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| x Leon Botstein |
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Jan Schakowsky, Leon Botstein |
Leon Botstein (born 1946 in Switzerland) is an American conductor and the President of Bard College (since 1975). Botstein currently serves as the music director and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony...
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| x Bob Schieffer |
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Bob Schieffer / Spoiler Alert |
Bob Lloyd Schieffer (born February 25, 1937) is an American television journalist who has been with CBS News since 1969, serving 23 years as anchor on the Saturday edition of CBS Evening News from 1973 to 1996; chief Washington correspondent since...
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| x John Sexton |
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John Sexton / Words |
John Edward Sexton (born September 29, 1942) is the fifteenth President of New York University, having held this position since May 17, 2002. Prior to that, he served as Dean of the NYU School of Law, one of the top five law schools in the country...
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| x Surya Das |
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Lama Surya Das / U.S.A.? U.S.A.? |
Lama Surya Das is an American-born lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. He is a poet, chantmaster, spiritual activist and author of many popular works on Buddhism; a teacher and spokesperson for Buddhism in the West. He has long been involved in...
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| x Brian Greene |
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Brian Greene |
Brian Greene (born February 9, 1963) is an American theoretical physicist and one of the best-known string theorists. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi-Yau...
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| x Sheryl WuDunn |
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Sheryl WuDunn / Frenemy |
Sheryl WuDunn (simplified Chinese: 伍洁芳; traditional Chinese: 伍潔芳; pinyin: Wǔ Jiéfāng; born New York City, November 16, 1959) is a Chinese American author, lecturer and businesswoman who was the first Asian-American to win a Pulitzer Prize. A...
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| x Elaine Pagels |
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Elaine Pagels / Plan B |
Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey, (born February 13, 1943), is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she is best known for her studies and writing on the Gnostic Gospels. Her...
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| x Mike Huckabee |
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Mike Huckabee, Russell Simmons |
Michael Dale "Mike" Huckabee (born August 24, 1955) is a Republican politician and political commentator for Fox News Channel and ABC Radio who served as governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. Huckabee finished second in the 2008 United States...
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| Mike Huckabee / Healthy Appetite | |||||
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| x Michael Dyson |
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Michael Eric Dyson / Absolutely Maybe |
Michael Eric Dyson (born October 23, 1958) is an American academic, author, and radio host. He is a professor of sociology at Georgetown University.
Dyson was born to Everett and Addie Dyson in Detroit, Michigan. He received a Ph.D. in religion from...
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| x Jimmy Wales |
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Jimmy Wales |
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (pronounced /ˈdoʊnəl weɪlz/; born August 7, 1966) is an American Internet entrepreneur and a co-founder and promoter of Wikipedia.
Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama. He attended a small private school, a university...
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| x Leslie Uggams | Muppet Show 3.66 | Him/Herself |
Leslie Uggams (born May 25, 1943, New York City) is an American actress and singer, perhaps best known for her Tony Award-winning work in Hallelujah, Baby!
Uggams first started in show business as a child in 1950, playing the niece of Ethel Waters...
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| x Jim Lehrer |
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Jim Lehrer / Jacksquat |
James Charles Lehrer (pronounced /ˈlɛrər/; born May 19, 1934) is an American journalist and the news anchor for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, known for his role as a frequent debate moderator during elections. Lehrer is an author of non...
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| x Elke Sommer |
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Muppet Show 3.67 | Him/Herself |
Elke Sommer (born 5 November 1940), born Elke Schletz, is a German-born actress, entertainer, and artist.
Sommer was born in Berlin to a Lutheran Minister and his wife. After the war, the family was evacuated to Erlangen, a small university town in...
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| x Nicholas Witchell | Voyage of the Damned | Him/Herself |
Nicholas Newton Henshall Witchell (born 23 September 1953) is a English journalist. He is the current royal and diplomatic correspondent for BBC News. Previously he was a newscaster.
Witchell was born in Shropshire and educated at Epsom College, a...
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| x Sylvester Stallone |
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Muppet Show 3.68 | Him/Herself |
Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946), nicknamed Sly Stallone, is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. One of the biggest box office draws in the world from the 1970s to the 1990s, Stallone is an icon of machismo and...
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| x Chizuru Azuma | Iron Chef Blue Crab Battle (Zeng vs. Michiba) | Celebrity guest |
Japanese actress, probably best well-known to Western audiences for her appearance as a guest on Iron Chef.
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| x Madeleine Albright |
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Madeleine Albright / Fill 'Er Up |
Madeleine Korbel Albright (May 15, 1937) is the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State. She was appointed by U.S. President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, and was unanimously confirmed by a U.S. Senate vote of 99-0. She was...
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| x Chris Funk | Chris Funk, Robert Schneider |
Chris Funk is a member of the Portland, Oregon, indie rock band The Decemberists. He is originally from Valparaiso, Indiana where he worked at Front Porch Music which informed his love of American Folk Music. He plays guitar, pedal steel, piano,...
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| x Salman Rushdie |
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Salman Rushdie, Jane Fonda |
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. He achieved fame with his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his early fiction is set on the Indian...
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| x Nora Ephron |
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Nora Ephron / Killing two birds |
Nora Ephron (born May 19, 1941) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, author and blogger.
She is best known for her romantic comedies and is a triple nominee for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay...
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| x Roger Miller |
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Muppet Show 3.69 | Him/Herself |
Roger Dean Miller (January 2, 1936 – October 25, 1992) was a Grammy and Tony Award winning American singer, songwriter, musician and actor, best known for his honky tonk-influenced novelty songs. His most recognized tunes included the chart-topping...
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| x Roy Rogers |
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Muppet Show 3.70 | Him/Herself |
Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye) (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), was a singer and cowboy actor, as well as the namesake of the Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his second wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger, and his German...
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| x Pauline Hanson |
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The Shadow We Cast | Him/Herself |
Pauline Lee Hanson (nee Seccombe; born 27 May 1954) is an Australian politician and former leader of Pauline Hanson's One Nation, a political party with a populist and anti-immigration platform. In 2006, she was named by The Bulletin as one of the...
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| x Kenji Fukui |
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Iron Chef Blue Crab Battle (Zeng vs. Michiba) | Co-host |
Kenji Fukui (福井謙二 ,Fukui Kenji, born September 8, 1953 Hiroshima) is a Japanese television announcer. He began his broadcasting career in 1976 with Fuji Television, and is currently one of the three longest-serving television presenters on the Fuji...
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| x Clive James |
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Clive James / Lemon-Raid |
Clive James AM (born Vivian James, on 7 October 1939 in Kogarah, New South Wales) is an expatriate Australian author, poet, critic, memoirist, talk show host, television presenter, travel writer and cultural commentator.
James was born in Sydney,...
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| x Emily Yoffe |
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Emily Yoffe / You're Welcome |
Emily Yoffe (born 1955) is a journalist, a regular contributor to Slate magazine and the NPR radio show Day to Day. She has also written for The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, and many other publications. Yoffe began her...
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| x Jack Welch |
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Jack Welch / The Draft |
Dr. John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr., PhD (born November 19, 1935(1935-11-19)) is the former Chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. Welch gained a solid reputation for uncanny business acumen and unique leadership strategies at GE...
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| x Norman J. Ornstein |
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Norman Ornstein / The Long War |
Norman J. Ornstein is a political scientist and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative-leaning Washington D.C. thinktank (though Ornstein is generally considered to be a liberal). Ornstein was born in 1948 in...
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| x Mark Bowden | Mark Bowden / Class Warfare |
Mark Robert Bowden (born July 17, 1951) is an American writer who is currently a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and a 1973 graduate of Loyola College in Maryland, Bowden was a staff writer for The Philadelphia...
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| x John Kasich |
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John Kasich |
John Richard Kasich (born May 13, 1952, McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania) is a former Republican United States Representative. He formerly hosted Heartland with John Kasich on the Fox News Channel and also guest hosted The O'Reilly Factor, filling in for...
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| x Merv Hughes |
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Workin' Class Man |
Mervyn Gregory Hughes (born 23 November 1961, Euroa, Victoria) is a former Australian cricketer. A right-arm fast bowler, he represented Australia between 1985 and 1994 in 53 Test matches, taking 212 wickets. He played 33 One Day Internationals,...
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| x Bruce Forsyth |
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Muppet Show 1.13 | Him/Herself |
Bruce Joseph Forsyth Johnson CBE (known as Bruce Forsyth, born 22 February 1928) is a British showman and entertainer. He became well-known through the series Sunday Night at the London Palladium, and became a household name in the UK, going on to...
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| x Dhani Jones |
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Dhani Jones / Solidarity |
Dhani Makalani Jones (pronounced: dah-HA-nee) (born February 22, 1978 in San Diego, California) is an American football Linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the New York Giants in the...
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| x Spike Milligan |
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Muppet Show 3.65 | Him/Herself |
Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was an Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright. Milligan was the co-creator and the principal writer of The Goon Show, in which he also...
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| x Bob Costas |
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Bob Costas / Lombardi |
Robert Quinlan "Bob" Costas (born March 22, 1952) is an American sportscaster, on the air for the NBC network since the early 1980s.
Bob Costas was born in Queens, New York. He is the son of Jayne (née Quinlan) of Irish American descent and John...
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| x Richard Linklater |
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Richard Linklater / Play Ball! |
Richard Stuart Linklater (born July 30, 1960) is an Academy Award-nominated American film director and screenwriter.
Linklater was born in Houston, Texas. He studied at Sam Houston State University and left midway through his stint in college to...
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| x Lesley Stahl | Lesley Stahl / Bacchanalia |
Lesley Rene Stahl (born December 16, 1941) is an American television journalist. Since 1991, she has reported for CBS on 60 Minutes.
Stahl was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, of Jewish heritage, the daughter of Dorothy J. (née Tishler), and Louis E....
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| x András Simonyi | Jeannette Walls, András Simonyi / Hip Replacement |
h.e. Mr. András Simonyi was the Hungarian ambassador to the United States between 2002 and 2007. He was succeeded by Ferenc Somogyi.
He represented the interests of The Republic of Hungary, its government, and people to the government and people of...
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| x Toby Keith |
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Toby Keith / McConaughey |
Toby Keith Covel (born July 8, 1961), best known as Toby Keith, is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums — 1993's Toby Keith, 1994's Boomtown, 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's...
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| x Magic Johnson |
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Homer Defined | Him/Herself |
Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. (born August 14, 1959) is a retired American professional basketball player who played point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). After winning championships in high school and...
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| x Steve Berra | Get With Your Power Animal |
Steve Berra (born May 10, 1973 is an American professional skateboarder, movie writer and director.
Berra was born May 10, 1973 in St. Louis, Missouri). As a child Steve was nearly killed by a horse at a petting zoo when Steve came from behind him...
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| x Alexandra Robbins | Alexandra Robbins / Pencils Down |
Alexandra Robbins (born in 1976) is an investigative journalist, lecturer, and author. Her books focus on young adults, education, and modern college life and its aspects that are often overlooked or ignored by college administrators. Three of her...
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| x David Kuo | David Kuo / Sherlock |
J. David Kuo is a writer and author.
He is also a former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush and Deputy Director of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. He is a Christian of Asian (Chinese) descent. Kuo's book Tempting...
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| x Frank Rich | Frank Rich / Superegomaniac |
Frank Rich (born June 2, 1949) is a center-left New York Times columnist who focuses on American politics and popular culture. His column ran on the front page of the Sunday Arts & Leisure section from 2003 to 2005; it now appears in the expanded...
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| x Christine Todd Whitman |
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Christine Todd Whitman / Aggravated assault |
Christine Todd "Christie" Whitman (born September 26, 1946) is an American Republican politician and author who served as the 50th Governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001, and was the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in the...
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| x Bruce Bartlett | Bruce Bartlett / Merrier |
Bruce Bartlett (b. October 11, 1951, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is a historian who turned to writing about supply-side economics. He was a domestic policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan and was a treasury official under President George H.W. Bush....
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| x Ricky Gervais |
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Ricky Gervais | Interviewee |
Ricky Dene Gervais (pronounced /dʒəˈveɪz/; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, film-maker and broadcaster. Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co...
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| x Carol Channing |
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Muppet Show 4.95 | Him/Herself |
Carol Elaine Channing (born January 31, 1921) is an American singer and actress. She is the recipient of three Tony Awards (including one for lifetime achievement), a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. Channing is best remembered for originating,...
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| x Diana Ross |
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Muppet Show 4.96 | Him/Herself |
Diana Ross (born Diane Ernestine Earle Ross; March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes, before leaving the group for a solo career on January 14, 1970. Since...
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| x Ian Baker-Finch | A Hole in the Heart - Part 2 |
Ian Michael Baker-Finch (born 24 October 1960) is an Australian professional golfer who is best known for winning The Open Championship in 1991.
Born in Nambour, Australia. Baker-Finch turned professional in 1979. Baker-Finch credits Jack Nicklaus...
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| x Richard A. Clarke |
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Richard Clarke / Spectacle |
Richard Alan Clarke (born October 1951) was a U.S. government employee for 30 years, 1973–2003. He worked for the State Department during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Following the presidency of George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton promoted Clarke to...
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| x Barry Manilow |
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Barry Manilow / Shameless |
Barry Manilow (born June 17, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, producer, conductor, entertainer, and performer, best known for such recordings as "I Write the Songs", "Mandy", "Weekend in New England" and "Copacabana". In...
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| x Ralph Nader |
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Ralph Nader / Bard |
Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934) is an American attorney, author, lecturer, political activist, and former candidate for President of the United States. He ran as an independent candidate in 2004 and 2008, and a Green Party candidate in 1996 and...
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| x Glenn Ridge | Add Sex and Stir |
Glenn Derrick Ridge (born 21 November 1955 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian television presenter and owner and managing director of the Q Media Group, a production company which produces television specials and documentaries.
In the 80...
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| x Sal Masekela | This Is Not Mom-Certified |
Selema Mabena "Sal" Masekela (born August 28, 1971) is an American television host, sports commentator and actor.
Sal is the son of the South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela, and the older brother of Survivor: Cook Islands contestant Nathan...
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| x Mark Berry |
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The Friday Night Project: Vinnie Jones | Celebrity guest |
Mark Berry (born 18 April 1964), commonly known as Bez or Marky Mark (and occasionally credited as Bez "Bez" Bez), is a British dancer, percussionist and television personality.
He is the son of a police Detective Inspector and a Moroccan belly...
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| x Nicholas D. Kristof |
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Nicholas Kristof / Home Field Advantage |
Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27, 1959 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American journalist, author, op-ed columnist, and a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. He has written an op-ed column for The New York Times since November 2001 and is widely...
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| x Takeshi Kaga | Iron Chef Blue Crab Battle (Zeng vs. Michiba) | Host |
Takeshi Kaga (鹿賀 丈史, Kaga Takeshi, born October 12, 1950) is a well known stage and movie actor in Japan who is probably best known internationally for his portrayal of Chairman Kaga in the Japanese television show Iron Chef produced by Fuji TV. His...
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Willie Nelson, Richard Holbrooke / Supernatural |
Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor and activist. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains iconic, especially in American popular...
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