The full name of EPUB is Electronic Publication while the full name of MOBI is Mobipocket.
EPUB is an open standard format developed by International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) which is a global trade and standards organization while MOBI was developed originally by Mobipocket SA which is a French company incorporated in March 2000 for MobiPocket Reader which was later purchased by Amazon in 2005.
EPUB supports inline raster and vector images, metadata, and CSS styling.
EPUB can adjusts its size to suit different screens while MOBI is suitable for smaller screens because of an image file limit of 64K.
EPUB has a small file size while a MOBI is twice the size of an EPUB file.
EPUB has a file extension of .epub while a MOBI either has a .prc or .mobi file extensions.
MOBI and EPUB can display reflowable file content and fixed width layout.
MOBI has digital rights management (DRM) protection embedded on its file preventing it to be shared easily due to plagiarism issues while EPUB does not have digital rights management (DRM) so that it can be easily shared.
MOBI is a proprietary Ebook software of Amazon limiting its usage for Kindle books while EPUB is an open source software created by the International Digital Publishing Forum which can be read on almost all devices.
MOBI is created by taking an EPUB file, renaming, zipping, and extracting and using kindlegen.exe which is a proprietary Amazon program while an EPUB is created by placing all these files in a directory, namely a package .xml file, an OPF file, and XHTML content files, and then zipping all of it and using the .epub. filename extension.
You can use this link http://mobi2epub.com/ if you want to convert your MOBI ebooks to EPUB ebook format.
You can use this link http://ebook.online-convert.com/convert-to-epub to convert you files to EPUB format as well as several other ebook format.
Ike Lozada was born on 13 August 1940 in Iloilo City, Philippines.
His full name is Enrique Lozada and is also known as "Big Ike", "Kuya Ike", and "Iking".
He is also known as "Dambuhalang DJ"
Ike Lozada started acting at the age of 11 on the movie Mga Bituin ng Kinabukasan with the younger Susan Roces.
He was an associate producer on the 1995 movie "Hatulan Bilibid Boys 2".
He was a choreographer on the 1969 movie "Fiesta extravaganza"
He appeared as himself in the 1975 documentary "Memories of Our Love"
"Apat na Sikat” of Channel 9 in the 70s was borne out of the imagination of the late Ike Lozada which were composed of Arnold and Maribel “Lala” Aunor, Winnie Santos and Dondon Nakar.
He was 54 years old when he died and his remains were laid to rest at the Manila Memorial Park in Parañaque City.
Ike Lozada died on 8 March 1995 at around 8:25 PM, specifically he "died of secondary to massive biocardiac arrest" according to Dr. Carlos Lagman
He had 180 credited movie appearances during his lifetime.
His television shows included :
Big Ike's Happening (Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation, 1973–1984)
Iza Calzado was born on 12 August 1982 in Quezon City, Philippines.
Her birth name is Maria Izadora Ussher Calzado.
Her father is the reknowned choreographer and TV director, Lito Calzado and her mother was the late Mary Ann "Antonia" Ussher who was a Spanish-Filipina ancestry. Her father married her stepmother Myrna after the latter passed away.
She has a brother named Dash who is a member of a Filipino rap group, Legit Misfitz.
Iza Calzado spent her elementary days at School of the Holy Spirit; her high school years in Miriam College; and took up an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas.
Iza Calzado was a voice dubber for the Venezuelan telenovela, "Mis 3 Hermanas" known as "All My Love" in the Philippines, before she became known in the movie industry.
Iza Calzado starred in her first soap opera, "Te Amo, Maging Sino Ka Man" with Argentinean actor, Segundo Cernadas, as her partner.
In 2010, Iza Calzado made her first two-piece bikini TV appearance in the TV series, "Beauty Queen" with TJ Trinidad as her leading man.
Her first TV comedy show was in GMA's "I Heart You, Pare!" and her last appearance in GMA was in the TV sitcom, "Andres de Saya". She was in GMA from 2001 to 2011.
She appeared in her first TV drama series in ABS-CBN's "Kahit Puso'y Masugatan". She is currently an ABS-CBN contract star which started on 2012.
She won her first "Best Supporting Actress" award from the 28th Gawad Urian Awards in 2004 for her role in the movie "Milan" with a total of 11 wins and 13 nominations showing her prowess as an actress.
The 2017 movie "Bliss" was her first ever X-rated film as reviewed by the MTRCB.
On 11 August 1973, DJ Kool Herc was the DJ at his sister's back-to-school party. He extended the beat of a record by using two record players, isolating the percussion "breaks" by using a mixer to switch between the two records. Herc's experiments with making music with record players became what we now know as breaking or "scratching".
DJ Kool Herc - Clive Campbell, called a "founding father of hip hop"
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five - were an American hip hop group formed in the South Bronx of New York City in 1976. Composed of one DJ (Grandmaster Flash) and five rappers (Melle Mel, The Kidd Creole, Keith Cowboy, Mr. Ness/Scorpio, and Rahiem), the group's use of turntablism, break-beat deejaying, and conscious lyricism were significant in the early development of hip hop music.
Fab Five Freddy - Fred Brathwaite, In the late 1980s, Fab 5 Freddy became the first host of the groundbreaking and first internationally telecast hip-hop music video show Yo! MTV Raps.
Marley Marl - Marlon Williams, he is credited with influencing a number of Hip Hop icons such as RZA, DJ Premier, and Pete Rock.
Afrika Bambaataa - Kevin Donovan, he is notable for releasing a series of genre-defining electro tracks in the 1980s that influenced the development of hip hop culture. Afrika Bambaataa is one of the originators of breakbeat DJing and is respectfully known as "The Godfather" and "Amen Ra of Hip Hop Kulture", as well as the father of electro funk. Through his co-opting of the street gang the Black Spades into the music and culture-oriented Universal Zulu Nation, he has helped spread hip hop culture throughout the world.
Kool Moe Dee - Mohandas Dewese, he was one of the first rappers to earn a Grammy Award and was the first rapper to perform at the Grammys.
Kurtis Blow - Kurtis Walker, he is the first commercially successful rapper and the first to sign with a major record label. "The Breaks", a single from his 1980 self-titled debut album, is the first certified gold record rap song. Throughout his career he has released 15 albums and is currently an ordained minister.
Doug E. Fresh - Douglas E. Davis, is a Barbadian born American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer, also known as the Human Beat Box. The pioneer of 20th-century American beatboxing, Fresh is able to accurately imitate drum machines and various special effects using only his mouth, lips, gums, throat, tongue and a microphone.
Whodini - The Brooklyn, New York-based trio consisted of vocalist and main lyricist Jalil Hutchins; co-vocalist John Fletcher, a.k.a. Ecstasy (who wore a Zorro-style hat as his trademark); and turntable artist DJ Drew Carter, a.k.a. Grandmaster Dee.
Warp 9 - a science fiction themed electro-funk and hip hop trio, best known for their influential singles "Nunk," "Light Years Away," and "Beat Wave," ranks among the most iconic groups of the electro hip hop era. Described as the "perfect instance of hip hop's contemporary ramifications," Warp 9 was the brainchild of writer-producers Lotti Golden and Richard Scher. The duo wrote and recorded under the moniker Warp 9, a production project at the forefront of the electro movement. Warp 9 evolved from a studio concept into a band when Prism Records expressed interest in releasing Nunk as a single. Golden & Scher invited drummer Chuck Wansley and percussionist Boe Brown to perform the male vocals and rhymes. Later, a female vocalist was added to the group; Ada Dyre performed vocals and rhymes for Warp 9's second single, "Light Years Away." The group released two albums, It's a Beat Wave (1983), (Island Records), a street themed testament exploring the topics of science fiction, hip hop and mixing, and Fade In, Fade Out (Motown), (1986), a soul R&B oriented montage.
The Fat Boys - The group was briefly known originally as the Disco 3 and the members, namely Mark Morales a.k.a. "Prince Markie Dee", Damon Wimbley a.k.a. "Kool Rock-Ski", and Darren Robinson a.k.a. "Buff Love" a.k.a. "The Human Beat Box" (June 10, 1967 – December 10, 1995)
Spoonie Gee - Gabriel Jackson, he has been credited with originating the term hip hop and some of the themes in his music were precursors of gangsta rap.
Gary Valenciano was born on 6 August 1964 in Santa Mesa,
Manila as Edgardo Jose "Gary" Santiago Valenciano.
Gary Valenciano is the sixth of seven children of Vicente
Calacas Valenciano, a Bicolano from Camalig, Albay and Grimilda Santiago y
Olmo, a Puerto Rican from Arecibo.
Gary Valenciano is also known as Gary V. and Mr. Pure Energy.
Gary Valenciano has released 39 albums, and won the Awit Awards (Song Awards) for
"Best Male Performer" twelve times.
Gary Valenciano is married to
María Anna Elizabeth "Angeli" Pangilinan, with whom he has three
children: Paolo Valenciano (vocalist of the band Salamin, and is married
to Samantha Godinez) with a grandchild Nataleia Martine, José Angelo
Gabriel Valenciano (singer, keyboardist, dancer, and is married to Tricia
Centenera) and Kristiana María Mikaela (model-turned-singer).
Gary Valenciano is a diabetic,
just like his mother Grimilda who is also diabetic.
He first appeared as a solo
artist in 1982 in the television programme, The Pilita and Jackie Show,
and later in Germspesyal and Penthouse Live.
He had his first solo concert
in April 1984 at the Araneta Coliseum, followed by a number of albums.
Gary Valenciano is personally managed by his wife Angeli
Pangilinan-Valenciano and sister Gina Valenciano-Martinez of Manila
Genesis Entertainment and Management, Inc.
In 1978, at 14 years old, Valenciano made his first
television appearance in an advertisement for local soft-drink, (defunct)
Fress Gusto.
First artist in the world to have a Sennheiser Special
Edition microphone named after him - Sennheiser Evolution Series 2001.
First & current UNICEF National Ambassador of Goodwill in
the Philippines from 1998–present.
Keep in mind that fear of speaking in public is an almost universal condition. One of the most effective ways to overcome the nervousness that every new public speaker experiences is careful preparation. Don’t try to talk off the top of your head—it won’t work. Always limit your talks to material you are thoroughly familiar with and organize your material carefully. That will boost your confidence and help overcome your nervousness.
2. Always have a point
Every successful speech has a point. When you are planning your talk, ask yourself what is the major point you want to make to your audience. If you can’t summarize the point of your talk in two or three sentences you run the risk of rambling—a sure turnoff for every audience.
Then, concentrate solely on the point you want to make and not on your own anxieties.
3. Use a “narrative hook”
Successful magazine and book writers use a technique known as the narrative hook. That’s a literary technique used in the very first paragraph of a story that “hooks” the reader’s attention so that they will keep reading. The technique works equally well in the opening of a public presentation. An opening that hooks the audience into wanting to know what is coming next is a surefire way to get their attention. Your hook might be a challenging question to the audience, a dramatic, controversial, or unexpected statement—anything that will capture the audience’s attention. Whatever you use, make sure it is directly related to the point of your presentation.
4. Get comfortable with your surroundings
Professional speakers know the importance of arriving early to size up the room and the speaker’s lectern. Don’t be hesitant to make your needs known in advance. If you arrive expecting a lapel microphone and you find a fixed or handheld mike, it may be too late to change.
5. Greet as many members of the audience as you can before your talk
Learn as much as possible about them. It’s easier and more comfortable to talk with a group of acquaintances than with strangers. One well-known speaker says she likes to mentally picture her audience as her “guests.”
6. Make eye contact
Look audience members in the eye, but not more than five or six seconds each. Eye contact longer than that will make some individuals uncomfortable. Avoid focusing your gaze on a single person or spot in the room; that’s a definite no-no.
7. Humor is OK, but be careful
Most people enjoy a good joke or a humorous anecdote, but not everyone can pull off an attempt at humor—and a joke that falls flat is a sure way to detract from your talk.
Will Rogers and Mark Twain were well known for successfully lacing their talks with humor, but unless you’re confident in your ability to make people laugh, it would be best to lay off the jokes. And, of course, using off-color humor is treading on dangerous ground.
Experts agree: the best form of humor is self-deprecating humor. Making fun of yourself is a sure way of connecting with an audience.
If you’re not comfortable using humor in your presentation, try telling a story. Everyone loves a good story, and if you can tell a story that in some way relates to the point of your presentation, you’ll be helping to put your audience in a receptive mood.
8. Stay aware of your body language
Your body language will give your audience a constant stream of information about what’s in your mind. If you’re overly nervous, if you don’t believe in what you’re saying, or if you aren’t familiar with your material, your body language will give you away.
While it may be necessary to use a lectern to hold your notes, try to get away from behind it as much as possible. A lectern provides an obvious barrier between you and your audience and can give the impression that you’re trying to “hide” from them. Instead of standing behind a lectern during your entire presentation, engage your audience by walking around, making eye contact and appropriate gestures to emphasize a point, and, most important of all, smile. Picture in your mind the most impressive speaker that you’ve heard and there’s a good chance you’ll remember him or her doing all those things.
Always pay attention to your body language. Stand up straight, don’t use gestures that are unnatural to you, make appropriate eye contact, and smile. Anything you do to make yourself appear relaxed will help you be relaxed.
9. Use your natural voice
Many people who are engaging conversationalists depart entirely from their natural voice when they stand up to speak in public. One way to minimize nervousness is to concentrate on avoiding departure from your normal tone of voice. In particular, avoid the dreaded monotone. To some people, a monotone voice is akin to scratching a fingernail across a chalkboard.
You can void a monotone by varying your pace and volume. Sometimes you should emphasize a point by increasing your volume, but successful speakers know that lowering your voice almost to a whisper is a very effective way to keep an audience’s attention.
10. Obey time restrictions
Perhaps one of the most common afflictions of all among public speakers is speaking too long. Talks that drag on interminably make many people resentful of the speaker. In most cases, you will be given an expected time limit for your talk; observe that limit carefully. To do otherwise risks offending your audience as well as the sponsors of your talk. You’ll make your audience happy by taking only as much time as your need to clearly make your point. Then sit down.
11. Start strong and finish strong
Using a narrative hook is one of the best ways to start your presentation on a strong note. But remember: it’s equally important to finish strong. Old time vaudevillians used to sum up the importance of finishing strong with their saying, “always leave ’em laughing.” While you won’t necessarily want to leave your audience laughing, you do want to leave them with a strong closing worth remembering.
Think carefully about how you want to close your talk and plan it well. Keep in mind that your audience is most likely to remember your first words and your last words. In short, start strong and finish strong.
12. Finally, as you’re speaking, remember that people want you to succeed. Audiences are on your side. They don’t want you to fail.
Brillante "Dante" Mendoza was born on 30 July 1960 in San Fernando, Pampanga.
He took advertising arts of the then College of Architecture and fine arts at the University of Santo Tomas.
He has directed sixteen films since 2005.
He won the award for Best Director for his film Kinatay at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.
His 2009 film Lola won the award for Best Film at the 6th Dubai International Film Festival.
His 2012 film Captive was shown in competition at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012.
His 2012 film Thy Womb competed for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival.
His film Taklub has been selected to be screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
At the Cinema One Originals 2009, he received the Special Honorary Award.
Head of the jury at the 26th Singapore International Film Festival in 2015.
Member of the 'Filmmakers of the Present' jury at the 62nd Locarno International Film Festival in 2009.
Mendoza directed Duterte's first SONA last 25 July 2016, which can be remembered for using low angle shots and dimmer lighting which was a break from the traditional coverage of the event. He again directed President Duterte's second SONA last 24 July 2017.
Ruben Matias Cayari is the full name of Ruben Rustia.
Ruben Rustia was born on 25 July 1923 in Manila, Philippines.
Ruben Rustia became a propsman in the movie Vampire Hookers (1978).
Ruben Rustia appeared on 312 movies.
Ruben Rustia was a writer for 38 movies.
Ruben Rustia was a second unit director or assistant director for 6 films.
Ruben Rustia directed two movies, Captain Barbell kontra Captain Bakal (1965) and Magda Sales (1964).
Ruben Rustia was nominated for a FAMAS Best Supporting Actor award for six times -- 1962 Alaala kita (1961), 1963 Kapag buhay ang inutang (1962), 1971 Psycho Sex Killer (1970), 1973 Kill the Pushers (1972), 1974 Tanikalang dugo (1973), and 1975 Fe, Esperanza, Caridad (1974).
Ruben Rustia was nominated for a FAMAS Best Actor Award for the movie Haring tulisan (1956).
Ruben Rustia was also nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award at the Gawad Urian Awards in 1992 for the movie Pepeng Shotgun (1981).
Ruben Rustia won the 1955 FAMAS Best Supporting Actor award for the movie Pedro Penduko (1954).
Ruben Rustia died on 7 April 1994 in Manila at the age of 70 due to diabetes.
Indonesia was the home country and final resting place of Affandi, a prolific painter who lived from 1907 until 1990.
Affandi was Born in Cirebon, West Java, as the son of R. Koesoema, who was a surveyor at a local sugar factory.
Affandi finished his upper secondary school in Jakarta and gave up his studies to pursue his desire to become an artist.
Beginning in 1934, Affandi began teaching himself how to paint.
He married Maryati, a fellow artist. One of his children, Kartika also became an artist.
In the 1950s, Affandi began to create expressionist paintings. The piece Carrying the First Grandchild (1953) marked his newfound style known as "squeezing the tube".
Affandi painted by directly squeezing the paint out of its tube. He came across this technique by accident, when he intended to draw a line one day. As he lost his patience when he was looking for a missing pencil, he applied the paint directly from its tube. The resulting effect, as he found out, was that the painted object appeared more alive. He also felt more freedom to express his feelings when he used his own hands, instead of a paint brush.
In 1957, he received a scholarship from the United States government to study arts education. He was appointed as an Honorary Professor in Painting by Ohio State University in Columbus.
In 1974, he received an honorary doctorate from University of Singapore, the Peace Award from the Dag Hammarskjoeld Foundation in 1977, and the title of Grand Maestro in Florence, Italy.
In Yogyakarta, where he has lived since 1945, Affandi designed for himself a free-form house that has become a stopping place for tourists as well as tourists visiting the old town. The place also functions as a museum to display his paintings. The museum has around 250 of Affandi's paintings.
Affandi had two wives. The only child from his first marriage, Kartika, has become a painter herself. A few years later, the artist took a second wife, who has borne him three children. One of his more memorable paintings shows him nude, holding a newborn grandchild, under a blue sky filled with stars.
Affandi died on May 23, 1990, after suffering a complication of illnesses. He is now buried in the museum complex, as he wished to always be surrounded by his family and his works.
Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on 16 April 1889 to Hannah Chaplin (born Hannah Harriet Pedlingham Hill) and Charles Chaplin Sr.
There is no official record of his birth, although Chaplin believed he was born at East Street, Walworth, in South London.
Grandfather of Dolores Chaplin, Carmen Chaplin, Kiera Chaplin, Oona Chaplin, Aurélia Thiérrée and James Thierrée. Great-uncle of Drunkfux.
Long after becoming a millionaire, he continued to live in a shabby hotel room, and kept his studio checks in a trunk for months.
Invented his tramp costume with the help of Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle's pants. Arbuckle's father-in-law's derby, Chester Conklin's cutaway, Ford Sterling's size-14 shoes, the diminutive Charles Avery's jacket, and some crepe paper belonging to Mack Swain (which became the tramp's mustache). The only item that actually belonged to Chaplin was the whangee cane.
A much-repeated story claims that he once entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and finished third! In some versions of the story, he came in second.
On July 6, 1925, he became the first actor to appear on the cover of Time magazine.
He was also the first actor to have a comic strip about him; Ed Carey's 1916 strip, "Pa's Imported Son-in-Law", detailed the adventures of Chaplin.
Although Adolf Hitler was not at all a huge fan--in fact, he had been misinformed that Charlie was Jewish, and therefore despised him--he was also well aware of how beloved Charlie was throughout the world at that time, and that was the reason he grew the Chaplin mustache: he thought it would endear him to the people.
In all his years of living and working in the United States, he never became a citizen.
As of 2011, he is the only person to receive a 12-minute standing ovation at the Academy Awards when he appeared to accept an honorary award "for the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century". It is the longest in the history of the Academy Awards.
On March 3, 1978, his dead body was stolen from the Corsier-Sur-Vevey cemetery. This took until May 18 when the police found the dead body.
Perlman was born on 13 April 1950 in Washington Heights, New York. His mother, Dorothy (née Rosen), was a municipal employee, and his father, Bertram "Bert" Perlman, was a jazz drummer and repairman.
He has been married to Opal Stone Perlman since 14 February 1981 and they have two children: daughter Blake Amanda Perlman (born 1984) and son Brandon Avery Perlman (born 1990). His son produces electronic music under the name Delroy Edwards.
Has a dog (terrier) named Nigel.
Does not speak French and was the only American on set of the French film The City of Lost Children (1995). Regardless, he learned all of his lines and delivered them flawlessly.
Broke a rib while filming the subway scenes in Hellboy (2004). He jumped onto a train that was coming towards him.
Voiced the mutant villain Clayface on Batman: The Animated Series (1992), a character who, ironically, was a disfigured actor, then voiced the villain Slade on Teen Titans (2003), and also did the voice of the Hulk/Bruce Banner twice on two separate series, one for a guest spot on Fantastic Four (1994) and one for a guest spot on Iron Man (1994), in addition to providing the voice of Orion for Justice League (2001). He then played the comic book character Hellboy in Hellboy (2004). He went on to portray Batman in Justice League Heroes (2006).
With the creation of Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), at age 58, he became the oldest actor ever to play a main superhero.
Frequent voice collaborator with fellow voice actor Keith David in these computer games: Fallout: A Post-Nuclear Role-Playing Game (1997), Lords of EverQuest (2003), Halo 2 (2004), Halo 3 (2007). Animated series: Aladdin (1994), Fantastic Four (1994), Justice League (2001), Teen Titans (2003). In addition, they have both had a guest appearance on the television series The Outer Limits (1995).
Is well known for his extensive body of work with acting under prosthetic and has given many actors, like Armin Shimerman (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)) and Michael Chiklis (Fantastic Four (2005)), advice on how to emote effectively under full-head prosthetic appliances.
Bears such a striking resemblance to singer and actor Tom Waits, that once, Waits was credited as Perlman on a movie poster.
In 2012, Perlman once again endured the 4-hour makeup routine required to transform him into Hellboy -- not for a sequel or other acting job but to fulfill the Make-A-Wish request of a six-year-old boy named Zachary who has leukemia. Creature effects house Spectral Motion applied Perlman's Hellboy makeup (and later also made up Zachary as Hellboy as well), and then Zachary got to spend the day hanging out with "Hellboy".
On 9 November 2016, Perlman announced via Facebook his intention to run for president in 2020.
"I believe that each of us comes from the creator trailing wisps of glory."
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."
"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."
"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind."
"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."
"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."
"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."
"You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive."
"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."
"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."
"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within."
Thora Birch was born on March 11, 1982 in Los Angeles.
She is the eldest child of Jack Birch and Carol Connors, who have been her business managers throughout her acting career, and are former adult film actors who both appeared in supporting roles in Deep Throat (1972).
Birch is of German Jewish, Scandinavian and Italian ancestry.
The family's surname was originally "Biersch," coming from their German Jewish ancestors.
Her name, Thora, is derived from the name of the Norse god of thunder and lightning, Thor, and she has a younger brother named Bolt.
She made her film debut in the 1988 science-fiction comedy Purple People Eater, for which she won a Youth In Film Award and a Young Artist Award in the category of "Best Young Actress Under Nine Years of Age".
She got her first role at the age of 6 in the short-lived sitcom Day by Day (1988).
Was actually only 16 years old at the time she was filmed nude for a scene in American Beauty (1999).
Used to live on her family ranch in East Los Angeles where she finished high school through a computer-based correspondence course.
Rachel Hannah Weisz was born on 7 March, 1970, in London, U.K., to Edith Ruth (Teich), a psychoanalyst, and George Weisz, an inventor.
Her father was born in Hungary and her mother was born in Austria. Both moved to the U.K. around 1938, because of the Nazi threat. Rachel's paternal grandparents, Yair Weisz (from Pressburg) and Katherine Glickel Sternberg (from Budapest), were both Ashkenazi Jews. Rachel's maternal grandfather, Alexander Teich, was an Austrian Jew, and Rachel's maternal grandmother, Anna Bassi, who was Catholic, had Austrian and Italian ancestry. Rachel's mother formally converted to Judaism when marrying Rachel's father.
She pronounces her last name "Vice."
Studying English at Cambridge University, Weisz formed the Talking Tongues theater company and at 1991's Edinburgh Festival won a student drama award for a play she wrote and acted in.
Drives an old, black Jaguar 4.2 Sovereign with pepper-pot wheels.
Has a tattoo of a ladder on her hip.
She appeared in two movies in 2005 that have the word "Constant" in their titles: Constantine (2005) and The Constant Gardener (2005).
Manila, The Philippines: Started filming for The Bourne Legacy (2012). [January 2012]
Is one of 6 actresses to have been pregnant at the time of winning the Academy Award; the others are Eva Marie Saint, Patricia Neal, Meryl Streep, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Natalie Portman. Neal is the only to have not accepted her award in person as a result of her pregnancy. Weisz was 7 months pregnant with her son Henry when she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Constant Gardener (2005).
Was the 127th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Constant Gardener (2005) at The 78th Annual Academy Awards (2006) on March 5, 2006.
Became an American citizen in 2011.
22nd June 2011 She married James Bond actor Daniel Craig.
Zacarias Eugene Francisco Quino Arcellana is his full name.
Francisco Arcellana is a Filipino National Artist for Literature who was born on 6 September 1916 in Sta. Cruz, Manila.
He is the fourth child of Jose Arcellana y Cabaneiro and Epifanio Quino who had a total of 18 children.
He was appointed as the first founding director of the UP Creative Writing Center now known as Institute of Creative Writing which was his most distinguished achievement having held this position for three and a half years since being appointed in June 1979.
He was a pioneer in the development of the short story as a lyrical prose-poetic form within Filipino literature.
Francisco Jr., Elizabeth, Jose Esteban, Maria Epifania, Juan Eugenio, Emerenciana Jr. was thes six children he had from his wife, Emerenciana Yuvienco.
The first award in art criticism of the Art Association of the Philippines was awarded to him in 1954.
He received an award from the City of Manila in 1981 which is the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan award.
The Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipino (UMPIL) in 1988 awarded him the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas for English fiction.
He was proclaimed by President Corazon C. Aquino in 1990 as the National Artist of the Philippines in Literature along with Cesar Legaspi, National Artist in Painting and Leandro Locsin, National Artist in Architecture.
He died as a National Artist on 1 August 2002 after succumbing to pneumonia and kidney failure at the age of 85 at 11:45 AM at the National Kidney Institute and received a state funeral at the Libingan ng mga Bayani located within Fort Bonifacio (formerly Fort William McKinley) in Western Bicutan, Taguig City.
He was a pioneer member of the 13 pre-war writer's group "The Veronicans" who were very influential writers who experimented in different literary forms with the aim of making their writing bear the imprint on the face of the Philippines.
Here are some features you may want to check out in the AsiaPop Comicon event today, 28 August 2016 happening at the SMX Convention Center at SM Mall of Asia
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Comic artists especially Fil-Am Whilce Portacio who is known for his art in The Punisher, X-Factor, Uncanny X-Men, Iron Man, Wetworks and Spawn.
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Today is the 150th birthday of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa was born in Albi, Tarn in
the Midi-Pyrenees region of France, the firstborn child of Comte
Alphonse and Comtesse Adele de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Henri's parents, the Comte and Comtesse, were first cousins (Henri's two
grandmothers were sisters) and Henri suffered from congenital health
conditions sometimes attributed to a family history of inbreeding.
At age twelve Toulouse-Lautrec broke his left leg and at fourteen
his right leg and the bones did not heal properly, and his legs ceased
to grow. The post-Impressionist, whose legs stopped growing when he was a child so that he grew to a height of 1.54m (5ft 1in), was one of the most celebrated characters of La Belle Epoque.
Deprived of the physical life that a normal body would have permitted, Toulouse-Lautrec lived completely for his art. Lautrec's physical appearance contributed to his suffering from
alcoholism, and he's thought to have invented the notorious cocktail
"Earthquake" - 3 parts Absinthe, 3 parts Cognac, over ice.
The bright green and alarmingly potent spirit Absinthe became the
creative fuel for the bohemian artists of the day. It became known as
"the queen of poisons", favoured by Lautrec, Picasso and van Gogh.
In his 20-year art career, Toulouse-Lautrec was exceptionally prolific,
creating 737 canvases, 275 watercolours, 363 prints and posters and at
least 5,084 drawings - as well as ceramic and stained glass work.
"The Laundress" is the painting that set a new record when Christie's auction house sold it in 2005 for $22.4m.
Actress Marcelle Lender was a favourite subject of Toulouse-Lautrec, who had a passion for theatre in all forms.
The young
Pablo Picasso imitated Toulouse-Lautrec when he first visited Paris and in
fact, Toulouse-Lautrec influenced Picasso’s concept of art throughout
his career.
“A favourite model was a red-haired prostitute called Rosa la Rouge from whom he allegedly contracted syphilis.”
An alcoholic for most of his adult life, Toulouse-Lautrec was placed in a sanatorium (also spelled sanitorium and sanitarium) after a particularly violent bout of delerium tremens in 1889 shortly before his death. He recovered and was released, but died in 1901 from complications due to alcoholism and syphilis at the age of 34 at the family estate in Malrome, fewer than three months before his 37th birthday. He is buried in Verdelais, Gironde, a few kilometers from the Chateau of Malrome, where he died.
Toulouse-Lautrec's last words reportedly were: "Le vieux con!" ("Old fool!")
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy also known as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer, philosopher and political thinker who primarily wrote novels and short stories, born on 9 September 1828 at Yasnaya Polyana, the family estate in the Tula region of Russia.
The Tolstoys were a well-known family of old Russian nobility. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy, a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Countess Mariya Tolstaya (Volkonskaya). Tolstoy's parents died when he was young, so he and his siblings were brought up by relatives.
During his 1857 visit, Tolstoy witnessed a public execution in Paris, a traumatic experience that would mark the rest of his life. Writing in a letter to his friend Vasily Botkin: "The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens ... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere."
On 23 September 23, 1862, Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior and the daughter of a court physician. She was called Sonya, the Russian diminutive of Sofya, by her family and friends. They had thirteen children:
Count Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy (July 10, 1863 -– December 23, 1947), composer and ethnomusicologist
Countess Tatyana Lvovna Tolstaya (October 4, 1864 -– September 21, 1950), wife of Mikhail Sergeevich
Count Lev Lvovich Tolstoy (June 1, 1869 – October 18, 1945), writer and sculptor
Countess Maria Lvovna Tolstaya (1871–1906), wife of Nikolai Leonidovich Obolensky
Count Peter Lvovich Tolstoy (1872–1873), died in infancy
Count Nikolai Lvovich Tolstoy (1874–1875), died in infancy
Countess Varvara Lvovna Tolstaya (1875–1875), died in infancy
Count Andrei Lvovich Tolstoy (1877–1916), served in the Russo-Japanese War
Count Michael Lvovich Tolstoy (1879–1944)
Count Alexei Lvovich Tolstoy (1881–1886)
Countess Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya (July 18, 1884 –- September 26, 1979)
Count Ivan Lvovich Tolstoy (1888–1895)
The marriage was marked from the outset by sexual passion and emotional insensitivity when Tolstoy, on the eve of their marriage, gave her his diaries detailing his extensive sexual past and the fact that one of the serfs on his estate had borne him a son.
The Tolstoy family left Russia in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, and Leo Tolstoy's descendants today live in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and the United States. Among them are Swedish singer Viktoria Tolstoy and Swedish landowner Christopher Paus, Herresta.
Tolstoy returned to Yasnaya Polyana and founded thirteen schools for his serfs' children, based on the principles Tolstoy described in his 1862 essay "The School at Yasnaya Polyana". Tolstoy's educational experiments were short-lived, partly due to harassment by the Tsarist secret police. However, as a direct forerunner to A. S. Neill's Summerhill School, the school at Yasnaya Polyana can justifiably be claimed the first example of a coherent theory of democratic education.
Tolstoy was a master of realistic fiction and is widely considered one of the greatest novelists of all time. He is best known for two long novels, War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877).
Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.
A 2009 film about Tolstoy's final year, The Last Station, based on the novel by Jay Parini, was made by director Michael Hoffman with Christopher Plummer as Tolstoy and Helen Mirren as Sofya Tolstoya. Both performers were nominated for Oscars for their roles. There have been other films about the writer, including Departure of a Grand Old Man, made in 1912 just two years after his death, How Fine, How Fresh the Roses Were (1913), and Leo Tolstoy, directed by and starring Sergei Gerasimov in 1984.
There is also a famous lost film of Tolstoy made a decade before he died. In 1901, the American travel lecturer Burton Holmes visited Yasnaya Polyana with Albert J. Beveridge, the U.S. senator and historian. As the three men conversed, Holmes filmed Tolstoy with his 60-mm movie camera. Afterwards, Beveridge's advisers succeeded in having the film destroyed, fearing that documentary evidence of a meeting with the Russian author might hurt Beveridge's chances of running for the U.S. presidency.
Tolstoy died on 20 November 1910 at the age of 82 at Astapovo, Russian Empire due to pneumonia.
