Sir Brian Rix, Baron Rix (born January 27, 1924) is a British actor and charity worker.
Born in Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, the son of a Hull shipowner,he became a professional actor, briefly, when he was 18. His wartime service began in the RAF, but he soon after volunteered to become a Bevin Boy, working instead as a coal miner.
After the war, Rix returned to the stage and in 1947 formed his own theatre company. Rix was associated with the Whitehall Theatre from 1944 until 1969, although as an actor-manager he became increasingly well known on TV as well as stage. The theatre specialised in farces, which were regularly televised. Rix was regularly seen on screen without his trousers on.
Rix's daughter Shelley was born in 1951 with Down's syndrome, and he has always used his name to promote public awareness and understanding of mental handicap. In 1980 he retired from acting, and became Secretary-General of the National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults (Mencap) (it became “The Royal Society” the following year) and in 1987 became its Chairman. Since 2002 the Society has been officially called the “Royal Mencap Society”, with Rix now serving as its President.
In 1977 he was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and was knighted in 1986 for his services to charity. In 1992 his tireless work was further recognised when he was created a life peer. After nine years as a Vice Lord Lieutenant of London, Lord Rix was installed as the first Chancellor of the University of East London on 16 July 1997.
His 2004 80th birthday marked the start of a year of fundraising and publicity for Mencap.
Rix's daughter Shelley passed away in July 2005, at the age of 53.
Rix has been associated with many initiatives, including presenting "Let's Go" for the BBC, which was one of the first programmes made specifically for people with learning disabilities. He is the author of two biographies, My Farce From My Elbow and Farce About Face, and two theatre histories, Tour de Farce and Life in the Farce Lane. He also edited, compiled and contributed to Gullible's Travails, an anthology, and travel stories by famous people for the Mencap Blue Sky Appeal.
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Brad Pitt
William Bradley Pitt, widely known as Brad Pitt (born December 18, 1963), is an American film actor.
He was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri. In high school Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student government and school musicals. He dropped out of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He was two credits shy of graduating with a Journalism degree, before trying his luck in Hollywood. Before he became successful at acting, Pitt supported himself by driving strippers in limos, moving refrigerators and dressing as a giant chicken while working for the restaurant chain El Pollo Loco.
He married actress Jennifer Aniston on July 29, 2000.
He was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1995 film Twelve Monkeys.
Pitt is often referenced to as one of the most attractive people in the world—or at least in the film business—and it is commonly recognised to refer to him in this context.
Selected filmography
Johnny Suede (1991)
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Cool World (1992)
A River Runs Through It (1992)
Kalifornia (1993)
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Legends Of The Fall (1994)
Se7en (1995)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Sleepers (1996)
The Devil's Own (1997)
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Fight Club (1999)
Snatch (2000)
The Mexican (2001)
Friends (2001 episode as Monica's friend)
Spy Game (2001)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Troy (2004)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2004)
Ocean's Twelve (2004)
Trivia
Like many A-List stars, Pitt won't do American commercials, but does commercials that are seen in Asia only, most notably for Edwin Jeans, the Toyota Altis, and Japanese canned coffee, ROOTS.
He was previously engaged to actress Gwyneth Paltrow, and dated actress Juliette Lewis.
He tore his Achilles tendon during the production of Troy, in which he plays, coincidentally, Achilles.
He sued Damiani International, the company which made the wedding ring he gave Jennifer Aniston, for selling replica "Brad and Jennifer" rings. According to Pitt, the ring was his design and was to be exclusive. Under the settlement reached in January 2002, Pitt will design jewelry for Damiani that Aniston will model in ads, and the company will stop selling the copies.
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Adam Sandler Biography
Adam Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, producer, musician and composer who was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire.
In the late 1980s, Sandler portrayed "Smitty" on The Cosby Show (1985-1989). He also was a writer for the MTV game show Remote Control, on which he made several featured appearances.
Sandler started performing in comedy clubs by spontaneously taking the stage at a club in Boston. He was then discovered by comedian Dennis Miller, who caught Sandler's act in Los Angeles. Miller immediately recommended Sandler to Saturday Night Live producer, Lorne Michaels. Sandler was hired as a writer for Saturday Night Live in 1990 and became a featured player the following year. Sandler quickly made a name for himself by performing amusing original songs on the show, including The Chanukah Song.
Sandler graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1991. On Sunday, June 22, 2003, he wed model Jackie Titone, whom he met on the set of Big Daddy. Sandler and Jackie Titone later worked together again in the Rob Schneider comedy Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, which Sandler executive-produced.
Selected Filmography
The Cosby Show (1985-1989)
Going Overboard (1989)
SNL (1990)
Shakes The Clown (1991)
Coneheads (1993)
Airheads (1994)
Billy Madison (1995), also written by Sandler
Happy Gilmore (1996), also written by Sandler
Bulletproof (1997)
Dirty Work (1998)
The Waterboy (1998), also written and produced by Sandler
The Wedding Singer, (1998)
Big Daddy, (1999), also screenplay written by and produced by Sandler
Little Nicky, (2000), also written and produced by Sandler
Mr. Deeds, (2002) also produced by Sandler, a remake of the Frank Capra film. Described by The Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw as "like watching a chimp trying to fashion a scale model of Michelangelo's David out of its own steaming ordure."
Punch-Drunk Love, (2002)
8 Crazy Nights, (2002), also written and produced by Sandler
Anger Management, (2003)
50 First Dates, (2004), also produced by Sandler
The Longest Yard, (2005)
Click, (2005)Thank you :
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Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867–April 9, 1959) was one of the most prominent architects of the first half of the 20th century.
He was born in the agricultural town of Richland Center, Wisconsin and brought up with strong Unitarian and transcendental principles. As a child he used to spend a lot of time playing with the Kindergarten educational blocks by Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (popularly known as Froebel's blocks) given by his mother. These consisted of various geometrically shaped blocks that could be assembled in various combinations to form three dimensional compostions.
Wright in his autobiography talks about the influence of these exercises on his approach to design. Many of his buildings are notable for the geometrical clarity they exhibit.
Wright commenced his formal education in 1885 at the University of Wisconsin School for Engineering, where he was a member of a fraternity, Phi Delta Theta. He took classes part time for two years while apprenticing under Allen Conover, a local builder and professor of civil engineering. In 1887, Wright left the university without taking a degree (although he was granted an honorary doctorate of fine arts from the university in 1955) and moved to Chicago, where he joined the architectural firm of Joseph Lyman Silsbee. Within the year, he had left Silsbee to work for the firm of Adler and Sullivan. Beginning in 1890, he was assigned all residential design work for the firm. In 1893, after a falling out that probably concerned the work he had taken on outside the office, Wright left Adler and Sullivan to establish his own practice in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, IL. He had completed around fifty projects by 1901.
Between 1901 and 1911, his residential designs were "Prairie Houses" (extended low buildings with shallow sloping roofs, clean sky lines, suppressed chimneys, overhangs and terraces, using unadorned natural materials), so called because the design is considered to complement the land around Chicago. Wright also played a significant role in "open plan" ideas for residential interiors and he came to regard interior space as a more significant part of his designs. He believed that humanity should be central to all design.
He designed his own home-studio complex, called Taliesin (after the 6th century Welsh poet, whose name means literally 'shining brow'), which was built near Spring Green, Wisconsin in 1911. The complex was a distinctive low one-storey L-shaped structure with views over a lake on one side and Wright's studio on the opposite side. Taliesin was twice destroyed by fire; the current building there is called Taliesin III. The first time it burned, seven people were killed, including Wright's mistress, Mamah Borthwick, and her two children (by her husband Edwin Cheney).
He visited Japan, first in 1905, and Europe (1909), opening a Tokyo office in 1915. In the 1930s Wright designed his winter retreat in Arizona, called Taliesin West; the retreat, like much of Wright's architecture, blends organically with the surrounding landscape.
Wright is responsible for a concept or a series of extremely original concepts of suburban development united under the term Broadacre City. He proposed the idea in his book The Disappearing City in 1932, and unveiled a very large (about 12 by 12 feet) model of this community of the future, showing it in several venues in the following years. He went on developing the idea until his death.
It was also in the 1930s that Wright designed many of his "Usonian" houses—essentially designs for working-class people that were based on a simple geometry, yet elegantly done and practical. He would later use such designs in his First Unitarian Meeting House built in Madison, Wisconsin between 1947-1950.
His most famous house was constructed from 1935 to 1939—Fallingwater for E.J. Kaufmann at Bear Run, Pennsylvania, which was designed according to Wright's desire to place the occupants close to the natural surroundings, with a stream running under part of the building. The construction is a series of cantilevered balconies and terraces, using stone for all verticals and concrete for the horizontals. The house cost $155,000, including the architect's fee of $80,000. Kaufmann's own engineers argued that the design was not sound. They were overruled, but they were later proven to be correct—the cantilevered floors began to sag shortly afterwards. In the late 1990s, steel supports were added under the lowest cantilever, until a detailed structural analysis could be done. In March of 2002, post-tensioning of the lowest terrace was completed.
Wright practiced what is known as organic architecture, an architecture that evolves naturally out of the context, most importantly for him the relationship between the site and the building.
One of his projects, Monona Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin, was completed in 1997 on the original proposed site, using Wright's original design for the exterior with an interior design by his apprentice Tony Puttnam. Monona Terrace was accompanied by controversy reminiscent of Wright's own life, partly involving the authenticity of the combined interior and exterior designs, and partly due to the covering-up of a locally-venerated roadside mural.
Wright's personal life was a colorful one that frequently made news headlines. He married three times. His third (and last) wife was Olgivanna Hinzenberg (née Olgivanna Ivanovna Lazovich), who had been a student of G. I. Gurdjieff who came to visit the couple at Taliesin. The meeting of Gurdjieff and Wright is explored in Robert Lepage's The Geometry Of Miracles.
Wright died on April 9, 1959, having designed an enormous number of significant projects including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, a building which occupied him for 16 years (1943–1959) and is probably his most recognized masterpiece. The building rises as a white spiral from its site on Fifth Avenue. Its unique central geometry allows visitors to experience temporary exhibits on the slowly-descending central spiral ramp.
Many speculate that the character of Howard Roark, an architect in Ayn Rand's book The Fountainhead, is based, at least in part, on Frank Lloyd Wright. Rand herself, however, denied this.
His son Frank Lloyd Wright Jr., known as Lloyd Wright, was also a notable architect.
Other works
Winslow House, near River Forest, IL, 1894
Ward W. Willits House, Highland Park, IL, 1901
Susan Lawrence Dana House, The Dana-Thomas House Springfield, IL, 1902 - 1904
The Dana-Thomas House, Springfield, Illinois
Dwight D. Martin House, Buffalo NY, 1904
Unity Temple, Oak Park, IL, 1906
Avery Coonley House, Riverside, IL, 1907
Frederick C. Robie House, Chicago, IL, 1909
Imperial Hotel (mostly demolished), originally Tokyo, Japan, 1915, lobby and pool reconstructed in 1976 in at Meji Village, near Nagoya, Japan
Aline Barnsdall House Hollyhock House, Los Angeles, CA, 1917
Charles Ennis House, Los Angeles, CA, 1923
Johnson Wax Headquarters, Racine, Wisconsin, 1936
Paul R. Hanna House, (Honeycomb House), Stanford, CA, begun 1936
Herbert F. Johnson House (Wingspread), Wind Point, WI, 1937
V.C. Morris Gift Shop, San Francisco, CA, 1948
Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 1952
Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, CA, 1957-1966, (featured in the movie Gattaca)Thank you :
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