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Jay Wasley

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Jay Wasley (born November 19, 1981) is a producer, director, cinematographer, and audio engineer, that has worked professionally in production since 2001, but has been creating films, music, and art since childhood. His professional career has brought him all over the world working on dozens of feature films, major network television shows, national commercials, and many other projects. He is best known for his work on The Travel Channel's paranormal investigation series Ghost Adventures, which he joined the crew in season 4 as their sound mixer, eventually evolving into an on-camera Audio Visual Tech/Investigator as well as one of the cinematographers. Jay is also a owner of the production company Simple Equations Media LLC a full service production company and studio based in Las Vegas, NV.
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Billy Tolley

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Billy Tolley (born January 18, 1973) is an Audio/Video Tech, EVP analyst and paranormal investigator for "Ghost Adventures" TV show on the Travel Channel. He was previously a professional club DJ working as "DJ Inferno" in Las Vegas, NV. Billy has always been good with computers and has a strong background in audio editing and production software. He was first intrigued by the paranormal after learning about electronic voice phenomena (EVP). Having many years of experience in music and a solid understanding of sound in general, his curiosity led him to investigate and capture EVPs for himself. Amazed at what he captured on his own, Billy soon started his own paranormal group with some friends named: The Las Vegas Paranormal Investigations of Mysterious Phenomena Squad (or P.I.M.P.S. for short). Billy's fascination with the paranormal field grew stronger and soon after he met Zak Bagans. Zak & Billy became good friends and after sharing details of his most recent audio captures, Zak invited Billy to review some audio evidence for the show. After doing so, Billy was then employed to review all audio evidence for every episode. Billy soon became very busy with the crew handling a multitude of tasks behind the camera as well as in front of it, from evidence review to gear preparation. Soon, Billy officially became an investigator on the show. He considers himself to be a "skeptical-believer" after having many personal experiences since joining the crew. Aside from the TV shows that he has been apart of, Billy enjoys all aspects of cinematography, especially the use of his own personal drones for aerial photography. He has been credited in quite a few projects for this type of work.
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Katrina Weidman

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Katrina Weidman (born March 2, 1983) is an American paranormal investigator, actress and producer. Weidman attended Pennsylvania State University, where she joined the PRS, whose investigations were the basis of the A&E series Paranormal State. Weidman worked as the PRS's case manager between 2006 and 2011. In 2016, Weidman and Nick Groff co-starred on the Destination America reality series Paranormal Lockdown, in which the duo spend 72 hours locked inside a haunted location with only their camera man and no access to the outside world. Beginning in 2019, Weidman co-starred with Jack Osbourne on the series Portals to Hell. She is also known for Kilimanjaro (2013), F. Godfather and Cafe Artist (2019).
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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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Chip Coffey

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Chip began modeling when he was two years old and acting at age five. He has an extensive theatre resume, consisting of over 150 roles on stage. He has also appeared in numerous local, regional and national commercials. Chip graduated from Elmira College in Elmira, New York, where he studied with noted director Peg Denithorne and was a classmate of Keith MacKechnie, Theresa Valada, Janette Barber, and Merle Ginsberg. Chip was Artistic Director of Golden Apple Children's Theatre (Sarasota, Florida) 1978; Artistic Director of Stage Door Players (Dunwoody, Georgia) 1990-91; Founder and Artistic Director of Abracadabra Children's Theatre at Onstage Atlanta (Atlanta, Georgia) 1992-1997; and Founder and Artistic Director of Kaleidoscope Children's Theatre at the Shakespeare Tavern (Atlanta, Georgia) 1997-2000. Chip lives northeast of the city of Atlanta. He works as a psychic, medium, spiritual counselor and lecturer.
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Wayne Farris

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Roy Wayne Farris, better known by his ring name The Honky Tonk Man, is an American professional wrestler. A 1975 graduate from University of Memphis with a B.S. degree in Education, Farris coached high school football for two seasons at Munford High School in Munford, Tennessee. Currently working on the independent circuit, he previously worked for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Federation (WWF)--now WWE. He is best known for his first run with WWF, where he held the WWF Intercontinental Championship for a record 64 weeks, and lost it to Ultimate Warrior in the very first pay-per-view of SummerSlam. He is the cousin of professional wrestler and color commentator Jerry "The King" Lawler.
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Vincent Belorgey

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Vincent Belorgey (born 31 July 1975), known professionally as Kavinsky, is a French musician, producer, DJ, and actor. His production style is reminiscent of the electropop film soundtracks of the 1980s. Kavinsky claims that his music is inspired by thousands of movies he watched as a young boy and that he has cherry-picked the best parts from them, consolidating them into one concept. Kavinsky has been compared to many similar French house artists, including Danger and French duo Daft Punk. He achieved greater mainstream recognition after his song "Nightcall" was featured in the 2011 film Drive. His debut studio album, OutRun, was released in 2013. After many years as an actor, Kavinsky's musical career started in 2005 after being inspired by his close friends Jackson Fourgeaud and Quentin Dupieux, the latter director also included Kavinsky's music in his film Steak. During this period Kavinsky produced his first single "Testarossa Autodrive" which was inspired by the Testarossa model of Ferrari (one of which Vincent drives in real life). Kavinsky presented the single to Quentin, who in turn presented it to a record label he had access to because of his filming career, and Kavinsky signed with Record Makers. Kavinsky went on to release three EPs on the Record Makers label: Teddy Boy in 2006, 1986 a year later, and Nightcall with Lovefoxxx of CSS in 2010. Kavinsky toured alongside Daft Punk, The Rapture, Justice, and SebastiAn in 2007. The SebastiAn remix of "Testarossa Autodrive" off the 1986 EP is featured in the video games Grand Theft Auto IV and Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. Kavinsky's single "Nightcall" was featured in the opening credits of the film Drive, and became a major hit soon after. In December 2012 he released "ProtoVision" and on 25 February 2013 released his debut studio album OutRun. In November 2021, he returned from his seven year hiatus with the lead single "Renegade" from his second studio album Reborn. The song is produced by Gaspard Augé and Victor Le Masne. Kavinsky is a character made by Vincent Belorgey that has a striking resemblance to Vincent himself but the backstory does not follow anything in Belorgey's history. Kavinsky's story is that after crashing his Testarossa in 1986, he reappeared as a zombie in 2006 to make his own electronic music. Kavinsky's songs help tell his story; Vincent claims in an interview, "'Night Call' is just about the zombie guy [who] goes to his girlfriend's house and says okay I'm not the same, we need to talk", referring to Kavinsky going back to find his girlfriend after the crash who has already moved on with her life. In interview, Kavinsky stated that the entirety of Teddy Boy was written and recorded on a Yamaha DX7, which was famous and notable for the synth-pop sound of the 1980s. Kavinsky originally started making music on an old Apple computer given to him by his friend Mr. Oizo. Source: Article "Kavinsky" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Isabella Eklöf

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Isabella Jenny Karolina Eklöf (born 10 February 1978; Östra Ryd) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. Eklöf attended the National Film School of Denmark. She served on the crew as a "runner" for the 2008 Swedish film Let the Right One In. Eklöf co-wrote the 2018 Swedish film Border with director Ali Abbasi; together they expanded on the source material, a short story by John Ajvide Lindqvist. For Border, Eklöf, Abbasi and Lindqvist were nominated for the Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay; they were also nominated for the European Film Award for Best Screenwriter. She also wrote and directed the 2018 Danish film Holiday, for which she won the New Wave Best Picture and New Wave Best Director awards at the Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas; Holiday went on to win four Bodil Awards, including Best Danish Film.
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Maki Goto

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後藤真希 (Goto Maki) is a Japanese pop singer, talent, and model currently signed to Avex Trax's sub-label rhythm zone. Goto originally made her debut in 1999 as part of Hello! Project, and was the only third generation member of Morning Musume.. Her combined CD and DVD sales exceed 2 million copies in Japan alone. She was the second best-selling solo artist in Hello! Project. Early in summer 2008, Goto left Hello! Project and moved to the rhythm zone label. Goto's highest selling single is "Ai no Bakayarou" selling 434,790 copies and her lowest selling single is "Secret" selling 14,861 copies. Goto put her singing career on hold when she went on hiatus in January 2012. She began working as a model and talent for endorsements when she returned in June 2014, but she has not released new music since 2011, though she occasionally appears in special Morning Musume. OG performances.
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Lou Gehrig

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Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig (born Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig; June 19, 1903 – June 2, 1941) was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees (1923–1939). He was renowned for his prowess as a hitter and for his durability, which earned him his nickname "the Iron Horse". He is widely regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time. He was an All-Star seven consecutive times, a Triple Crown winner once, an American League (AL) Most Valuable Player twice, and a member of six World Series champion teams. He had a career (.340) batting average, (.632) slugging average, and a (.447) on base average. He hit 493 home runs and had 1,995 runs batted in (RBI). He still has the highest ratio of runs scored plus runs batted in per 100 plate appearances (35.08) and per 100 games (156.7) among Hall of Fame players. In 1939, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and was the first MLB player to have his uniform number (4) retired by a team. A native of New York City and a student at Columbia University, he signed with the Yankees on April 29, 1923. He set several major-league records during his career, including the most career grand slams (23; since broken by Alex Rodriguez) and most consecutive games played (2,130), a record that stood for 56 years and was long considered unbreakable until it was surpassed by Cal Ripken Jr. in 1995. His consecutive game streak ended on May 2, 1939, when he voluntarily took himself out of the lineup, stunning both players and fans, after his performance on the field became hampered by an undiagnosed ailment subsequently confirmed to be amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which is an incurable neuromuscular illness, now commonly referred to as "Lou Gehrig's disease". The disease forced him to retire at age 36, and claimed his life two years later. The pathos of his farewell from baseball was capped off by his iconic 1939 "Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth" speech at Yankee Stadium. In 1969, the Baseball Writers' Association of America voted Gehrig the greatest first baseman of all time, and he was the leading vote-getter on the MLB All-Century Team chosen by fans in 1999. A monument in his honor, originally dedicated by the Yankees in 1941, currently resides in Monument Park at Yankee Stadium. The Lou Gehrig Memorial Award is given annually to the MLB player who best exhibits Gehrig's integrity and character. In October 1939, he accepted Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's appointment to a 10-year term as a New York City parole commissioner (Gehrig had moved from New Rochelle to Riverdale to satisfy a residency requirement for the job) and was sworn into office on January 2, 1940. The Parole Commission commended Gehrig for his "firm belief in parole, properly administered", stating that Gehrig "indicated he accepted the parole post because it represented an opportunity for public service. He had rejected other job offers—including lucrative speaking and guest appearance opportunities—worth far more financially than the $5,700 a year commissionership." When his deteriorating physical condition made it impossible for him to continue, he quietly resigned from the position, about a month before his death. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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