Early Life Sam Raimi was born Samuel Marshall Raimi on October 23, 1959, in Royal Oak, Michigan. He grew up in a Conservative Jewish household with mother Celia, father Leonard, sister Andrea, and brothers Ted, Ivan, and Sander. Sadly, Sander drowned at the age of 15, and Sam has said that his brother’s death has “colored everything he’s done for the rest of his life.” Sander was the person who first introduced Sam to “Spider-Man,” leading to Raimi’s love of comics....
Often nicknamed Captain Coyote, Doan is beloved by the team’s fans for his loyalty and tenacity on the ice. He is a two-time NHL All-Star in 2004 and 2009, won the King Clancy Memorial Trophy in 2010, and the Mark Messier Leadership Award in 2012. Doan has four children with his wife, Andrea, and lives in the Phoenix area. He is a practicing Christian. In 2011, he and his brother were featured on the hit series “Mantracker”....
Little and Large would go on to have a very successful television career spanning 20 years. They got their first television series in 1977 and it lasted for 14 years, ending in 1991. After the show was cancelled, Little did not appear much. In 2005 he was featured on the reality TV series Trust Me I’m A Holiday rep. Syd and his wife Sheree opened The “Little” Restaurant in Fleetwood, Lancashire in 2012....
Soon after publishing this article, a reader correctly pointed out that Paul McCartney and Oprah Winfrey were missing from our original list. McCartney won as a Beatle in 1971 for the song “Let it Be,” from the movie of the same title, and Oprah was given a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2011. Here are some more interesting facts we learned from our list of the richest Oscar winners: Richest Oscar Winners Fun Facts:...
Will the game break the Super Bowl record for combined quarterback passing yards? If you’re a fan of shootouts, this is the bet for you. The odds of “yes” happening are at 3/2. The all-time combined record involved the New England Patriots, in fact; they and the Carolina Panthers combined for 649 passing yards in Super Bowl XXXVIII. During the regular season, Matt Ryan averaged 309 passing yards per game, and Tom Brady averaged just over 296....
Tom Brady is one of the best quarterbacks of all time, arguably the best of his generation. Brady has won three Super Bowls, two Super Bowl MVP awards, eight Pro Bowl selections and two NFL MVP titles (his 2010 MVP was a unanimous decision). He will also become a free agent at the end of the 2014 season. As a super star free agent, Tom Brady has every ability to seek out an enormous new contract from every team in the league that can afford him....
He was also tight ends coach for the Dallas Cowboys from 2003 to 2004 and then became offensive line coach and running game coordinator for the Cowboys from 2005 to 2005. In 2007 Sparano became assistant head coach and offensive line coach in Dallas. He got his first NFL head coaching job with the Miami Dolphins from 2008 to 2011. In 2012 he became offensive coordinator for the New York Jets....
Tatarko is a native of Tel Aviv who worked in a small boutique investment firm. Houzz has raised more than $48 million in funding and has over 130 employees. Houzz has over 40 million active monthly users. Tatarko was ranked #46 on the inaugural Forbes list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women in 2015. As of 2018, the value of her business had increased to $ billion which pushed her net worth to $430 million....
Via his nonprofit foundation, Warrick Dunn Charities, Dunn just provided his 139th home to a single mom. Dunn started the Homes for the Holidays (HFTH) program in 1997 and Warrick Dunn Charities (WDC) in 2002. The program helps single parent families achieve the dream of home ownership. Families are chosen through a partnership with Habitat for Humanity affiliates. Each family receives down-payment assistance and a fully furnished home. As of September, 2015, HFTH and WDC have helped 139 single parents and their children in Atlanta, Dunn’s hometown of Baton Rouge, Tampa, and Tallahassee....
As a really quick background, Johnny filed a defamation lawsuit against Amber in response to an Op-ed she published in the Washington Post in 2018 in which she described being abused by an ex. Depp’s legal team is suing Amber in Virginia, where the Post is published, claiming that even though he was not named in the Op-ed, the implication was obvious and caused serious damage to his career and earning potential....
The Hill reports that during his speech Obama went on to say that a person of his wealth or even much greater riches should be more than happy to be taxed at higher marginal rates in order to help those less fortunate: “There’s only so much you can eat. There’s only so big a house you can have. There’s only so many nice trips you can take … I mean, it’s enough....
Early Life Billy Corgan was born William Patrick Corgan, Jr. on March 17, 1967, in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. He attended Glenbard North High School and decided to start playing guitar after seeing a Flying V at a friend’s house. Corgan then gave his savings to his father, who subsequently bought him a used Les Paul knock-off, which Billy taught himself to play. Corgan’s musical influences during these years were John Cale, Black Sabbath, Queen, and other mainstream rock acts....
The world’s largest crypto exchange is an entity called Bitcoiva, which I had literally never heard of until 10 minutes ago. Bitcoiva facilitated a mind-numbing $37 billion worth of crypto assets in the last 24 hours. I know nothing about Bitcoiva, and this article is not about Bitcoiva. This article is about the founder of the world’s second-largest crypto exchange: Binance. In the last 24 hours, Binance facilitated $23 billion worth of crypto trades....
Early Life Caroline Rhea was born Caroline Gilchrist Rhea on April 13, 1964, in Westmount, Quebec, Canada. She is the daughter of obstetrician Margery Rhea and gynecologist David Rhea. Caroline has two older sisters, Celia and Cynthia. She attended the all-girls private school The Study, followed by Nova Scotia’s Dalhousie University, and the University of Arizona. Career After moving to New York City in 1986 to study acting and stand-up comedy at the New School for Social Research, Rhea began to make a name for herself on the comedy circuit and went on to perform stand-up as part of MTV’s “Half-Hour Comedy Hour” and “Comic Strip Live....
Baker also appeared in episodes of the TV series Tales from the Crypt, Murder, She Wrote, L.A. Law, Chicago Hope, and Roswell. She won a Golden Globe Award in 1957 for Most Promising Newcomer and was nominated for an Academy Award the same year. Baker was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 at 1725 Vine Street.
Jamie Kennedy Kennedy was performing a stand-up comedy set at the Houston Improv and decided to go for drinks after the show. While a friend was taking a picture of him outside, an out of control car flew into the air and hit the curb. The car was smoking and Kennedy helped pull out two women who were bleeding. The comedian left the scene before the ambulance arrived and the only way he was linked to the good deed was by paparazzi photos and videos....
He won a Colirio Capricho MTV Brasil Award in 2011 and a Premio Jovem Brasiileiro Award for DJ Brazilian Favorite in 2015. In 2017 Chris Leão was named a top 50 DJ by House MAG. He was worked with other artists including Allexis, Geminix, Kary, Ferrero, Bing Man, Thales, and Davlis on the singles “The Bad Touch”, “Why Can’t You”, “Taska Fuego”, “Black Pearl”, “On and On”, “From Here to the World”, “System Shock”, “Pingdown”, and “Burst”....
Meadowlark Media After leaving ESPN in early 2021, Le Batard founded the production company Meadowlark Media with some friends, including former ESPN President John Skipper. The company went on to sign a first-look deal with Apple TV+ to produce unscripted series and documentaries, as well as a deal with Skydance Sports to produce unscripted sports media. Among Meadowlark’s projects are the soccer docuseries “Good Rivals” and the documentary film “Mighty Penguins,” about a London-based amateur football team consisting of players with Down syndrome....
Backes has played his entire NHL career for the Blues since 2006. He also represents the United States in international competition and won a Silver Medal at the 2010 Olympic Games. In 2010 he signed a five year deal with St. Louis for $22.5 million. Backes got his private pilot’s license in 2012.
He released the album Future Development in 1997 and the album Both Sides of the Brain in 2000. His album Eleventh Hour was released in 2008 and also reached #1 on the US Heatseekers chart. He also released the albums Funk Man (The Stimulus Package), Automatik Statik, It Ain’t Illegal Yet, Golden Era, Root Situation, and Iller Than Most. One of his best known collaborations was as part of the Gorillaz on their self-titled album in 2001....
