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Alexz Johnson
Instant Star lead Alexz Johnson won a Gemini, saw Epic Records shelve her debut album, and now funds her own records through Kickstarter and Patreon.
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Gary Ross
Gary Ross co-wrote Big, wrote Dave, and directed Pleasantville, Seabiscuit and The Hunger Games. How a Penn dropout earned four Oscar nominations.
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Kevin Murphy
Kevin Murphy voiced Tom Servo on Mystery Science Theater 3000 and riffs with RiffTrax. His Wisconsin start, a year of daily movies, and the live shows.
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Peter Hitchens
Peter Hitchens, born in Malta in 1951, went from Trotskyist student to Moscow correspondent to Mail on Sunday columnist and won the 2010 Orwell Prize.
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Alexander Volkanovski
Alexander Volkanovski, the Windang rugby league forward who became UFC featherweight champion, lost the belt to Ilia Topuria and won it back at 36.
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Dale Brown
Dale Brown, the Buffalo-born former Air Force captain who created Patrick McLanahan, on his B-52 years, Flight of the Old Dog, and his later series.
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Mark Sheehan
Mark Sheehan, guitarist and co-founder of The Script, from the Liberties in Dublin and Mytown to six chart-topping albums and his death in 2023 at 46.
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Bruce Bawer
Bruce Bawer, a New York-born critic and author living in Norway, moved from poetry criticism to gay rights, Christianity and Islam in Europe.
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Charlie Daniels
Charlie Daniels, the fiddler from Wilmington, North Carolina, on his Nashville session years, his 1979 hit, his 2010 copyright fight and the sale of his masters.
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Charlie Landsborough
Charlie Landsborough spent 22 years in Merseyside pubs and taught primary school before What Colour Is The Wind topped the Irish album chart in his fifties.
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Ronald Bell
Ronald "Khalis" Bell co-founded Kool & the Gang and co-wrote nearly all its hits. Paint cans in Youngstown, the Apollo, Celebration, the Fugees and his credits.
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Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman, Rolling Stones bassist from 1962 to 1993, turns 90 with a London photo show. His Stones years, marriages, Rhythm Kings and later work.
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