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Sally Lowenthal , better known as Sally Jessy Raphael, is an American talk show host, known for the eponymous Sally talk show she hosted for two... decades. Raphaël was born in Easton, Pennsylvania and graduated from Easton Area High School in the city. She was raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico where her father, Jesse Lowenthal, was in the rum exporting business and her mother, Dede Lowry , an artist, ran an art gallery. She also spent part of her teenage years in Scarsdale, New York, where one of her first media jobs was at the local AM radio station, WFAS. The station did a program by and for junior high school students and Raphael read the news. She attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the University of Puerto Rico in Puerto Rico. Raphael studied Acting under the tutelage of Sanford Meisner at New York City's prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse. She earned a BFA from Columbia University in New York City, although some sources say her degree was in journalism. She also told an interviewer for CBS Marketwatch.com in 2001 that she had a master's degree from the University of Puerto Rico.
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John MacDonald "Jack" Coleman is an American actor and screenwriter, best known for replacing Al Corley in the role of Steven Carrington in the... 1980s prime time soap opera Dynasty, and for portraying Noah Bennet in the science-fiction drama series Heroes. Coleman's first major role was in the soap opera Days of our Lives, where he appeared from 1981 to 1982 as the character of Jake Kositchek . In 1982, he joined the cast of Dynasty when he took over the role of Steven Carrington, one of the first gay characters on television. The role was originally portrayed by Al Corley. Coleman played the role until 1988. He was a regular on the short-lived series Nightmare Cafe , and appeared on the miniseries Kingdom Hospital . He made guest appearances in The Net, CSI: Miami, Nip/Tuck, Without a Trace, Diagnosis: Murder, and Entourage. He co-starred as Alyson & Amanda Michalka's father in the Disney Channel Original Movie Cow Belles. He was nominated for his performance in the play Stand-up Tragedy at the Mark Taper Forum, and won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his performance in Bouncers.
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Gregory "Greg" Howe is an American guitarist and composer. As an active musician for nearly thirty years, he has released nine studio albums in... addition to collaborating with a wide variety of artists. After leaving high school and playing the club circuit around the New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania areas with his brother Albert for most of the 1980s, Greg Howe officially began his solo career after sending a demo tape to Shrapnel Records in 1987, upon which he was immediately signed by founder Mike Varney. His self-titled debut album was released in 1988, during the popular shred era, and went on to become his highest-selling album; a Guitar World article in 2009 would rank it as tenth in the all-time top ten list of shred albums. The following year, he joined with Albert to form a Van Halen-inspired hard rock group named Howe II. Through Shrapnel, they released two studio albums: High Gear and Now Hear This . His second solo album, Introspection, was released in 1993.
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Kristen McMenamy is an American model. She is known for her unconventional, androgynous appearance. Born in Easton, Pennsylvania, McMenamy's... modeling career mainly spanned the years 1985 to 1998, when she worked for many of the world's top designers and international fashion houses . She has also worked with many of the top fashion photographers, including Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon, Steven Meisel, Juergen Teller, and Karl Lagerfeld. A few months into her career, she was in the 1986 Book, A Day in the Life of America, being photographed by Sante D'Orazio. In 1994, she also modeled in a famous Gianni Versace advertising campaign featuring Nadja Auermann and Elton John, photographed by Richard Avedon. On January 25, 2011, Kristen Mcmenamy modeled for Chanel, she was the bride of Chanel couture. In 1997, McMenamy, then five months pregnant, married the British photographer Miles Aldridge, a brother of the fashion model Saffron Aldridge. Their first child was born four months later. They had a second child together.
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Omar Doom is an American actor, musician and artist. Doom is best known to audiences for his role as PFC Omar Ulmer in the 2009 film, Inglourious... Basterds, directed by Quentin Tarantino. Omar Doom was born Omar Makhdomi in Easton, Pennsylvania to parents, Dr. Rashid and Jawahira Makhdomi. His father is a physician at Easton Hospital. He was one of three siblings, including his two sisters. Doom's parents would take the family to a cultural institution or exhibit every week. For example, the family would attend an opera or play in Manhattan, located to the east of the city, or a film at a local art house theater. Doom graduated from Easton Area High School in 1994 and fronted a band called Ordeal, while attending the school. Following graduation, Doom attended Parsons The New School for Design, where he pursued a degree in painting. Doom returned to a music career after Parsons. He became the frontman of a two-person electronic rock band called Doomington, along with Stretch Armstrong, a successful DJ and music producer. The duo is now defunct. Doom met director Quentin Tarantino in Los Angeles in 1998 through mutual friends.
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April Macie is an American stand-up comedian, television personality, writer, and actress. She is perhaps best known for winning Howard Stern's... "Funniest, Hottest Comedienne" contest and her appearance for the fourth season of NBC's reality series Last Comic Standing. Macie auditioned for Last Comic Standing in the early summer of 2006 and was accepted into the show's cast, but she was voted out in the initial round of competition. She will be featured in the upcoming documentary I Am Comic. April Macie travels the world collecting stories and experiences, which she then translates into humorous, relatable tales in front of audiences worldwide. April has been to over 23 countries, 12 of those performing stand-up comedy for the troops, was a finalist on NBC’s Last Comic Standing in 2006, has appeared on E! Entertainment, Fuel TV, HSN, Sirius and XM Radio, Bob & Tom, Access Hollywood, and was labeled an "emerging talent to watch" by the Hollywood Reporter at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in 2005. April is a regular guest on the Howard Stern show, where in 2008 she was voted the “Funniest and Hottest” comedian in America.
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