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Reese Witherspoon was born in March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisana. She is an Academy Award Winner actress and a film producer. Her career began... at an early age doing television commercials and modeling. Her first big role was in 1990 with the movie "The Man in the Moon".  After having success doing a couple of movies she graduated from an all girls high school and started attending Stanford University, but not long after she dropped out when she realized that acting was what she really wanted. Reese Witherspoon´s biggest role came in 2001 when she played the character "Elle Woods" in the 2001 comedy "Legally Blonde". The movie was a big success and she played the role again in "Legally Blonde 2" in 2003. Currently divorced from Ryan Phillipe with whom she has 2 kids, she´s dating actor Jake Gyllenhaal.
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Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlin-based German filmmaker who has worked in Germany, France and the United States. He was a prominent member of the... New German Cinema of the late 60s and early 70s, which also included Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum , the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass. Volker Schlöndorff was born in Wiesbaden, Germany to the physician Dr. Georg Schlöndorff. In 1956 his family moved to Paris, where Schlöndorff won awards at school for his work in philosophy. He graduated in political science at the Sorbonne, while at the same time studying film at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques, where he met Louis Malle. Malle gave him his first job as his assistant director on Zazie in the Metro, which continued with the films A Very Private Affair, The Fire Within and Viva Maria!. Schlöndorff also worked as assistant director on Alain Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad and Jean-Pierre Melville's Léon Morin, Priest.
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Karin Dor is a German actress who became popular in the 1960s playing heroines in Edgar Wallace and Karl May movies. She starred in the James Bond... movie You Only Live Twice and the Alfred Hitchcock movie Topaz. Dor was born as Kätherose Derr. She was married to George Robotham, a U.S. stunt-director, from 1988 until his death in 2007. The couple lived in Los Angeles and Munich. Her previous marriage was to Harald Reinl ; she had a child by that marriage. In 2008 she was back on stage again in Munich in Man lebt nur dreimal .
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Melody Perkins is a German-born American actress, model and dancer, best known for her regular role as the villainess Astronema in the series Power... Rangers in Space and Karone in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. Perkins was born in Wiesbaden, West Germany and grew up in Sacramento, California, United States. Her major in college was quantitative economics and she also studied Japanese language and culture. An accomplished dancer, Perkins has performed with the Sacramento Ballet Company and the Jazz Unlimited Dance Company. She also models, with clients which include Lands' End. She broke into acting during a modelling trip to Europe, making commercials in Italy and France. Nevertheless she has not abandoned modelling entirely, saying "I still do it when I can." As an actress, Perkins' longest running role has been in the series Power Rangers in Space, playing the lead villain Astronema. She said of the role: "It's fun being the bad gal." Her character was known for her skin-tight costume. Perkins returned to Power Rangers, this time as the reformed Karone, in the follow-up series Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy.
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Hans Werner Henze is a German composer of prodigious output best known for "his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his... life". His music is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Stravinsky, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as traditional schools of German composition. Henze is also known for his political convictions. He left Germany for Italy in 1953 because of a perceived intolerance towards his leftist politics and homosexuality. He lives in the village of Marino in the central Italian region of Lazio, and still travels extensively, in particular to Britain and Germany, as part of his work. An avowed Marxist and member of the Communist Party of Italy, Henze has produced compositions honoring Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara. The librettist of his requiem for Che Guevara, titled Das Floß der Medusa , was among several people arrested at the 1968 Hamburg premiere in the riot that followed the placing of a red flag on the stage. Henze spent a year teaching in Cuba, though he later became disillusioned with Castro.
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Eleonore Weisgerber is a German actress. She established a foundation to help research for the treatment of bipolar disorder.

Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlin-based German filmmaker who has worked in Germany, France and the United States. He was a prominent member of the... New German Cinema of the late 60s and early 70s, which also included Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum , the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass. Volker Schlöndorff was born in Wiesbaden, Germany to the physician Dr. Georg Schlöndorff. In 1956 his family moved to Paris, where Schlöndorff won awards at school for his work in philosophy. He graduated in political science at the Sorbonne, while at the same time studying film at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques, where he met Louis Malle. Malle gave him his first job as his assistant director on Zazie in the Metro, which continued with the films A Very Private Affair, The Fire Within and Viva Maria!. Schlöndorff also worked as assistant director on Alain Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad and Jean-Pierre Melville's Léon Morin, Priest.
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John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from the United States. During his career, he won seven Grand Slam... singles titles , nine Grand Slam men's doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title. McEnroe also won a record eight season ending championships, comprising five WCT Finals titles and three Masters Grand Prix titles from twelve final appearances at these two events, a record he shares with Ivan Lendl. He posted the best single season win-loss record in the Open Era in 1984 at 96.47% . In addition he won 19 Championship Series top tier events of the Grand Prix Tour that were the precursors to the current Masters 1000. He is best remembered for his shot-making artistry and superb volleying; for his famous rivalries with Björn Borg, Jimmy Connors and Ivan Lendl; for his confrontational on-court behavior which frequently landed him in trouble with umpires and tennis authorities; and for the catchphrase "You cannot be serious!" directed toward an umpire during a match at Wimbledon in 1981.
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Karin Dor is a German actress who became popular in the 1960s playing heroines in Edgar Wallace and Karl May movies. She starred in the James Bond... movie You Only Live Twice and the Alfred Hitchcock movie Topaz. Dor was born as Kätherose Derr. She was married to George Robotham, a U.S. stunt-director, from 1988 until his death in 2007. The couple lived in Los Angeles and Munich. Her previous marriage was to Harald Reinl ; she had a child by that marriage. In 2008 she was back on stage again in Munich in Man lebt nur dreimal .
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Shannon Claire Spruill is an American professional wrestler and valet. She is best known for her appearances with World Championship Wrestling... between 1999 and 2001 under the ring name Daffney and for working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where she used the ring name "The Governor", a caricature of Alaska governor and former United States Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, before returning to her Daffney ring name and gimmick. A "military brat", Spruill was born on the Wiesbaden Army Airfield, a United States Air Force base in Wiesbaden, West Germany where her father was stationed. In 1976 the family returned to the United States, residing first in Salt Lake City, Utah, then in Savannah, Georgia and finally on the Scott Air Force Base in St. Clair County, Illinois. They later relocated to Oxford in the United Kingdom for three years, before moving to the Ramstein Air Base in Germany until 1987, when her father, by then a Lieutenant Colonel, retired. Spruill graduated from Georgia State University in March 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film and Video production, with minors in Acting and Music.
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Shy Love, also known as Shy Luv, , is the stage name of an American pornographic actress, of Sicilian and Puerto Rican descent. She has been active... in the porn industry since 2003. Love was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, where her father, a U.S. Army soldier, was stationed. At age seven, she, her parents, and her five sisters moved to New Haven, Connecticut. According to Love, she graduated from high school at age 16 and then earned a bachelor's degree and two masters She also claims to be a certified public accountant. In a 2007 interview with Gamelink, she said her relationship with her husband was only the third real relationship with a man she had ever had, that theirs was an open relationship, and she likes to play with other women. According to IMDb, in addition to starring in porn, Love is also a producer, director, and talent manager. She has acted in more than 250 adult films, and appeared as herself on TV several occasions. She began directing and producing films in 2004. She has also established her own talent agency, Adult Talent Managers, and signed Memphis Monroe, and Lisa Daniels as contract girls.
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Dieter Rams is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the Functionalist school of industrial... design. Rams studied architecture at the Werkkunstschule Wiesbaden as well as learning carpentry from 1943 to 1957. After working for the architect Otto Apel between 1953 and 1955 he joined the electronic devices manufacturer Braun where he became chief of design in 1961, a position he kept until 1995. Rams once explained his design approach in the phrase "Weniger, aber besser" which translates as "Less, but better". Rams and his staff designed many memorable products for Braun including the famous SK-4 record player and the high-quality 'D'-series of 35 mm film slide projectors. He is also known for designing the 606 Universal Shelving System by Vitsœ in 1960. Many of his designs — coffee makers, calculators, radios, audio/visual equipment, consumer appliances and office products — have found a permanent home at many museums over the world, including MoMA in New York. For nearly 30 years Dieter Rams served as head of design for Braun A.G. until his retirement in 1998.
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