- Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard Gaiman was born on November 10, 1960 in Portchester, England. He is the author of numerous science fiction and fantasy works, including many comic books. As of 2002, he lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. ... After being rejected many times by publishers, Gaiman pursued journalism as a means to learn about the world and make connections that he hoped would later assist him in getting published. - Daigo Stardust
Daigo Stardust started out the rock industry with an indie glam rock band named Jzeil. The band released a few singles but eventually the band disbanded. After his career, DAIGO decided to go solo, emulating his idol David Bowie. His creation was DAIGO☆STARDUST. Under his new identity he released 3 singles. He was then picked up by Victor Entertainment Inc. and released his first mainstream single MARIA. - Alvin Stardust
Alvin Stardust (born Bernard William Jewry, 27 September 1942, Muswell Hill, North London) is an English vocalist and stage actor. - Robert de Niro
Robert Mario De Niro Jr., credited professionally as Robert De Niro (born August 17, 1943), is an American film actor, director, and producer. He is noted for his method acting and portrayal of conflicted, troubled characters, for his enduring collaboration with director Martin Scorsese and for his early work with director Brian De Palma. - Claire Danes
Claire Catherine Danes (born on April 12, 1979) is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American film, television, and theater actress. - Sienna Miller
Sienna Rose Miller (born December 28, 1981) is an American-born English actress and model. - Charlie Cox
Charlie Cox (born 15 December 1982) is an English actor. Cox appears in the Richard Fell adaptation of the 1960s science fiction series "A for Andromeda", on the UK digital television station BBC Four. He also performs in several movies, such as "The Merchant of Venice (2004 film)" and "Casanova (film)", and as of July 2006 has finished shooting for "Stardust". - Glenn Miller
Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 - presumably December 15, 1944), was an American jazz musician and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1942, leading one of the best known "Big Bands." During World War II, while traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France, his plane disappeared in bad weather. His body was never found. Miller's signature recordings - including, among others, "In the Mood", "Tuxedo Junction", … - Ricky Gervais
Ricky Dene Gervais (born June 25, 1961) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning English comic writer and performer from Reading, Berkshire. Gervais found mainstream fame with his BBC Two television programme "The Office" and the series Extras which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and collaborator, Stephen Merchant. Besides writing and directing the shows, Gervais also played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras. - Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor and bandleader. He is best known for writing the melody to "Stardust" (1927), one of the most-recorded American songs of all time. Alec Wilder, in his study of the American popular song, concluded that Hoagy Carmichael was the "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented" of the hundreds of writers composing pop songs in the first half of the 20th century. - Peter O'Toole
Peter Seamus O'Toole (Peter James O'Toole) (b. August 2 1932 (accepted but presumed date) is an eight-time Academy Award-nominated Irish actor. He has received three Golden Globes and an Emmy Award. He was also awarded an honorary Oscar for his body of work (2003). Despite eight nominations, he has yet to win a Best Actor Oscar. - Rupert Everett
Rupert James Hector Everett (born May 29, 1959) is an English actor and a former singer. He first came to attention in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent movie "Another Country" playing an openly homosexual student at an English public school in the 1930s. He has since appeared in many other works, including "My Best Friend's Wedding", "The Next Best Thing" and the "Shrek" sequels. - Wayne Newton
Carson Wayne Newton (born April 3, 1942, in Roanoke, Virginia) is an American singer and entertainer based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He performed over 30,000 solo shows in Las Vegas over a period of over 40 years, earning him the nickname "Mr. Las Vegas". His best known songs include the kitschy "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast" (1972), "Years" (1980), and his signature song, "Danke Schoen" (1963). - Artie Shaw
Artie Shaw (May 23, 1910, New York, New York - December 30, 2004, Thousand Oaks, California) is considered to be one of the best jazz musicians of his time jazz clarinetist, composer, bandleader; he is also the author of both fiction and non-fiction writings. - Jane Goldman
Jane Goldman (born June 11, 1970) is an English writer and presenter of LivingTV's news series, "Jane Goldman Investigates". She became romantically involved with TV presenter Jonathan Ross when she was a 16-year-old pop columnist for the Daily Star newspaper, and married him in 1988, when she was in her late teens. They have three children: Betty (named after Bettie Page), Harvey and Honey. The family lives in Hampstead, London, England. - Ben Barnes
Ben Barnes (born on August 20, 1981) is an English actor. He has appeared in such television series as "Doctors" and "Split Decision". He will appear in the 2007 films "Stardust" and "Bigga than Ben" and has recently been chosen by director Andrew Adamson for the role of Caspian in the forthcoming film adaption of "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian". To take up the offer of playing Caspian, … - Dave Edmunds
Dave Edmunds (born 15 April, 1943 in Cardiff, Wales) is a singer, guitarist and record producer. Although he was primarily associated with pub rock and New Wave, and had numerous hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, he was steadfastly devoted to pre-Beatles rock and roll music. - Thomas Bangalter
Thomas Bangalter is a French electronic musician and founding member (along with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo) of the French house music duo Daft Punk. He has also produced music for the band Stardust, as a member of the band Together, and for the film "Irréversible". His music is sometimes known as French house. Thomas Bangalter owns a music label called Roulé. Outside of music production, his credits include film director and cinematographer. - Alan Braxe
Alain Quême, also known as Alan Braxe, is a French electronic music artist. Braxe is most widely known for his collaborative work with electronic bassist Fred Falke and, in 2005, "The Upper Cuts" collected much of their material until that point along with several other Braxe productions. - Mitchell Parish
Mitchell Parish was an American lyricist. Parish was born Michael Hyman Pashelinsky to a Jewish family in Lithuania. His family emigrated to the U.S. and arrived on 3 February 1901 on the SS Dresden when he was less than a year old, settling first in Louisiana where his paternal grandmother had family and later moving to New York City. By the late 1920s he was a well regarded Tin Pan Alley lyricist in New York City. - Kate Magowan
Kate Magowan is a British actress. She made her stage debut in a production of Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls" and has gone on to work consistently in film, theatre, television and radio. Her film credits include leading roles in "Is Harry on the Boat?", Michael Winterbottom's "24 Hour Party People",Sonya in Michael Dowse's fictional biopic "It's All Gone Pete Tong" and as Lady Una in the forthcoming "Stardust". - Benjamin Diamond
Benjamin Diamond (born Benjamin Cohen, 1975) is a French singer. He started life as a punk rocker in the band Chicken Pox, but taking inspiration from artists such as New Order, Michael Jackson, and Roxy Music, he veered towards electro and joined The Party. However, he is best known for his collaboration in Stardust with Alan Braxe and Thomas Bangalter (of Daft Punk). He sang the lyrics in their 1998 single "Music Sounds Better With You", … - Peter Tsou
Peter Tsou is a principal science staff member at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology, where he has worked for the past 27 years. - Mark Heap
Mark Heap (born 4 October 1952 in Oxford) is an English actor and silver-tongued rogue best known for a variety of television comedy roles including struggling artist Brian Topp in "Spaced", the pompous Dr. Alan Statham in "Green Wing", and various roles in the sketch shows "Big Train" and "Jam". - Frank Rosenthal
Frank Lawrence 'Lefty' Rosenthal is a renowned sports handicapper and a former Las Vegas casino executive. He was born of Swedish parentage on June 12, 1929, in Chicago, Illinois, a recognized center of Scandinavian-Lutheran immigration to the United States at that time, and was later adopted by a Jewish family. He had numerous arrests and indictments for gambling crimes, including bribing players to fix games. A pioneer of modern gambling, he secretly ran the Stardust, … - Jordan Long
Jordan Long (b. 1974, London, England) is an English actor in stage, film and television. Jordan was a member of the popular five-man sketch troupe Dutch Elm Conservatoire until he left to pursue other projects in September 2006. Dutch Elm Conservatoire were nominated for the Perrier Award at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He has just completed shooting Matthew Vaughn's new film 'Stardust' with Robert De Niro and Claire Danes. don]]. - Donn Arden
Donn Arden was a choreographer credited with developing the Las Vegas showgirl image — a statuesque dancer in sequins, feathers and wearing a tall headpiece. Arden's dance troupe headlined the Desert Inn's opening in 1950. He later developed the "Lido de Paris" show, which ran at the Stardust from 1958 to 1991, and the "Jubilee" show at Bally's. Arden was born Arlyle Arden Peterson. He grew up in St. Louis and studied dancing with Robert Alton, … - Jack Jenney
Truman Eliot (Jack) Jenney (born May 12, 1910 in Mason City, Iowa; died December 16, 1945 in Los Angeles, California) was a jazz trombonist who might be best known for instrumental versions of the song Stardust. Jenney played with his father's band from age 11, his father was a musician and music teacher, but his first professional work began with Austin Wylie in 1928. He would go on to work with Isham Jones, Red Norvo, Artie Shaw, and Waring's Pennsylvanians, … - David Raksin
David Raksin (August 4, 1912 - August 9, 2004) was an American composer born in Philadelphia, PA. With over 100 film scores and 300 television scores to his credit, he became known as the "Grandfather of Film Music." One of his earliest film assignments was as assistant to Charlie Chaplin in the composition of the score to "Modern Times" (1936). He is perhaps best remembered for the haunting theme to the 1944 movie "Laura", which became the 1945 song "Laura". - Jason Graae
Jason Graae (born May 15 1958 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor noted for his musical theater performances but with a varied career spanning Broadway, opera, television and film. Graae created the role of Sparky in the original production of "Forever Plaid" in 1990. He has won Ovation Awards for Los Angeles productions of "Forbidden Hollywood" and "Forbidden Broadway" and was nominated for a third for "Anything Goes". - Peter Duncan
Peter Duncan (born 3 May 1954) is a British actor and television presenter, best known as a presenter of "Blue Peter" and for his recent Family travel documentaries. A graduate of the Italia Conti Academy stage school, Duncan began his career as a stage actor, appearing as Jim Hawkins in "Treasure Island" followed by two years in Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company. His notable Television roles includes King Cinder, Play for Today, Warship, … - Shobha De
Shobhaa Dé is an Indian columnist and novelist often called India's Jackie Collins. Born Shobha Rajadhyaksha in a Maharashtrian Saraswat Brahmin family, she graduated from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai with a degree in psychology. After making her name as a model, she began a career in journalism in 1970, in the course of which she founded and edited three popular magazines - Stardust, "Society", and "Celebrity". - Allen Glick
Allen Glick (April 11, 1942-) was the front man for the syndicate controlled "Stardust" and "Fremont Hotel and Casinos" and alleged mafia associate of mobster Frank Rosenthal. - Fannie Hurst
Fannie Hurst (October 19, 1889 - February 23, 1968) was an American novelist. Although her books are not well remembered today, during her lifetime some of her more famous novels were "Stardust" (1919), "Lummox" (1923), "A President is Born" (1927), "Back Street" (1931), and "Imitation of Life" (1933). - Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth
Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth was a German astronomer. He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids (almost 400 of them), beginning with 796 Sarita in 1914, working at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl astronomical observatory on the Königstuhl hill above Heidelberg, Germany from 1912 to 1957. His most notable discoveries include 1322 Coppernicus, the Apollo asteroids 1862 Apollo (the namesake of the group) and 69230 Hermes. - Robert Wilder
Robert Ingersoll Wilder (b. January 25, 1901 in Richmond, Virginia, d. August 22, 1974) was an American novelist, playwright and screenwriter. The son of a minister-turned-lawyer-turned-doctor-turned-dentist who was still going to college when his son was born, Wilder's childhood was spent at Daytona Beach, Florida. Following a stint in the U.S. Army during World War I, he was educated at John B. Stetson University and Columbia University. At various times in his life, Mr. - Frank Balistrieri
Frank "Frankie Bal" P. Balistrieri (May 27, 1918-February 7, 1993) was a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, mobster who became a central figure in casino skimmingduring the 1970s. Although feared in Milwaukee's underworld, Balistrieri was considered a minor crime figure nationally. - John Twomey
John Twomey was a manualist who most famously appeared on NBC's The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson in 1974. He is credited with bringing manualism to the public stage, as his performance of "Stars and Stripes Forever" was seen by millions of people and was included in the "Best of Johnny Carson" collection. Twomey also coined the term "manualism," as he introduced himself as a "manualist" in the show. - John H. Dietrich
John Hassler Dietrich (1878-1957) was a Unitarian minister, born at Chambersburg, Pa., who advocated Religious Humanism. He was educated at Franklin and Marshall College and at the Reformed Theological Seminary in Lancaster, Pa. He was ordained in the ministry of the Reformed Church in 1905, but before this he held various various positions such as private secretary and manager of "Life's" Fresh Air Fund. From 1905 to 1916, he held various pastorates, … - Catherine D'Lish
Catherine D’lish is an American performance artist specializing in classical strip tease and burlesque. Elaborate costumes and decorative props are part of her show. She has been the headlining performer at multiple events in the genre including the 50th anniversary celebration of Playboy. Las Vegas shows were held at the Riviera, Stardust, Tropicana, Bally's, and Caesars Palace. D'lish's titles include: Miss Nude USA, Miss Exotic America, Miss Erotic World, …
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