- Kay Parker
Kay Parker (born Kay Rebecca Taylor on August 28, 1944, in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom) is a pornographic actress, best known for her depictions of incest scenes in the "Taboo" series. She is member of the XRCO and the Adult Video News (an adult-industry publication) Hall of Fame. - George Carlin
George Dennis Carlin (born May 12, 1937 in New York, New York) is a Grammy-winning American stand-up comedian, actor, and author. Carlin is especially noted for his irreverent attitude and his observations on language, psychology, and religion along with many taboo subjects. In fact, Carlin and his "Seven Dirty Words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case "F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation", … - Honey Wilder
Honey Wilder is an American porn star who was prolific in the 1980s, appearing in over 90 films. She appeared in her first porn film in 1981, a feature called "Swedish Erotica 39". She soon became associated with convincing portrayals of a seductress, and in particular for playing older women inappropriately seducing younger men. She also appeared in the "Taboo" series where she portrayed a mother who engages in an incestuous relationship with her son. - Dorothy Lemay
Dorothy LeMay is a former American adult film actress, who was active in porn from the late 1970's until the early 1980's. She was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 1998. Dorothy is best remembered for her role as Sherry McBride in the adult classics Taboo and "Taboo II". She also starred in the memorable 1981 porn thriller "Night Dreams" (her personal favorite work), which featured her first (and only) interracial scene. - Euan Morton
Euan Morton (born August 13 in Falkirk, Scotland) is an actor and singer, perhaps most famous for his role as Boy George in the musical Taboo. - Kira Eggers
Kira Eggers (born November 29 1975) is a model from Copenhagen, Denmark. She was named #34 in "FHM" magazine's list of the Top 100 Sexiest Women of 2004 is currently guest-starring in several episodes of "Hotel Erotica Cabo". At age 14, she hosted a radio show on national Danish radio, whereafter she started a career as nude model and stripper. Eggers has appeared in many magazines and papers across the world, including "Men's World", "Genesis", … - Tadanobu Asano
Tadanobu Asano (浅野忠信 "Asano Tadanobu"), born Tadanobu Sato is a charismatic and versatile Japanese actor who has been described by critics as that country's answer to Johnny Depp. Born to a half-Native American mother, his lighter-than-black eyes drew him qualifiably different attentions from his male and female schoolmates. His father, an actors' agent, suggested he take on what became his first role, in the TV show "Kinpachi Sensei", … - Ryuhei Matsuda
born May 9, 1983 in Tokyo, Japan is a Japanese actor best known for his lead role as a samurai in "Taboo". - Cheb Hasni
Cheb Hasni (born Hasni Chekroun on February 1 1968 in Oran, Algeria, died September 29 1994) was a performer of Algerian Raï music. He is popular across North Africa, having reached the height of his career in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was the son of a welder and grew up in a working class family where he was one of seven children. Hasni is most well known for his love songs, but he also dealt with taboo subjects such as divorce and alcohol. - Raúl Esparza
Raúl Esparza is an Cuban-American stage actor. Born in Wilmington, Delaware and raised in Miami, Florida, Esparza graduated from Belen Jesuit in 1988 and later received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He first drew attention with his performance in the 2000 Broadway revival of "The Rocky Horror Show", which won him the Theatre World Award. The following year he appeared off-Broadway in "tick, … - Jeffrey Carlson
Jeffrey Carlson (born June 23, 1975 in Long Beach, California) is a Broadway, film, and television actor and singer. He debuted on Broadway in Edward Albee's "The Goat or Who is Sylvia?" in 2002 and also appeared in the Broadway revival of "Tartuffe" in 2003. He later appeared in the short-lived Boy George Broadway musical "Taboo" from 2003 to 2004. - Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer (born March 8, 1945, Donaueschingen) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials like straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan have played a role in developing Kiefer's themes of German history and the horror of the Holocaust, as have the theological concepts of Kabbalah. Kiefer ranks among the most well-known and most successful, … - Kate Burridge
Kate Burridge is a prominent Australian linguist specialising in the Germanic languages. Burridge currently occupies the Chair of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Clayton campus. Burridge completed her undergraduate training in Linguistics and German at the University of Western Australia. This was followed by three years postgraduate study at the University of London. - John Totleben
John Totleben (born February 16, 1958 in Erie, Pennsylvania) is an American illustrator working mostly in comics. After studying art at a vocational high school in Erie, Totleben attended the Joe Kubert School for one year. He then spent several years working for comics editor Harry Chesler, producing illustrations for the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; these never saw print. His first published work appeared in "Heavy Metal" in 1979. - Yoichi Sai
Yoichi Sai (崔洋一 Japanese: "Sai Yōichi", Korean: Choi Yang-il (Hangul: 최양일, Hanja: 崔洋一, Revised Romanization: "Choe Yang-il", McCune-Reischauer: "Ch'oe Yang-il"), born 6 July 1949 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan) is an ethnic-Korean Japanese film director. His 2004 film "Chi to hone" won four Japanese Academy Awards, including two for Sai himself, for Best Director and Best Screenplay. - Yulia Volkova
Yulia Olegovna Volkova is one of the two members of the Russian music duo t.A.T.u.. Volkova was born into the family of a businessman in Moscow on February 20th, 1985. At the age of 6, parallel to ordinary school, Yulia entered a music school and began learning how to play the piano. When she was 9, Volkova became a member of the children's singing chorus Neposedi, singing the Russian folk song "Oy, to ne vecher" at the casting. - Sarah Uriarte Berry
Sarah Uriarte Berry is an American actress and singer. A native of Fresno, California and a graduate of UCLA, Berry made her Broadway debut as Eponine in "Les Misérables" in 1997. She also has appeared in the short-lived "Taboo" (2004) and "The Light in the Piazza" (2005), which garnered her Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations as Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical. - Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann (b. 1939) is an American performance artist, known for her discourses on the body, sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. from Bard College and an M.F.A. from the University of Illinois. A member of the Fluxus group, her work is primarily characterized by research into visual traditions, taboos, and the body of the individual in relationship to social bodies. Her works have been shown at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, … - Fakir Musafar
Roland Loomis (born August 10, 1930 in Aberdeen, South Dakota), better known as Fakir Musafar is considered the father of the modern primitive movement. He has experimented on his own body with body modification techniques such as body piercing, tight corseting, branding, tattooing, suspension and temporary infibulation, and has documented, shared and taught others as part of his life's work making him an underground icon in BDSM, … - Armand Hammer
Armand Hammer (May 21, 1898 - December 10, 1990) was an American industrialist and art collector. Hammer was CEO of the Occidental Petroleum Company, an oil and natural gas exploration and development company. - Michael Zulli
Michael Zulli is an American comic book artist best known for his work on "The Sandman" with writer Neil Gaiman. His work is characterised by detailed realism, a delicate, painterly touch, and a hint of the Pre-Raphaelites. His comics career began in 1986 with the independent ecological series "The Puma Blues". He drew the infamous never-published issue of "Swamp Thing" in which the title character met Jesus, … - Go Nagai
is a Japanese mangaka and an important innovator of several genres within anime and manga. When he was 20 he created "Kuro No Shishi" ("Black Lion"). In his series "Harenchi Gakuen" (ハレンチ学園, "Shameless School", 1968-1972, "Shonen Jump" magazine) Nagai used eroticism and extreme, graphic violence in children's comics for the first time in Japan, thus breaking taboos and becoming quite controversial. - John Partridge
John Partridge (born July 24 1971) is an openly gay English singer and dancer best known for his performance in the musical "CATS". Born July 24 1971 in Manchester, England, he trained at the Royal Ballet School, Bush Davies Ballet, and Doreen Bird Ballet. In 1982 he appeared in the television adaptation of Stan Barstow's novel "A Kind of Loving". - Ruth Wallis
Ruth Wallis was a singer from Brooklyn, New York. She gained fame in the 1940s and 1950s for her raunchy, satirical songs that made sly references to relationships and sex. She sang with a studio orchestra and often took on an accent for songs about characters from other countries. Her music was occasionally featured on the Doctor Demento show in the 1970s. She started singing in lounges and cocktail bars, where she met her husband Hy Pastman. - Sharon Kelly
Sharon Kelly, also credited as Colleen Brennan, is an American erotic actress and member of the XRCO Hall of Fame. A buxom, freckled redhead, Kelly began her career starring in a number of sexploitation films produced by Harry Novak. She also made appearances in Russ Meyer's "Supervixens" and two "Ilsa" women in prison films, as well as "Shampoo", which starred Warren Beatty. - Jacob Epstein
Sir Jacob Epstein was an American-born Jewish sculptor who worked chiefly in the UK, where he pioneered modern sculpture, often producing controversial works that challenged taboos concerning what public artworks appropriately depict. - Elagabalus
Elagabalus or Heliogabalus, born Varius Avitus Bassus and also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, was a Roman emperor of the Severan dynasty who reigned from 218 to 222. Elagabalus is one of the most controversial Roman emperors. During his reign, he showed a disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual taboos. Elagabalus' name is a Latinized form of the Semitic deity El-Gabal, … - Ryan Molloy
Ryan Molloy is a British singer, songwriter and actor, who replaced Holly Johnson as the lead singer in Frankie Goes to Hollywood. He has also been successful in musical theatre, appearing in a number of hit musicals in the UK. Originally coming from Monkseaton in Tyneside, Molloy moved to London to train as an actor. He attended The Poor School;and later also trained at the University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles and New York. - Puyi
In English, he is known more simply as Puyi ("Pu-i" in Wade-Giles romanization), which is in accordance with the Manchu tradition of never using an individual's clan name and given name together, but is in complete contravention with the traditional Chinese and Manchu custom whereby the private given name of an emperor was considered taboo and ineffable. It may be that the use of the given name Puyi after the overthrow of the empire was thus a political technique, … - Turki Al-Hamad
Turki al-Hamad (born 1953) is a Saudi-Arabian political analyst, journalist, and novelist, best known for his trilogy about the coming-of-age of Hisham al-Abir, a Saudi Arabian teenager, the first installment of which, "Adama", was published in 1998. Although banned in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Kuwait, the Arabic edition of the trilogy - called in Arabic "Atyaf al-Aziqah al-Mahjurah" (Phantoms of the Deserted Alley) - has sold 20,000 copies. - Koffi Olomide
Antoine Koffi Olomide (born August 13, 1956), is a Congolese soukous singer, producer, and composer. Born in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo to a Congolese mother and Ghanaian father, Koffi grew up in Kinshasa.<br> He went to France to study, while in Paris, he began playing the guitar and writing songs. On his return to Congo he was a member of Viva la Musica, Papa Wemba's band. Koffi repopularized the slower style of soukous, which had fallen out of fashion. - Toyomichi Kurita
Toyomichi Kurita is a Japanese cinematographer who has worked in both Japan and the USA. Kurita's credits include: *"Afterglow" *"Taboo" *"Infinity" *"The Moderns" *"Cookie's Fortune" *"Daddy's Little Girls" *"Sukiyaki Western: Django" - Pablo Trapero
Pablo Trapero is an Argentine film producer, editor and director. His movies are known for portraying the lives of ordinary people, and usually involving some form of social criticism to modern society, such as his movie "Mundo Grúa" (which portrayed the life of a migrant contract worker), or the highly-acclaimed "El Bonaerense", which focused on the corruption and the lives of Buenos Aires Province police officers. - Edvard Westermarck
Edvard Alexander Westermarck (November 20, 1862 - September 3, 1939) was a Finnish philosopher and sociologist. Among other subjects, he studied exogamy and the incest taboo. He is known for first noting the Westermarck effect in which infants raised together are unable to form sexual feelings for one another as adults, regardless of their genetic relationship. Whilst professoring at the London School of Economics he help found academic sociology in the United Kingdom. - Wilbur Daniel Steele
Wilbur Daniel Steele (17 March 1886 in Greensboro, North Carolina - May 1970 in Stamford, Connecticut) was a U.S. author and playwright. His short stories are set in American locations and are often highly dramatic. Collections of his stories include "The Man Who Saw through Heaven" (1927), "Best Stories" (1946), and "Full Cargo" (1951). He also wrote novels, including "Taboo" (1925), "That Girl from Memphis" (1945), … - Kevin Ceballo
Kevin Ceballo (born 1977 in New York City) is a singer of Salsa music of Puerto Rican descent. Kevin's parents immigrated from Puerto Rico and settled in Manhattan. His parents were protestants and very strict about their religious believes. Kevin was exposed to and enjoyed the gospel singing at his House of Worship. In his household "salsa" and other types of music were considered taboo, this however did not keep young Kevin from listening to the latin music, … - Misha Verbitsky
Misha Verbitsky (born 1969) is a Russian mathematician (for his scientific publications, see search results at "arxiv.org"). However, he is primarily known to the general public as a controversial critic, political activist and independent music publisher. Verbitsky's webzine ":LENIN:", started around 1997, is one of the oldest Russian online projects and has been hugely influential in the shaping of Russian counter-culture. - Taboo Nawasha
Jaime Luis Gómez, born July 14 1975, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California, better known as Taboo Nawasha, is an American musical performer who achieved fame as a member of the Black Eyed Peas. Gómez is of Mexican and Shoshone descent, and was raised in Rosemead, California. As a child he aspired to be a philanthropist, and did not turn to music until his late teens. - Antonio Pantojas
Antonio Pantojas was born in Rio Piedras, the largest district of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico in the San José area. At the age of 10, his greatest passion was dancing, and Madame Brewer, and Mario Cox, were his dancing teachers then. Later, in his high school years, he was awarded with a scholarship, offered by his spanish teacher, with dancing proffesor, Ana García, his tutor of a lifetime. - Kashinath
Kashinath is a director in the Kannada film industry in India. He has opened the door for other promising directors like Upendra, Manohar and Sunil Kumar Desai. Kashinath is identified as a trend setter in Kannada movie industry.He started the trend of acting, directing, music directing and the producing of films. The film industry was stunned by the success of films made by Kashinath due to his unconventional style.
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