Bread), is an American rapper from North Oakland, California. He attended Oakland Technical High School and Emery High School. He is signed to Bay Area rap legend Mac Dre's label, Thizz Entertainment and Atlantic Records. Mistah F.A.B. is an acronym for "Money Is Something to Always Have — FaEva Afta Bread." Description above from the Wikipedia article Mistah F.A.B., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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Wanda Banda

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Wanda Banda is a South African actress known for her debut role as Young Nanisca in the historical epic, The Woman King (2022). Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, Banda portrays the younger version of the character, Nanisca, portrayed by academy award winning actress, Viola Davis. We can expect the rising star to join the cast of the hit Netflix series, Blood and Water, in its fourth season (2024). Banda will also appear as a supporting lead in the upcoming Netflix feature, Heart of the Hunter (2024), directed by Mandlakayise Dube.
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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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Jeff Daniel Phillips

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He is best known for playing a caveman in a popular series of GEICO commercials. He played the part of Maurice in the short-lived Cavemen sitcom on ABC. Other credits to him are Hide (2003), for which he was the director, producer, and co-author in addition to being a cast member; parts in Sneakers and Rob Zombie's Halloween II as Uncle Seymour, The Lords of Salem and 31; and roles in TV series Flaked, Arrest and Trial, Philly, and Profiler. He appeared in the second season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as David Angar, the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of Angar the Screamer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Daniel Phillips licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Bruno Ferreira

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Brazilian filmmaker graduated from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) in cinema and arts & design. Experimenting with language studies in short film format, Bruno Ferreira produced EPIDEMIA NACIONAL (2020) in a pandemic context and in the same year CADA MINUTO (2020); Next year he produced two more politic short films entitled DOMINGO NO ASFALTO (2021) and POPULAÇÃO SOLITÁRIA (2021) and an abstract short film Não ME ABALO (2021) In 2022 on his trip to Europe, he shot the short film in the city of Braga in Portugal QUANDO TUDO ACABAR (2022) entirely with non-actors. The next work in the same year was a study with long inverse shots entitled O NÃO VISTO (2022). At the end of the year, on the verge of the Brazilian presidential election, he promoted a personal family analysis in abstraction with SEGUNDA NA URNA (2022); The following year, with his first work, he ends the "Abstract Brazilian Political Trilogy" with DANO LUNÁTICO (2023). Then, in partnership with regional musicians, he performs O CONCERTO DE ONTEM (2023) in homage to Paul McCartney and with an emotional mother-son vein. He returns to a familiar format seeking to study alternation in editing with "Blue Portrait". A postponed project, TEMPORADAS AO SOL, due to the availability of his old friend who played the main character, is realized, achieving international exposure at short film festivals. Bruno Ferreira makes an abstract documentary, in three parts, about the gradual process of an Ayahuasca ritual carried out by the Shawãdawa indigenous "Arara Encantada" family, named "TRILOGIA DA FORÇA", the strength trilogy.
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King Baggot

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William King Baggot (November 7, 1879 – July 11, 1948) was an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent film era. The first individually publicized leading man in America, Baggot was referred to as "King of the Movies", "The Most Photographed Man in the World", and "The Man Whose Face Is As Familiar As The Man In The Moon". Baggot appeared in over 300 motion pictures from 1909 to 1947, wrote 18 screenplays, and directed 45 movies from 1912 to 1928, including The Lie (1912), Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (1925), and The House of Scandal (1928). He also directed William S. Hart in his most famous western, Tumbleweeds (1925). Among his film appearances, Baggot was best known for The Scarlet Letter (1911), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913), and Ivanhoe (1913). Baggot began his career on the stage, in a Shakespearean stock company, and toured throughout the U.S. While acting in stock in St. Louis in 1909, he was cast as supporting player in the Schubert touring production of The Wishing Ring. When The Wishing Ring closed in Chicago, Baggot returned to New York to join another company. Upon a chance meeting with Harry Solter, who was directing movies for Carl Laemmle at Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP), he was persuaded to go with Solter to the studio. Baggot became interested in the fledgling industry and decided to turn picture player. His first film was the romance short The Awakening of Bess (1909) opposite Florence Lawrence. It was directed by Harry Solter, her husband, at IMP in Fort Lee, New Jersey. At a time when screen actors worked anonymously, Baggot and Lawrence became the first "movie stars" to be given billing, a marquee, and promotion in advertising. Baggot starred in at least 42 movies opposite Lawrence from 1909 to 1911. In the latter year, he starred in at least 16 movies with Mary Pickford. He also began writing screenplays and directing, all the while becoming a major star internationally. When he appeared "in person" at theatres he was mobbed at stage doors. By 1912, he was so famous that when he took the leading part in forming the prestigious Screen Club in New York, the first organization of its kind strictly for movie people, he was the natural choice for its first president. King Baggot died in Los Angeles, California in 1948, age 68. For his contributions to the film industry, Baggot received a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. His star is located at 6312 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Hiroshi Teshigahara

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Hiroshi Teshigahara (January 28, 1927 – April 14, 2001) was an avant-garde Japanese filmmaker. He was born in Tokyo, son of Sofu Teshigahara, founder and grand master of the Sogetsu School of ikebana. He graduated in 1950 from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and began working in documentary film. He directed his first feature film, Pitfall (1962), in collaboration with author Kōbō Abe and musician Tōru Takemitsu. The film won the NHK New Director's award, and throughout the 1960s, he continued to collaborate on films with Abe and Takemitsu while simultaneously pursuing his interest in ikebana and sculpture on a professional level. In 1965, the Teshigahara/Abe film Woman in the Dunes (1964) was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1972, he worked with Japanese researcher and translator John Nathan to make the movie Summer Soldiers, a film set during the Vietnam War about American deserters living on the fringe of Japanese society. From the mid-1970s onwards, he worked less frequently on feature films as he concentrated more on documentaries, exhibitions and the Sogetsu School and became grand master of the school in 1980. In 1978, Teshigahara Hiroshi directed the final two episodes of the long running and popular Japanese television series Shin Zatouichi, starring Shintarō Katsu as the blind wandering Yakuza. During Akira Kurosawa's 5 year hiatus from filmmaking, he watched a lot of television and was particularly taken by the final episode of Shin Zatouichi - Episode: Journey of Dreams (1978). The influence of this particular episode included the initial casting of Shintaro Katsu in the lead roles in Kagemusha and the extended artistic dream sequences contributed to those seen in Kagemusha (1980). On the first anniversary of his death, April 14, 2002, a DVD box set containing his best known work was released in Japan in commemoration.
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Burton Cummings

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Burton Cummings got his start in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada performing in a number of bands. Ultimately, the Guess Who became one of the most popular of all rock bands in the 1970s. Cummings came into contact with several other Winnipeg musicians. Randy Bachman was part of the Guess Who for many years before starting his own band, Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Neil Young was also a Winnipeg musician at the time. Cummings continues as a solo artist and recently released a new album. IMDb Mini Biography By:
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Ramón Barea

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Talented and prolific theater and movie actor from Bilbao, Ramón Barea came to the fore of Spanish cinema in En la puta calle (1997) with his memorable role of Juan, a jobless electrician who becomes homeless. It took a great actor to make this xenophobic moaner a likable fellow. Which escaped neither festival jurors (he won two best actor awards, at the Huelva and the Amiens film festivals) nor the directors and producers of his country (he has been in 155 films, TV films and TV series episodes). Not content with this hyper-activity on the boards and in front of the cameras, he has also directed four films, two shorts and two features.
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