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Savant (from the French savoir "knowing", English since the 18th century) may refer to:
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Daniel Tammet (born on 31 January 1979) is a British writer and autistic savant. His best selling 2006 memoir, Born on a Blue Day, about his life with high-functioning autism and savant syndrome, was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2008 by the American Library Association.
Tammet's second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, was named one of France's best selling books of 2009 by L'Express magazine in its March 2010 edition.
Tammet's books have been published in 20 languages.
Tammet was born Daniel Paul Corney and raised in East London, England, the eldest of nine children. He suffered epileptic seizures as a young child, which he subsequently outgrew following medical treatment. At age twenty-five, he would eventually be diagnosed with Asperger syndrome by Professor Simon Baron-Cohen of the Autism (Spectrum) Research Centre at Cambridge University. Tammet is one of fewer than a hundred "prodigious savants" according to Dr. Darold Treffert, the world's leading researcher in the study of savant syndrome.
Actors: Michael Stailey (actor), Jason Eric Stephens (producer), Gretchen Pitluk (director), Luke Wdowicz (actor), Dustin Winebrenner (editor), Juan Castaneda (writer), Holly Montgomery-Webb (actress), Jesse Menendez (writer), Amber Mohammad (writer), Mark Renaud (actor), Luis A. Perez (writer), Antonio R. Bruno (writer), Kim Bauer (actress), Caroline Womack (actress), Chris Duarte (editor),
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Plot: Eleven lives and works within a coffee vending machine. How and why he got there is unknown. His only friend Savant brings him essentials to allow him to survive inside it's cramped and lonely interior. Every morning he awakens from a reoccuring dream that tells him that a mysterious girl will help him escape from his coffee vending prison. In one final attempt at freedom, Eleven plans to risk everything in order to get his life back.
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Daniel Mesguich (actor), Michael Lonsdale (actor), Philippe Mareuil (actor), Ismail Merchant (actor), André Julien (actor), James Earl Jones (actor), Thibault de Montalembert (actor), Simon Callow (actor), Jean-Pierre Aumont (actor), Vincent Cassel (actor), Humbert Balsan (actor), Jacques Herlin (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Jean-François Perrier (actor), Nick Nolte (actor),
Plot: One of the obsessive speculations in American history is whether Thomas Jefferson, in the years before he became president, had an affair with (and fathered a child with) his 15-year-old slave Sally Hemings. JEFFERSON IN PARIS follows Jefferson to France (as the U.S. ambassador to the court of Louis XVI), following the death of his wife his friendships and flirtations with the French, his relationship with his daughters and slaves from home (especially Sally), against the backdrop of the beginning of the French Revolution.
Keywords: 1780s, 18th-century, ambassador, american-abroad, aristocrat, character-name-in-title, city-name-in-title, decadence, extramarital-affair, father-daughter-relationshipActors: Daniel Mesguich (actor), Michael Lonsdale (actor), Philippe Mareuil (actor), Ismail Merchant (actor), André Julien (actor), James Earl Jones (actor), Thibault de Montalembert (actor), Simon Callow (actor), Jean-Pierre Aumont (actor), Vincent Cassel (actor), Humbert Balsan (actor), Jacques Herlin (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Jean-François Perrier (actor), Nick Nolte (actor),
Plot: One of the obsessive speculations in American history is whether Thomas Jefferson, in the years before he became president, had an affair with (and fathered a child with) his 15-year-old slave Sally Hemings. JEFFERSON IN PARIS follows Jefferson to France (as the U.S. ambassador to the court of Louis XVI), following the death of his wife his friendships and flirtations with the French, his relationship with his daughters and slaves from home (especially Sally), against the backdrop of the beginning of the French Revolution.
Keywords: 1780s, 18th-century, ambassador, american-abroad, aristocrat, character-name-in-title, city-name-in-title, decadence, extramarital-affair, father-daughter-relationshipActors: Vijay Anand (actor), Vijay Anand (actor), Vikas Anand (actor), Jankidas (actor), Viju Khote (actor), Ashok Kumar (actor), Dheeraj Kumar (actor), Sujit Kumar (actor), Mohan Sherry (actor), Kanwaljit Singh (actor), Shabana Azmi (actress), Vijay Anand (producer), Bappi Lahiri (composer), Sudha Chopra (actress), Chetan Anand (director),
Genres: ,Actors: Florin Piersic (actor), Marcel Anghelescu (actor), Zephi Alsec (actor), Nelly Merola (costume designer), Mircea Muresan (actor), Szabolcs Cseh (actor), Savel Stiopul (actor), Savel Stiopul (director), Mircea Septilici (actor), Dumitru Rucareanu (actor), Carmen Tanase (actress), Dumitru Carabat (producer), Corneliu Revent (actor), Vasile Boghita (actor), Carmen María Strujac (actress),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance,Actors: Michel Serrault (actor), Pierre Tornade (actor), Bernard Blier (actor), Yvon Sarray (actor), Pierre Brasseur (actor), Mario David (actor), Guy Delorme (actor), Jean Franval (actor), André Chaumeau (actor), Henri Guégan (actor), Robert Dalban (actor), Jean Lefebvre (actor), Jean Ozenne (actor), Paul Préboist (actor), Henri Virlojeux (actor),
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