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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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Charles Bennett

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Born just before the century turned, Charles Bennett made his writing debut as a child in 1911, fought in France during World War I while still a teen and resumed his acting career after the war's end. In 1926 he dropped acting to concentrate on being a playwright, later turning one of his most famous plays, "Blackmail," into a screenplay for production under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock. The affiliation with "Hitch" continued into the early 1940s, by which time both Bennett and the director were working in Hollywood. He wrote for producers ranging from Cecil B. DeMille to Irwin Allen to the penny-pinching folks at AIP. "If I couldn't write, I wouldn't want to live," commented Bennett, who had projects (including a remake of "Blackmail") going right up to the time of his death.
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Véronique Vendell

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On July 21, 1942, Claude Marie Rose Durafourd, future Vendell, was born in Lodève (Hérault), into a family of doctors. the one who will opt for the nickname Véronique Vendell for three brothers. Two will follow the family path, another will become a painter. She arrives in Paris with a real battle plan, everything is planned, thought out, studied, it can only succeed. With her look directly inspired by the essential Brigitte Bardot mixed with a zest of Monroe and a hint of Mansfield, Véronique sets out to attack film festivals with touching regularity and determination. She is of course all blonde and smiles and it goes without saying, dressed in the most revealing dresses possible. Véronique will always arrive in Cannes in a transparent blouse as if it were a ticket to the top of the bill. She quickly debuted at the Théâtre du Gymnase with “Adieu Prudence” and was filming “Rencontres” at the cinema. The newspapers publish photos of her tiny bikinis, material to feed the slew of weeklies devoted to cinema in constant demand for empty information to complete the magazines in question. The champions of the genre being Jayne Mansfield, Elaine Stewart and Corinne Calvet, Véronique will not be left out. However, she filmed, and her filmography is consistent. Thus, if she begins to rotate in “Les Amours Célèbres” between Feuillère, Girardot and Laforêt, she only appears for a fleeting moment. This cinema will be less tender with Véronique than what we still call the celebrity press, but she will nevertheless be able to film for big names thanks mainly to Italy. In “Lo La Conoscevo Bene” in 1965 she already seems to be parodying herself. Wearing a lamé dress cut low to the waist and which we will see her carrying around to quite a few festivals, she is wearing a platinum blonde bun that seems to have been polished with explosives. Which in hindsight gives it quite a punk side! She's a starlet invited to a private party and has only one line: "Oh yes, I've been in the movies." An advertisement for a lipstick. Only my mouth but on a giant screen measuring five by ten meters! » To which a smartass replies, “Make advertisements for panties instead!” » She was also part of a few American adventures, notably with “La Nuit des Généraux” where she was part of the “French contingent” with Philippe Noiret, Juliette Greco and Pierre Mondy. But alas, Véronique will be out of luck again. While she was expected to be a real revelation at the film's premiere in New York, the weather conditions were disastrous; Her plane arrives very late and not only does she miss the ceremony but she finds herself stuck at the airport in a New York paralyzed by a snowstorm! Not a taxi on the horizon to take him to his hotel, failing to bring him to the covetousness of New York photographers...
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Ted Nugent

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent ( born December 13, 1948) is an American guitarist, musician, vocalist, author, and activist. From Detroit, Michigan, he originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes, before embarking on a lengthy solo career. He is also noted for his conservative political views and his ardent defense of hunting and gun ownership rights. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ted Nugent, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Matilda Rapaport

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Matilda Rapaport was a Swedish extreme free-skier known for her work on Shades of Winter (2013), Pure (2014) and Between (2016). On 14 July 2016 she was caught in an avalanche while filming promotional material for Ubisoft’s upcoming video game in Farellones, Chile. She was 30. Rapaport was filming promos for a video game called Steep, in which multiple players compete against each other in various extreme winter sports, including skiing, snowboarding, wing suit flying and paragliding. To provide realistic footage for the game, Rapaport was alone while descending an Andean mountain above the Chilean village of Farellones near Santiago after a snowstorm had cleared. The powder snow was perfect for her and the filmmakers. But it was loose. Even beneath her crash helmet, she would have heard the roar of an avalanche. But she may have heard it too late. Her manager said she had apparently tried to outrun it. She was buried under the snow and fell into a coma. She was brought to a hospital in Santiago de Chile where she died on 18 July 2016.
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Jacques Weber

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Jacques Weber is a French actor, director and writer. Weber joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique at the age of 20, and won the Prix d'Excellence when he left. He joined Robert Hossein in Rheims, and began a rich theatrical career and a sporadic cinema career. Marcel Cravenne hired him in 1970 for Tartuffe. In 1972, he was Haroun in Faustine et le Bel Été and played the role of Hugo in État de siège by Costa-Gavras. He was seduced by Claude Jade in Le Malin Plaisir (1975), and by Anicée Alvina in Une femme fatale (1976). The young actor with much sex-appeal (he appeared in Le Malin Plaisir completely naked) was in Bel Ami (1983) after the 1885 novel by Guy de Maupassant in the adaptation by Pierre Cardinal. On television, he was, among others, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo by Denys de La Patellière and Judge Antoine Rives in the show by Gilles Béhat. Noticeable on film as Comte de Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) and Don Juan (1998), where he seduces Emmanuelle Béart. In 2008, he joined Isabelle Adjani in a televised adaptation of Figaro which he directed for France 3. From 1979 to 1985, he appeared at the Centre dramatique national in Lyon (Théâtre du 8th), and from 1986 to 2001, the Théâtre de Nice, Centre dramatique national Nice-Côte d'Azur. He has starred and directed in many of the great roles of classical theatre, including Cyrano, where he excelled for many seasons. Jacques Weber published Des petits coins de paradis in October 2009, his first work, which relates to his work as an artist and his friends. He is married to Christine Weber and has three children: two sons, Tommy and Stanley, and one daughter, Kim. Source: Article "Jacques Weber" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Nikos Vourliotis

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Nikos 'NIVO' Vourliotis is the front man of Goin'Through, one of the most influential hip hop groups in Greece and Cyprus, as they have released 11 albums, 3 soundtracks, and several CD compilations & singles during their 20 years long career, while they have also performed live many times in front of thousands of fans, in & out of Greece (USA,UK,Cyprus,Holland,Germany etc) During 20 years, NIVO has collaborated with the top list of Greek Record Companies, (BMG, UNIVERSAL MUSIC, EMI & Sony Music), and also with premium artists list, such as Anna Vissi,Despoina Vandi,Giorgos Mazonakis,Antonis Remos,etc. In his 2004 album,titled 'La Sagrada Familia',which was awarded a Golden Disc, NIVO personally secured the involvement of Guru (leader of Gangstarr & Jazzmatazz) and contributed lyrics to one of the songs. In their album, called 'Vendetta' (which also awarded with a Golden Disc while its leading single had 200.000 downloads) NIVO achieved to persuade 7L & Esoteric (one of America's most respected underground groups) to produce and co-write a song for Goin' Through, which became an instant club hit in Greece! Aside from Goin' Through,NIVO is the No 1 Hip Hop & R'n'B DJ in Greece & well famous Internationally as one of the most 'up to date' DJs in Europe. His record label 'Family The Label' , has been releasing Hip Hop & R&B records since 1997, and brought together elements of the mainstream and the underground Hip Hop genre. He is also active in event production, having organized parties during the last 11 years. In Greece he is also considered to be a TV personality as his show 'Street Beat' (1997 - 2009) is aired by Greece's top music channel,MAD TV, and is the only TV show which is linked to the urban music & culture. Since autumn 2009 he is host in his own late night talk show in ANT1 TV called "Kalinixta Ellada" ("Goodnight Greece") NiVo was awarded in 2005 with one of the most prestigious awards in Greece - Man Of The Year / Most Stylish Man of The Year - given by Status magazine. Three years after he was chosen to be part of the "Capture The Flag" project of New Era along with top global celebrities. He designed his own 59 hat for New Era that had been released worldwide in a limited edition. He is also owner and designer of the well known fashion brand LaVUE (www.lavuefashion.com) in a collaboration with French designers team. His last target is movie business!!! He participated in a basic status role in the movie "Lufa & Apallagi - I4" a Greek blockbuster (over 0.5 million tickets!!) earning the best critics. Goin' Through composed the soundtrack that became a major success! February of 2010 new e-single of Goin' Through "Polla provlimata" has been released. That song was the soundtrack of a new film of Village Roadshow "180 Moires". Afterwards they followed a lot of collaborations with movie production companies and NIVO appearances and roles in several movies!("POKER FACE","AKALYPTOS","BACHELOR","BACHELOR 2 " by Showtime Productions & Village. Finally, having earned the respect of many established, international and local,Hip Hop and mainstream artists,as well as the love of the audience knowing and handling urban music and having excellent relations with the companies with whom he has worked in the past,NiVo is truly one of the biggest music personalities with endless possibilities and options.
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Pharrell Williams

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Pharrell Lanscilo Williams (born April 5, 1973) is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer, fashion designer and entrepreneur. With close friend Chad Hugo, he formed the hip hop and R&B production duo The Neptunes in the early 1990s, with whom he has produced songs for various recording artists. He has won 13 Grammy Awards, including three for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical (one as a member of The Neptunes). He is also a two-time Academy Award nominee: in 2014 for Best Original Song, for "Happy" (from Despicable Me 2); and in 2017 for Best Picture, as a producer of Hidden Figures.
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David Raizor

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David Raizor was born and raised on the family farm in Kentucky. Then David and his family eventually moved to Florida where has been an amateur magician for years because of his love of magic. His zaniness also caught the attention of a local clown who convinced him to go to clown school. After attending a local Clown School David went to Virginia to take Advanced Studies in the Art of Clowning. This resulted in him getting to learn from and perform with some of the great Ringling Brothers Clowns which included "Frosty Little" who was one of only four Ringling Master Clowns.
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Arvo Iho

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Arvo Iho (born June 21, 1949) is an Estonian film director, cinematographer, actor and photographer, who has worked in the areas of documentary and drama. Born in Rakvere, Iho worked as a photographer and assistant for Tallinnfilm before studying cinematography at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. Iho acted as assistant director to Andrei Tarkovsky on the 1979 film Stalker. He went on to work as a cameraman for Tallinnfilm in the 1980s. In 1985, Iho co-directed the feature film Games for School–Age Children with Leida Laius, also acting as director of cinematography, and in 1987 made his solo directorial debut with The Birdwatcher, about the relationship between a poacher and an ornithologist. He followed this with Only for the Insane (1990). In 2001 he made The Heart of the Bear, based on the Nikolai Baturin novel, and in 2006 made Gooseberries. As a photographer, Iho has exhibited nationally and internationally. As of 2017, Iho was a professor at Tallinn University's Baltic Film and Media School.
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