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Madonna - singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur

Madonna

Madonna is an famous American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. To pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music group Breakfast Club and Emmy, she out her debut album in 1983. She followed it with a sequence of albums that attained immense popularity by pushing the boundaries of lyrical content in mainstream popular music and imagery in her music videos, which became a fixture on MTV. Her career was further improved by film appearances that began in 1985, despite mixed commentary. She won important acclaim and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her role in Evita (1996).

In 1992, she establishes entertainment company Maverick as a joint venture with Time Warner. In 2007, she signed an unprecedented US $120 million agreement with Live Nation. She has sold more than 300 million records worldwide and is known as the world's top-selling female recording artist of all time by the Guinness World Records. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, she is the top selling female rock artist of the 20th century and the second top-selling female performer in the United States, behind Barbra Streisand, with 64 million certified albums. In 2008, Billboard journal ranked Madonna at number two, behind only The Beatles, on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists, creation her the most successful solo artist in the history of the Billboard chart. She is recognized for continuously reinventing both her music and image, and for retaining a standard of autonomy within the recording industry.

Madonna

Birth Name
Madonna Louise Ciccone

Date Of Birth
August 16, 1958

Place Of Birth
Bay City, Michigan, U.S.

Origin
New York, New York, U.S.

Genres
Pop, rock, dance

Instruments
Vocals, guitar, percussion, drums

Occupations
Singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, actress, film producer, film director, fashion designer, author, entrepreneur, philanthropist


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Bill Maher - American stand-up comedian, television host, political commentator, author and actor

Bill Maher
Bill Maher is an famous American stand-up comedian, television host, political commentator, author and actor. Before his present role as the host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher hosted a similar late-night talk show called Politically Incorrect initially on Comedy Central and later on ABC. Maher has not married. In 2003, he began dating former Playboy Cyber Girl Coco Johnsen. In November 2004, at the end of their 17-month relationship, she sue him for USD $9 million for "pain " for alleged "insolent, humiliating and degrading racial comments."

Maher is known for his political satire and sociopolitical commentary, which target a wide swath of topics: religion, politics, bureaucracies of many kinds, political correctness, the mass media, greed among people and persons in positions of soaring political and social power, the lack of intellectual curiosity of the electorate, among several topics. He supports the legalization of marijuana and same-sex marriage, and serves on the board of PETA. He is also a critic of religion and is an advisory board member of Project Reason, a base to promote scientific knowledge and secular value within society. In 2005, Maher ranked at number 38 on Comedy Central's 100 most stand-up comedians of all time.Bill Maher got a Hollywood Walk of Fame star on September 14, 2010.

Bill Maher

Birth name
William Maher

Date Of Birth
January 20, 1956

Place Of Birth
New York, New York, U.S.

Medium
Stand-Up, Television, Film, Books

Genres
Satire, Political satire, News Satire, Observational comedy

Subject
American politics, current events, American culture, pop culture, freedom of speech, environmentalism, religion, human sexuality, recreational drug use, libertarianism, American liberalism, American conservatism

Influences
Steve Allen, George Carlin, Johnny Carson, David Frost, Robert Klein, Don Rickles, Gore Vidal, Lenny Bruce


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Gwyneth Paltrow - singer, actress, author

Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow  one of the American actress and singer. She made her acting debut on stage in 1990 and started appear in films in 1991. After appearing in many films throughout the decade, She gained early on notice for her work in films such as Se7en (1995) and Emma (1996). Following the films Sliding Doors (1998) and A Perfect Murder (1998), she garnered worldwide recognition through her presentation in Shakespeare in Love (1998), for which she won an AcademyAward for Best Actress, a Golden Globe Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, for wonderful Lead Actress and as a member of the Outstanding Cast. She also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2011 for her character as Holly Holiday on the FOX hit TV show Glee in the episode "The Substitute."

Paltrow has portrayed sustaining as well as lead roles in films such as The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Shallow Hal (2001), and Proof (2005), for which she receive a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in Motion Picture Drama. In 2008, she appear in the highest grossing movie of her career, the superhero film Iron Man (2008), and then reprised her role as Pepper Potts in its sequel, Iron Man 2 (2010). Paltrow also has been the face of Estee Lauder's pleasure perfume since 2005. In the same 2011 weekend as winning her Emmy Award she appear in the number one film at the US box office, the band plague drama Contagion. She is wedded to Chris Martin, the lead vocalist of Coldplay. 

Gwyneth Paltrow

Birth Name
Gwyneth Kate Paltrow
Date Of Birth
September 27, 1972
Place Of Birth
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation
Actress, singer, author
Spouse
Chris Martin

Donald Trump - business magnate, television personality and author

Donald Trump

Donald Trump is famous American business magnate, televisionpersonality and author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the organizer of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Trump's extravagant lifestyle, outspoken way and role on the NBC reality show The Apprentice have made him a well recognized celebrity who was No. 17 on the 2011 Forbes Celebrity 100 list. Trump is the son of Fred Trump. He is New York City real-estate developer. He worked for his father's firm, Elizabeth Trump & Son, while presence the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1968 officially joined the company. Trump was given control of the company in 1971 and renamed it The Trump Organization.

In 2010, Trump expressed an interest in becoming a applicant for President of the United States in the 2012 election. In May 2011, he announced he would not be an applicant, but a little weeks later he said he had not completely ruled out the possibility. Trump is a golfer, with a small single-figure handicap. He is a associate of the Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York, and also plays commonly at the other courses he owns and operates.

Donald Trump

Born Name
Donald John Trump
Date Of Birth
June 14, 1946
Place Of Birth
Queens, New York City,
New York, U.S.
Residence
Trump Tower, Manhattan
Alma mater
Fordham University
University of Pennsylvania (B.S.)
Occupation
Chairman and president of The Trump Organization, Chairman of Trump Plaza Associates, LLC,
Chairman of Trump Atlantic City Associates,
Host of The Apprentice
Salary
$60 million
Net worth
Increase US$2.9 billion (2011)
Political party
Republican (1987 to 99 and 2009–present)
Democratic (2001 to 09)
Reform Party (1999 to 2000)
Religion
Presbyterian
Spouse
Melania Trump
Marla Maples
Ivana Trump

Bethenny Frankel - American reality show personality, author, entrepreneur

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Bethenny Frankel is an famous American reality show personality, author, entrepreneur and natural foods chef. She was a contestant in the 2005 sequence The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, where she placed second. From 2008 to 2010, she was one of the original five housewives feature on the Bravo reality sequence The Real Housewives of New York City. In 2010, she starred in her personal companion series, Bethenny Getting Married?, and once more in 2011 with Bethenny Ever After. She is the maker and founder the Skinnygirl brand.

She began her TV and film career with appearance in the 1994 movie Hollywood Hills 90028 and the 1995 movie Wish Me Luck. She also worked as a production helper for Saved by the Bell. In 2005, she was one of 16 candidates in The Apprentice: Martha Stewart TV show. Frankel was one of the seven women featured on Bravo's series The Real Housewives of New York City. In April 2011, she sold her Skinnygirl cocktail line to Fortune Brands' Beam Global for an expected $120 million. It was consequently pulled from Whole Foods Market shelves in August 2011 after it was exposed not to meet entire Food's quality standards due to preservatives in the product, contrary to its advertisement which stated "no preservatives."

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Date of Birth

November 4, 1970

Place Of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Residence

New York City, New York

Nationality

American

Occupation

natural foods chef, television personality, author

Spouse

Jason Hoppy

Maya Angelou - American autobiographer and poet, professor

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Maya Angelou is one of the American autobiographer and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is well known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early on adult experiences. The first and most greatly acclaimed, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her first seventeen years. It brought her international respect, and was nominated for a National Book Award. She has been awarded over 30 honorary degree and was selected for a Pulitzer Prize for her 1971 volume of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie.

Angelou was a member of the Harlem Writers Guild in the late 1950s, was active in the Civil Rights movement, and served as Northern Coordinator of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. A Tony Award nomination for her position in the 1973 play Look Away, and three Grammys for her spoken word albums. In 1995, Angelou's publishing company, Bantam Books, known her for having the longest running record on The New York Times Paperback factual Bestseller List. In 1998, she was induct into the National Women's Hall of Fame. She has provide on two presidential committees, and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2000 and the Lincoln Medal in 2008. Musician Ben Harper has privileged Angelou with his song "I'll Rise", which include words from her poem, "And Still I Rise." She has been awarded above thirty honorary degrees.

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Born

Marguerite Ann Johnson

Date Of Birth

April 4, 1928

Place Of Birth

Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

Occupation

Poet, civil rights activist, dancer, film producer, television producer, playwright, film director, author, actress, professor

Ethnicity

African American

Literary movement

Civil rights

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