Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including nominations for four Golden Globe Awards and a British Academy Film Award. As of 2018, her films have grossed over $3 billion in the U.S., making her the fifth-highest-grossing actress at the domestic box office.Diaz's roles in comedies and romances cemented her as a sex symbol and a bankable star, and she was named the highest-paid Hollywood actress over 40 in 2013.
“The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.” John Lennon
Monday, August 29, 2022
Monday, August 22, 2022
Mihai Leu aka Michael Loewe, a former professional boxer that held the WBO welterweight title in 1997
Leu retired after one title defense, against Michael Carruth, becoming the third European boxer to retire as an undefeated world champion, after Jack McAuliffe and Terry Marsh. Due to an injury, he was forced to abandon boxing but unwilling to give up the world of sports, he turned to be a rally driver. He later became a national rally champion.
In 1998 he started his new career at the wheel of a Ford Ka and after only three years, he managed to become Romania's rally vice-champion. He had already participated in rallying before, having made his debut in 1994, at the Banat Rally, in a Volkswagen Golf GTI.
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Piero Ferrari, an Italian billionaire businessman and sport personality
Piero Lardi Ferrari (born 22 May 1945) is an Italian billionaire businessman and sport personality. He is the second and only living son of Enzo Ferrari, and a 10.23% owner of the Ferrari automotive company, of which he is the vice chairman. He owns 13.2% of the Ferretti Group. As of August 2022, his net worth was estimated at US$4.6 billion.
In 1998, Ferrari teamed up with José Di Mase and purchased Piaggio Aero Engineering with the idea of bringing Piaggio back to its roots as a designer and producer of business aircraft. Ferrari was nominated president. He resigned in 2015 when he sold the final 1.95% of his shares to Mubadala Development Company. The connection proved fruitful as Ferrari was then able to persuade Mubadala to become a title sponsor of the Ferrari Formula One Team the following year. Ferrari is also the chairman of HPE COXA, a company he founded in 1998 with the aim of providing high end engineering services in the mechanical field. In 2009 HPE acquired COXA, a manufacturing firm founded in 1985 and specialized in the high precision manufacturing of niche volumes and prototypes.
Following Ferrari's IPO on 21 October 2015, his 10% stake was valued at US$1.1 billion. On 28 April 2016, he entered into the Ferretti Group with 13.2% of shares. In May 2019, he was ranked by Forbes at number 838 in the world's billionaires list with a net worth of $3.1 billion. Also in 2019, he acquired the first mega yacht built by Riva that launched the new superyacht division of the Ferretti Group. In April 2020, he was ranked by Forbes at number 680 in the world's billionaires list with a net worth of $3.4 billion.In December 2020, his stake increased in Ferrari up to 10.23%. In June 2021, he was ranked by Forbes at number 705 in the world's billionaires list with a net worth of $4.7 billion.
Monday, August 8, 2022
David Suchet, an actor that played the role of Agatha Christie's Poirot in 70 TV adaptations!
David Suchet stepped into Poirot's shoes in 1989 in the TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot, marking the beginning of a 24-year long career playing the famous sleuth. He played the role in a total of 70 TV adaptations!
Saturday, July 30, 2022
Mircea Baniciu, un cântăreț și chitarist român. S-a remarcat în muzica românească la începutul anilor '70 când a devenit solist vocal al formației rock Phoenix
La începutul anilor '70 Mircea Baniciu cânta ca folkist în cluburile din Timișoara. Cu această ocazie este văzut de Nicu Covaci și Günther Reininger, doi dintre membrii grupului Phoenix, care erau în cautarea unui solist vocal, și hotărăsc să-l coopteze în formație. Mircea Baniciu debutează în Phoenix în anul 1971 când susține câteva spectacole în care sunt prezentate piese precum Nunta, Negru Vodă, Iarna. Aceste piese au fost ulterior înregistrate pe albumul Cei ce ne-au dat nume, apărut în 1972, în componența: Nicu Covaci, Mircea Baniciu, Josef Kappl, Costin Petrescu și Valeriu Sepi.
Continuarea vine în 1973 cu EP-ul Meșterul Manole, apoi, în 1974, cu Mugur de fluier, unde apar câteva dintre hiturile absolute ale grupului Phoenix: Mica țiganiadă, Ochii negri, ochi de țigan, Mugur de fluier și Andrii Popa, care a devenit aproape un imn național[necesită citare]. Andrii Popa este singura compoziție de Mircea Baniciu apărută în discografia Phoenix, despre care artistul povestește ca a apărut din întâmplare pe disc, datorită faptului că la „înregistrările din Electrecord trebuia să completăm discul cu 4 minute”.
Cantafabule a apărut în 1975 și este considerat până astăzi cea mai importantă operă rock a României. Trupa Phoenix s-a retras, de toamna până primăvara, în munții Semenic pentru a compune piesele de pe acest album, iar când au ajuns în studio, în locul lui Costin Petrescu, a fost adus de Covaci la baterie Ovidiu Lipan „Țăndărică”.
În primăvara anului 1977, o parte dintre membrii trupei Phoenix, adică Nicu Covaci, Ovidiu Lipan, Josef Kappl și Erlend Krauser, fug din țară, reușind să treacă granița ascunși în boxele Marshall. Mircea Baniciu a rămas în țară, susținând ulterior ca nu a fost anunțat de această plecare. A continuat să cânte piesele Phoenix și după plecarea lui Nicu Covaci, deși a fost, în nenumărate rânduri, anchetat de Securitate.
Saturday, July 23, 2022
Juan Pablo Villalobos, a Mexican writer and entrepreneur. He is the author of Down the Rabbit Hole (And Other Stories, 2011), which was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2011
Juan Pablo Villalobos is a Mexican writer and entrepreneur. He is the author of Down the Rabbit Hole (And Other Stories, 2011), which was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2011, and Quesadillas (And Other Stories, 2013).
Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. He lived in Barcelona, Spain for eight years, before moving to Brazil.
He studied marketing and Spanish literature. He has worked in market research and published travel stories, as well as literary and film criticism. Villalobos has researched the influence of the avant-garde on the work of César Aira, and the flexibility of pipelines for electrical installations.
Villalobos's first book, Fiesta en la madriguera, has been translated into Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Romanian, Dutch and English. Its English translation, Down the Rabbit Hole by Rosalind Harvey, was published in September 2011 by the London publishing house And Other Stories. Down the Rabbit Hole was shortlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award.
His second novel, Quesadillas, is also translated by Rosalind Harvey and is set to be published by And Other Stories in 2013.
Villalobos has said that his first book was inspired by Nellie Campobello's collection of short stories set during the Mexican revolution, titled Cartridge.
In Germany, Villalobos is recognized as an important representative of the so-called 'narco-literature'. His book Fiesta en la madriguera has been called "a disillusioned domestic tale from the dark heartland of Latin American machismo"
Down the Rabbit Hole, by Juan Pablo Villalobos, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2011 and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2012.
Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines and dictionaries, and what he wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is a child whose father is a drug baron on the verge of taking over a powerful cartel, and Tochtli is growing up in a luxury hideout that he shares with hit men, prostitutes, dealers, servants and the odd corrupt politician or two.
Down the Rabbit Hole, a masterful and darkly comic first novel, is the chronicle of a delirious journey to grant a child’s wish.
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Alessandro Del Piero, an Italian former professional footballer who mainly played as a deep-lying forward, although he was capable of playing in several offensive positions
A technically gifted[9] and creative supportin[10][11] who was also a free-kick specialist,[12][13] Del Piero is widely regarded by players, pundits, and managers as one of the greatest players of his generation[14][15] and as one of the best Italian players of all time,[16][17] winning the Serie A Italian Footballer of the Year award in 1998 and 2008. A prolific goal-scorer, he is currently the second highest all-time Italian top-scorer in all competitions, with 346 goals, behind only Silvio Piola, with 390 goals; he is also the joint ninth highest goalscorer in Serie A history, with 188 goals, alongside Giuseppe Signori and Alberto Gilardino.[18][19][20][21][22][23] After beginning his career with Italian club Padova in Serie B in 1991, he moved to Juventus in 1993, where he played for 19 seasons (11 as captain), and holds the club records for most goals (290) and appearances (705). During his time at the club, he won six Serie A titles, the Coppa Italia, four Supercoppa Italiana titles, the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Super Cup, the UEFA Intertoto Cup, and the Intercontinental Cup. After leaving the club in 2012, he also spent two seasons with Australian side Sydney FC; he retired after a season with Delhi Dynamos FC in the Indian Super League, in 2014.
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Del Piero has scored in every competition in which he has participated.[24] In 2004, he was named in the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living footballers selected by Pelé as a part of FIFA's centenary celebrations.[25] In the same year, he was also voted into the UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll, a list of the 50 best European players of the past 50 years.[26] Along with six awards in Italy for gentlemanly conduct,[27][28] he has also won the Golden Foot award, which pertains to personality as well as playing ability.
At international level, Del Piero has also represented the Italian national team at three FIFA World Cups and four UEFA European Football Championships, most notably winning the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and reaching the final of UEFA Euro 2000 with Italy. He is the joint fourth highest scorer for the Italian national team, with 27 goals, alongside Roberto Baggio, and behind only Silvio Piola with 30 goals, Giuseppe Meazza with 33 goals, and Luigi Riva with 35 goals; with 91 appearances for Italy between 1995 and 2008, he is also his nation's eleventh-most capped player of all-time.