Bruton Smith purchased his first race car at 17 years old and at 18 he began promoting stock car events. He took over the National Stock Car Racing Association in 1949 and the built Charlotte Motor Speedway for $1.5 million in 1959. Smith has also been inducted into the North Carolina Business Hall of Fame. He founded a group of 100 car dealerships in the U.S. called Sonic Automotive.
Her debut single, “I Am Beautiful”, went on sale in May of 2013, just after she won. She performed the single on multiple talk shows after winning “American Idol”, and toured as part of the “American Idols LIVE! Tour 2013”. She released a second single, “Cried” in November of 2013, and it climbed to #18 on the Adult R&B charts. In February of 2014, her debut album, “Music Speaks” was released, and debuted at #14 on the Billboard charts.
He has gone on to record a career batting average of .294, 828 hits, 136 home runs, 457 runs batted in, 438 runs scored, and 110 stolen bases as of midway through August of 2014. Gonzalez is a two-time MLB All-Star, earning the honor in 2012 and again in 2013. He was the National League batting champion in 2010 and has won three Gold Glove Awards in 2010, 2012, and 2013.
Charles S. Cohen is the President and CEO of Cohen Brothers Realty Corporation. He has produced many films including Frozen River, Just Like a Woman, What is Cinema?, Two Men in Town, My Old Lady, Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles, Hitchcock/Truffaut, Faces Places, Rodin, Red Trees, The Insult, Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti, Spiral, Benji, The Great Buster, and The Aspern Papers. He formed the Cohen Media Group in 2008 and serves as the chairman and CEO.
Danielle Bregoli’s mother, Barbara Ann Bregoli, and their company Dani B Holdings LLC, has filed a lawsuit against smartphone game developer Anonymous Games Inc. for infringing on their intellectual property rights in the games ‘Cash Me Outside’ and ‘How Bow Dat.’ The suit was filed in a South Florida federal court, and requests $1 million in damages at minimum. The Bregolis believe that they are entitled to all of the gross revenue generated by the game.
Oliver pitched for the Boston Red Sox in 2002 and the Colorado Rockies in 2003. He played for both the Florida Marlins and Houston Astros in 2004. He next played for the New York Mets in 2006 before playing with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim from 2007 to 2009. Oliver signed a one year deal worth $3.5 million with the Texas Rangers where he played from 2010 to 2011.
Frost became well known for his television interviews with politicians including The Nixon interviews with President Richard Nixon in 1977 which were later made into a film and stage play. Frost was known as one of the “Famous Five” who helped launch the ITV breakfast station TV-am in 1983. He hosted the TV series Breakfast with Frost for the BBC from 1993 to 2005 and also hosted the series Through the Keyhole for two decades.
The first pink flamingo went on sale in 1958. Featherstone was awarded the Ig Nobel Art Prize in 1996 and retired in 2000. His flamingo was based on photos of real flamingos in National Geographic as he was not able to use real flamingos as models. Don and his wife Nancy were known for dressing alike for more than 35 years. Don Featherstone passed away on June 22, 2015 at 79 years old from Lewy body disease which is a form of dementia.
Weight was selected to the NHL All-Star Game in 1996, 1998, 2001, and 2003. He won the Stanley Cup championships in 2006 with his only season with the Carolina Hurricanes. Weight won the King Clancy Memorial Cup in 2001. Doug competed internationally representing the United States and won a Gold at the 1996 World Cup and a Silver at the 2002 Winter Olympics. He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2013.
Iovine and Dre testified in court earlier this week that before their company was sold to Apple for $3 billion in 2016, their focus behind the scenes at Beats HQ was mostly on marketing and visual design aspects of the product, rather than on anything related to the tech that makes their headphones work. But the jury nevertheless found that the original agreement between Iovine & Dre and Lamar meant that he was owed a boatload of additional royalties (you can get the details on the lawsuit right here).
Halfway through the season he opted to change clubs and signed with the German team, FSV Zwickau. After two seasons, he returned to North America and played for the Richmond Kickers where he started exploding as a player; he contributed15 goals and 5 assists while leading the team to a 20-6-1 record in 2000. He went on to play for the San Jose Earthquakes, the Houston Dynamo, the Toronto Football Club, the New York Red Bulls, DC United, and most recently returned to the Toronto Football Club.
His performance in the film “Happy-Go-Lucky” earned him a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor and a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor. His other TV and film credits include “Casualty”, “Grange Hill”, “Silent Witness”, “Love in the Time of Dragons”, “Ray Donovan”, “Vera Drake”, “Tyrannosaur”, “I Want Candy”, “Gangster No. 1”, “Snow White and the Huntsman”, “The Disappearance of Alice Creed”, “Me and Orson Welles”, “Heartless”, and “Hancock”.
Eivin Kilcher stars in the show along with his relatives Otto, Charlotte, Atz Lee, Jane, Eve, and Shane Kilcher and Bonnie Kilcher-Dupree. Eivin Kilcher has authored books including Homestead Kitchen: Stories and Recipes from Out Hearth to Yours.
Elaine had a recurring role in the series Get Smart in 1995 as Agent 66. She starred in the series The Chronicle from 2001 to 2002 as Kristen Martin. From 2003 to 2005 she played Ms. Lischak in Joan of Arcadia. Hendrix has appeared in the films The Parent Trap, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, Superstar, and Inspector Gadget 2. Hendrix was Best Actress at the Albuquerque Duke City Shootout in 2008.
The biotech company was in operation for 12 years before questions about its practices and suspicions about its authenticity surfaced. Now, it turns out that Theranos was a FRAUD from the start. In a new book from The Wall Street Journal reporter, John Carreyrou, called Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, he recounts an early demonstration of Thernos’ blood testing system. It was Carreyou’s exposed WSJ report that cracked open the issues at Theranos 12 years after its 2003 founding.
“If I could give one sentence about the gold mining business … it’s that in my life, gold produced from mines has gone up pretty steadily for 40 years. Well, either this year it starts to go down, or next year it starts to go down, or it’s already going down… We’re right at peak gold here.” This isn’t some crackpot theory. It’s unavoidably true that mining companies simply aren’t finding the vast deposits of gold to replenish their stores that they could take for granted in the past.
“We think that’s a basic responsibility of anyone with a lot of money. Once you’ve taken care of yourself and your children, the best use of extra wealth is to give it back to society.” Bill and Melinda Gates For Bill and Melinda Gates, that has translated to billions of dollars to a variety of causes, including global medicine, disaster relief, poverty relief, education, and more. Through their foundation, the couple has given more than $36 billion (and counting) since it was launched in 2000.
His solo EP I was released in 2013 and in 2014 he released his debut solo album WWW which reached #1 in Korea and #4 in Japan. His second album No.X was released in 2016 and reached #1 in Korea and #3 on the US World chart and his single “Sign” reached #2 in Japan. JYJ’s albums The Beginning, In Heaven, and Just Us all reached #1 in Korea.
Wagner wrote for the films Moment by Moment, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, and An Apology to Elephants. She also wrote for the TV movies or TV specials J.T., The Lily Tomlin Show, Lily, The Lily Tomlin Special, Appearing Nightly, Lily: Sold Out, Lily for President?, Saturday Night Live, Edith Ann: A Few Pieces of the Puzzle, Edith Ann: Homeless Go Home, and Edith Ann’s Christmas (Just Say Noel).
Behr most recently appeared on 2012’s “Breakout Kings” as Damien Fontleroy during the second season. Behr has been nominated for several awards, including two Teen Choice Awards and two Saturn Awards, all for his performance on “Roswell”. He won a Young Hollywood Award in 2002 for Standout Performance by a Young Actor – Male for his work on “The Shipping News”. After a relationship with actress and “Roswell” co-star Katherine Heigl fizzled out, Behr began dating actress KaDee Strickland.