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Neve Campbell Biography (1973-)

niedziela, czerwiec 15th, 2008

Actress. Born Neve Adrianne Campbell on October 3, 1973 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. As a child, Campbell’s first love was dance, and she trained at the National Ballet School of Canada throughout her youth. After several injuries left her unable to pursue a professional ballet career, she turned to acting, eventually landing the role of Julia Salinger on the American television series Party of Five. The popular drama about a family of orphans ran from 1994 to 2000, during which time Campbell also launched a film career. Her films include The Craft, Scream (and its sequels), Wild Things, Three to Tango and Panic. In 2004, she co-wrote, produced and starred in The Company, a film that returned her to dancing roots.Campbell was married to Canadian actor Jeff Colt from 1995 to 1998.

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Naomi Campbell Biography (1970-)

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Supermodel and actress Naomi Campbell was released on bail Friday (April 4, 2008) after being arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer at London’s Heathrow Airport. She was told to report to a police station in late May pending further inquiries.

Campbell was arrested April 3 when police were called to a disturbance at Heathrow’s new Terminal 5. Witnesses say Campbell was aboard a British Airways plane due to depart for Los Angeles when she was told one of her bags was missing.

During a dispute that followed, Campbell allegedly spit on the officer. Witnesses say she was also abusive to staff and was handcuffed on board the aircraft, which had not taken off.

“She was going nuts, spitting, punching, and lashing out, “a police source cited by the Sun daily said. “They (BA staff) had no alternative but to call police when she refused to calm down.”

Campbell’s spokeswoman, Annabel Fox, said Campbell was traveling to the U.S. to attend a memorial service and had boarded the plane when she was told one of her two checked bags was missing. More than 28,000 bags at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 had been lost since it opened the previous week to much fanfare.

“BA decided to resolve this by insisting she leave the flight and then called the police to forcibly eject her,” Fox said.

With a reputation for a quick temper, Naomi Campbell has been arrested for committing acts of physical violence and verbal abuse against members of her staff. She pled guilty in 2000 for assaulting her assistant with a telephone in her hotel room and threatening to throw her out of a moving car.

In January 2007, Campbell pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault for throwing her cell phone at her maid in a dispute over a missing pair of jeans. She spent a week mopping floors at a New York City warehouse, covered the maid’s medical expenses and was ordered to attend a two-day anger-management program.

Campbell was born May 22, 1970, in London, England. The daughter of a Jamaican-born dancer and unnamed father, Naomi Campbell attended Dunraven School and the London Academy for Performing Arts as a youngster.

She studied at Italia Conti Academy stage school and appeared in music videos for Bob Marley and Culture Club before signing with Synchro modeling agency at age 15.

One of the world’s most renowned supermodels, Naomi Campbell was the first black woman to appear on the covers of French and British Vogue and the first black model to appear on the cover of Time.

While the exquisitely exotic leggy supermodel began her career on the catwalk, she quickly segued to high-profile advertising campaigns for such fashion icons as Ralph Lauren and Francois Nars. Naomi Campbell has also posed for more erotic fare, including Playboy magazine and Madonna’s book Sex.

In addition to modeling, Campbell has pursued acting and music careers, the latter of which has been particularly successful in Japan. Her singing career peaked with the hit “Love and Tears.” Though her debut album Baby Woman sold over 1 million copies, it was a critical flop.

Campbell has appeared in several music videos and films, including Cool As Ice and Miami Rhapsody. She is the co-author of the novel Swan and has published a self-titled photo book. An ambitious businesswoman, Naomi Campbell has created two spin-off companies, NC Connect and a perfume line.

In 2002, Naomi Campbell was involved in a high-profile lawsuit with London’s Daily Mirror over the publishing of photos of her leaving a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. After several appeals, the court ruled in Campbell’s favor.

Naomi Campbell has been linked with such high-profile love interests as Mike Tyson, Robert De Niro, Usher and Flavio Briatore. She is active in promoting the welfare of children in Africa and has worked with Nelson Mandela since 1997.

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Nicolas Cage Biography (1964-)

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originally Nicholas Coppola

Born Nicholas Coppola on January 7, 1964, in Long Beach, California, to choreographer Joy Vogelsang and literature professor August Coppola. Cage has two older brothers, Marc and Christopher. He is the nephew of film director Francis Ford Coppola and, as a youth, visited his uncle often at his San Francisco home. At age 15, Cage fell in love with acting during a summer class at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. He dropped out of Beverly Hills High School to pursue an acting career, making his debut on television in 1981. He changed his name to Nicolas Cage as a way to separate his identity from that of his famous uncle. He chose the name ?Cage? as a tribute to comic-book superhero Luke Cage.Cage is known for his edgy, intense personality both on and off the screen, as well as for his passion for method acting. He is said to have had two teeth pulled for his role in Birdy (1984), slashed his arm for Racing With the Moon (1984) and swallowed a live cockroach for Vampire?s Kiss (1992). He is also alleged to have destroyed a street vendor?s remote-controlled car in a fit of rage while preparing for his role as a mobster in The Cotton Club (1984).

Cage got his start in teenage comedies, with his debut in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982; also featuring Sean Penn), followed by a leading role as a punk rocker in Valley Girl (1983). Francis Ford Coppola gave him a small role in his critically acclaimed Rumble Fish (1983). His first serious dramatic role was opposite Matthew Modine in Birdy (1984). This was followed by Coppola?s Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), the Coen Brothers? comedy Raising Arizona (1987), Moonstruck (1987, starring Cher), David Lynch?s bizarre Wild at Heart (1990), Vampire?s Kiss (1992) and the comedy Honeymoon in Vegas (1992). By 1994, Cage was valued at about $4 million per picture, but agreed to star in Mike Figgis? Leaving Las Vegas (1995) for only $240,000 because of the strength of the role. It paid off; his portrayal of the alcoholic screenwriter earned him a Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Actor.

Since 1995, Cage has made a series of action thrillers, including The Rock (1996), Con Air (1997), John Woo?s Face/Off (1997, opposite John Travolta), and Brian De Palma?s Snake Eyes (1998). In 1998, he starred in the romantic City of Angels with Meg Ryan. After returning to the action genre with the poorly-rated 8MM and headlining Martin Scorsese?s dark Bringing Out the Dead in 1999, Cage reportedly received a $20 million paycheck for the action extravaganza Gone in 60 Seconds, costarring Angelina Jolie.

Cage played a more traditional romantic lead in his next two movies, the Christmas 2000 release The Family Man and the World War II-era epic Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, starring the much-in-demand actress and Spanish import Penelope Cruz. In December 2002, Cage launched his directorial debut, the $5 million independent film Sonny, about a male gigolo who struggles to free himself from his madam mother. Cage also starred in Adaptation, playing both ill-tempered screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and twin brother Donald. Upcoming projects include costarring with Chow Yun-Fat in director John Woo’s action Western Land of Destiny and starring and coproducing Dead to Rights, a movie version of the hugely popular video game. The busy actor also starred in director Jon Turteltaub’s 2004 holiday blockbuster National Treasure, playing an archaelogist-historian who believes a treasure map is hidden on the back of the Declaration of Independence.

Cage’s relationship with Kristina Fulton, a model, lasted several years, producing a son, Weston Coppola Cage, born in 1992. Cage has been married three times: The first to actress Patricia Arquette in 1995; the second was a short-lived marriage to Lisa-Marie Presley, the only daughter of the late King of Rock and Roll, in August 2002; and most recently, he wed his girlfriend, 20-year-old former waitress Alice Kim, at a private ranch in Northern California in August 2004. The couple announced the birth of a son, Kal-el Coppola Cage, on October 3, 2005.

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Nicholas Murray Butler Biography (1862 - 1947)

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(born April 2, 1862, Elizabeth, N.J., U.S.—died Dec. 7, 1947, New York, N.Y.) American educator, publicist, and political figure who (with Jane Addams) shared the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1931 and served as president of Columbia University from 1901 to 1945.

Butler was educated at Columbia College, which became his intellectual and occupational home for the rest of his life. There, under the influence of Frederick Barnard (president of the college), he decided to prepare for a professional career in education. After completing his undergraduate work in 1882, Butler continued at Columbia as a graduate fellow in philosophy, taking his doctorate in 1884. A year in Paris and Berlin completed his formal education.

Butler was appointed an assistant in philosophy at Columbia in 1885, becoming professor of philosophy and education in 1890 and president of the university in 1901. He held the latter post until his retirement in 1945. Under his leadership Columbia grew from a provincial college into a university of world renown.

As a young man Butler strongly criticized the pedagogical methods of his time. As founder and president of the Industrial Education Association (1886–91), he played a central role in the establishment of the New York College for the Training of Teachers (renamed Teachers College, Columbia University in 1892). In later years Butler criticized pedagogical reform, steadfastly defending the “great tradition” of humanism in education and lashing out against such contemporary trends as vocationalism in education and behaviourism in psychology as the “new barbarism.”

Butler was a champion of international understanding, helping to establish the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, of which he was a trustee and later president (1925–45). He was active in the councils of the Republican Party for more than half a century, attending many national conventions. He was also president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1928–41).

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Nikolay Bulganin Biography (1895 - 1975)

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born June 11, 1895, Nizhy Novgorod, Russia—died Feb. 24, 1975, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) Soviet statesman and industrial and economic administrator. After supporting Nikita Khrushchev in the latter’s power struggle with Georgy Malenkov, Bulganin was made premier of the Soviet Union (1955–58). Though closely identified with Khrushchev, he joined an “antiparty group” that tried to oust Khruschev in 1957, a move that led to his own downfall.

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Nikolay Bukharin Biography (1888 - 1938)

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(born Oct. 9, 1888, Moscow, Russia—died March 14, 1938, Moscow) Russian communist leader and economist. After the Bolsheviks seized power, he became the editor of the party newspaper Pravda (1917–29). A member of the Politburo and a prominent leader of the Comintern, he also wrote several theoretical economic works. In 1938 he was a defendant in the last of the public purge trials. Falsely accused of counterrevolutionary activities and espionage, he was found guilty and executed.

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Nidji Biography

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Nidji is a band from Jakarta, Indonesian band, formed in February 2008, debuting their first major album BREAKTHRU’ at 2006, has been received double platinum award.
The band’s line-up is Muhammad Adri Prakarsa/ Adri (drums), Andi Ariel Harsya / Ariel (lead guitar), Giring Ganesha Jumaryo/ Giring (vocals), Muhammad Andro Regantoro/ Andro (bass), Muhammad Ramadista Akbar/ Rama (rhythm guitar) and Randy Danistha. RunD (keyboards).

The band’s name is derived from the Japanese word “niji”, which means “rainbow” but the band members added the letter “d” to add the Indonesian flavour to it. The rainbow also reflects the different music influences such as progressive, funk, alternative and pop.

Their debut album, BREAKTHRU’ was released in 2006 with the singles “Heaven”, “Hapus Aku”, “Child” and “Sudah”. Album BREAKTHRU’ English Version was released in the other country in Asia at 2006 and was released in Indonesian market in 2007. The new album TOP UP, was recently released in November 2007 with the singles “Biarlah” & “Jangan Lupakan”.

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