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Kelly Emberg
Kelly Kay Emberg (born July 2, 1959) is an American former model who appeared in the ''Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue,'' on the cover of ''Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Cosmopolitan, Self'' magazines'','' and in advertisements for Cover Girl, Maybelline, Loreal, Napier Jewelry, and Calvin Klein. Career Kelly Emberg began a career in modeling part-time during high school. After being "discovered" by Alan Martin, a local photographer in Houston she was introduced to John Casablancas. Casablancas brought her to New York City to join his new agency Elite Model Management, where her print career took off. She appeared on the covers of ''Vogue'', ''Harper's Bazaar'', ''Glamour'' and ''Cosmopolitan'' magazines. Her first cover was for British ''Vogue'' photographed by Alex Chatelain. She also appeared numerous times in the ''Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue'' and in advertisements for Cover Girl cosmetics, Napier Jewelry, and Calvin Klein. After her modeling c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houston
Houston ( ) is the List of cities in Texas by population, most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the county seat, seat of Harris County, Texas, Harris County, as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the List of Texas metropolitan areas, second-most populous in Texas after Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Dallas–Fort Worth. With a population of 2,314,157 in 2023, Houston is the List of United States cities by population, fourth-most populous city in the United States after New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and the List of North American cities by population, sixth-most populous city in North America. Houston is the southeast anchor of the greater megaregion known as the Texas Triangle. Comprising a land area of , Houston is the List of United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael S
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1959 Births
Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the vicinity of Earth's Moon, where it was intended to crash-land, but instead becomes the first spacecraft to go into heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. ** The southernmost island of the Maldives archipelago, Addu Atoll, declares its independence from the Kingdom of the Maldives, initiating the United Suvadive Republic. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Kinshasa, Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 – The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Movie Database
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges range ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Harmon
Thomas Mark Harmon (born September 2, 1951) is an American actor, writer, producer, television director and former American football, football player. He is best known for playing the lead role of Leroy Jethro Gibbs on ''NCIS (TV series), NCIS''. He has appeared in a wide variety of television roles since the early 1970s, including as Dr. Robert Caldwell on ''St. Elsewhere'', Detective Dicky Cobb on ''Reasonable Doubts'', and Dr. Jack McNeil on ''Chicago Hope''. He also starred in such films as ''Summer School (1987 film), Summer School'', ''Prince of Bel Air'', ''Stealing Home'', ''Wyatt Earp (film), Wyatt Earp'', ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'', ''Crossfire Trail'', ''Local Boys'', ''Freaky Friday (2003 film), Freaky Friday'', and ''Chasing Liberty''. Harmon played United States Secret Service, Secret Service special agent Simon Donovan in a four-episode story arc in ''The West Wing'' in 2002, receiving an Emmy Award nomination for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Dawber
Pamela Dawber (born October 18, 1951) is an American actress known for her lead television sitcom roles as Mindy McConnell on ''Mork & Mindy'' (1978–1982) and Samantha Russell on '' My Sister Sam'' (1986–1988). Early life Dawber was born in Detroit, the older of two daughters of Thelma M. (née Fisher) and Eugene E. Dawber, a commercial artist. She went to Reid Elementary School in Goodrich and attended North Farmington High School and Oakland Community College (OCC), with the intention of transferring to a four-year college. She deferred her studies at OCC to do some modeling work and eventually dropped out after deciding to go into modeling full-time. Career Dawber moved to New York City and was initially a fashion model with Wilhelmina Models before switching to acting. She appeared in several television commercials during the 1970s ( Fotomat, Noxzema, Neet, Underalls, etc.). Dawber screen-tested for the title role in '' Tabitha,'' a 1977 to 1978 situation comed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Arquette
Patricia Arquette (; born April 8, 1968) is an American actress. She made her feature film debut as Kristen Parker in ''A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors'' (1987) and has since received several awards, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Arquette had starring roles in several critically acclaimed films, including ''True Romance'' (1993), ''Ed Wood (film), Ed Wood'' (1994), ''Flirting with Disaster (film), Flirting with Disaster'' (1996), ''Lost Highway (film), Lost Highway'' (1997), ''The Hi-Lo Country'' (1998), ''Bringing Out the Dead'' (1999), and ''Holes (film), Holes'' (2003). From 2005 to 2011, she starred as a character based on the Mediumship, medium Allison DuBois, in the supernatural drama series ''Medium (TV series), Medium'', winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2005. For playing a single mother in the coming-of-age film ''Boyhood (2014 film), Boyhood'' (2014), wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julianna Margulies
Julianna Margulies (; born June 8, 1966) is an American actress. After several small television roles, Margulies received wide recognition for her starring role as Carol Hathaway in the NBC medical drama series '' ER'' (1994–2000; 2009), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award and six Screen Actors Guild Awards, in addition to four Golden Globe Award nominations. In 2009, she took on the lead role of Alicia Florrick in the CBS legal drama series '' The Good Wife'' (2009–2016). Her performance garnered critical acclaim, winning an additional two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Television Critics Association Award. Margulies also had roles in the TNT miniseries '' The Mists of Avalon'' (2001), the HBO crime drama series ''The Sopranos'' (2006–2007), the National Geographic miniseries ''The Hot Zone'' (2019), and as Laura Peterson in the Apple TV+ drama series '' The Morning Show'' (2021–2023). She starred i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hello! (magazine)
''Hello!'' (stylised in all caps) is a British weekly magazine specialising in celebrity news and human-interest stories, first published in the United Kingdom on 21 May 1988, following the format of '' ¡Hola!'', the Spanish weekly magazine. It often covers aristocrats, celebrities and royalty. Its editorial focus is illustrated by the fact that for 21 consecutive editions, straddling 2022 and 2023, it featured Catherine, Princess of Wales. Editions ''Hello!'' was launched in 1988 by publisher Eduardo Sánchez Junco, owner and chairman of Spain's ''¡Hola!'' magazine. ''¡Hola!'' was created in 1944 by husband and wife Antonio Sánchez Gómez and Mercedes Junco Calderón. In 2006, Rogers Media launched '' Hello! Canada''. In 2007, the Madrid office reorganized and changed out the management for the Canadian version. In 2019, St. Joseph Communications took over the publishing for ''Hello! Canada'', together with other Canadian magazines such as ''Chatelaine'', ''Maclean' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pickleball
Pickleball is a racket or paddle sport in which two or four players use a smooth-faced paddle to hit a perforated, hollow plastic ball over a net until one side is unable to return the ball or commits a rule infraction. Pickleball is played indoors and outdoors. It was invented in 1965 as a children's backyard game in the United States, on Bainbridge Island in Washington State. In 2021, pickleball was named the official state sport of Washington. Aspects of the sport resemble tennis and table tennis played on a doubles badminton court, but pickleball has specific scoring rules, paddles, balls and court lines. On each side of the net is a known as the '' non-volley zone'' (or ''kitchen''); a player standing there may not strike the ball before it has bounced. The hard plastic pickleball produces less bounce than a tennis ball. The limited bounce, non-volley zones, and underhanded stroke, with which all serves must be made, give the game a dynamic pace. Slow soft shots in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Evening Standard
The ''London Standard'', formerly the ''Evening Standard'' (1904–2024) and originally ''The Standard'' (1827–1904), is a long-established regional newspaper published weekly and distributed free of charge in London, England. It is printed in tabloid format, and also has an online edition. In October 2009, after being bought by Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev, the paper ended a 180-year history of paid circulation and multiple editions every day, and became a free newspaper publishing a single print edition every weekday, doubling its circulation as part of a change in its business plan. On 29 May 2024, the newspaper announced that it would reduce print publication to once weekly, after nearly 200 years of daily publication, as it had become unprofitable. Daily publication ended on 19 September 2024. The first weekly edition was published on 26 September 2024 under the new name of ''The London Standard''. History From 1827 to 2009 The newspaper was founded by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alana Stewart
Alana Hamilton Stewart () is an American actress and former model. She has also used her maiden name, Alana Collins, and her names from her first marriage, Alana Collins-Hamilton and Alana Hamilton professionally. Early life Born Alana Kaye Collins in San Diego, she grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas, and Houston, before heading to New York to become a model. She claimed to have grown up in poverty. Collins signed with Ford Models and traveled to Los Angeles for many television and commercial appearances. Acting career In the early 1970s, she began an acting career. Her first role was a bit part in the biographical film ''Evel Knievel'', which starred her then-husband, George Hamilton. She later made guest appearances on television shows such as ''The Bionic Woman'', ''Fantasy Island'', ''Hart to Hart'' and ''The Love Boat''. In 1995, she and ex-husband George Hamilton hosted their own syndicated talk show, ''George & Alana''. The series was cancelled the following year. In 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
