Early Life James Eugene Carrey also known as Jim Carrey is son of Percy, an accountant, and Kathleen, a housewife. Carrey was born in Ontario Canada on the 17th January1962. He has three siblings and is the youngest of them all. Jim liked to perform comedy routine s for his parents and family. When Carrey was in junior high school, his teachers quelled his bad behavior by letting him share some of his comedy routines with the class.
Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. is probably one of the most influential rappers alive, and more than likely one of the most well-known across America. Dwayne, aka Lil Wayne, is the one guy I would sponsor to be my “National Living Treasure” out of any other American, no doubt. Lil Wayne landed in the rap scene when he was at the young age of eleven years old. Ever since the day he was signed by Cash Money Records in nineteen ninety-three, he has exploded and become one of the most successful artists Hip-hop/Rap has come across. With nine studio albums and twenty-five mixtapes, all eyes are on Lil Wayne to see what is bound to come next.
Comedian, singer, and actor, she is named after Bette Davis and her sisters Susan and Judy are named after Susan Hayward and Judy Garland. Born on December 1, 1945, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Bold and funny, Bette Midler is the quintessential entertainer a singer, a dancer, a comedian, and a dramatic actress. After studying drama at the University of Hawaii, Bette Midler has been married to Martin von Haselberg since 1984. The couple has a daughter named Sophie who graduated from Yale in 2008.
He won best guitarist at the 2005 Esky Music Awards. Saul Hudson was born on July 23, 1965 and was born in England. Both of his parents were in the entertainment business in some form, his mother was a clothing designer (David Bowie hired her for costumes) and his father was an art director for a British record company. When Slash was 11 him and his mother left his father behind in England and headed off for Los Angeles, although he eventually met up with the two in Los Angeles many years later. Slash felt like an outsider in school because he did not really fit in with the other children.
King attended a segregated public school in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen and received his B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College; a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. In June 1953 Martin married Coretta Scott and had four kids. In 1954 King became the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. During this time Rosa Parks was arrested for failure to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery city bus.
Over the next five decades both men have acted in over 110 movies. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are arguably the best actors over the past few generations. The two actors are very similar in many aspects, but Robert De Niro holds the edge over Al Pacino slightly. What separates these actors is their acting awards, acting style, and acting legacy. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are two of the most decorated actors with both men winning their share of awards.
Entourage Entourage is an HBO television comedy-drama series which premiered on July 18 2004 and concluded on September 11, 2011. “Entourage” was directed and written by Doug Ellin and follows the acting career of Vincent Chase, played by Adrian Grenier. Vincent Chase is a young A List movie star and along with him he brings his childhood friends from Queens, New York as they adjust to the often hectic and stressful life of a movie star in Los Angeles California. The show has two executive producers, Doug Ellin and successful Hollywood actor Mark Walhberg. The show is largely based on Walhberg’s life and Vincent Chase was envisioned to be similar to Mark Walhberg, but in a more fictionalized and toned down way due to Walhberg’s past of crime and violence.
In 1959 at age 14 Bob Marley quit school. Shortly after, in the late 50’s, Bob Marley and his mother moved from their home town of St. Ann Jamaica to Trenchtown in search of better job opportunities for Cedalla. After Bob Marley moved to Trenchtown he became friends with Neville Livingston who people called, Bunny. At age 16, Bob Marley began to follow his dreams of becoming a musician. Another one of Marley’s friends, Jimmy Cliff, also a musician, introduced Marley to a producer, Leslie Kong.
Origins Barack Obama, full name Barack Hussein Obama II, was born on August 4th in 1961 in Hawaii, to Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. Obama’s parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii where his father was a foreign student on scholarship. The couple married in 1961, their son was born just six months later but soon separated and divorced again just 3 years later when Barack was two years old. Barack Obama Sr. remarried and returned to Kenya, visiting his son in Hawaii only once in 1971 before he died in a car accident in 1982. Barack’s mother, Ann Dunham, was remarried to an Indonesian student called Lolo Soetoro, who was attending college in Hawaii. In 1967, the family moved to Jakarta, where Obama’s half-sister Maya Soetoro was born.
This day was portray in one of his essays called, “Notes of a Native Son”. When Baldwin was fifteen, his high-school friend, Emile Capouya, skipped school one day and, while in Greenwich Village he met Beauford Delaney, a painter. Emile gave James the address, and suggested a visit. James, who worked at a sweatshop nearby and dreaded going home after school, visited Beauford. He became a mentor to Baldwin, and Beauford’s influence brought him to his first realization that a black person could be an artist.