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Corey Scott Feldman is an American actor and singer. He became known during the 1980s, with roles in the Hollywood films Friday the 13th: The Final... Chapter, The Goonies, Stand by Me, The Lost Boys, License to Drive, Dream a Little Dream, Gremlins, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and The Burbs. Feldman is also the lead singer for the rock band Truth Movement. Feldman was born in the Chatsworth district of Los Angeles, California, the second of five children of Sheila , his childhood manager, and Bob Feldman, a musician who eventually owned his own talent agency aimed at modeling other children's careers after his son's. Feldman was raised in the Jewish faith. He has an older sister Mindy, a younger sister Brittnie and two younger brothers, Eden and Devin. Feldman started his career at the age of three, appearing in a McDonald's commercial. In his youth he appeared in over 100 television commercials and on 50 television shows, including Mork and Mindy, Eight is Enough, One Day at a Time. and Cheers. In 1981, he appeared in NBC's musical comedy childrens' special How to Eat Like a Child alongside other future child stars Billy Jacoby and Georg Olden.
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Victoria Davey "Tori" Spelling is an American actress and author. Spelling rose to prominence in the early 1990s for her role as Donna Martin on... Beverly Hills, 90210. She appeared in a string of made-for-television films, such as A Friend to Die For and Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?. She later appeared in several independent films such as Trick and The House of Yes. She reprised her prominent role in the spinoff, 90210 in 2009. Her autobiography, sTORI Telling, debuted on top of the New York Times Best Seller list and was named the best celebrity autobiography of 2009. Victoria Davey Spelling was born in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of Candy and Aaron Spelling . She has a younger brother, Randy, who is also an actor. Both of Spelling's parents were Jewish, though her family celebrated both Christmas and Hanukkah while she was growing up. Her middle name comes from her paternal grandfather. She attended Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California but graduated from Harvard-Westlake School. As a child, Spelling had guest spots on shows such as The Love Boat, T. J.
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Aretha Louise Franklin is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist. In a recording career that has spanned over half a century,... Franklin's repertoire has included gospel, jazz, blues, R&B, pop, rock and funk. Franklin is known as one of the most important popularizers of the soul music genre and is referred to as the Queen of Soul, a title she was given early in her career. Franklin, the daughter of prominent Baptist minister and activist C. L. Franklin, began her singing career singing in her father's church at the age of ten and started recording four years later. After several years in the gospel circuit and with her father's blessing, she formed a secular pop music career at the age of eighteen, signing with Columbia Records, where she was branded by its CEO John Hammond as his most important act since Billie Holiday.
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Edward James Olmos is an American actor and director. Among his most memorable roles are William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, Lt.... Martin Castillo in Miami Vice, teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver, patriarch Abraham Quintanilla in the film Selena, Detective Gaff in Blade Runner, and narrator El Pachuco in both the stage and film versions of Zoot Suit. In 1988, Olmos was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the film Stand and Deliver. He has also been a longtime pioneer for more diversified roles and images of Latinos in the U.S. media besides from his most notable roles/work by him starring, directing and producing films, Made for TV Movies and TV shows such as American Me, The Burning Season, My Family/Mi Familia, 12 Angry Men, The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca, Walkout, The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and American Family: Journey of Dreams. Olmos was born Edward Olmos in Los Angeles, California, where he was raised, the son of Eleanor and Pedro Olmos, who was a welder and mail carrier. His father was a Mexican immigrant and his mother was Mexican American.
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Michael S. Ovitz is an American talent agent who co-founded Creative Artists Agency in 1975 and served as its chairman until 1995. Ovitz later... served as President of the Walt Disney Company from October 1995 to January 1997. Ovitz was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a liquor wholesaler. Raised in Encino, California, he attended Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, a classmate of Sally Field. While a premed student at UCLA, he began his entertainment career as a part-time tour guide at Universal Studios. Upon graduation from UCLA in 1968 with a degree in theater, film, and television, he secured a job in the mail room at the William Morris Agency. Within a year he was promoted, becoming a highly successful television agent. Six years later he and four other young colleagues left William Morris to found Creative Artists Agency. Ovitz founded Creative Artists Agency in 1975 along with fellow William Morris Agents Ron Meyer, Bill Haber, Rowland Perkins, and Mike Rosenfeld. Borrowing only $21,000 from a bank, the agents rented a small office, conducting business on card tables and rented chairs, their wives taking turns as agency receptionist.
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Robert Lane "Bob" Saget is an American stand-up comedian, actor and television host. Although he is best known for his family-friendly roles as... Danny Tanner in Full House and the original host of America's Funniest Home Videos, Saget is also known for his very vulgar stand-up routine. Saget was born in Philadelphia to Jewish parents. His father, Benjamin, was a supermarket executive, and his mother, Rosalyn, was a hospital administrator. Saget lived in Norfolk, Virginia, and Encino, California, before moving back to Philadelphia and graduating from Abington Senior High School. Saget originally intended to become a doctor, but his Honors English teacher, Elaine Zimmerman, saw his creative potential and urged him to seek a career in films. He attended Temple University's film school, where he created Through Adam's Eyes, a black-and-white film about a boy who received reconstructive facial surgery, and was honored with an award of merit in the Student Academy Awards. He graduated with a B.A. in 1978. Saget intended to take graduate courses at the University of Southern California but quit a few days later.
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Lisa Valerie Kudrow is an American actress. She gained worldwide recognition in the '90s for portraying Phoebe Buffay in the television sitcom... Friends, for which she received many accolades including an Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Kudrow has appeared in many films including Romy and Michele's High School Reunion , Analyze This , Dr. Dolittle 2 , Happy Endings , P.S. I Love You , Bandslam , Hotel for Dogs and Easy A . Lisa Kudrow was born in Encino, Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Nedra S. , a travel agent, and Dr. Lee N. Kudrow , a headache specialist and physician. Her ancestors emigrated from Belarus and lived in the village of Ilya, in the Minsk area, and her great-grandmother was murdered in the Holocaust. Kudrow was raised in a middle-class Jewish family and has an older sister, Helene Marla , and an older brother, Santa Monica neurologist David B. Kudrow . She is the niece of composer/conductor Harold Farberman. In 1979, at the age of 16, she underwent rhinoplasty to reduce the size of her nose.
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Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed is an American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County,... a 1980s cartoon-comic strip that dealt with sociopolitical issues as understood by fanciful characters and through humorous analogies. Bloom County earned Breathed the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987. Born in Encino, California, and raised in Houston, Texas, Breathed attended Westchester High School. He was a cheerleader his senior year and graduated in 1975. Breathed's first cartoon appeared on one side of the senior boys' T-shirts which were worn on Fridays during football season. He did not have a shirt as he wore cheerleader outfits head to toe. Mark Denison drew the other side of the T-shirt and his shirt is being saved for posterity. He lived in Albuquerque in the 1980s and put pink flamingos in his yard. The Sandia Heights neighborhood association sent him a letter stating that the yard must be earth tone, so he painted them to be compliant.
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Cherie Ann Currie is an American musician, singer, songwriter, actress, and artist. Currie was the lead vocalist of The Runaways, a hard rock band... from Los Angeles, in the mid-to-late 1970s. Currie was born to Don Currie and actress, Marie Harmon. She was raised in the Encino district of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley. Her brother is Don Currie Jr., and her sisters are actress Sondra Currie and her twin, Marie Currie. Currie was the teenage lead vocalist for the all-female rock band The Runaways with bandmates Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Sandy West, Jackie Fox, and Vicki Blue. Bomp! magazine described her as "the lost daughter of Iggy Pop and Brigitte Bardot". Currie, at age 15, joined The Runaways in 1975. The teen rock anthem "Cherry Bomb" was written for her at the audition. Attitudes to her impact at that time differ; one reviewer has written that "the received wisdom that [the Runaways] carved out new territory for female musicians is hard to justify – it's doubtful that the predominantly male audience who flocked to see the 16 year old [Currie] in her undies picked up any feminist subtext".
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Todd Haynes is an American independent film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his feature films Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story,... Poison, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, and the Academy Award-nominated Far from Heaven and I'm Not There. The All Movie Guide writes that "Haynes is known for making provocative films that subvert narrative structure and resound with transgressive, complex eroticism…. Although he doesn't characterize himself as a gay filmmaker who makes gay films… Haynes' name has become synonymous with the New Queer Cinema movement and its work to both explore and redefine the contours of queer culture in America and beyond." Haynes’ work is preoccupied with postmodernist ideas of identity and sexuality as socially constructed concepts, and personal identity as a fluid and changeable state. His protagonists are invariably social outsiders whose "subversive" identity and sexuality pits them at odds with the received norms of their society.
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Rebecca Herbst is an American actress, best known for playing nurse Elizabeth Webber on the daytime drama General Hospital, a role she originated on... August 1, 1997, and Suzee, an alien on the Nickelodeon show, Space Cases. Herbst was born in Encino, California. Her parents are originally from Germany. She has an older sibling: Jennifer. Herbst's nickname is Becky, although her mom sometimes calls her Liberty. She is not related to former General Hospital co-star Rick Hearst , whose birth name is Richard Charles Herbst. Rebecca's childhood dream was to become a national figure skater, and she has skated with well-known skaters Michelle and Karen Kwan. At age 16, Herbst decided to concentrate on acting because she grew to dislike the competition aspect of figure-skating. Herbst also has a passion for designing clothes. She has designed most of her Daytime Emmy dresses and dresses for co-stars Natalia Livingston and Kimberly McCullough. At the age of six, Herbst told her mother that she wanted to be on television so that she could play with the toys.
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Tylyn John is an American model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month for March 1992. A scleroderma patient, she has... retired from modeling and now works with various non-profit organizations to promote animal rights and prevent animal cruelty.
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