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Cedric Antonio Kyles , known professionally by his stage name Cedric the Entertainer, is an American actor, comedian and director. He is perhaps best... known as the co-star of the WB sitcom The Steve Harvey Show, as Eddie in the Barbershop films, and as one of the four comedians featured in the Spike Lee film The Original Kings of Comedy. Cedric was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, the son of Rosetta, a school teacher, and Kitrell Kyles, an employee of a railroad company. His only sibling, younger sister Sharita Kyles Wilson, is an adjunct communications instructor at the University of Missouri in Columbia. He was raised in Caruthersville, Missouri, but after junior high school he moved to Berkeley, Missouri. Cedric is a graduate of Haverhill High School in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He continues his involvement with his high school by awarding a scholarship each year to a graduating senior through his Cedric the Entertainer Charitable Foundation Inc. The foundation's motto is, "Reaching OutGiving Back.
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Chester Bomar Himes was an American writer. His works include If He Hollers Let Him Go and a series of Harlem Detective novels. In 1958 he won... France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière; two of his novels were made into feature films: Cotton Comes to Harlem directed by Ossie Davis in 1970 and A Rage in Harlem starring Gregory Hines and Danny Glover in 1991. Chester Himes was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, on July 29, 1909. He grew up in a middle-class home in Missouri. When Himes was about 12 years old, his father took a teaching job at Branch Normal College in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and soon a tragedy took place that would profoundly shape Himes's view of race relations. He had misbehaved and his mother made him sit out a gunpowder demonstration that he and his brother, Joseph Jr., were supposed to conduct during a school assembly. Working alone, Joseph mixed the chemicals; they exploded in his face. Rushed to the nearest hospital, the blinded boy was refused treatment. "That one moment in my life hurt me as much as all the others put together," Himes wrote in The Quality of Hurt.
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Heidi Hamels was a contestant on season six of the American reality television show Survivor: The Amazon. She placed fifth, lasting thirty-six days.... During an endurance challenge, she and fellow contestant Jenna Morasca stripped off their clothing in exchange for peanut butter and Oreo cookies. The two would later appear in the August 2003 edition of Playboy magazine. Hamels was born Heidi Strobel in Bethesda, Maryland. She attended Drury University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in exercise physiology, secondary education and physical education. Before she joined the cast of Survivor, she was a teacher. She is currently working on a master’s degree in physical education at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Heidi married Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels on December 31, 2006. She gave birth to their son, Caleb Michael, on October 9, 2009.
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Chester Bomar Himes was an American writer. His works include If He Hollers Let Him Go and a series of Harlem Detective novels. In 1958 he won... France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière; two of his novels were made into feature films: Cotton Comes to Harlem directed by Ossie Davis in 1970 and A Rage in Harlem starring Gregory Hines and Danny Glover in 1991. Chester Himes was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, on July 29, 1909. He grew up in a middle-class home in Missouri. When Himes was about 12 years old, his father took a teaching job at Branch Normal College in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and soon a tragedy took place that would profoundly shape Himes's view of race relations. He had misbehaved and his mother made him sit out a gunpowder demonstration that he and his brother, Joseph Jr., were supposed to conduct during a school assembly. Working alone, Joseph mixed the chemicals; they exploded in his face. Rushed to the nearest hospital, the blinded boy was refused treatment. "That one moment in my life hurt me as much as all the others put together," Himes wrote in The Quality of Hurt.
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Charlie Weber is a film actor.

Laura La Varnie was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 81 films between 1913 and 1930. She was born in Jefferson City, Missouri... and died in Los Angeles, California.
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Janet Beecher is a film actress.