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Dana White (born July 28, 1969) is the current President of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts organization based in the United States.
Born in Manchester, Connecticut on July 28, 1969, White grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, Ware, Massachusetts and Levant, Maine. White is a passionate Boston Red Sox fan. During his youth, he bounced back and forth between Boston and Maine. He attended the University of Massachusetts Boston but did not finish; however, while there he did launch a boxing program for inner-city youth.
White has a background as an aerobics instructor. In 1992, White established Dana White Enterprises in Las Vegas. He conducted aerobics classes at three gyms in the Las Vegas area and began managing MMA fighters Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell.
While working as a manager, White learned that Semaphore Entertainment Group, the parent company of the UFC, was looking for a buyer for the UFC. White contacted childhood friend Lorenzo Fertitta, an executive at Station Casinos, and a former commissioner of the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Within a month, Lorenzo and his older brother Frank bought the UFC, with White installed as its president. White currently owns about 9% of Zuffa, LLC, the entity the Fertitta brothers created to own and manage the UFC.
Brock Edward Lesnar (/ˈlɛznər/; born July 12, 1977) is an American professional wrestler, actor, former mixed martial artist and amateur wrestler, signed with WWE and appearing on its Raw brand. He is also a former UFC Heavyweight Champion and former #1 ranked mixed martial arts (MMA) Heavyweight by Sherdog; he was ranked #5 before he announced his retirement at the end of 2011. Lesnar is an accomplished amateur wrestler, winning the 2000 NCAA heavyweight wrestling championship and placing second in 1999, losing in the finals to 1999 world freestyle wrestling champion and future New England Patriots offensive lineman Stephen Neal.
He gained prominence in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) from 2002 to 2004, where he is a former three-time WWE Champion, becoming the youngest WWE Champion at age 25 with his first reign. Lesnar was the 2002 King of the Ring and the winner of the 2003 Royal Rumble. After leaving WWE, Lesnar pursued a career in the NFL. He played during the preseason for the Minnesota Vikings, but ended up being a late cut. Lesnar returned to professional wrestling at the end of 2005, and joined New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), where he won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in his first match. He was officially stripped of the title by NJPW in July 2006, and took the physical belt with him to Inoki Genome Federation (IGF), where he was still recognized as IWGP Champion until June 2007.
Actors: Naeem Uzimann (actor), David Midgen (miscellaneous crew), Howard Samuelsohn (miscellaneous crew), Alan Heim (editor), Cameron Diaz (actress), Gine Lui (miscellaneous crew), Nick Cassavetes (director), Dawn Barkan (miscellaneous crew), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (actor), Aaron Zigman (composer), Don Johnson (actor), Christina Chow (miscellaneous crew), Deborah Twiss (actress), Nicki Minaj (actress), Andrew D. Cooke (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Trevor Clark Thalin (composer), Trevor Clark Thalin (producer), Trevor Clark Thalin (director), Trevor Clark Thalin (actor), Trevor Clark Thalin (writer), Trevor Clark Thalin (editor), Max Moran (actor), Lamar Clark (actor), Stephany Davis (actor), Michael Batchelder (actor), Tom Howard (producer), Tom Howard (actor), Curtis J. Hill (actor), Daniel Dow (producer), Michael Batchelder (producer),
Plot: The KiDS is about a group of teenagers that form a gang in their rural small town. At first it seemed harmless. Until the friends are considered a real threat to the local Baby Thunder Gang's turf. Tyler and his Father move into the neighborhood amongst the two gang's first rumble. Tyler is recruited to the KiDS Gang after joining in the fight. Tyler's initiation begins...
Keywords: gangstas, kids, rumbleActors: Sharon Stone (actress), Rosemary Howard (actress), Christopher Walken (actor), Alicia Silverstone (actress), John Turturro (actor), Alan Heim (editor), Naeem Uzimann (actor), Oliver Platt (actor), Edie Falco (actress), Phylicia Rashad (actress), Ajay Naidu (actor), Aasif Mandvi (actor), Arthur French (actor), Laurie Gershon (miscellaneous crew), Rosie Perez (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Rachel Starr (actress), Eric Schaeffer (writer), Eric Schaeffer (director), Eric Schaeffer (producer), Eric Schaeffer (actor), John Bianco (actor), Bill Weeden (actor), Bill Dawes (actor), Jordan Carlos (actor), Chip Hourihan (producer), Rafael Osorio (actor), Donal Lardner Ward (writer), Donal Lardner Ward (producer), Yury Tsykun (actor), Donal Lardner Ward (actor),
Plot: A decade and a half after their seminal indie film launched meteoric filmmaking careers, Splick and Jason find themselves staring at their own individual, pre-midlife crises. Having not spoken to one another since a late-nineties falling out, they're each grappling with the challenges of stalled careers and relationships, as the hands of time creep ominously past forty-o'clock. Splick's most recent TV show, centered around his character's perverse relationship with dessert foods, is unceremoniously cancelled by the network, forcing a return to his childhood bedroom at his mother's apartment in New York. Frustrated by a barrage of comments about the "good," "funny," movies he used to make with his old partner, Jason, Splick determines to seek him out and attempt a reunion.
Keywords: claim-in-titleActors: Eric Cole (editor), Eric Cole (writer), Eric Cole (director), Eric Cole (producer), Sam Coyle (actress), Lisa Zure (miscellaneous crew), Lisa Zure (producer), Lisa Zure (writer), Lisa Zure (director), Najat Arkadan (actor), Fanci Baez (actor), Jess Fritcha (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Brian Krause (actor), Arslane Merabet (writer), Arslane Merabet (director), Brian Tran (editor), Brian Tran (actor), Travis McFarland (actor), Nina Attaripour (producer), Aisha Holden (producer), Victor Moreno (actor), Adina Doria (actress), Tina Baltakian (actor), Paul Evans (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Short,Actors: Jack Wouterse (actor), Frank Klein (miscellaneous crew), San Fu Maltha (producer), Helmert Woudenberg (actor), Frans Kuijper (miscellaneous crew), J.P. Luijsterburg (editor), Marcel Musters (actor), Hadewych Minis (actress), Vincent van Warmerdam (composer), Jos van der Linden (producer), Klaas de Jong (producer), Mimoun Oaïssa (actor), Roeland Fernhout (actor), Ingrid Schagen (costume designer), Lynn van Eck (costume designer),
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: Danny Trejo (miscellaneous crew), Bill Conti (composer), F. Murray Abraham (actor), Eric Roberts (actor), Brett Cullen (actor), Stephen Polk (actor), Diane Durant (miscellaneous crew), Jeremy Kagan (director), Mia Sara (actress), Sherry Hursey (actress), Stoney Jackson (actor), Bob Anderson (miscellaneous crew), Michael Kriaris (miscellaneous crew), Troy Martin (actor), Christopher Rydell (actor),
Plot: A mysterious man, Suba, gets himself a job at a fencing academy, and as he learns the way of the students, the school, and its maestro, they learn that there's more to him than meets the eye. He gains (or regains?) his fencing skills and his philosophy of teaching clashes with the maestro's. As they are thrown into conflict, Suba and the maestro's past appear to be linked. And the resolution of their mysterious relationship may be a duel to the death.
Keywords: challenge, combat, competition, cult-film, dark-hero, disarming-someone, duel, fencing, fencing-school, fightActors: Paul Sorvino (actor), Paul Zaza (composer), L.Q. Jones (actor), Peter R. Simpson (producer), Don Johnson (actor), Glynnis O'Connor (actress), Pauline Harlow (miscellaneous crew), Marc Dassas (miscellaneous crew), Angela Heald (miscellaneous crew), Julie Whitfield (costume designer), Trudy Young (actress), Martha Gibson (actress), Rex Bromfield (director), Burton Cummings (actor), Gerry Arbeid (producer),
Plot: Melanie Daniel lives in a run down shack with her six-year old son Tyler in the rural community of Jasper, Arkansas, where she has lived all her life. Being illiterate, Melanie, in order to survive, depends on the money coming into the household from her husband, Carl, who is away in the military in California, who she hasn't seen in two years, and who she believes only married her because he got her pregnant. Believing that Tyler's life with Melanie is a dead end and that he potentially could end up illiterate like her, Carl, on his latest visit home, absconds with Tyler back to California. Melanie's motherly instinct kicks in and despite never having left Jasper and being ill-equipped to do so because of her illiteracy which she tries to hide from everyone, she takes a cross-country bus trip to get Tyler back. She arrives unannounced at the doorstep of her childhood friend Ronda. Ronda shares a house in the Hollywood hills with a musician named Rick, who is facing his own issues concerning dealing with his stalled career. Ronda, Rick and Rick's health conscious lawyer friend Walter all try to help Melanie, and believe the best way for her to get Tyler back and rid herself of her dependency on Carl is to take control of her own life, starting by learning how to read and write. In the process of Melanie trying to regain her and Tyler's collective lives, she may find some romantic happiness which has so far eluded her in her life with Carl. But Carl will not give Tyler up without a fight, even if it means killing Melanie.
Keywords: adult-illiteracy, child-custody, divorce, illiteracy, sunset-stripActors: Tom Selleck (actor), Sandy Ward (actor), Roger E. Mosley (actor), Richard Stahl (actor), Phyllis Davis (actress), Stephanie Rothman (writer), Stephanie Rothman (director), Albert Cole (actor), John A. O'Connor (editor), Jere Huggins (editor), Don Marshall (actor), Dirty Denny (actor), Marta Kristen (actress), James Whitworth (actor), Charles S. Swartz (producer),
Plot: In the wake of a Supreme Court decision to outlaw the death penalty, California passes an initiative that designates San Bruno island as a dumping spot for first-degree murder convicts, free to do what they like except leave. The main camp of convicts is controlled by the tyrannical Bobby, who rules with an iron hand, and the women are used as sex slaves. A.J. and a group of more free-minded murderers have escaped and gone into hiding. When A.J. and his men liberate the women from Bobby's custody, tensions mount to an all-out confrontation for control of the island.
Keywords: breasts, convict, escape-attempt, exploitation, female-nudity, female-prisoner, guard, honey-torture, independent-film, island