Smith, Johnny Mathis, Martina McBride, Donny Osmond, and Olivia Newtown-John. He has hosted the radio show Your Weekend with Jim Brickman since 1997 and is the founder of Brickhouse Direct which is a strategic marketing and e-commerce solutions company. He has released many albums since 1994 and has had #1 singles on the US Adult Contemporary charts with the songs “Simple Things” (with Rebecca Lynn Howard) and “Sending You A Little Christmas” (with Kristy Starling)....
Early Life Joey Lauren Adams was born on January 9, 1968, in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Adams is one of three children, and her father was a lumberyard owner. Joey graduated from North Little Rock Northeast High School in the mid-1980s and then spent a year abroad in Australia. After returning to the United States, she decided to focus on a career in entertainment and subsequently moved to Hollywood. Career Adams began her professional on-camera career while a child with a small role in the film “Exorcist II: The Heretic....
Steppenwolf released a total of 13 studio albums through 1990. Their best known singles are “Born to Be Wild” which reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and “Magic Carpet Ride” which reached #3 on the same chart. Kay’s debut studio album Forgotten Songs and Unsung Heroes was released in 1972 and reached #50 in Canada. He released a total of six studio albums. Even though he was never a Canadian citizen he was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2004....
Kraft’s family purchased the New England Patriots in 1994. He was the Vice President from 1994 to 1999, the Vice Chairman from 2000 to 2005, and President from 2005 to present. Kraft and his father are the owners/investors of the Revolution since their inception in 1995. They expressed interest in purchasing Liverpool F.C. in 2005 and helped bring matches in the 1994 FIFA World Cup to Foxboro Stadium. Jonathan married Patricia Lipoma in 1995 and the couple has three children together....
Since 2002 he has won more than two dozen AVN Awards. His first full length movie featured a pro wrestling valet for WCW named Chastity. Jordan has more than 180 directing credits to his name as well as 135 acting and 136 producing credits. He has also done cinematography, writing, and composing for his videos.
As we detail later in this article, between 2004 and 2014 alone, Mike earned $400 million in salary, bonuses, and equity compensation. At the time of his retirement, he was also entitled to a retirement package worth $27 million, AND the company agreed to pay him $1 million per year as an annual bonus for the rest of his life. Unfortunately for Mike, Abercrombie canceled the $1 million annual bonus in the aftermath of an October 2023 BBC documentary that featured male models who accused him of sexual abuse and sex trafficking during his time as CEO....
Midway through 2012, Aamer was part of a massive investigation into spot fixing. He was accused of, and ultimately found guilty of, conspiracy charges for bowling two-deliberate no-balls during the national team’s 2010 tour of England. During the investigation, Aamer’s deal with kit supplier BoomBoom Cricket was suspended. After being convicted by the International Cricket Council at the end of 2011, Aamer appealed his six-month prison sentence, though his petition was dismissed....
Early Life Nicolas Cage was born Nicolas Kim Coppola on January 7, 1964, in Long Beach, California. His father, August Coppola, was a professor of literature, and his mother, Joy Vogelsang, was a dancer and choreographer. August passed away from a heart attack in 2009. Cage has two brothers and attended Beverly Hills High School and UCLA’s School of Theatre. Through his father, Cage is the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire and the cousin of directors Sofia Coppola and Roman Coppola and actor Jason Schwartzman....
Early Life and Education Noah Lyles was born on July 18, 1997 in Gainesville, Florida to Keisha and Kevin, both former track and field athletes. He has two siblings named Josephus and Abby. Lyles struggled with asthma growing up, and was homeschooled during his early years. After his parents divorced, he relocated to Alexandria, Virginia with his mother and siblings. There, Lyles attended T. C. Williams High School, where he competed in track and field....
From 2005 to 2012 he played or Manchester United where he scored 19 goals in 200 games. Sung played for Queens Park Rangers from 2012 to 2014 and was loaned to PSV Eindhoven from 2013 to 2014. He also represented Korea in international competition on the Under-23 and senior teams. Sung won four Premier Leagues, three Football league Cups, four FA Community Shields, a UEFA Champions League, a FIFA Club World Cup, a KFA Football of the Year Award, and an MLS All-Star Game MVP Award....
Tong works for BBC Radio 1 and hosts programs as well as DJing at festivals and nightclubs. He is recognized as being an ambassador for electronic music. In 2008 Tong helped organize the International Music Summit in Ibiza. He held residency at Pancha nightclub in Ibiza from 2003 to 2007. Tong has released over 40 mix albums over the years. BBC Radio 1’s The Pete Tong Show regularly has over two million listeners....
Reed was on the board of directors of Facebook from 2011 to 2020. Ironically he is not, and has never been a Facebook user. In fact, he has described social media as his “idea of hell”. He was on the board of directors of Microsoft from 2007 to 2012. Salary Reed Hastings’ base salary at Netflix is $650,000. That’s a pay cut from the roughly $3 million base salary he earned in many years in the 2010-2014 era....
Ridley Scott has directed numerous iconic films across various genres. His science fiction classics, “Alien” (1979) and “Blade Runner” (1982), revolutionized the genre and have become cultural touchstones. He has also excelled in other genres, with notable works such as the fantasy film “Legend” (1985), the road movie “Thelma & Louise” (1991), and the historical epic “Gladiator” (2000), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2003, Scott was knighted for services to the British film industry....
That’s one home in Miami Beach priced at $35 million, and the other one in Delray Beach for $36.5 million. Both homes are only two among many owned by Weiner as he’s reportedly put more and more resources into real estate investments in both Florida and California. Weiner bought the Miami Beach property in 2016 for about $20 million, and according to the listing agent he’s done significant work on it since then, putting in a new audio system, landscaping lighting, a Jacuzzi, and a catering kitchen....
In 1997, he was cast as a series regular on “Home and Away” and began to build an audience following. He appeared on the show through 2002. He then made the move to Hollywood, and has since appeared in such film and television projects as “Tru Calling”, “Summerland”, “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”, “Flicka”, “Griff the Invisible”, and the upcoming “The Right Kind of Wrong”. He is most widely recognized for his work as Jason Stackhouse on “True Blood”....
Her parents loved to travel, so the family moved frequently. Orrico was influenced by a variety of musical styles and was a member of a church choir, often accompanying the family on piano when they sang Christian hymns. She says she always loved Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Ella Fitzgerald and cites her other musical influences as Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn and Toni Braxton. Orrico wrote her first song, Always Answer, at the age of six....
At 27 years old she opened her first restaurant Scylla as the chef-owner, but it has since closed. Stephanie Izard won a James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef: Great Lakes in 2013 for Girl and the Goat. She has appeared on other TV series including Top Chef Duels. Stephanie Izard defeated Bobby Flat, Masaharu Morimoto, and Michael Symon on the Food Network series Iron Chef Gauntlet in 2017 to win the title of Iron Chef....
During his relatively brief career (so far), Teskashi has been able to earn extraordinary sums of money. He has purportedly signed several appearance and contract deals that had the ability to pay, cumulatively, tens of millions of dollars. We’ll discuss Tekashi’s finances in more detail in the next paragraph. 2024 Record Contract In October 2024, Tekashi69 revealed that he had secured a new record contract with a record company called Kartel Music which would pay $1 million for a future album plus $250,000 per concert for a future tour....
Women make their mark on this list in the 12th and 13th spots with Nicki Minaj and Cardi B with $29 million and $28 million respectively. Cardi B is also the youngest person on the list at 26. Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino is one of two newcomers on the list with $35 million and 10th place. Cardi B also makes the list of the highest paid in hip hop for the first time....
All that’s to say that if you missed a free agent signing here or there, it’s completely understandable. But don’t head into the regular season feeling left out. We’re here to help you get up to speed with the five best free agent signings this offseason, starting with one that impacted the entire landscape of the league. Note: This list only includes players that signed with new teams, not ones that re-signed with their current squads (like Klay Thompson with the Warriors) or were acquired in a sign-and-trade (like Kevin Durant with the Brooklyn Nets)....
