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  Alan Rudolph
  Alan Steven Rudolph (born 18 December 1943) is an American film director and screenwriter.
  Rudolph was born in Los Angeles, the son of Oscar Rudolph (1911–1991), a television director and actor. He was a protégé of Robert Altman and worked as an assistant director on his adaptation of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and later Nashville.
  Rudolph's films focus upon isolated and eccentric characters and their relationships, and frequently are ensemble pieces featuring prominent romanticism and fantasy. He has written almost all of his films, and repeatedly has worked with actors Keith Carradine and Geneviève Bujold, and composer Mark Isham (see List of noted film director and composer collaborations).
  Director Rudolph came to prominence with Choose Me (1984), the story of the sexual relationships among a handful of lonely, but charming, people — an ex-prostitute bar owner (Lesley Ann Warren), an emotionally repressed radio talk show hostess (Bujold), and a disarmingly honest madman (Carradine). Trouble in Mind (1985) featured Kris Kristofferson as well as Bujold, Carradine and John Waters icon Divine. The film was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.
  
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• Carolyn Pfeiffer
  Carolyn Pfeiffer is an American filmmaker.
  Carolyn Pfeiffer was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Madison, North Carolina. After attending Guilford College she moved to Europe and began a career in motion pictures. She first worked in Rome as Claudia Cardinale's assistant on films including Federico Fellini's 8 ½, Luchino Visconti's The Leopard and Blake Edwards’ The Pink Panther. She then moved to Paris and worked as an associate producer for Alain Delon's production company. Within a year she joined Omar Sharif as his executive assistant and worked on many of his films including Doctor Zhivago. Four years later Pfeiffer moved to London and started her own public relations company. Her numerous clients included Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, François Truffaut, Robert Altman, The Beatles’ company, Apple Corps. Ltd. and Paul McCartney and Wings.
  Moving to Los Angeles, Pfeiffer formed Alive Films with Shep Gordon. They produced Roadie starring Meat Loaf and Return Engagement, a feature documentary on the Timothy Leary/G. Gordon Liddy debates (both directed by Alan Rudolph) before joining Chris Blackwell to form Island Alive, a groundbreaking independent production/distribution company. Films produced and/or released during Pfeiffer's presidency include Choose Me, El Norte, Koyaanisqatsi, Stop Making Sense, Insignificance, The Hit, A Private Function and Kiss of the Spider Woman, which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival as well as an Academy Award for William Hurt.
  
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• Dan Hedaya
  Daniel G. “Dan” Hedaya (born July 24, 1940) is an American character actor. He often plays sleazy villains or uptight, wisecracking individuals; three of his best-known roles are as Italian Mafia boss Tony Costello in Wise Guys, a cuckolded husband in the Coen brothers' crime thriller Blood Simple, and the scheming Nick Tortelli on the sitcom Cheers.
  Hedaya was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Sephardic Jewish family from Syria. His father emigrated from Aleppo. Hedaya was raised in Bensonhurst, and worked as a junior high school teacher for many years before deciding to pursue acting full-time.
  Alongside a successful career in the movies, Hedaya has held several TV roles, including Carla Tortelli's ex-husband Nick on the sitcom Cheers and its short-lived spinoff The Tortellis. He played the estranged father of Mallory Keaton's boyfriend, Nick, on the sitcom Family Ties. More recently, he played an Italian-American priest in the controversial and quickly cancelled NBC series The Book of Daniel. Adding to his list of television credits is his performance as the long-lost father of Adrian Monk on Monk. He also guest starred in 1997 and 2005 as a wise cracking lawyer on the medical drama ER.
  
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• Gailard Sartain
  Gailard Sartain (born September 18, 1946) is an American comedic and serious actor, often playing characters with roots in the South. He is also an accomplished and successful painter and illustrator.
  Sartain was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of a Tulsa fire chief. He attended Cascia Hall Preparatory School, is a 1963 graduate of Will Rogers High School in Tulsa and was a member of the Epsilon Mu chapter of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity at the University of Tulsa, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. In 1968, Gailard moved to New York City, where he worked as an assistant to illustrator Paul Davis.
  Sartain's entry into entertainment was launched in Tulsa. Working originally as a cameraman at a local television station, he gained notoriety through the creation of a late night off-the-wall comedy program entitled The Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting. Dressed as a wizard, wearing a dark blue robe and pointed wizard's cap, Sartain hosted the program as "Dr. Mazeppa Pompazoidi". Other cast members included fellow Tulsans Gary Busey and Jim Millaway. The program was broadcast on the Tulsa CBS affiliate KOTV and later the ABC affiliate KTUL. It featured B-movies, with skits written and performed by Sartain, Busey and company between the movie segments.
  
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• Gary Wright
  Gary Malcolm Wright (born April 26, 1943) is an American musician, best known for his songs "Dream Weaver" and "Love Is Alive".
  Wright was born and raised in Cresskill, New Jersey. He attended Tenafly High School in Tenafly, New Jersey.
  A former child actor, Wright appeared in the 1954 original Broadway production of the long-running musical, Fanny (888 performances), having originated the role of Acolyte and then subsequently replacing Lloyd Reese in the role of Cesario, the son of Fanny. The title role of Fanny was originated by Florence Henderson who later gained worldwide fame as matriarch Carol Brady in the long-running TV series, The Brady Bunch. According to Henderson, Reese had to be replaced by Wright because (in her own words): "He (Reese) was a New York boy and puberty struck very early. It wasn't long till he looked like my boyfriend!"
  In 1959, Wright made his first commercial recording with Billy Markle as the duo Gary & Billy for the 20th Century Fox Records record label. The songs released were "Working After School" and "Lisa". In the 1960s, Wright went to Europe to continue studying psychology. In 1967, he joined the band Spooky Tooth as singer and keyboardist. In 1970 Wright was involved as a record producer with the Liverpool based folk music band Arrival, and he was also a member of the folk rock band Howl the Good who had played alongside Arrival at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970. During this period, he also befriended George Harrison and was invited to contribute piano to Harrison's All Things Must Pass.
  
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• Hoyt Axton
  Hoyt Wayne Axton (March 25, 1938 – October 26, 1999) was an American country music singer-songwriter, and a film and television actor. He became prominent in the early 1960s, establishing himself on the West Coast as a folk singer with an earthy style and powerful voice. As he matured, some of his songwriting efforts became well known throughout the world. Among them were "Joy to the World", "The Pusher" and "Greenback Dollar".
  He was born in Duncan, Oklahoma and spent his pre-teen years in Comanche, Oklahoma with his brother, John. His mother, Mae Boren Axton, co-wrote the classic rock 'n' roll song "Heartbreak Hotel", which became the first major hit for Elvis Presley. Some of Hoyt Axton's own songs were also later recorded by Elvis. Hoyt Axton's father, John T. Axton, was a Navy officer stationed in Jacksonville, Florida; the family joined him there in 1949. Axton graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in 1956 and left town after Knauer's Hardware burned down on graduation night, a prank gone wrong. Axton attended Oklahoma State for a short length of time before following his father and enlisting in the Navy. Axton served aboard the USS Ranger before pursuing a music career.
  
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  JoBeth Williams
  Margaret JoBeth Williams (born December 6, 1948 in Houston, Texas) is an American film and television actress and director, and current President of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.
  Williams is the daughter of Frances Faye (née Adams), a dietitian, and Fredric Roger Williams, an opera singer and manager of a wire and cable company. Williams grew up in the South Park neighborhood of Houston, and she attended Jones High School.
  She attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, intending to become a child psychologist. Instead, she turned to theater, training with Jim Barnhill and John Emigh as well as at the Trinity Repertory Company, taking voice lessons to neutralize her Texan accent. Then she moved to New York City and began to appear in television series in the mid-1970s.
  Williams' first television role was on the Boston-produced first-run syndicated children's television series Jabberwocky, which debuted in 1974. Her character was named, appropriately enough, JoBeth. She joined the "Jabberwocky" cast in season two, replacing the original hostess, Joanne Sopko. The series ran until 1978. She was a regular on two soap operas, playing Carrie Wheeler on Somerset and Brandi Sheloo on Guiding Light. Williams' feature film debut came in 1979's Kramer vs. Kramer as a girlfriend of Dustin Hoffman's character, memorably quizzed by his son after being discovered walking nude to the bathroom.
  
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• Paul Dooley
  Paul Dooley (born February 22, 1928) is an American actor, writer, and comedian.
  Dooley was born Paul Dooley Brown in Parkersburg, West Virginia, the son of Ruth Irene (née Barringer), a homemaker, and Peter James Brown, a factory worker. Dooley was a cartoonist as a youth and drew a strip for a local paper in Parkersburg. He joined the Navy before discovering acting while at college. He is married to writer Winnie Holzman, with whom he has one daughter, Savannah Dooley (born 1985).
  Moving to New York, he soon found success as a regular on the stage. Also having an interest in comedy, Dooley was a standup comedian for five years, and a member of the Compass Players and The Second City troupe in NYC, as well as having brief stints as a magician and as a clown. Not afraid of trying different areas of entertainment, he also worked as a writer. He was one of the writers on The Electric Company, which the character Paul the Gorilla was named after, and appeared in commercials.
  Besides appearing in many movies, including most notably Popeye, Sixteen Candles, Breaking Away, and the voice of Sarge in the Disney/Pixar film Cars and its sequel Cars 2. Dooley has also appeared as a variety of recurrent characters on numerous television shows, including My So-Called Life, Dream On, Grace Under Fire, Curb Your Enthusiasm, ALF (playing Whizzer Deaver) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine where he played the recurring role of Enabran Tain. He guest starred in other primetime shows like The Wonder Years, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, The Golden Girls, and Desperate Housewives. In 2000, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role as an eccentric judge on The Practice. He was also in the infamous alternate ending to Little Shop of Horrors, but was replaced by Jim Belushi in the final cut.
  
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• Paul Lohmann
  Paul Lohmann is a cinematographer. In 1976, he won an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for Entertainment Programming for a Special for Eleanor and Franklin, an award he shared with Edward R. Brown.
  
  
  
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  Peter Coyote
  Peter Coyote (born Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon; October 10, 1941) is an American actor, author, director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audio books. His voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics and Apple's iPad campaign. He has also served as on-camera co-host of the 2000 Oscar telecasts. His speaking voice, which helped him win an Emmy for narration in 1992, has often been compared with that of actor Henry Fonda.
  Coyote was one of the founders of the Diggers, an anarchist improv group active in Haight-Ashbury during the mid-1960s. Coyote was also an actor, writer and director with the San Francisco Mime Troupe; his prominence in the San Francisco counter-culture scene led to his being interviewed for the noted book, Voices from the Love Generation. He acted in and directed the first cross-country tour of the Minstrel Show, and his play Olive Pits, co-authored with Mime Troupe member Peter Berg, won the Troupe an Obie Award from the Village Voice. Coyote became a member, and later chairman, of the California Arts Council from 1975 to 1983. In the late 1970s, he shifted from acting on stage to acting in films. In the 1990s and 2000s (decade), he acted in several television shows. He speaks fluent Spanish and French.^{[citation needed]}
  
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  Robert Urich
  Robert Urich (December 19, 1946 – April 16, 2002) was an American actor. He played the starring roles in the television series Vega$ (1978–1981) and Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988). He also appeared in other television series over the years including: Kung Fu (1972), S.W.A.T. (1975), Soap (1977), and The Lazarus Man (1996), as well as in several feature films including Turk 182!, The Ice Pirates, and Magnum Force. Urich died in 2002 in Thousand Oaks, California. The actor announced in 1996 that he was suffering from synovial cell sarcoma, a rare cancer, for which he underwent several treatments during the last years of his life.
  Urich was of Rusyn and Slovak extraction and raised Byzantine Catholic and Roman Catholic in the small town of Toronto, Ohio, where he is honored with the Robert Urich Interchange leading to State Route 7. Due to the similarity in names with Toronto, Ontario, many sources list him incorrectly as being a Canadian. His second wife, actress Heather Menzies, actually is a Canadian from the latter city.
  
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  Tom Walls
  Tom Kirby Walls (18 February 1883 - 27 November 1949) was a popular English stage and films character actor, and film director. He has claim to be one of the most influential figures in British comedy.
  A native of Northampton, Walls was the son of a plumber. After leaving school, he spent a year in Canada and joined the police on his return. After these false starts, he settled on a stage career in 1905. Over the next few years he worked steadily, appearing in the West End as well as touring Britain, Australia and North America. By 1912 he was firmly established as a West End star. He had a principal role in the musical Kissing Time in 1919 and in Whirled into Happiness in 1922.
  By the 1920s, Walls established a long association with London's Aldwych Theatre, where he produced, directed and starred in a string of popular farces written by Ben Travers, and featuring an ensemble cast including Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare and Yvonne Arnaud. Walls functioned as both star and director in the first Aldwych-produced farce transferred to the cinema; box-office success Rookery Nook. In 1922, together with Leslie Henson, Walls co-produced and starred in the farce Tons of Money at the Shaftesbury Theatre. Their next project was It Pays to Advertise. They moved to the Aldwych Theatre for this one and thus inaugurated the Aldwych Farce series of comedies. With its regular team of Henson, Walls, Mary Brough, Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare, Yvonne Arnaud, Winifred Shotter and others, and its usual writer Ben Travers, the series developed a strain of British comedy which featured silly-asses, henpecked husbands, battleaxe mothers-in-law and lots of innocent misunderstandings.
  
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The Desperate Fight to Save the Tasmanian Devil from Extinction

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The goal is to breed a separate, cancer-free population of the endangered animal in an attempt to save the species should the rapidly spreading illness continue to claim the lives of the animals on Tasmania ... As Katherine Belov, a biologist at the University of Sydney, put it in a recent interview with The New York Times, "We have very little time to save the species."....(size: 2.6Kb)

Tourists strew 28 beaches with 1.4L items of garbage in 1 day

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MUMBAI ... What is true there is true in the rest of coastal Maharashtra as well ... The items included a vast range of objects ... Most of these objects float on water or lurk near the surface, thus putting at risk over 180 shallow-water marine species, which ingest these, mistaking them for food, including prey ... At risk are endangered species like breasted eagle and osprey (also known as sea hawk and fish eagle) ... ....(size: 2.3Kb)

Australian voyage in search of the world's largest creature (Australian Government)

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Environment Minister Tony Burke said this is the inaugural voyage of the Antarctic Blue Whale Project which aims to estimate the abundance, distribution and behaviour of the species ... "Today the Antarctic blue whale is classified as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and is of global interest as one of the most at risk baleen whale species in the Southern Ocean," Mr Burke said....(size: 4.4Kb)

Mineral dust sprinkled in oceans could absorb vast amounts of carbon: study

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22 Jan 2013

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Adding more silicate through mineral dust would alter the species of plankton that grows in the seas, the research shows ... The proposed "geoengineering" technique would also offset the acidification of the oceans and could be targeted at endangered coral reefs, but it would require a mining effort on the same scale as the world's coal industry and would alter the biology of the oceans....(size: 5.2Kb)

Winery investing in biodiversity regeneration

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22 Jan 2013

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A 600 hectare farm property has been turned into a native biodiversity hub to help protect endangered wildlife in South Australia's north-east ... "And hopefully this is creating that corridor and all those things for those species that are ......(size: 1.3Kb)

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Let's bring relief to the reefs (Photos)

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22 Jan 2013

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Our delicate coral reefs are simply magical ... That is why it is so essential to be cognizant of what could become endangered so easily without our constant awareness. View slideshow ... They provide food, economic and tourism benefits, protection to the coastline from storms, support for indigenous communities, habitat for endangered species and overall, by saving the Coral Reefs, we improve our quality of life ... ....(size: 3.8Kb)

BOOK REVIEW: In Search of the African Lion

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22 Jan 2013

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It may soon be all-but gone. Details. TITLE ... There is some lovely history — and some great photos too — on lion hunting in the early 1900s, so why leave out modern hunting? Lion Aid reports that trophy hunting is a highly significant and immediately preventable source of lion mortality, with the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species database listing 6,652 lion trophies exported from Africa between 2000 and 2009, virtually all males....(size: 2.3Kb)

Gas leak causes strong odour in Paris region

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22 Jan 2013

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A gas leak at a Normandy chemical plant left an unpleasant but “non-toxic” odour that could be smelt over 100km away in Paris. Work to stop the leak was ongoing in the early hours of Tuesday morning. By News Wires (text).   ... "The gas has an unpleasant smell but is not toxic" ... The gas reached the Paris region in the early hours of Tuesday, causing concern ... (AFP). Date created ... Read more ... an 'endangered species' ... FOCUS....(size: 6.5Kb)

'No risk' after major gas leak in Paris region

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A gas leak at a Normandy chemical plant left an unpleasant but “non-toxic” odour that could be smelt over 100km away in Paris. Work to stop the leak was ongoing in the early hours of Tuesday morning. By News Wires (text).   ... "The gas has an unpleasant smell but is not toxic" ... The gas reached the Paris region in the early hours of Tuesday, causing concern ... (AFP). Date created ... Read more ... an 'endangered species' ... Next ....(size: 6.5Kb)

Wasps v moths: Biocontrol uses nature against crop pests

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22 Jan 2013

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Biocontrol is an area of biotechnology that involves moving away from toxic chemicals, either by mass-producing a pest's natural enemy or by introducing an exotic species to attack the pest ... The disease has infected some 90% of the species in Denmark, and is threatening the UK's ash population....(size: 7.2Kb)

Lost indigenous language revived in Australia

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22 Jan 2013

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Of the estimated 150 languages still spoken, Dr Fogarty says that only a handful - about 6% - are considered "strong" and are still spoken as a mother tongue, while many others are endangered ... "The Kaurna language belongs to this place, to the Adelaide Plains, so it has the kind of vocabulary, the words to talk about the places here, to talk about the environment, to talk about the species that inhabit this environment," he said ... ....(size: 4.7Kb)

Community banks, endangered species?

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22 Jan 2013

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Okay, so today’s article not only touches on banking in the San Francisco Bay Area, but impacts the nation as well ... The guilty should pay up for the error of their ways and spend some quality time soul searching in the Big House, not Club Fed. The San Francisco Business Times is a highly respected weekly, but they, like many other media outlets lump all “banks” together ... They don’t deserve to be placed on the endangered species list ... ....(size: 4.6Kb)

News Quiz | January 22, 2013

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22 Jan 2013

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See what you know about the news below ... Good luck!. News Quiz. Previous Post Word of the Day . satellite ... Aaron Swartz, Endangered Species and Chess in Harlem ... Students can take sides in the debates about freedom of information that have been inspired by the death of the "hacktivist" Aaron Swartz; they can learn about one idea for helping endangered species thrive; or they can write a creative piece inspired by a colorful feature story ... ....(size: 10.6Kb)

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