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Segal, and its variants including Segel and some families with Siegel, is a primarily Jewish family name.
The name Segal has been said to be derived either from Hebrew segan leCohen (assistant to the Cohens) although a minority of sources claim that "Segal" is an abbreviation for segan le-kehunah (assistant to the priest) instead. However, early appearances of the name as šēgal or šāgal in Palmyrene inscriptions suggest these are folk etymologies and its ultimately derivation is as a loanword from the Assyrian title 𒊩𒂍𒃲 issu ēkalli > (is)sēkalli "queen" (literally "palace woman"), borrowed from Akkadian into Aramaic and Hebrew as the divine and personal name שֵׁגַ֥ל, including in the Hebrew Bible (e.g. Psalm 45:9).
Notable people with the surname include the following:
Steven Frederic Seagal (born April 10, 1952) is an American actor, film producer, screenwriter, film director, martial artist, Aikido instructor, musician, reserve deputy sheriff and entrepreneur.
A 7th-dan black belt in Aikido, Seagal began his adult life as a martial arts instructor in Japan; becoming the first foreigner to operate an Aikido dojo in the country. He later moved to Los Angeles, California, where he worked as a martial arts instructor on Never Say Never Again; accidentally breaking actor Sean Connery's wrist during production. In 1988, Seagal made his acting debut in Above the Law. By 1991, he had starred in four successful films. He achieved further fame in 1992, when he played Navy SEALs counter-terrorist expert Casey Ryback in Under Siege. However, On Deadly Ground (in 1994) and Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (in 1995) were less successful at the box office. During the latter half of the 1990s, Seagal starred in three more theatrical films and the direct-to-video film The Patriot. Since that time, with the exception of Exit Wounds (in 2001) and Half Past Dead (in 2002), his career has shifted almost entirely to direct-to-video productions. From 1998 to 2014, Seagal appeared in a total of 27 of these. At the age of 58, he returned to prominence as Torrez in the 2010 film Machete; his first widely released film since 2002. Intermittently between 2009 and 2013, he filmed three seasons of his reality show Steven Seagal: Lawman, which depicted Seagal performing his duties as a reserve deputy sheriff in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana (season 1–2) and Maricopa County, Arizona (season 3). He also created and starred in two seasons of the undercover police drama series True Justice between 2011 and 2012.
Actors: Daniel Duval (actor), Kad Merad (actor), Eric Naggar (actor), Dominique Farrugia (producer), Francis Renaud (actor), Laurent Claret (actor), David Giordano (producer), Cyril Colbeau-Justin (producer), Jean-Baptiste Dupont (producer), Pierre Laplace (actor), Nicholas Simmons (actor), Justin Dec (miscellaneous crew), Mélanie Doutey (actress), Giovanni Rodriguez (miscellaneous crew), Nathalie Levy-Lang (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Romance,Actors: Ariel Zeitoun (producer), Pascal Elbé (actor), Fabien Pondevaux (miscellaneous crew), Ariel Zeitoun (director), Romuald Drault (miscellaneous crew), Ariel Zeitoun (writer), Gilles Lellouche (actor), Patrick Boshart (miscellaneous crew), Pierre-Ange Le Pogam (producer), Patrick Descamps (actor), Wilfred Benaïche (actor), Philippe Letode (miscellaneous crew), Michel Boujenah (actor), Grégory Gadebois (actor), Sami Bouajila (actor),
Plot: From smalltime hoodlums in the tough Belleville neighborhood to headline-grabbing robbers of the swankiest banks in Paris, for Simon and his gang, the only way was up. Capable of emptying a series of vaults from under the noses of the police, who can only marvel at the gangs quiet audacity, how long will this bunch of inseparable friends be able to avoid a bloody shootout, stand the boredom of exile in the sun, and keep romance in their lives while still on the run?
Keywords: male-frontal-nudity, male-nudityActors: Jürgen Holtz (actor), Menashe Noy (actor), Sasson Gabai (actor), Tzahi Grad (actor), Dror Keren (actor), Jenya Dodina (actress), Dov Stoyer (editor), Ari Folman (director), Ari Folman (writer), Joe El Dror (actor), Igor Mirkurbanov (actor), Efrat Ben-Zur (actress), Berry Sakharof (composer), Rani Blair (actor), Anat Asulin (producer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Jeff Sackman (producer), Mark L. Lester (director), Mark L. Lester (producer), C. Thomas Howell (actor), Brent Huff (actor), Roger Bellon (composer), Eric Roberts (actor), Eric Roberts (actor), Cole S. McKay (actor), Bob Bragg (actor), Robert Miano (actor), Paul Parducci (actor), Damian Chapa (actor), Lori Grabowski (miscellaneous crew), Christopher Roth (editor),
Plot: A former mob hitman, now in witness protection, is forced to come out of retirement when his family is threatened by his cohorts. He teams up with a skateboarding kid, who has a computer disk that the mob wants to get their hands on that has a list of new names for individuals in the FBI witness protection program. The list includes his dad, who separated from his mother years before and hadn't been seen since.
Keywords: disk, fbi, hitman, independent-film, mob, witness-protection-programActors: Marek Rozenbaum (producer), Avi Kleinberger (producer), Eyal Shiray (actor), Eitan Green (director), Eitan Green (writer), Chaim Banai (actor), Michal Zoharetz (actress), Adi Renart (composer), Icho Avital (actor), Guy Garner (actor), Ava Haddad (actress), Baruch David (actor), Zmira Hershkovitz (costume designer), Danny Roth (actor), Eh'ra Lappid (editor),
Genres: Drama, Sport,Actors: Avi Lerner (producer), Ron Smerczak (actor), Ovidio G. Assonitis (producer), Ken Gampu (actor), James Booth (actor), Stuart Wentzel (miscellaneous crew), Robin Smith (actor), Michael Dudikoff (actor), Anthony Fridjohn (actor), Anthony Fridjohn (actor), Claudio M. Cutry (editor), Kely McClung (actor), Kely McClung (actor), Gideon Amir (writer), Avi Kleinberger (writer),
Plot: CIA agent Sean Davidson and his sidekick Carl are sent into the stronghold of sadistic British ex-soldier Mulgrew to rescue some Delta Force commandoes who have been captured and tortured. When Sean, Carl and pretty doctor Sarah run into some problems, Peace Corps vet Joe Armstrong is lured out of retirement to stop Mulgrew's plan to explode a nuclear device in New York City.
Keywords: ak-47, american-ninja, arms-tied-overhead, arrow-catching, axe, bar-brawl, bar-fight, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, battleActors: Carroll O'Connor (producer), Ted Gehring (actor), Ron Masak (actor), Eddie Quillan (actor), Gailard Sartain (actor), Robert Klane (writer), Sam Chew Jr. (actor), Bruce Bilson (director), John Reilly (actor), Terry Becker (producer), Ronald Rubin (producer), Ronald Rubin (writer), Bernard M. Kahn (writer), Bob Brown (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Kurt Wilhelm (director), Kurt Sowinetz (actor), Hans Zander (actor), Kurt Zips (actor), Rolf A. Wilhelm (composer), Max Strassberg (actor), Edgar Wenzel (actor), Wolf Harnisch (actor), Harry Engel (actor), Robert Klupp (actor), Otto Friebel (actor), Mordecai Richler (writer), Fritz Benscher (actor), Peter Bollag (actor), Selma Urfer (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Harry Lauter (actor), Herbert Lytton (actor), Robert Burton (actor), Lyle Latell (actor), Donald Kerr (actor), Michael Jeffers (actor), Phil Arnold (actor), John Crawford (actor), John Doucette (actor), Charles Cane (actor), Douglas Evans (actor), Willis Bouchey (actor), Glenn Ford (actor), John Close (actor), Mike Mahoney (actor),
Plot: Dave Bannion is an upright but unscrupulous cop on the trail of a vicious gang he suspects holds power over the police force. Bannion is tipped off after a colleague's suicide and his fellow officers' suspicious silence lead him to believe that they are on the gangsters' payroll. When a bomb meant for him kills his wife instead, Bannion becomes a furious force of vengeance and justice, aided along the way by the gangster's spurned girlfriend Debbie. As Bannion and Debbie fall further and further into the Gangland's insidious and brutal trap, they must use any means necessary (including murder) to get to the truth.
Keywords: anonymous-telephone-call, arm-twisted, b-girl, balcony, bandage, bar, barmaid, bartender, based-on-novel, bedHey, this is radio station W S K E E
We're takin' calls on the wish line
Making all your wacky wishes come true
Hello
I wish I was little bit taller
I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a girl who looked good
I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
And a six four Impala
I wish I was like six-foot-nine
So I can get with Leoshi
'Cause she don't know me but yo, she's really fine
You know I see her all the time
Everywhere I go and even in my dreams
I can scheme a way to make her mine
'Cause I know she's livin' phat
Her boyfriend's tall and he plays ball
So how am I gonna compete with that
'Cause when it comes to playing basketball
I'm always last to be picked
And in some cases never picked at all
So I just lean up on the wall
Or sit up in the bleachers with the rest of the girls
Who came to watch their men ball
Dag y'all, I never understood, black
Why the jocks get the fly girls
And me I get the hood rats
I tell 'em scat, skittle, scabobble
Got hit with a bottle
And I been in the hospital
For talkin' that mess
I confess it's a shame when you livin' in a city
That's the size of a box and nobody knows yo' name
Glad I came to my senses
Like quick, quick got sick, sick to my stomach
Overcommeth by the thoughts of me and her together
Right? So when I asked her out she said, I wasn't her type
I wish I was little bit taller
I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a girl who looked good
I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
And a six four Impala
I wish I was little bit taller
I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a girl who looked good
I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
And a six four Impala
I wish I had a brand-new car
So far, I got this hatchback
And everywhere I go, yo I gets laughed at
And when I'm in my car I'm laid back
I got an 8-track and a spare tire in the backseat
But that's flat and do you really wanna know
What's really whack, see I can't even get a date
So, what do you think of that?
I heard that prom night is a bomb night
With the hood rats you can hold tight
But really tho' I 'm a figaro
When I'm in my car, I can't even get a hello
Well, so many people wanna cruise Crenshaw on Sunday
Well, then I'ma have to get in my car and go
You know I take the 110 until the 105
Get off at Crenshaw tell my homies look alive
'Cause it's hard to survive when your livin'
In a concrete jungle
And these girls just keep passin' me by
She looks fly, she looks fly
Makes me say my, my, my
I wish I was little bit taller
I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a girl who looked good
I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
And a six four Impala
I wish I was little bit taller
I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a girl who looked good
I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
And a six four Impala
I wish I was a little bit taller
I wish I was a baller
I wish I was a little bit taller y'all
I wish I was a baller
I wish I was a baller
I wish I was a baller
Hey, I wish I had my way
'Cause everyday would be a Friday
You could even speed on the highway
I would play ghetto games
Name my kids ghetto names
Little Mookie, big Al, Lorraine
Yo you know that's on the real
So if you're down on your luck
Then you should notice how I feel
'Cause if you don't want me around
See I go simple, I go easy, I go greyhound
Hey, you, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down
Ah, yes, ain't that fresh?
Everybody wants to get down like dat
I wish I was little bit taller
I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a girl who looked good
I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
And a six four Impala
I wish I was little bit taller
I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a girl who looked good
I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
And a six four Impala