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| x Michael Crichton |
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John Michael Crichton (pronounced /ˈkraɪtən/; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author, producer, director, screenwriter, and medical school graduate, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and thriller...
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| x Steve Ballmer |
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Steven Anthony Ballmer (born Detroit, Michigan March 24, 1956) is an American businessman who has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000.
Steve Ballmer was born in Detroit as the son of Fritz Hans Ballmer, an...
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| x James Cromwell |
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James Oliver Cromwell (born January 27, 1940) is an American film and television actor. He has been nominated for an Oscar, three Emmy Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards during his career.
Cromwell was born in Los Angeles, California and...
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| x Vince Vaughn |
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Vincent Anthony "Vince" Vaughn (born March 28, 1970) is an American film actor. He began acting in the late 1980s, appearing in minor television roles before experiencing wider recognition with the 1996 movie, Swingers. He has since appeared in a...
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| x John Cleese |
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John Marwood Cleese (pronounced /ˈkliːz/; born 27 October 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated English actor, comedian, writer, and film producer who is known for being a member of Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty...
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| x Craig Kilborn |
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Craig Anthony Marcus Kilborn (born August 24, 1962) is an American comedian, actor, and former talk show host. He was the original host of The Daily Show, a former anchor on ESPN's SportsCenter, and Tom Snyder's successor on CBS' The Late Late Show....
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| x John Wayne |
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Marion Mitchell Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), born Marion Robert Morrison and better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring...
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| x Randy Quaid |
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Randall Rudy "Randy" Quaid (born October 1, 1950) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his roles in the National Lampoons Vacation movies, The Last Detail (1973), Independence Day (1996), Kingpin (1996), Brokeback Mountain (2005),...
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| x Max von Sydow |
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Max von Sydow (born 10 April 1929; pronounced /vɒn ˈsiːdoʊ/ in English, [fon syːɖoːv] in Swedish) is a Swedish-born actor. He has also held French citizenship since 2002. He has starred in many movies and had supporting roles in dozens more. He has...
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| x David Ogden Stiers |
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David Ogden Stiers (born October 31, 1942) is a U.S. actor, vocal actor, and muse, noted for his role in the television sitcom M*A*S*H as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III and the science fiction drama The Dead Zone as Reverend Gene Purdy. A...
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| x John Sayles |
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John Thomas Sayles (born 28 September 1950) is an American independent film director and screenwriter.
Sayles was born in Schenectady, New York, the son of Mary (née Rausch), a teacher, and Donald John Sayles, a school administrator. He was raised...
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| x Clint Eastwood |
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Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American film actor, director, producer, and composer. He has received five Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and five People's Choice Awards—including one...
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| x Stephen Dorff |
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Stephen Dorff (born July 29, 1973) is an American actor, best known for portraying Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat and for his roles in Blade and Cecil B. DeMented.
Dorff was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Nancy and Steve Dorff, who is a composer...
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| x Al Pacino |
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Alfredo James "Al" Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American film and stage actor and director. He is best known for his roles as Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy, Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon, Tony Montana in Scarface, Carlito...
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| x Dudley Moore |
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Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, composer and musician.
Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s and became famous as...
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| x David Spade |
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David Wayne Spade (born July 22, 1964) is an American actor, comedian and television personality who first became famous in the 1990s as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, and from 1997 until 2003 starred as Dennis Finch on Just Shoot Me!. He...
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| x Mark Hamill |
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Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American actor, voice artist, producer, director, and writer. Hamill is best known for his role of Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy and as the iconic voice of The Joker in the DC...
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| x Emilio Estevez |
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Emilio Estévez (born May 12, 1962) is an American actor, film director, poet, and writer. He started his career as an actor and is well-known for being a member of the acting Brat Pack of the 1980s, staring in The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire....
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| x Chevy Chase |
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Cornelius Crane “Chevy” Chase (pronounced /ˈtʃɛvi/; born October 8, 1943) is an American Emmy Award-winning comedian, writer, and television and film actor. Born into a prominent entertainment industry family, Chase worked a plethora of odd jobs...
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| x Tony Robbins |
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Anthony "Tony" Robbins (born February 29, 1960) is an American self-help author and motivational speaker. Robbins' books include Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement and Awaken The Giant Within.
Robbins was born in North...
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| x Nicole Kidman |
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Nicole Kidman was born in June 20, 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her parents are from Australia, where she lived a long part of her life, and she has both nationalities: American and Australian. Growing up she was always interested in acting and made...
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| x Judy Gold |
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Judy Gold (born November 15, 1962) is an American stand-up comedienne and actress. She won two Daytime Emmy Awards for her work as a writer and producer on The Rosie O'Donnell Show. She has also been involved in many projects in various roles,...
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| x Geena Davis |
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Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis (born January 21, 1956) is an American actress, film producer, writer, former fashion model, and a women's Olympics archery team semi-finalist.
Davis was born in Wareham, Massachusetts, USA, the daughter of Lucille,...
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| x Sigourney Weaver |
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Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver (born October 8, 1949) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Warrant Officer (later Lieutenant) Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott's Alien (1979), James Cameron's Aliens (1986) and in the rest of the...
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| x Tommy Tune |
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Thomas James "Tommy" Tune (born February 28, 1939) is an American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, -producer, and choreographer. Over the course of his career, he has won nine Tony Awards and the National Medal of Arts.
Tune was born in...
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| x Sterling Hayden |
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Sterling Hayden (March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an American actor and author. For most of his career as a leading man, he specialized in westerns and film noir, such as Johnny Guitar, The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing. Later on he became noted...
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| x Chuck Connors |
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Chuck Connors (April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992) was an American actor and a professional basketball and baseball player, best known for his starring role in the 1950s ABC hit western series The Rifleman.
Connors was born Kevin Joseph Aloysius...
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| x Tom Selleck |
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Thomas William "Tom" Selleck (born January 29, 1945) is an American actor, screenwriter and film producer, perhaps best known for his starring role as Hawaii-based private investigator Thomas Magnum on the 1980s television show Magnum, P.I.
He has...
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| x John Larroquette |
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John Bernard Larroquette (born November 25, 1947) is an American film and television actor. His best known roles include Dan Fielding on the series Night Court, Mike McBride in the Hallmark Channel series McBride and Carl Sack in Boston Legal....
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| x Donald Sutherland |
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Donald McNicol Sutherland, OC (born 17 July 1935) is a Canadian character actor with a film career spanning over 50 years. Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, in 1967, and...
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| x Vincent Price |
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Vincent Leonard Price II (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.
Price was born in St. Louis, Missouri,...
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| x Douglas Adams |
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Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a ...
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| x Sacha Baron Cohen |
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Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (Hebrew: סשה נועם ברון כהן, born 13 October 1971) is an English actor, comedian, and writer, best known for playing Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev, and Brüno. In his routine, Cohen typically conducts interviews with respected figures...
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| x Tammy Faye |
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Tamara Faye "Tammy" Bakker Messner (March 7, 1942 – July 20, 2007) was an American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show host, and television personality. She was the former wife of televangelist, and later convicted felon,...
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| x Mikhail Baryshnikov |
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Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Барышников, Latvian: Mihails Barišņikovs) (born January 28, 1948) is a Soviet-born Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf...
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| x Robert Blake |
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Robert Blake (September 18, 1933) is an Italian-American actor who starred in the film In Cold Blood and the U.S. television series Baretta. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted for the 2001 murder of his wife, but on November 18, 2005, Blake was...
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| x Helena Bonham Carter |
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Helena Bonham Carter (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress. Bonham Carter made her film debut in the K. M. Peyton film, A Pattern of Roses, before appearing in her first leading role in Lady Jane. She is best known for her portrayals of Lucy...
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| x Jimmy Somerville |
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Jimmy Somerville (born 22 June 1961, Glasgow) is a Scottish pop singer and songwriter. He had considerable success in the 1980s with the pop groups Bronski Beat and The Communards, and has also had a successful solo career.
Somerville's latest album...
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| x Pat Benatar |
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Pat Benatar (born January 10, 1953) is a four-time Grammy Award-winning American singer best known for her mezzo-soprano vocal range and establishing herself as one of rock's top vocalists and one of music's top-selling female artists with hit songs...
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| x Martin Scorsese |
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Martin C. Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation, a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the...
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| x Howard Stern |
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Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is a radio and television personality. He is most notable for hosting The Howard Stern Show, which since 2006 has been exclusive to Sirius XM Radio, an uncensored satellite radio service. Stern and his show...
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| x James Stewart |
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James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American film and stage actor, best known for his self-effacing persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for...
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| x Sally Struthers |
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Sally Ann Struthers (born July 28, 1948) is an American actress and spokeswoman, known for her roles in sitcoms and television, particularly that of Gloria Bunker Stivic, the daughter of Archie and Edith Bunker (played by Carroll O'Connor and Jean...
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| x Nick Cassavetes |
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Nicholas David Rowland "Nick" Cassavetes (born May 21, 1959) is an American film actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker.
Nick Cassavetes was born in New York City, New York, the son of actress Gena Rowlands and Greek-American actor and film director...
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| x Snoop Dogg |
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Cordozar Calvin Broadus (born October 20, 1971), better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is a Grammy Award-nominated American rapper, record producer and actor. Snoop is best known as an MC in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of...
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| x Kevin Durand |
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Kevin Serge Durand (born January 14, 1974) is a Canadian actor known for his roles as Joshua in Dark Angel, Martin Keamy in Lost, Fred J. Dukes in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and the Archangel Gabriel in Legion.
Durand was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario...
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| x Rupert Everett |
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Rupert James Hector Everett (born 29 May 1959) is an English actor. He first came to public attention in 1981, when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country as an openly homosexual student at an English public school...
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| x David James Elliott |
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David James Elliott (born David William Smith on September 21, 1960 in Milton, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian-born actor who was the star of the series JAG from 1995 to 2005, playing lead character Harmon Rabb Jr..
During his teenage years he was...
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| x Carrie Fisher |
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Carrie Frances Fisher (born October 21, 1956) is an American actress, screenwriter and novelist. She is most famous for her portrayal of Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy, her bestselling novel Postcards from the Edge, and her...
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| x Mike Farrell |
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Michael Joseph "Mike" Farrell (born February 6, 1939) is an American actor, best known for his role as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt on the popular television series M*A*S*H (1975–83). More recently, Farrell was a producer of Patch Adams (1998) starring...
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| x Louis Gossett, Jr. |
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Louis Cameron Gossett, Jr. (born May 27, 1936) is an American actor best known for his role in An Officer and a Gentleman (for which he won Best Supporting Actor as the tough-as-nails Sergeant Emil Foley). He was the first African-American male to...
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| x Anthony Michael Hall |
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Michael Anthony Hall (born April 14, 1968), known professionally as Anthony Michael Hall, is an American actor, producer and director who starred in several teen-oriented films of the 1980s. Hall began his career in commercials and on stage as a...
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| x Cheryl Ladd |
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Cheryl Ladd (born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor; July 12, 1951) is an American actress, singer and author. Ladd is best known for her role as Kris Munroe in the television series Charlie's Angels, hired amid a swirl of publicity prior to its second season...
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| x Aimee Mann |
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Aimee Mann (born September 8, 1960) is a Grammy Award-winning American rock guitarist, bassist, singer, and noted songwriter.
Aimee Mann grew up in Bon Air, Virginia, graduated from Midlothian High School and attended the Berklee College of Music in...
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| x Bill O'Reilly |
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William James "Bill" O'Reilly, Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American television host, author, syndicated columnist and political commentator. He is the host of the political commentary program The O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel,...
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