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Jas Waters was a writer, director, author, journalist, and television personality. She was a writer on KIDDING (Showtime) and was staffed on THIS IS US (NBC.) In 2013 Waters co-starred in the VH1 reality series GOSSIP GAME and the YouTube web-series JUMPOFF with over 1 million subscribers and 7 million views. Waters spent 9 years working in Film Production and Television Development, on everything from Spider-Man 1 & 2, Hardball, Save The Last Dance, MTV's Real World, Barbershop 1 & 2 and the NBC's ER. In 2007, Waters created her own entertainment blog, which ran for three years averaging 700,000 views a day and in 2012, Waters landed her own column in VIBE Magazine.- Dorothy Constantine was born on 31 October 1937 in Medford, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for The Birdcage (1996), Monk (2002) and Whigmaleerie (2005). She was married to Peter MacLean. She died on 9 June 2020.
- Actor
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Pau Donés was born on 11 October 1966 in Montanuy, Huesca, Aragón, Spain. He was an actor and composer, known for Cuéntame cómo pasó (2001), Estoy vivo (2017) and Apariencias (2000). He died on 9 June 2020 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.- Since 2002 Dick Johnson has been an Anchor and Reporter at WMAQ (NBC) TV. Before that he was an Anchor and Reporter for 20 years at WLS-TV also in Chicago. In his spare time he started a community theatre in the western suburbs of Chicago and appeared in Annie with his daughter.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Aysegül Atik was born in 1948 in Ankara, Turkey. She was an actress, known for Tasi Topragi Altin Sehir (1978), Bride of Istanbul (2017) and Dayan Yüregim (2017). She was married to Ali Atik. She died on 9 June 2020 in Bodrum, Mugla, Turkey.- Cinematographer
- Actor
- Camera and Electrical Department
Peter Gauhe was born on 8 June 1940. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for World on a Wire (1973), Effi Briest (1974) and The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972). He died on 9 June 2020.- Actress
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Joanne Lara was born on June 3, 1952 in Monticello, Georgia. She grew up in Tampa, Florida where she graduated from the University of South Florida with a BFA in Dance. Upon graduating, she danced with the Fairmount Dance Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio where she was a member of the company as well as Head of the Dance Department at Cayahoga Community College. In New York, Joanne danced with the Louis Falco Dance Company and began her acting training with Sandeed Shurin from the Actors Studio and Mervyn Nelson. She moved to Los Angeles in 1985 to pursue her acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory, and has appeared in numerous film, television and stage productions. Joanne has worked in film production as an associate producer and Assistant to the Director in such films as "To Kill For", "Motorama" and "Wigstock: The Movie". She continued to act, produce and write (she has written six feature scripts + a novel) in Los Angeles where she resided with her cocker spaniel, Joey, her cat Tabasco, and her three birds. Joanne Lara died from ovarian cancer on June 9, 2020 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 68.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Sigfred Aagaard was born on 22 October 1924. He was a director and writer, known for Havet og menneskene (1970) and I morgen er det slut (1988). He died on 9 June 2020.- Writer
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Michael Alan Drosnin was an investigative reporter, namely at the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, and internationally renowned "three-peat" New York Times Best-Selling author known for his unprecedented non-fiction, investigative works Citizen Hughes: In His Own Words - How Howard Hughes Tried to Buy America (1985), The Bible Code (1997), Bible Code II: The Countdown (2003), and Bible Code III: Saving the World (2010).
Raised in a traditional Jewish household, he questioned his faith, particularly his belief in G-d and the Torah, from childhood. A self-professed atheist as an adult, Drosnin's disbelief would eventually be challenged by his investigative research and writings on the "Bible Code" (in the Jewish context, more commonly referred to as the "Torah Code"), the claimed existence of coded words and messages referencing historical people and events hidden within the Hebrew text of the Torah.
Michael Drosnin began to research the Bible Code after meeting Israeli mathematician Dr. Eliyahu Rips of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1992, who, along with colleagues Doron Witztum and Yoav Rosenberg, later authored an academic article entitled "Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis" published in the peer review journal Statistical Science in 1994. The Abstract to this article lucidly states, "It has been noted that when the Book of Genesis is written in two-dimensional arrays, equidistant letter sequences spelling words with related meanings often appear in close proximity." Drosnin was fascinated. Already an accomplished journalist and author, his ensuing work profoundly inspired by this article led to the publication of his second New York Times Best-Seller, The Bible Code, by Simon & Schuster in 1997.
At the time that The Bible Code was published, Dr. Rips, an Orthodox Jew, had been conducting mathematical and computer-generated research on the Torah Code for over two decades, contributing to a field in which Doron Witztum, a Torah Scholar with an MSc in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has been acknowledged by Dr. Rips as a leading authority. Although his initial response to Michael Drosnin's introduction of the Torah Code to the public-at-large was positive, Rips later disagreed with Drosnin's approach and exploration of the issue from what he ultimately deemed to be a flawed non-academic, pop-sci perspective, particularly in respect to Drosnin's assertion that the Code may be used to predict future events, as Drosnin claimed in respect of the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. "The only conclusion that can be drawn from the scientific research regarding the Torah Codes," wrote Rips, "is that they exist and that they are not a mere coincidence." (Public Statement by Dr. Eliyahu Rips, 3 June 1997)
Among Dr. Rips' secular colleagues, critics of Michael Drosnin and The Bible Code abounded. Responding to a public challenge made by Drosnin, himself, Australian computer scientist Dr. Brendan McKay found equidistant letter sequences in the English text of Moby Dick referencing not only the assassination of Rabin, but also those of Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Indira Gandhi, René Moawad, and Leon Trotsky, among others. In turn, McKay's scientific methodology and claimed results were called into question not only by Drosnin, but also a number of his supporters. It is also important to note that Dr. McKay found these associations in the text of Moby Dick after the events in question had occurred.
Notwithstanding the controversy, The Bible Code has sparked belief in the possible among people around the world since its original publication in 1997. In May of that same year, Warner Bros. acquired the film rights to the book, which Drosnin later adapted into a screenplay, working in collaboration with Producer/Writer/Director Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham. For Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Bill Gerber, then Presidents of Production at Warner Bros., The Bible Code "addresses the age-old questions of our purpose on Earth, the meaning of the Bible, and our uniqueness in the universe - all issues that have stimulated the imagination for thousands of years." Sadly, Warner Bros. never greenlit the film. In 2010, Relativity Media once again purchased the movie rights to The Bible Code, as well as its two sequels, to the same end. ("WB Gains Rights to 'Bible' ", Variety, 30 May 1997)
On 9 June 2020, still an atheist and fervent defender of the Bible Code, Michael Drosnin succumbed to a heart condition, passing away in Manhattan at the age of 74, leaving behind his ex-wife, author Nona Cleland, his sister, Barbara Drosnin, and two nieces, Wende Brown and Julie Gozan.- Ain Kaalep was born on 4 June 1926 in Tartu, Estonia. He was an actor, known for Jõulud Vigalas (1981) and Monoloogid 3D (2011). He was married to Astrid. He died on 9 June 2020 in Estonia.
- Oskar Hering was born on 13 May 2013 in Germany. He died on 9 June 2020 in Germany.
- Lonnie Wheeler was born on 27 March 1952 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was married to Martie. He died on 9 June 2020 in New Richmond, Ohio, USA.
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Krystyna Krupska-Wysocka was born on 19 September 1935 in Stolpce, Nowogródzkie, Poland [now Stowbtsy, Minsk Oblast, Belarus]. She was an assistant director and director, known for Mamo, czy kury potrafia mówic? (1997), Ptaszka (1996) and Zuraw i czapla (1988). She died on 9 June 2020 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Make-Up Department
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Coni Andress has been a licensed hair stylist since 1978. Worked for 15 years with a wonderful group of talented artists in Boston area hair salons. Began a career in film in 1994 and was accepted into IATSE Local 798 in the same year. Became a Journeyman Hair Designer in 1999. Knowledgeable in application, care and styling wigs of all kinds. Well versed in re-creating period hair styles. Keeps up with educational classes to maintain excellence in current hair cuts, styles and techniques. Trained with Goldwell Hair Colors. Worked on numerous television series and feature films through the years. Enjoys a good reputation as honest, hard working and easy to get along with.- Anatoli Trushkin was born on 28 October 1941 in Chelyabinsk, USSR. He was a writer, known for Nuzhnye lyudi (1986) and Fuse (cinema journal) (1962). He was married to Natalia. He died on 9 June 2020 in Moscow, Russia.
- Paul Rochester was born on 15 July 1938 in Lansing, Michigan, USA. He was married to Nancy. He died on 9 June 2020 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
- Michael F. Goldman was born on 28 September 1939 in Manila, Philippines. He was a producer, known for Jessi's Girls (1975). He was married to Giulia Gagliani. He died on 9 June 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.