Édouard Molinaro (13 May 1928 – 7 December 2013) was a French movie director and screenwriter. He was born in Bordeaux, Gironde. He was nominated for an Academy Award. Molinaro was known for his movie "La Cage aux Folles".
Molinaro died on 7 December 2013 in Paris. His cause of death was of a long-illness. He was 85 years old.
Menahem Golan
Menahem Golan (May 31, 1929 – August 8, 2014) () or Joseph Goldman was an Israeli movie director and movie producer. He was known for his movies such as "Masters of the Universe", "", "Captain America", and for trying to make many Spider-Man movies.
He was co-owner of Golan-Globus with his cousin Yoram Globus. Golan produced about 200 movie, directed 44, won 8 times the Violin David Awards and The Israel Prize in Cinema.
Golan died in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel on August 8, 2014, aged 85.
Yoram Globus
Yoram Globus (born 21 October 1943), is an Israeli movie producer. He is most famous for his association with Cannon Films Inc., a company he ran with his cousin Menahem Golan.
Elmer Lach
Elmer James Lach (January 22, 1918 – April 4, 2015) was a Canadian professional ice hockey center. He played 14 seasons for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League.
Lach retired in 1954 as the league's all-time leading scorer, having played 664 regular season games, scoring 215 goals and 408 assists for 623 points, as well as 76 postseason games, where he scored 19 goals and 45 assists for 64 points. He was soon elected in the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1966.
Lach was born on January 22, 1918 in Nokomis, Saskatchewan. He was raised in Regina, Saskatchewan. Lach died of a stroke in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, aged 97.
Dermot O'Leary
Seán Dermot Fintan O'Leary, Jr. known as Dermot O'Leary (born 24 May 1973) is an Anglo-Irish television and radio presenter.
O'Leary was born in Colchester, Essex to Irish parents. He has dual citizenship British and Irish.
He started presenting "Big Brother's Little Brother" in 2001. He presented the show until 2008 when Big Brother ended. He has presented "The X Factor" since 2007.
In 2014 O'Leary will present "This Morning" for one week.
O'Leary married Dee Koppang on 14 September 2012.
Emily Jane White
Emily Jane White is a singer and songwriter from California.
She released her first album, "Dark Undercoat", in 2007. In 2009 she released her second album, "Victorian America". White's third album "Ode to Sentience" was released in France in 2010. It was not released in the United States until 2012. In December 2013 White released her fourth album, "Blood/Lines".
The Ordinary Boys
The Ordinary Boys are an English indie rock band. Their name is from the Morrissey song "The Ordinary Boys". At first they were called Next in Line.
They started in 2002. The members were Samuel Preston, William Brown, James Gregory, and Simon Goldring. They released their first album "Over the Counter Culture" in 2004. The third single from the album. "Talk, Talk, Talk", reached number seventeen in the UK Singles Chart.
In 2005 they released their second album "Brassbound". "Boys Will Be Boys" was the first single from the album. It reached number sixteen in the UK Singles Chart.
In January 2006 the band's singer Samuel Preston was on the British reality TV show "Celebrity Big Brother". This made the band more popular. Their single "Boys Will Be Boys" was released again. It reached number three in the UK Singles Chart. Goldfrapp did a cover version of the song for BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge.
They released their third album "How to Get Everything You Ever Wanted in Ten Easy Steps" in October 2006. It had a more pop sound than the band's first two albums. The first single from the album "Lonely at the Top" reached number ten in the UK Singles Chart.
"Boys Will Be Boys" was on the soundtrack of the 2007 movie "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". In 2007 it was also played in "Smoke and Mirrors", the fifth episode of season two of "The IT Crowd".
In 2008 they broke up. In 2011 they started again.
Alice Munro
Alice Ann Munro (born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian writer of short stories. Munro received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. In her stories Munro has changed the way people write short stories. Her stories usually start in a place where people do not expect. After that, the stories go back and forward in time.
Her first collection of short stories, "Dance of the Happy Shades", was published by Ryerson Press in 1968. It won the 1968 Governor General's Award for Fiction.
Munro's most recent collection of short stories, "Dear Life", was published in 2012 by McClelland and Stewart.
Raphael (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Raphael is one of the four "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". He is the brawn of the group of brothers and uses sais. He is also known as the Nightwatcher.
Raphael has been played by Nolan North in movies based on TMNT.
FKA twigs
Tahliah Barnett, known as FKA twigs, is an English R&B singer. She used to be called twigs. Her music has been called post-dubstep and trip-hop.
She was on the cover of "i-D" magazine in August 2012.
twigs released her first EP "EP" on December 4, 2012.
On August 1 2013 twigs posted the video for her single "Water Me" on YouTube. It now has over one million views.
twigs released her second extended play "EP2" on September 17, 2013. It was her first release on the record label The Young Turks. "Pitchfork" gave it a score of 8 out of 10.
In 2013 BBC put her on their Sound of 2014 list of nominees. In January 2014 BBC chose the winner.
twigs' first album "LP1" was released in August 2014.
Of Thee I Sing (book)
Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters is a children's book by United States President Barack Obama. It came out on November 16, 2010. It is about the lives of thirteen Americans: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Neil Armstrong, Sitting Bull, Cesar Chavez, Billie Holiday, Maya Lin, Albert Einstein (who was born in Germany), Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackie Robinson, Helen Keller, and Jane Addams. Obama finished writing the book in 2008, after he was elected but before he took office.
WWE Raw (video game)
WWE Raw is a professional wrestling video game developed by Anchor Inc. and published by THQ. The game was titled WWF Raw on the Xbox. The game was released on the Xbox and Microsoft Windows.
It was released on February 11, 2002 in North America, September 27, 2002 in the United Kingdom and October 3, 2002 in Japan on the Xbox. The game was released on October 14, 2002 in North America and on November 1, 2002 in the United Kingdom. A sequel was released in 2002 called WWE Raw 2.
IGN rated the game a 9.1 out of 10 and said "The hardcore fans will get plenty of enjoyment out of the difficult AI, the awesome multiplayer modes and the super deep Create-A-Wrestler mode.”
GameSpot gave the game a 6.5 out of 10 and stated "While the game does some things very well, it generally falls short of expectations."
Absurd
Absurd can refer to several different things:
Matthew Fox
Matthew Chandler Fox (born July 14, 1966) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Charlie Salinger on "Party of Five" and Jack Shephard on the supernatural drama television series "Lost".
John C. McGinley
John Christopher McGinley (born August 3, 1959) is an American actor, comedian, spokesperson, and writer. He is known for his roles as Perry Cox in "Scrubs", Bob Slydell in "Office Space", Sergeant Red O'Neill in Oliver Stone's "Platoon" and Marv in Stone's "Wall Street". He has also written and produced for television and movies. McGinley is also an author and a spokesperson for the National Down Syndrome Society.
Evolution (professional wrestling)
Evolution is a professional wrestling stable that competes in the WWE. The stable was created on January 20, 2003 and broke up on October 3, 2005.