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- Comedian and song and dance man of Broadway musicals, film and television. After making his Broadway debut in David Merrick's "Vintage '60", Patterson appeared in "The Billy Barnes People", the national touring company of "Bye Bye Birdie" and opposite Carol Burnett in "Fade Out, Fade in". His last musical was "Smile", a spoof of beauty pageants. Patterson, who was a nightclub stand-up comedian, wrote material for the Las Vegas acts of Debbie Reynolds and Rich Little.
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Although her parents did not approve of her becoming a belly dancer, she became world renowned. Although Islam frowned upon belly dancing, she was the only one recognized with a public funeral procession. She performed in over 300 movies and television shows. She gave up dancing in 1963 but as late as the mid-1980's ran her own theater in Cairo, helping to write and choose plays, as well as directing and producing. She took to wearing the Islamic head scarf before retiring completely from public view 13 years ago. Though the hold of fundamentalist Islam on Egyptian society has virtually wiped out public manifestations of her art, she was in the end granted the official approval her parents withheld, as the Egyptian Culture Minister, Farouk Hosni, led her funeral procession. The stuff of legend, she married 14 different husbands and once slapped King Farouk when he threw an ice cube down her dress. She had roles in more than 300 movies and television shows.- Actor
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Willy Millowitsch was born on 8 January 1909 in Cologne, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985), Das Paradies der flotten Sünder (1968) and Der Etappenhase (1956). He was married to Gerda Feldhoff and Linny Lüttgen. He died on 20 September 1999 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.- Raisa Maksimovna Gorbacheva is a Soviet and Russian public figure, wife of the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the CPSU, USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev.
During the reign of her husband, she became one of the active women on a European scale, became a laureate of a number of public awards, an honorary professor at universities in Europe, America, and Asia. PhD in Philosophy.
As the wife of the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the CPSU, and later the President of the USSR, accompanied Gorbachev on his trips, participated in receptions of foreign delegations coming to the Soviet Union, regularly appeared on television, often causing dislike of Soviet women, many of whom it seemed she often changes outfits and talks a lot.
Abroad, the personality of Raisa Gorbacheva aroused great interest and high marks. So, the British magazine Woman's Own called her the Woman of the Year (1987), the International Fund Together for Peace awarded Gorbacheva the Women for Peace Award, and in 1991 the Lady of the Year Award. - Haru Endô was born on 8 August 1933 in Tokyo, Japan. She was an actress, known for Tomu Sôyâ no bôken (1980), Ranma ½ (1989) and Periinu monogatari (1978). She died on 20 September 1999 in Japan.