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Jeff Kaufman
Jeff Kaufman (born July 6, 1955) is an American film producer, director, writer, and illustrator. Kaufman produced, wrote, and directed the documentaries ''Every Act of Life,'' ''The State of Marriage,'' ''Father Joseph,'' ''The Savoy King: Chick Webb and the Music That Changed America,'' ''Brush With Life: The Art of Being Edward Biberman,'' and ''Education Under Fire''. He also directed and produced episodes for ''Unsolved History'', a Discovery Channel documentary television series, and the Discovery Channel special ''WTC 9/11: Stories from the Ruins''. His other documentary films include ''40 Million'', which featured Nasrin Sotoudeh and other Iranian women's rights activists. Kaufman has contributed cartoons to ''The New Yorker'', as well as illustrations to ''The Los Angeles Times'' and ''The New York Times''. Kaufman is married to Marcia Ross, a casting director and documentary producer. Radio Kaufman hosted the radio talk show "The Talk of Vermont" in Vermont for five year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcia Ross
Marcia S. Ross (born July 1955) is an American casting director and documentary producer. Early life and education Marcia Ross was born in Mount Vernon, New York, the daughter of Joan (née Flug) and Richard Ross (1927–2012); her father was a New York State Assemblyman for the 88th District. She is of Jewish heritage. She attended Northwestern University, (1973-1975) as a theatre major and has a B.A. from Antioch University Los Angeles (class of 2016). Career Her first professional job was as an apprentice in summer stock theatre at the Westchester Playhouse in Yonkers, NY followed by touring with a children's theatre company working as an assistant stage manager for producers ''Barry and Fran Weissler'' (1976). She then worked at ''Circle in the Square Theatre'' in NYC (1976) and the Monty Silver Talent Agency (1977). Her first casting job was at CBS Television in New York City (1979); she then relocated to Los Angeles to work with casting directorJudith Holstra- start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vermont
Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. Admitted to the union in 1791 as the 14th state, it is the only state in New England not bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. According to the 2020 U.S. census, the state has a population of 643,503, ranking it the second least-populated in the U.S. after Wyoming. It is also the nation's sixth-smallest state in area. The state's capital Montpelier is the least-populous state capital in the U.S., while its most-populous city, Burlington, is the least-populous to be a state's largest. For some 12,000 years, indigenous peoples have inhabited this area. The competitive tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Abenaki and Iroquoian-speaking Mohawk were active in the area at the time of European encounter. During the 17th century, Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Births
Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan). * January 22 – In the United States, The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), armed with nuclear weapons. * January 23 – The Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17, near Birmingham, England. * January 25 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941. * January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Formosa from the People's Republic of China. February * February 10 – The United States Sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Unsolved History Episodes
This article is a list of episodes of documentary television series ''Unsolved History''. Episodes Season 1 # '' Gettysburg: Pickett's Charge'' # ''The Death of the U.S.S. Maine'' # ''Inside Hitler's Bunker'' # ''Forensics in the White House'' # ''Custer's Last Stand'' # ''The Alamo'' # ''The Iceman Mystery'' # ''Pearl Harbor: Death of the Arizona'' # '' The Death of the Red Baron'' (produced by Termite Art Productions) – concluded that the legendary German air ace ''Rittmeister'' Manfred von Richthofen was killed by Gunner W. J. "Snowy" Evans of the 53rd Australian Field Artillery Battery. However, some other sources suggest that the fatal shot was fired by Sgt Cedric Popkin of the 24th Australian Machine Gun Company.''Dogfight - The Mystery of the Red Baron'' Channel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunting Nazis
Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, or killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to harvest food (i.e. meat) and useful animal products ( fur/ hide, bone/ tusks, horn/antler, etc.), for recreation/ taxidermy (see trophy hunting), to remove predators dangerous to humans or domestic animals (e.g. wolf hunting), to eliminate pests and nuisance animals that damage crops/ livestock/ poultry or spread diseases (see varminting), for trade/tourism (see safari), or for ecological conservation against overpopulation and invasive species. Recreationally hunted species are generally referred to as the ''game'', and are usually mammals and birds. A person participating in a hunt is a hunter or (less commonly) huntsman; a natural area used for hunting is called a game reserve; an experienced hunter who helps organize a hunt and/or manage the game reserve is known as a gamekeeper. Many non-human animals also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
