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Miss World 1992
Miss World 1992, the 42nd edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 12 December 1992 at the Sun City Entertainment Center in Sun City (South Africa), Sun City, South Africa. The winner was Julia Kourotchkina from Russia. She was crowned by Miss World 1991, Ninibeth Leal of Venezuela. Selection of participants Replacements Marina Benipayo was a last minute replacement for original representative Marilen Espino who had to withdraw due to an illness just days before her departure. Debuts, returns, and, withdrawals This edition marked the debut of Croatia, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine and the return of Zambia, which last competed in Miss World 1974, 1974, Seychelles last competed in Miss World 1975, 1975, Bermuda and Uganda last competed in Miss World 1989, 1989 and Canada, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka last competed in Miss World 1990, 1990. Antigua and Barbuda, Ghana, Kenya and Yugoslavia, withdrew from the competition. Melanie Smith of Belize withdrew from the competition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Dee Williams
William December Williams Jr. (born April 6, 1937) is an American retired actor, novelist and painter. He has appeared in over 100 films and television roles over six decades. He is best known for portraying Lando Calrissian in the ''Star Wars'' franchise and has also appeared in critically acclaimed and popular titles such as ''Mahogany'' (1975), ''Scott Joplin'' (1977), and '' Nighthawks'' (1981), as Harvey Dent in ''Batman'' (1989) and '' The Lego Batman Movie'' (2017)'', The Last Angry Man'' (1959), '' Carter's Army'', '' The Out-of-Towners'' (1969), '' The Final Comedown'' and '' Lady Sings the Blues'' (both 1972), '' Hit!'' (1973), '' Fear City'' and '' Terror in the Aisles'' (both 1984), '' Alien Intruder'' (1993) and ''The Visit'' (2000). Raised in Harlem, Williams made his Broadway theatre debut at age seven in '' The Firebrand of Florence'' (1945). He later graduated from The High School of Music & Art, then won a painting scholarship to the National Academy of F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss World 1990
Miss World 1990, the 40th anniversary of the Miss World pageant, was held on 8 November 1990 at the London Palladium in London, United Kingdom. The winner was Gina Tolleson representing United States. She was crowned by Miss World 1989, Aneta Beata Kreglicka of Poland.(18 June 2009)Aneta Kręglicka... skoro piękna, to pewnie głupia ''Gazeta Wyborcza'' (in Polish). Retrieved 23 January 2016. After this event, the Miss World competition began to be held outside the United Kingdom, such as in Atlanta, Hong Kong and Sun City, South Africa. This is the second time that the United States to win Miss World since Marjorie Wallace in 1973 but was dethroned. Debuts, returns, and, withdrawals This edition marked the debut of Romania and the return of Madagascar, which last competed in 1974, Brazil in 1987 and Barbados, the British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Cook Islands, Egypt, India and Uruguay in 1988. Bermuda, Ecuador, Guyana, Malaysia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Taiwan and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Alexis
Kim Alexis is an American model and actress who was famous in the 1970s and 1980s. She appeared on the cover of magazines like ''Sports Illustrated'', ''Vogue'', ''Harper's Bazaar'', '' Glamour'', ''Self'' and ''Cosmopolitan''. Early life Alexis was born in Lockport, New York, and grew up in the suburbs of Buffalo. Her father, Robert, was a chemical engineer. Her mother's name is Barbara. She also has a younger sister, Rhonda. She started to be a swimmer at the age of six and began to swim competitively through her senior year at Lockport High School. She attended college at the University of Rhode Island, and was accepted into a five-year pharmacy program. Alexis was raised Presbyterian, and she and her family attended church every Sunday. Modeling Alexis was one of the top models of the late 1970s and early to mid 1980s, identified along with Gia Carangi, Patti Hansen, Christie Brinkley, Kelly Emberg, Iman, Janice Dickinson, and Paulina Porizkova. In 1983 she became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne De Passe
Suzanna Celeste de Passe (born July 19, 1946, 1947 or 1948) is an American businesswoman, television, music and film producer. De Passe serves as the co-chairwoman of de Passe Jones Entertainment Group. Biography Early life and education De Passe was born in New York City to a Harlem born mother of Jamaican descent and a father of Haitian and French descent. Raised in Harlem, De Passe attended New Lincoln School and graduated from Syracuse University in 1968. Career De Passe began her career in show business at the Cheetah nightclub in New York City. Through her friendship with Cindy Birdsong, who replaced Florence Ballard as a member of The Supremes in 1967, she began working at Motown as creative assistant to company founder Berry Gordy. Early in her career, de Passe developed The Jackson 5's wardrobe and the act they took on the road. She was instrumental in taking the record label to television with a host of notable specials, including ''Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarvis Astaire
Jarvis Joseph Astaire, OBE (6 October 1923 – 21 August 2021) was a British sports executive, boxing promoter, and film producer. Life and career Astaire was born Joseph Golombovitch in Stepney, East London on 6 October 1923. He was the leading boxing promoter in the United Kingdom from the 1950s to the 1980s. He co-promoted with Harry Levine and matchmaker Mickey Duff. Astaire produced ''Agatha (film), Agatha''. He was Consultant to the Sport Division of First Artist Corp. plc from February 2009 on. For much of the early 1970s Astaire owned a controlling stake in Joint Promotions, the former cartel that was the UK's largest professional wrestling organisation from the early 1950s to the late 1980s and which held a monopoly on television coverage of wrestling on ITV (TV network), ITV for most of the that period. He would later play a key role in bringing the WWE, WWF's SummerSlam (1992), SummerSlam '92 event to Wembley Stadium before a crowd of around 80,000. Astaire died in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Delon
Georges Alain Anthony Delon (born September 30, 1964) is an American-born French actor, and son of actors Alain Delon and Nathalie Delon. Biography Delon was born in Los Angeles but grew up in France. He is the son of actors Alain Delon and Nathalie Delon. He had an older half brother Christian Aaron Boulogne and has a younger half brother Alain-Fabien Delon. He has an older half sister, Nathalie Barthelemy, and a younger half sister Anouchka Delon. His paternal grandfather François Fabien Delon was the director of the cinema Le Régina in Bourg-la-Reine while his paternal grandmother Édith Arnold was an employee in a pharmacy. His maternal grandfather Louis Canovas was the manager of a transport company in Morocco while maternal grandmother was Antoinette Rodriguez. Delon stated that he had only met his paternal grandfather once when he was two years old and he also said that he met his maternal grandfather before his death. Delon is the former boyfriend of Princess Stéphan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Morley
Eric Douglas Morley (26 September 1918 – 9 November 2000) was an English television host and the founder of the Miss World pageant and ''Come Dancing'' programme. His widow, Julia Morley, is now head of the pageant and his son, Steve Douglas, is one of its presenters. Life and career Morley was born in Holborn, London, England. He said that his father "was at Oxford and spoke nine languages" but he died young. He attended Whitstable Grammar School in Kent. London County Council sent him to the Royal Navy training ship HMS Exmouth, which was moored at Grays. Here, he broke bars of chocolate to sell to his peers. He joined the Royal Fusiliers at 14 and played french horn in the band. During the war he became a captain in the Royal Army Service Corps, organising entertainment for the troops and fighting in Dunkirk. Mecca Morley started his career in the entertainment business in 1945 when he resigned his commission to manage a travelling show in Scotland. In 1949, he introduce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tero Entertainment
Tero Entertainment Public Co. Ltd., formerly known as BEC-Tero Entertainment and World Media Supply is a mass media and entertainment company in Thailand. It organizes and promotes concerts, owns record labels and produces films and television shows. World Media Supply was formed on 12 May 1994 and BEC-Tero Entertainment was formed on March 27, 1998 as a majority-owned subsidiary of BEC World Public Co. Ltd. (the operator of Thai Channel 3), in a joint venture with Brian L. Marcar, In December 2020 BEC World announced the sale of its shares in BEC-Tero to Marcar, totaling 15 million baht, and the company name was changed to Tero Entertainment. In March 2021, Tero withdrew all programs produced on Channel 3 HD from their programming in order to produce new programs on Channel 7 HD, except for the morning news programs that have been changed to the channel's news department. Sony Music Entertainment (Thailand) In 2001, BEC-TERO entered into a partnership with Sony Music Ente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metinee Kingpayom
Metinee Washington Kingpayome (, , born 1972), later Metinee Kingpayome Sharples, also known as Lukkade (, ) is a Thai actress, model, tv host, producer and beauty pageant titleholder who represented Thailand at Miss World 1992 and Miss World Asia & Oceania 1992. Biography The daughter of Thai father and Thai mother, Kingpayom was born in Maryland and raised in Queens Queens is the largest by area of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Located near the western end of Long Island, it is bordered by the ..., New York City. She has three younger brothers. She won the Miss Thailand World title before she represented Thailand at the Miss World 1992 pageant in South Africa. There, she was crowned Continental Queen of Asia & Oceania. She has since worked as a model, actress and TV presenter. She has been featured on the covers of '' Elle Thailand'' and '' Vogue Thailand'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Kleinhans
Amy Kleinhans-Curd (born 1968) is a South African model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss South Africa 1992, the first person of colour to win in the history of South Africa. She placed Top 5 to Miss World as Miss World Africa on 12 December 1992. Kleinhans also appears on the Afrikaans language South African reality show '' Die Real Housewives van die Wynlande''. Miss South Africa As a 23-year-old Cape Coloured woman, she competed for the first time in 1991 and placed second. She competed the following year and defeated 11 other contestants for the title of Miss South Africa 1992, the first a woman of colour was crowned in the history of Miss South Africa. Her first runner-up was a black woman Augustine Masilela of Soweto, who would be a Top 10 semifinalist at Miss Universe 1995. Kleinhans would crown her successor a year later, Palesa Jacqui Mofokeng, who would be the first black Miss South Africa ever and the second person of colour to capture the cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Gago
Francis del Valle Gago Aponte (born April 15, 1973 in Maturín, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss World Venezuela 1992 and also won Reina Sudamericana 1992 and placed second runner-up to Miss World 1992 as Miss World Americas. Miss World Venezuela Gago, who stands tall, competed in 1992 as Miss Bolívar in her country's national beauty pageant, Miss Venezuela, obtaining the title of ''Miss World Venezuela''. Reina Sudamericana Prior to traveling to South Africa for Miss World 1992, she participated in Reina Sudamericana 1992, held in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, on November 8, where she became Venezuela's first ever titleholder. Miss World 1992 As the official representative of her country to the Miss World 1992 pageant held in Sun City, South Africa on December 12, 1992, she became Miss World Americas and 2nd runner-up to eventual winner Julia Kourotchkina of Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Elizabeth Smith
Claire Elizabeth Smith (born 1970) is a British TV Host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss United Kingdom in 1992. She went on to the Miss World 1992 in Sun City, South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ..., finishing as first runner-up. The winner was Miss Russia, Julia Kourotchkina. References Miss United Kingdom winners Miss World 1992 delegates Living people 1970 births {{UK-model-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
