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Robert Upshur "Bob" Woodward is an American investigative journalist and non-fiction author. He has worked for The Washington Post since 1971 as a... reporter, and is currently an associate editor of the Post. While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Woodward was teamed up with Carl Bernstein; the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. Gene Roberts, the former executive editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer and former managing editor of The New York Times, has called the work of Woodward and Bernstein "maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time." Woodward continued to work for The Washington Post after his reporting on Watergate. He has since written over a dozen books on American politics, most of which have topped bestsellers lists. Woodward was born to Jane and Alfred Woodward in Geneva, Illinois. He was a resident of Wheaton, Illinois. He enrolled in Yale University with an NROTC scholarship, and studied history and English literature.
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Harold Edward "Red" Grange, nicknamed "The Galloping Ghost", was a college and professional American football halfback for the University of... Illinois, the Chicago Bears, and for the short-lived New York Yankees. His signing with the Bears helped legitimize the National Football League. He was a charter member of both the College and Pro Football Hall of Fame. In 2008, he was named the best college football player of all time by ESPN, and in 2011, he was named the Greatest Big Ten Icon by the Big Ten Network. Grange was born in Forksville, Pennsylvania as the third child of Sadie and Lyle Grange. His father was the foreman of three lumber camps. When he was five, his mother died and his father moved the family to Wheaton, Illinois, where four brothers had settled. When they arrived, Grange’s father worked hard and became the chief of police. At Wheaton High School, Grange earned 16 varsity letters in four sports during the four years he attended, notably scoring 75 touchdowns and 532 points for the football team.
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Dennis Dugan is an American director, comedian, and actor. He is most famous for his partnership with comedic actor Adam Sandler, with whom he... directed the films Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Grown Ups, Just Go With It, and Jack and Jill. He started his acting career in 1972, appearing in the 1973 made for TV movie The Girl Most Likely to. He has appeared in such films as the 1976 films Harry and Walter Go to New York and Norman, Is That You?. In 1979, he was ideally cast as the time-displaced hero in Unidentified Flying Oddball, Disney's updated remake of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. His first notable television appearance was in the Columbo episode "Last Salute to the Commodore", as a young police officer. He appeared in two episodes of M*A*S*H, most notably as Col. Potter's son in law in the episode "Strange Bedfellows." Then he was the star of the short-lived 1978 series Richie Brockelman, Private Eye, playing a character who originated in a telemovie, and then made guest appearances in the role of Brockelman on The Rockford Files before getting his own show.
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Tami Erin is an American actress and model from Wheaton, Illinois. Erin began acting and modeling at 8 years old after becoming an Elite Model with... Elite Model Management one of the world's biggest modeling agencies. After signing with Elite Model Management she booked many national and international modeling campaigns and commercials. She is best known for her portrayal of Pippi Longstocking in the Columbia Pictures film The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking. Tami Erin was chosen for the title role of "Pippi Longstocking" out of over 8,000 young actresses after a worldwide search by Casting Director Garrison True. Garrison True auditioned young actresses in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Toronto, Canada and London, England. Tami Erin is featured in the Trivial Pursuit board game and Trivial Pursuit Millenium Edition about having won the role of "Pippi Longstocking" out of over 8,000 hopefuls. The films Director Ken Annakin an Academy Award Nominee, Disney Legend and Disney Lifetime Achievement Award recipient is quoted in the press saying "Tami radiates sunshine. When she smiles everyone is happy.
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Steven J. Camp is a prominent American Dove Award and Grammy Award-nominated contemporary Christian music artist with an adult contemporary pop... sound. He was very popular in the 1980s and early 1990s, where he has sold more than a million albums, who also has written or co-written 21 number one singles, since his debut, as a solo artist, in 1978. Today his popularity now continues mostly in his Christian writing addressing current trends and matters of Reformed Theology. He started Audience One Ministries, and his blog covering Christian music, biblical study, reformation, and revival. He is well known for his strong views that Christian musicians are called to make direct, uncompromising music that confronts the world with the message of the Scriptures. Following Martin Luther's 95 theses, on Reformation Day , 1998 he sent out his own 107 theses calling for a reformation in contemporary Christian music. Born in Wheaton, Illinois, Camp was raised by Christian parents; by 5 years of age he confessed faith in Jesus. This greatly influenced his desire to serve God through his teenage years.
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James Adam "Jim" Belushi is an American actor, comedian, singer, and musician. He is the younger brother of late comedic actor John Belushi. Belushi... was born in Chicago. He is the son of Agnes , who was of Albanian descent, and Adam Belushi , an Albanian immigrant and restaurant operator who left his native village, Qytezë, in 1934 at the age of sixteen. Jim was raised in a Chicago suburb, along with his three siblings: older brother John, his sister, Marian, and a younger brother, Billy. After graduating from Wheaton Central High School, Jim Belushi attended the College of DuPage and graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a degree in Speech and Theater Arts. From 1977 to 1980, Belushi, like his older brother John, worked with the Chicago theater group The Second City. During this period, Belushi made his television debut in 1978's Who's Watching the Kids and also had a small part in Brian De Palma's The Fury. His first significant role was in Michael Mann's Thief .
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Tami Erin is an American actress and model from Wheaton, Illinois. Erin began acting and modeling at 8 years old after becoming an Elite Model with... Elite Model Management one of the world's biggest modeling agencies. After signing with Elite Model Management she booked many national and international modeling campaigns and commercials. She is best known for her portrayal of Pippi Longstocking in the Columbia Pictures film The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking. Tami Erin was chosen for the title role of "Pippi Longstocking" out of over 8,000 young actresses after a worldwide search by Casting Director Garrison True. Garrison True auditioned young actresses in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Toronto, Canada and London, England. Tami Erin is featured in the Trivial Pursuit board game and Trivial Pursuit Millenium Edition about having won the role of "Pippi Longstocking" out of over 8,000 hopefuls. The films Director Ken Annakin an Academy Award Nominee, Disney Legend and Disney Lifetime Achievement Award recipient is quoted in the press saying "Tami radiates sunshine. When she smiles everyone is happy.
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Judith "Judy" Belushi Pisano is an American writer, graphic designer, and artist. Born Judith Jacklin to parents Robert Leslie Jacklin and Jean... Buchanan, the youngest of four children. Jacklin attended Wheaton Central High school in Wheaton, Illinois, where she met and began dating John Belushi during her sophomore year, and graduated in 1969. For the next three years, she shared an apartment with financial advisor and television personality Suze Orman. In 1973, she and John moved to New York City to work for National Lampoon, where she started out as an art assistant. She later became an associate producer for The National Lampoon Radio Hour. Judith and John were married on December 31, 1976 in Aspen, Colorado, U.S.. They remained married until John's death on March 5, 1982. She began using the Belushi name only after John's death and kept it after remarrying eight years later. Judith made two uncredited cameo appearances in John's films National Lampoon's Animal House , and The Blues Brothers .
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Eric Raymond Lim is an actor and film producer.

Joe Bucaro is an actor.