Michael Michalowicz

• Michalowicz’s Website
• Mike Michalowicz’s Reality Show, Bailout! – Pilot Episode

Michael Michalowicz (born September 24, 1971) is an American entrepreneur, lecturer, author and television personality.  He writes for CNBC Small Business[4] and is a small-business columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of the books The Pumpkin Plan (Penguin Books, July 2012) and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur (Obsidian Press, September 2008) (published Sept. 2008), is an advocate of a business philosophy by the same name, manages a behavioral e-marketing firm called Obsidian Launch and is the “Business Rescue” segment host for MSNBC’s Your Business. He also hosted the reality television program called Bailout!. Michalowicz is a monthly columnist for The Wall Street Journal’s small-business section, and writes the Small Business Shortcuts series.  He is a regular contributor to Entrepreneur Magazine and is also a columnist for American Express’s “Open Forum” series. He was a recurring entrepreneurship expert for CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. He had over ten appearances, including the CES Roadshow series. Michalowicz has also appeared on NBC, MSNBC, Fox News, ABC News Now, CNBC’s On the Money and Pat Croce’s Down To Business. He is a lecturer on the subjects of entrepreneurship, sales, and behavioral marketing techniques at universities, corporations and organizations throughout the United States and Europe. He authored the book and hosted the reality program as “Mike” Michalowicz as opposed to under his given name, Michael. According to the author’s biography on the Toilet Paper Entrepreneur website, his last name, “Michalowicz”, is pronounced as “mi-CAL-o-witz”

Kim Jong Min

• (Korean) Koyote Official Site
• (Korean) Kim Jong Min’s Cyworld

Kim Jong Min (Korean: 김종민, 金鐘民/金鍾旼) (born September 24, 1979) is a South Korean dance music singer and entertainer, also well known as a member of Koyote.[1] He is the male lead singer and the leader of the band. In 2000, Kim Jong Min replaced Cha Seung Min (Korean: 차승민), who returned to the United States for studies and officially made his debut in Koyote’s third album, Passion. It was known that he got into Koyote because of his looks and popularity at the time Before debuting as a member of Koyote, Kim Jong Min was a backup dancer for Uhm Jung Hwa, Lee Jung Hyun, Kim Wan Sun, R.E.F and many other artists. He was on the dance team “Friends” for five years. Kim Jong Min attended Dobong Information and Industrial High School and Mokwon University, Department of German Language and Literature. Kim Jong Min has been notable for being a popular mainstay of many Korean variety shows (such as KBS’s Heroine 6 and Choi Hong Man Strong Friends and formerly SBS’s Real Romance Love Letter), as he has become a goofy, naïve “character” known for silly comments and actions. He was also an assistant soccer coach on KBS’s FC Shoot Dori. Kim Jong Min has also made appearances as a guest on MBC’s King Saturday Driving School and Happy Shares Company, SBS’s Love Choice (Selection Couple), X-Man, and Ya Shim Man Man, and KBS’s Star Golden Bell and Happy Together Friends. In the first quarter of 2011, after 13 years since he joined the entertainment industry, he released his very first single name “Oppa Find Strength”. His promotional clip from the MV depicted the negative comments that he received after his return from military service.

Liam Mullane Finn

• Official Website
• Liam Finn Myspace
• Liberation Music

Liam Mullane Finn (born 24 September 1983 in Melbourne, Australia) is a New Zealand musician and songwriter. Born in Australia, he moved to New Zealand as a child. He is the son of pop musician Neil Finn (of Split Enz, Crowded House and Finn Brothers). Finn and his father Neil covered The Beatles song “Two of Us” for the European version of the I Am Sam film soundtrack. Finn also contributed a song, “Lucid Dream”, to the soundtrack of 2001 movie Rain, a film that was directed by Christine Jeffs. After the reunion of the band Crowded House in early 2007, Finn became part of its touring band for the Time on Earth tour, playing concerts such as Coachella Festival and Live Earth in Sydney. He has appeared with the band occasionally on later tours. Finn, along with his brother Elroy, performed with Neil during the WOMADelaide 2009 in Botanic Park in Adelaide. Finn and Neil performed with Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder during Pearl Jam’s Auckland concert at Mount Smart Stadium on 27 November 2009. They sang the Chris Knox song “Not Given Lightly” dedicating the song to Chris who is recovering from a stroke. On 29 November 2009 Finn and his father also sang together (along with Pearl Jam, Ben Harper and EJ Barnes) at Christchurch’s AMI Stadium. They sang “Better Be Home Soon” and the Split Enz classic “I Got You”. %%wppa%% %%album=390%%

Leah Dizon

• Leah Dizon at Victor Entertainment (Japanese)
• Leah Dizon at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Blog

Leah Dizon (born September 24, 1986) is an American citizen who worked as a gaijin tarento, singer, and model in Japan. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, she moved to Tokyo, Japan in 2006 to pursue a career in entertainment. She made her recording debut on Victor Entertainment later that same year. After the release of Destiny Line, Dizon continued with two singles: “Love Paradox” and “Vanilla” (both 2008). Her second album, Communication!!!, was released in August 2008. “Under the Same Sky” was used as the theme song for the Japanese drama Tokyo Prom Queen. She made a guest appearance on the show as Naomi, the prom queen from the previous year In February 2008, Dizon began dating her stylist Bun (born 1979), whom she had met while shooting the music video for Love Paradox. On October 10, 2008, while three months pregnant, Dizon married Bun in a traditional Japanese ceremony. These initial stages were chronicled and announced during her Communication!!! Album Tour several days after the marriage. The couple’s daughter, Mila (美蘭 Mira^?), was born on April 24, 2009. On February 14, 2010, Dizon appeared on live television and discussed making cookies for Bun. Subsequently, she confessed that their relationship had been aversive ever since the birth. That same month, she was featured in a spread for Glamourous Magazine, where she discussed motherhood and her hopes to return to the entertainment industry. It was her first magazine cover in nearly two years. On October 31, 2010, she announced that she and Bun had separated and filed for divorce earlier that month, and she was seeking full custody of their daughter. According to Dizon, the split was due to “busy schedules and inability to meet regularly differing opinions toward raising children” alongside “irreconcilable differences”.  According to a statement released on February 22, 2011 by Dizon’s agency, Dizon received full custody of their daughter Mila and details of their arrangement were private. Their divorce was finalized in December 2010. Dizon currently resides in New York City with Mila, where she is taking acting classes. Dizon has stated that she would like to return to Japan for work in the future. In June 2011, Dizon filmed commercials in Manhattan for Shonan Cosmetic Surgery Clinic. The commercials were released on August 17, 2011 %%wppa%% %%album=388%%

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll

Shakira official site  Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2, 1977),known professionally as Shakira ,is a Colombian singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer, and philanthropist who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s. Born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia, Shakira revealed many of her talents in school as a live performer, demonstrating her vocal ability with rock and roll, Latin and Middle Eastern influences with her own original twist on belly dancing. Shakira is a native Spanish speaker and also speaks fluent English and Portuguese as well as some Italian, French and Arabic. After commercial flops with local producers on her first two albums, and being little-known outside Colombia, Shakira decided to produce her own brand of music. In 1995, Shakira founded the Pies Descalzos Foundation. It is a Colombian charity with special schools for poor children all around Colombia. During her career, Shakira has performed at a large number of benefit concerts. Among the most famous are the Live 8 benefit concert in July 2005, the Live Earth concert, Hamburg where she headlined the show, as well as the “Clinton Global Initiative” created by former US President Bill Clinton. She was also invited to the Oval Office by President Barack Obama in February 2010 to discuss early childhood development. She has won two Grammy Awards,seven Latin Grammy Awards,twelve Billboard Latin Music Awardsand has been Golden Globe-nominated.She is also the highest-selling Colombian artist of all time, and the second most successful female Latin singer after Gloria Estefan, having sold over 50 million albums worldwide according to Sony Music Entertainment.Her U.S. album sales stand at 9.6 million. In the fall of 2009, Shakira released her sixth album She Wolf worldwide. Shakira’s “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)”, was chosen as the official song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The song has received generally positive critical reception, and has become a worldwide smash hit and the biggest selling World Cup song of all time.On YouTube, the English version of the music video is the 3rd most watched video of all time with over 300 million views. Her seventh studio album, the bilingual Sale el Sol, was released October 2010 and has shipped over 4 million copies worldwide.   %%wppa%% %%album=387%%

Shakira means thankful

Shakira

 Local Origin of Name: Arabic

From the name: Shaakira, Shakeria , Shakirah

       Meaning:   Thankful

Emotional Spectrum • Everyone loves to love Shakira.

Personal Integrity  • A sincere person, no one doubts Shakira.

Personality • Educational pursuits are most important.

 Relationships • When it comes to friends, only ‘true blue’ need apply.

Travel & Leisure • A quiet evening at home is her idea of relaxation.

Career & Money • Work is an important part of her life.

Life’s Opportunities • Not everyone has the career opportunities  of Shakira.

Shakira’s Lucky Numbers:    43 • 31 • 45 • 22 • 9 • 29

Anthony Mackie

Anthony Mackie at the Internet Movie Database Anthony Mackie (born September 23, 1978)is an American actor. He has been featured in feature films, television series, and Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Drowning Crow, McReele, A Soldier’s Play, and Carl Hancock Rux’s Talk, for which he won an Obie Award in 2002. In 2002, he was featured in Eminem’s debut film, 8 Mile, playing Papa Doc, a member of Leaders of the Free World. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards for his role in The Hurt Locker. This was Mackie’s second ISA nomination, the first coming for his work in 2003 in Brother to Brother, where he was nominated for Best Actor. Mackie appeared as rapper Tupac Shakur in the January 2009 film Notorious. He first played Shakur on Off-Off Broadway (while still at Juilliard) in 2001 in the play Up Against the Wind, which also featured his classmate Thoms. Other films in the works include biopics of Olympian Jesse Owens, Antebellum slave revolt leader Nat Turner, and cornetist and jazz musician Buddy Bolden. In March 2008, Mackie starred in three plays by playwright August Wilson at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the Washington DC: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fences, and Jitney – all part of “August Wilson’s 20th Century”, a month-long presentation of ten staged readings of Wilson’s “Century Cycle”. Mackie has participated several times in the “24-Hour Plays” held in New York City each fall. In 2009, Mackie portrayed rapper Tupac Shakur in the film Notorious. In the summer of 2009, he played the role of Pentheus in the New York City Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of The Bacchae. He starred with Christopher Walken in A Behanding in Spokane on Broadway, which opened February 15, 2010. Mackie also narrated The Best That Never Was, director Jonathan Hock’s documentary for the ESPN 30 for 30 series about the Philadelphia, MS native and football star Marcus Dupree. He appeared in the 2011 Matt Damon film The Adjustment Bureau where he plays Harry Mitchell, a sympathetic member of a shadowy supernatural group that controls human destiny. In July 2012 Mackie entered talks to star as the Falcon in the Marvel Studios sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier. His casting was later confirmed by co-star Chris Evans during an interview with MTV. %%wppa%% %%album=385%%

Kate French

Kate Lauren French (born September 23, 1984) is an American television and film actress and model. She is perhaps best known for her role as Niki Stevens on The L Word. She first appeared on the big screen in 2006 with a small role in the film Accepted, and later had a starring role as Brooke Crawford in the prime-time soap opera Wicked Wicked Games, an Americanized telenovela, which was French’s first appearance on the small screen. In 2007 she landed her breakout role when she joined the cast of The L Word playing closeted lesbian actress, and girlfriend of Jenny Schecter, Niki Stevens, appearing in seasons 5 and 6. French also had a role in South of Nowhere as Sasha Miller, a love interest of Aiden Dennison. French then appeared in two episodes of the teen drama Gossip Girl as Elle, a mysterious nanny. In 2010 French had a recurring role as Renee on One Tree Hill and later had a recurring guest role as Riley Westlake in the Hawaii-set teen drama Beyond The Break. In 2009 French played a supporting role in the independent horror film Sutures and then had a leading role in the independent romantic comedy Language of a Broken Heart, which was selected for the Hollywood Film Festival in 2011. French featured in the rock musical film Girltrash: All Night Long, which is due to be released in 2012. In 2011, French starred alongside Jason Ritter in the short film, Atlantis, a romance film centered around two strangers who fall in love in the lead up to the final launch of the NASA space shuttle Atlantis. and had a leading role in the independent thriller The Red House. French also had a guest role on the television series Up All Night. In 2012, it was announced that French had a supporting role in the independent thriller Channeling. French is attached to the indie feminist film Farah Goes Bang directed by Meera Menon.

Maki Goto

• Maki Goto Official Site
• Sweet Black Girls Blog

Maki Goto (後藤 真希 Gotō Maki?, born September 23, 1985) is a Japanese singer, lyricist, and former actress. Born and raised in Edogawa, Tokyo, Goto began her musical career in 1999 when she joined Morning Musume as the only third generation member. Her first single with the group, “Love Machine”, topped the Oricon singles charts and sold over a million copies. Goto was the lead vocalist of the group up until her graduation from the group in 2002. While still a member of Morning Musume, Goto released her debut solo single, “Ai no Bakayarō”, in 2001, which topped the Oricon charts. In 2003 she released her debut album, Makking Gold 1, which debuted at number four on the Oricon album charts. In 2007, at her G-Emotion II: How to Use Sexy concert, Goto announced that she was graduating from Hello! Project. In 2008, Goto signed with Avex Group sub-label Rhythm Zone and returned to the music scene at A-nation ’08. In 2009, under the stage name Sweet Black feat. Maki Goto, she released her debut mini-album Sweet Black. Goto transferred to Avex Trax in 2010 and released her second mini-album, One, which marked her official comeback as a singer. Goto released her second mini album, “One”, on July 28, 2010. This album and on she had begun to use her actual name rather than her “Sweet Black” stage name. As promotion for this release, Goto appeared on several Television shows. One particular show, Kinyoubi no Suma tachi e, aired a 2-hour special on her life and included interviews with Goto as well as a performance of one of her new songs, 華詩-hanauta-, written for her mother. This episode reached 19.3% ratings for the show, making it the most watched program of the day. She released her Third Mini album “LOVE” on May 5, 2011. On June 22, 2011, Maki announced on her official website that she will take an indefinite hiatus from the beginning of 2012. While she is currently on hiatus, she had appeared in several magazines. On March 10, 2012, Maki joined Dream Morning Musume and former band mates Aya Ishiguro and Nozomi Tsuji as special guests. Unlike Ishiguro and Tsuji, her presence was not announced and thus a surprise. She had performed a medley of Petitmoni songs as well as as The Peace. Mari Yaguchi, her former bandmate, calls her “the Kumi Koda of Hello! Project”

Kim Ki bum as Key in Shinee

• SM Entertainment Official website
• Shinee Official website

Kim Ki-bum (Hangul: 김기범; Hanja: 金基范; born September 23, 1991), better known by his stage name Key (Hangul: 키), is a South Korean idol singer, rapper, dancer, actor, radio host, presenter, and promotional model. He is a member of South Korean boy group Shinee under the label of SM Entertainment, as a vocalist, lead dancer, and lead rapper. Key was discovered at the 2005 S.M. National Tour Audition Casting. In 2008, he was chosen as a member of the group Shinee, the 5-member boy group debuted on May 25, 2008 on SBS’s Inkigayo. Key debuted as an actor in 2011 on Moon Night 90 as Lee Hyun Do along with fellow member, Taemin. Key was cast as Frank Abagnale Jr., rotating with Um Ki Joon, Kim Jeong-hoon, Park Kwang-hyun and label-mates Kyuhyun of Super Junior with Sunny of Girls’ Generation andDana of CSJH The Grace, in the Korean production of Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can, marking his theatrical debut. The musical ran from March 28 to June 10 at the Blue Square, Samsung Card Hall, in Hannam-dong, Seoul. Key also cameo in SBS Sitcom “Salamander Guru and The Shadows” appeared in episode 4.