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Ana Villafañe
Ana Teresa Villafañe ( ) is an American actress and singer from Miami, Florida, best known for her portrayal of pop icon Gloria Estefan in the Broadway musical '' On Your Feet!''. Life and career She was born in Miami, Florida. She graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. She is of Cuban and Salvadoran descent. Villafañe's film and television credits include: the award-winning '' Magic City Memoirs'' (executive producer Andy Garcia) "Los Americans" created by Dennis Leoni (" Resurrection Boulevard") Hiding (Anchor Bay) the Hulu Original Series ''South Beach'' set in her native Miami, and the female lead in the superhero feature film ''Max Steel'' (Mattel). In the fall of 2014, Gloria Estefan and Emilio Estefan—alongside the producers and creative team of their biographical musical '' On Your Feet!''—launched an international casting search, dubbed "Reach Gloria" (#ReachGloria) which offered performers around the world a chance to audition fo ...
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Miami, Florida
Miami is a East Coast of the United States, coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County in South Florida. It is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, which, with a population of 6.14 million, is the second-largest metropolitan area in the Southeastern United States, Southeast after Atlanta metropolitan area, Atlanta, and the Metropolitan statistical area#United States, ninth-largest in the United States. With a population of 442,241 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Miami is the List of municipalities in Florida, second-most populous city in Florida, after Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville. Miami has the List of tallest buildings in the United States#Cities with the most skyscrapers, third-largest skyline in the U.S. with over List of tallest buildings in Miami, 300 high-rises, 70 of which exceed . Miami is a major center and leader in finance, commerce, culture, arts, and internation ...
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InStyle
''InStyle'' is an American monthly women's fashion magazine founded in 1994. It was published in the United States by Dotdash Meredith, and started originally as a brand extension of ''People (magazine), People'' before carving out its own identity. In February 2022, it was announced that InStyle would cease print publications and move to a digital-only format. Description The magazines content included beauty, fashion, home, entertaining, philanthropy, celebrity lifestyles, feminism, and human-interest stories. In 2018, ''InStyle'' became the first major fashion magazine to ban photography of and advertisements featuring fur. The ban on fur intended to showcase the animal cruelty necessary to produce fur garments, and to encourage others to refrain from fur consumption. The organization PETA was supportive of the editorial change. Dotdash Meredith, the media group that acquired InStyle in 2021, announced that they would be terminating the publication's print issues. InStyle ...
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Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. It is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. She was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper# ...
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Natalie Martinez
Natalie Martinez (born July 12, 1984) is an American actress and model. She appeared in the 2008 film '' Death Race'', several music videos between 2003 and 2011, and two short-lived telenovelas in 2006 and 2007. Martinez starred in the single season of the crime drama ''Detroit 1-8-7'', had a recurring role for one season of '' CSI: NY'', starred in one season of the drama series '' Kingdom'', and appeared in the 2019 science fiction miniseries ''The I-Land''. In 2021, Martinez began starring in the NBC drama series '' Ordinary Joe''. Early life and education Martinez was born in 1984 in Miami, Florida, and is of full Cuban ancestry. She graduated from St. Brendan High School in 2002. Career Martinez appeared as the character Michelle Miller on the telenovela ''Fashion House'' (2006), which was cancelled after three months, and she was cast as a major character in the 2007 series ''Chuck'', appearing in first-season promotional pictures, before being removed before the pilot ...
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Bad Monkey (TV Series)
''Bad Monkey'' is an American black comedy Crime film#Crime drama, crime drama television series developed and executive produced by Bill Lawrence (TV producer), Bill Lawrence. A co-production between Warner Bros. Television, Two Soups Productions and Doozer Productions, it is based on the Bad Monkey (novel), 2013 novel of the same name by Carl Hiaasen. The series is led by Vince Vaughn, L. Scott Caldwell, Rob Delaney, Meredith Hagner, Natalie Martinez, Alex Moffat, Michelle Monaghan, Ronald Peet, and Jodie Turner-Smith. ''Bad Monkey'' premiered on August 14, 2024, on Apple TV+. In December 2024, the series was renewed for a second season. Premise Andrew Yancy is a former police detective who has been reduced to conducting restaurant inspections in South Florida. A severed arm found by a tourist pulls Yancy into a world of greed and corruption that decimates the land and environment in both Florida and The Bahamas. Cast Main * Vince Vaughn as Andrew Yancy, a one-time detective tu ...
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Chicago (musical)
''Chicago'' is a 1975 American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. Set in Chicago in the Jazz Age, the musical is based on a Chicago (play), 1926 play of the same title by Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals and crimes on which she reported. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the "celebrity criminal". The world premiere of the musical was a Broadway tryout from April 8, 1975, to May 3, 1975, at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia. The original Broadway theatre, Broadway production opened on June 3, 1975 at the 46th Street Theatre and ran for 936 performances, until August 27, 1977. Fosse directed and choreographed the original production, and his style is strongly identified with the show. It debuted in the West End theatre, West End in 1979, where it ran for 600 performances. ''Chicago'' was revived on Broadway in 1996, and a year later in the West End. The ...
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India De Beaufort
India de Beaufort (born India Beaufort Lloyd; 27 June 1987) is a British actress. She has acted in several films and television shows, including ''The Better Half'' (2015), '' Kimi'' (2022) and ''Night Court'' (2023−24). Early life De Beaufort is of British and Indian background. She was born to Karen de Beaufort, an actress and dancer, and Nicholas O Ewence Lloyd. Her maternal grandfather was born in Calcutta, where his family lived for around 350 years. She has stated that her surname, ''de Beaufort'', comes from distant French ancestry. She attended Esher College in Surrey, England. Career In 1994, de Beaufort appeared in a music video, "Every Woman Knows", for the artist Lulu, and in 1996 had a brief appearance as an orphan child in an episode of Penelope Keith's ''Next of Kin''. In 2002, aged 15, de Beaufort signed to Entertainment Rights as a singer-songwriter and actress. In the same year, she was cast as a principal character in the BAFTA nominated '' The Basil Br ...
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Night Court
''Night Court'' is an American television sitcom that premiered on NBC on January 4, 1984, and ended on May 31, 1992, after nine seasons consisting of List of Night Court episodes, 193 episodes. The show is set in the night shift of a Manhattan Criminal Court presided over by a young, unorthodox judge, Harold "Harry" T. Stone (portrayed by Harry Anderson), and was created by comedy writer Reinhold Weege, who had previously worked on ''Barney Miller'' in the 1970s and early 1980s. Cast Main *Harry Anderson as Judge Harold "Harry" T. Stone *Karen Austin as court clerk Lana Wagner (season 1) *Gail Strickland as public defender Sheila Gardner (pilot episode only) *John Larroquette as assistant district attorney Reinhold Daniel "Dan" Fielding Elmore *Paula Kelly (actress), Paula Kelly as public defender Liz Williams (season 1) *Richard Moll as bailiff Nostradamus "Bull" Shannon *Selma Diamond as bailiff Selma Hacker (seasons 1–2) *Ellen Foley as public defender Billie Young (season ...
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Night Court (2023 TV Series)
''Night Court'' is an American sitcom, a revival of the series of the same name that originally aired from 1984 to 1992. It premiered on NBC on January 17, 2023. In February 2023, the series was renewed for a second season which then premiered on December 23, 2023. In May 2024, the series was renewed for a third season which premiered on November 19, 2024. In May 2025, the series was canceled after three seasons due to low viewership. Premise Judge Abby Stone (Melissa Rauch) comes to New York City to take a job as magistrate for Manhattan Criminal Court's night shift – a position once held by her late father Harry Stone. Also part of the night shift are cheerful and eccentric bailiff Donna "Gurgs" Gurganous (Lacretta), and public defender Dan Fielding (John Larroquette) – who had served as a prosecutor in Harry's court, and was convinced by Abby to join her court when the assigned public defender quit on Abby's first day. Dan briefly left to become a judge in his ...
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Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria was an extremely powerful and devastating tropical cyclone that affected the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which accounted for 2,975 of the 3,059 deaths. It is the deadliest and costliest hurricane to strike the island of Puerto Rico, and is the deadliest hurricane to strike the country of Dominica and the territory of the U.S. Virgin Islands. The most intense tropical cyclone worldwide in 2017, Maria was the thirteenth named storm, eighth consecutive hurricane, fourth major hurricane, second Category 5 hurricane, and deadliest storm of the extremely active 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. With over 3,000 deaths and a minimum central pressure of , Maria was both the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Jeanne in 2004, and the eleventh most intense Atlantic hurricane on record, respectively. Total monetary losses are estimated at upwards of $91.61 billion (2017 USD), almost all of which ...
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Almost Like Praying
"Almost Like Praying" is a song written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and recorded by him and numerous other artists under the collective name Artists for Puerto Rico. The song was released on October 6, 2017, by Atlantic Records to support relief efforts in Puerto Rico in response to Hurricane Maria, which struck the island in September 2017. Proceeds from the song are to be donated to the victims and survivors of the hurricane. The song debuted at number 20 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number one on the ''Billboard'' Digital Songs Sales chart, selling 111,000 downloads and achieving 5.2 million streams in its first week of availability in the US. On February 8, 2018, a salsa remix of the song was released. Background "Almost Like Praying" is a song conceived by ''Hamilton'' creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda. Miranda, who is from New York but of Puerto Rican descent, has publicly described the song as "a love letter to Puerto Rico." Growing up, Miranda spent a month every summer ...
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda (; born January 16, 1980) is an American songwriter, actor, singer, filmmaker, rapper, and librettist. He created the Broadway musicals '' In the Heights'' and ''Hamilton'', and the soundtracks for the animated films '' Moana'', '' Vivo'', and '' Encanto''. He has received numerous accolades including a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, three Tony Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Emmy Awards, and five Grammy Awards, along with nominations for two Academy Awards. He received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2018. Miranda made his Broadway debut in 2008, writing the music and lyrics for and starring in the musical ''In the Heights'', which won the Tony Award for Best Musical and Best Original Score and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. It was later adapted as a 2021 film of the same name. Miranda returned to Broadway in 2015, writing the script, music, and lyrics, as well as starring in the musical ''Hamilton'', which was praised by critics and be ...
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