Gross was born and raised in Oakland, California. He graduated from Bonanza High School. He attended Howard University. While there, he decided to work on becoming an actor instead of becoming a professional track and field athlete. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in theater.
Bloody Monday (manga)
It has been turned into a television series. It began on 11 October 2008.
Alexandra Bastedo
Alexandra Bastedo (9 March 1946 – 12 January 2014) was a British actress and activist. She was best known for her role as secret agent Sharron Macready in the television series "The Champions" (1968). Bastedo was a vegetarian. She was well known as an animal welfare activist.
She died in hospital on 12 January 2014 from breast cancer.
Leslie H. Martinson
Leslie "Les" H. Martinson (born January 16, 1915) is an American television and movie director. He is known for directing "Maverick", "PT 109", "Temple Houston", "Batman", "", "Mannix", "Diff'rent Strokes", and "Airwolf".
Martinson is President of the West Coast Jewish Theatre, although he is no longer active in the role.
Mission: Impossible
Mission Impossible was an American spy television series that originally aired on CBS from September 17, 1966 to March 30, 1973. The first season starred Steven Hill as Dan Briggs. From the second season on it starred Peter Graves as Jim Phelps. The show was a creation of Bruce Geller. The music was composed by Lalo Schifrin. When the series ended and reran in syndication in 1973, it was distributed by Paramount Domestic Television, which was formerly named Paramount Television Sales through 1973-1987.
The series is about an elite group that specializes in intelligence. In addition to Hill (first season) and Graves (second and following seasons), the other group members were played by Martin Landau (Rollin Hand, expert in disguise), Barbara Bain (seductress Cinnamon Carter, the bait to lure rivals), Greg Morris (Barney Collier, electronics expert), and Peter Lupus (Willy Armitage, the strong man). Landau and Bain left after the third season. In the fourth season, Leonard Nimoy joined the cast as Paris. Later cast members included Lee Meriwether (who guest-starred in 8 episodes as Tracey), Lesley Ann Warren as Dana Lambert, and Sam Elliott as Doug Robert. The last episode aired March 30, 1973.
"Mission: Impossible" 1988-1990 was an ABC TV series. Peter Graves again played Jim Phelps. The co-stars in this version were Thaao Penghlis as Nicholas Black, Tony Hamilton as Max Harte, Phil Morris as Grant Collier. Greg Morris and Linda Day George from the first series also appeared.
Bob Johnson was the voice on the tape.
Árpád Göncz
Árpád Göncz ("Göncz Árpád"; February 10, 1922 – October 6, 2015) was a Hungarian liberal politician. He was President of Hungary from May 2, 1990 to August 4, 2000. He was the first democratically elected president of Hungary.
Göncz played a role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He was also founding member and Vice Chairman of Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) and Speaker of the National Assembly before becoming President.
He was a member of the international advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
Leo Tindemans
Leonard Clemence "Leo" Tindemans () (16 April 1922 – 26 December 2014) was a Belgian politician. Tindemans was the 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium.
He was also mayor of Edegem.
He was born in Zwijndrecht on 16 April 1922. Tindemans died on 26 December 2014 in Edegem, Antwerp, Belgium, aged 92.
Steven Adler
Steven Adler (born Michael Coletti, January 22, 1965) is an American musician. He is best known as the drummer and co-songwriter of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses during the late 1980s. He is the current drummer for the rock band Adler.
During his time in Guns N' Roses, Adler suffered from drug addiction. In 1990, the band fired Adler. He later rejoined the band after he signed a contract in which he promised to stop taking drugs. He was fired from the band again on July 11, 1990, after his addiction left him unable to perform.
Adler appeared on the second and fifth seasons of the reality television show "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew" for his drug rehabilitation. He also appeared on the first season of its spin-off show "Sober House".
Black operation
A black operation (black op for short) is a covert operation which is done by a government or military. Black operations are secret and whoever does them does not admit that they ever happened. There are differences between black operations and ones which are just secret. The main difference is that a black operation often uses deception. This deception might be not telling anybody who did the operation. It might also be blaming the operation on someone else ("false flag" operations).
One example of a black operation is a "black bag operation". A black bag operation is when agents or soldiers secretly go into buildings and collect intelligence. It is known that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, Mossad, MI6 and other intelligence services have done operations like these.
The word "black" can be used for any secret action done by a government. For example, some militaries and intelligence services have classified "black budgets" to carry out black operations. Almost all details about this budget is hidden from the public.
Covert operation
A covert operation is an operation that is done in a way that keeps it secret. The term suggests some kind of important reason. Examples might be:
Covert operations may be done by police. They can also be done by security agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency (US) or MI5 (UK).
Spy movie
Spy movies are a genre of thriller and action movies. These movies deal with fictional espionage, either in fantasy way (James Bond) or in a realistic way. Many spy fiction novels have been made into movies.
Movies in this genre range from the 1940s Nazi thriller movies to the thriller movies of the 2010s. They have been popular worldwide with audiences.
The genre began with the silent era, beginning in 1914. The spy movies in the 2000s and 2010s are more realistic than fantasy movies. Examples of this are the James Bond movies "Casino Royale" (2006) and "Skyfall".
Diana Rigg
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020) was an English actress, known professionally as Diana Rigg. Rigg played Emma Peel in the television thriller "The Avengers" (1965–68). She played Helena in a "Midsummer Night's Dream" and Arlene Marshall in "Evil under the Sun". She also performed on stage.
Rigg was born in Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Rigg was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1988. She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1994.
In 1990, she won a BAFTA Award. In 1994, Rigg won a Tony Award. In 1997, she won an Emmy Award.
In March 2020, Rigg was diagnosed with lung cancer. She died on 10 September 2020 in London from the disease, aged 82.
Emma Peel
Emma Peel is a fictional spy in the British television thriller "The Avengers". Peel was born as Emma Knight.
Peel was introduced to the series to replace the character Cathy Gale. In the television series, Diana Rigg played her. Uma Thurman played Peel in the 1998 movie.
Peel is a heroine who is rarely bested in fights.
Steubenville High School rape case
The Steubenville High School rape happened in Steubenville, Ohio on the night of August 11, 2012. A 16-year-old girl was raped at a party by two 16-year-old high school footballer players, Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond. The girl did not remember because she was very drunk at the time. On August 12, 2012 Mays was sentenced to at least two years at a prison for underage criminals. Richmond was sentenced to at least a year there. He was released in January 2014. The case got attention all over the United States after it was written about by the "New York Times".
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