He also began modeling, appearing in spreads in Maxim and GQ. In 2003, he was hired to serve as an on-screen carpenter for the TLC show, “While You Were Out”. After three seasons with the show, he was invited by the DIY Network to host their series, “Desperate Landscapes”. Since then, he has gone on to host multiple construction-related shows on DIY, including “Man Caves”, and “Project Xtreme”.
In 1989, Herb and Jerry sold A&M Records to PolyGram for $500 million in cash. That’s the same as roughly $1.2 billion in today’s dollars. The duo would stay on for the next five years managing the company. In 1999, Herb and Jerry successfully sued PolyGram for an additional $200 million payout. In 2000, Herb and Jerry sold another company they co-founded, Rondor Music, a music-publishing business, to Universal Music for $400 million....
He later played with the Atlanta Hawks in 2004, the Portland Trail Blazers from 2004 until 2011, the Charlotte Bobcats in 2011, the Trail Blazers a second time in 2012, and the Bucks a second time from 2012 until 2013. The seven-foot-one, 245-pound center announced his retirement from the NBA on August 24, 2014 after he did not play during the 2013 season. Over the course of his career, he appeared in close to 600 NBA games....
He is a member of the UCB Harold team Apollo and works as a writer and performer for Showtime with Anthony Apruzzese. Purcell co-wrote and starred in the play Key the City at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York. He is well known for his viral YouTube video about Starbucks baristas spelling names wrong on cups which has had more than seven million views.
In 2004 he had a recurring role as Troy in the TV series Hex. He had recurring roles in the TV series William and Mary in 2005, Silent Witness and Doc Martin in 2007, Casualty from 2008 to 2009, and Ben Hur in 2010. His best known role has been on the CW series The Vampire Diaries as Klaus Mikaelson since 2011 and on the spin-off The Originals since 2013....
Drafted seventh overall by the Buffalo Bills in 2018, Allen quickly became the team’s starting quarterback. He led the Bills to the playoffs in 2019 and had a breakout season in 2020, throwing for 4,544 yards and 37 touchdowns, earning Pro Bowl and second-team All-Pro honors. In 2024, Allen won the NFL Most Valuable Player award, becoming the first Bills player to do so since 1991. That season, he passed for 3,731 yards and 28 touchdowns, with only six interceptions, and added 531 rushing yards and 12 rushing touchdowns....
The company also prides itself on its vast number of employees, around 63,500, who enjoy company’s benefits and are 66% female. All of his daughters, Hortensia, Amparo, Juana and Carolina, sit on the supervisory board next to their dad. Apart from his shrewd business acumen, Juan has launched a seed capital fund for entrepreneurs as well as a charitable foundation that sponsors a half marathon event in Valencia. What’s more, he attends Valencia’s professional games twice a week, since he is a huge basketball fan....
Early Life and Education Justin Upton was born on August 25, 1987 in Norfolk, Virginia to Yvonne and Melvin. His mother was a teacher, while his father worked variously as a scout for the Kansas City Royals, a college basketball referee, and a mortgage broker. With his older brother B.J., Upton played baseball growing up. He was an all-district shortstop at Great Bridge High School in Chesapeake, Virginia, where he also won the AFLAC National High School Player of the Year Award....
She is also a veteran of television movies. She appeared in 1996 in the 19th episode of the fourth and final season of the TV series Picket Fences as an Amish woman who was raped. After a two-episode stint on the sci-fi series Earth 2, Williams joined the cast of the legal drama The Practice where she remained until the show wrapped up in 2003. She was then cast on the short-lived NBC series Medical Investigation....
His 2010 album Raw and Un-Kutt reached #15 on the US Rap, #27 on the US R&B, and #28 and US Independent charts. His latest album Black Gold in 2013 also made the Top 25 in all three chart categories and debuted at #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart. Calhoun released his first mixtape Flamez Mixtape in September 2007. In September 2014 Calhoun was no longer signed with Strange Music....
He went on to play for the Memphis Southern in the WFL in 1975 before joining the New York Giants from 1976 to 1978 and finishing his career back with the Dolphins in 1979. During his career Csonka was selected to the Pro Bowl five times. He was a two time AP First-Team All-Pro and an AP Second-Team All Pro. Csonka also won three AFC Championships and was named the Super Bowl MVP of Super Bowl VIII in 1974....
Unsurprisingly, representatives for both Paramount, the studio that produces “Mean Girls,” and Lohan herself declined to comment on the article, which also details how the audience at the film’s New York premiere erupted into “thunderous applause” at Lohan’s appearance, which was not promoted in advance and took almost everyone there by surprise. By contrast, Lohan rep Leslie Sloane did release a statement to tabloid site The Messenger regarding Lohan’s displeasure at a “fire crotch” reference in the new version: Despite her appearance in the new “Mean Girls,” “Lindsay was very hurt and disappointed by the reference in the film,” the statement read....
Harry and Esther had two sons, Rich (Lynsi’s uncle) and her father, Harry Jr (who went by “Guy”). Rich died in a 1993 plane crash. Guy died in 1999 of an accidental drug overdose. At that point, Lynsi became the company’s sole heir. She was 17 years old. She officially inherited the company on her 35th birthday, but she was first officially declared a billionaire when she turned 30. At that point, she was the youngest female billionaire in the world....
Born into poverty in the Philippines, Pacquiao began boxing professionally at the age of 16 to help support his family. His meteoric rise in the sport turned him into a national hero, earning him the nickname “PacMan.” In 2010, he successfully transitioned into politics, becoming a congressman and later a senator in the Philippines, all while continuing his boxing career. His 2015 fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. became the highest-grossing bout in boxing history, earning over $600 million in revenue....
Early Life and Education Michael Mann was born on February 5, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois. He is the son of Jewish grocers Jack and Esther. For his higher education, Michael went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied English literature. As a student, Mann fell in love with the cinema when he saw Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 black comedy satire “Dr. Strangelove.” He graduated from Wisconsin in 1965 and then went on to earn his MA from the London Film School in 1967....
Early Life and Education Mircea Monroe was born on March 11, 1982 in St. Louis, Missouri. She was named Mircea, a traditionally male name in Romania, after her father’s beloved former college professor Mircea Eliade. For her higher education, Monroe went to Virginia Commonwealth University. Film Career Monroe made her feature film debut with a brief role in the 2004 action thriller “Cellular.” She subsequently appeared in the horror films “All Souls Day” and “House of the Dead 2” in 2005....
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist whose pioneering work laid the foundation for modern electrical engineering and many technologies used today. Tesla’s contributions to the development of alternating current (AC) electricity supply systems were among his most significant achievements, allowing for the efficient transmission of electricity over long distances. This innovation was instrumental in the success of the “War of Currents,” where AC eventually triumphed over direct current (DC) systems promoted by Thomas Edison....
The Techint Group now is a global leader in seamless steel pipe production for the oil industry. But aside from steel production company, it also has an engineering and construction company, an oil and gas exploration company, as well as a network of hospitals in Italy. With 60,000 employees worldwide, the group’s annual revenues exceed $25 billion.
She has won four individual National Poetry Slam championships and was featured in the documentary SlamNation in 1996. Smith has authored the books Life According to Motown, Big Towns, Big Talk, Close to Death, Teahouse of the Almighty, Blood Dazzler, Africans in America, Janna and the Kings, and Shoulda been Jimi Savannah. Smith won the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Award in 2014. She has also won a Carl Sandburg Literary Award, National Poetry Series award, and the Distinguished Writing Award for Commentary from the American Society of Newspaper Editors....
Among his other activities, Anhalt allegedly had a decade-long extramarital affair with model Anna Nicole Smith. Von Anhalt made headlines in 2007 when he claimed to be the potential father of the late Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter, though it was later revealed that Dannielynn’s father was actually Larry Birkhead. That same year, he claimed to be robbed at gunpoint, bound, and left naked in handcuffs by three women in Los Angeles....
