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Early Life Raphael Gamaliel Warnock was born on July 23, 1969 in Savannah, Georgia. He was the 11th of 12 children. The family grew up in public housing. His father was a mechanic in the US Army during World War II. After returning from the war, his father opened a car restoration business. For college Raphael attended Morehouse where he earned a B.A. in psychology. After Morehouse he attended Union Theological Seminary where he earned a Master of Divinity, Master of Philosophy, and Doctor of Philosophy....

During his career he has appeared in episodes of the TV series The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine, Marcus Welby, M.D., Medical Center, The Six Million Dollar Man, Police Story, Most Wanted, Laugh-In, Vega$, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, Howie Goes to Hollywood, and The Grindhouse Radio. Rodney Allen Rippy has also appeared in the movies Oh, God! Book II, Checking the Gate, Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, Flowers in the Snow-FTP, and To the Top....

Shifting gears, Howard made his directorial debut with the low-budget comedy “Grand Theft Auto” in 1977. From these humble beginnings, he gradually built a reputation as a versatile director, taking on a variety of genres and producing numerous acclaimed films. Some of his most notable directorial works include the space drama “Apollo 13,” the historical drama “A Beautiful Mind” (which won him the Academy Award for Best Director), and the adaptation of Dan Brown’s bestseller “The Da Vinci Code....

Saudi billionaire Sheikh Walid Juffali is trying to use diplomatic immunity to avoid a court claim over his $5.7 billion fortune by his ex-wife, former Pirelli calendar model, Christina Estrada. The Sheikh already pays Estrada over $100,000 a month in support. He has also bought Estrada and their 13-year-old daughter a home in Beverly Hills. Additionally, he pays for all of his daughter’s expenses. It is his belief that this is more than enough and his ex-wife should have no further claims on his fortune....

Shifty struggled with various personal issues later in life. He appeared on the VH1 reality television series “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” and “Sober House” for his substance addiction problems. Unfortunately, Shifty Shellshock died on June 24, 2024, at the age of 49. Crazy Town Shifty Shellshock, whose real name is Seth Binzer, was born on August 23, 1974 in Los Angeles, California. In 1992, Binzer met rapper Bret Mazur, with whom he began performing under the name the Brimstone Sluggers in 1995....

When measuring popularity, it certainly doesn’t hurt that cricket is the number one sport in India which has a population of 1.2 billion. Cricket is also extremely popular in Pakistan (population 175 million) Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa, Bermuda and many other countries around the globe. Bombay-born Sachin Tendulkar is basically the Michael Jordan of the cricket. He is widely considered one of the best batsman of all time, and potentially the best overall cricketer in history....

Ruling over this small but mighty wealthy city-state are the Grimaldis – the royal family of Monaco headed up by Prince Albert II, the son of Prince Rainier III and American actress Grace Kelly. Prince Albert has a net worth of $1 billion and owns about a quarter of the land in Monaco. To put the royal family of Monaco’s wealth in perspective, consider the fact that Queen Elizabeth’s net worth is $600 million....

We all like to have options, and now POTUS has four: Air Force One and Marine One in the sky, and Cadillac One and Ground Force One on the streets of America. This bus was specially designed by the Secret Service to fill a void in transportation for the president. Before they had purchased Ground Force One, the Secret Service would have to rent a bus every time the president needed one....

Copperfield has been making magic since he was 10 years old when his mom took him to Macy’s in Herald Square in New York City. The store had a resident magician (times were different 50+ years ago). The magician made a coin disappear and reappear on a small wooden board. Copperfield was hooked. Penn and Teller come in second with slightly less than half of Copperfield’s earning. The duo brought home $30 million for the five shows a week they put on at the Rio in Las Vegas....

Don’t feel too bad for MacIntyre, though. For each of the next three years, he’s going to make almost double what he earned last year, despite being fired. MacIntyre is the beneficiary of a strange loophole in the way collegiate head coach contracts are written. Typically, a school will include language that limits the amount they have to pay a coach if he takes a head coaching job elsewhere. The idea is that the buyout from a firing is partially paid by the salary at the new school....

Davis is a three time USA Today All-Joe Team member and is a two time finalist for the Walter Payton Man of the Year. He won the Ed Block Courage Award in 2011 and was a Pro Football Focus All-Pro in 2013. Davis won the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award in 2014. In 2015 he was selected to the Pro Bowl, named First-team All-Pro, and won the NFC Championship with Carolina....

Bert Butler Beveridge II, also known as Tito, was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1961. Growing up, his dream was to someday become a doctor. Tito was a whiz in all things science related and enrolled in college as a pre-med major. Like many people, Tito’s focus changed during college and he ended up with a degree from the University of Texas, where he majored in geology, geophysics and rowdiness....

Nalen earned All-Pro honors three times in 1999, 2000, and 2003. He was part of two Super Bowl-winning teams with the Broncos: Super Bowl XXXII and Super Bowl XXXIII. Nalen earned 2003 NFL Alumni Offensive Lineman of the Year honors. He was part of the franchise’s 50th Anniversary Team and is a member of the Broncos Ring of Fame. Nalen played in 194 career games with 188 starts. Following his early 2009 retirement, he began working on ESPN Denver radio shows, a position he held until the summer of 2014....

Early Life Tommy Manzo was born Thomas Manzo in 1965 in New York. According to a 2009 “Daily Beast” article, Tommy’s father, Albert “Tiny” Manzo, “ended his life naked, bound in plastic, and stuffed in the trunk of a Lincoln Continental with four slugs in his chest” in 1983. Tommy and his brother, Albert, inherited The Brownstone after their father’s murder. Albert is married to Dina’s sister Caroline, who also starred on “The Real Housewives of New Jersey....

Early Life and Education Tony Randall was born as Aryeh Leonard Rosenberg on February 26, 1920 in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Jewish parents Julia and Mogscha. As an adolescent, he went to Tulsa Central High School. Randall went on to attend Northwestern University for a year before moving to New York City to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. Career Beginnings At the start of his career, Randall worked as a radio announcer at WTAG in Worcester, Massachusetts....

After leaving college, she was hired by the Elite Modeling Agency and sent to New York City, New York and was subsequently assigned to modeling work in Italy, France and Germany. Later, she decided to return to the United States to study acting and attended well-known acting schools the Wynn Handman Studio and the Herbert Berghof Studio. After completing her training, she moved to Hollywood, California to pursue acting and made her television debut on the classic series The Dukes of Hazzard....

Between 1998 and 2001, he played for multiple teams, and dealt with a rash of injuries, before returning to the Vancouver Canucks in 2001. His level of play improved once back with the Canucks. He retired in 2008, after setting or matching multiple franchise records. The franchise chose to retire his number. In April of 2014, he became the Canucks President of Hockey Operations and alternate Governor.

There, he was recognized as an All-American and won the 2006 Heisman Trophy. It was in 2007 that he got drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the fifth round of the NFL Draft that year. Apart from the Ravens, he also played for the San Francisco 49ers, Omaha Nighthawks, Pittsburgh Steelers as well as Montreal Alouettes.

In 2012, there was a significant rise in Want Want’s stock price which subsequently magnified Tsai’s fortune. But as another source of wealth are his investments in hotels and real estate, as well as in financial services through Union Insurance and Waterland Financial Holding. In addition to Want Want, Tsai also invests in Taiwanese media, where he faced heavy criticism for his pro-China views.

Zsigmond has 100 cinematography credits to his name including the films The Sadist, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Hired Hand, Deliverance, The Long Goodbye, Scarecrow, The Sugarland Express, Obsession, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Deer Hunter, The Rose, Heaven’s Gate, Blow Out, Jinxed!, The River, The Witches of Eastwick, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Sliver, Intersection, Maverick, Assassins, The Ghost and the Darkness, Playing by Heart, Life as a House, Jersey Girl, Melinda and Melinda, The Black Dahlia, Cassandra’s Dream, and You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger....