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Writer Brian Taggert was born on January 29, 1938 in California. Of Scottish descent, Taggert was raised by his grandparents in LA's Hancock Park after his parents divorced when he was a child up until he was about ten years old. Moreover, Brian was an alter boy in the Episcopal Church. Following graduation from high school, Taggert served in the military where he was stationed in Germany. Brian embarked on a brief acting career and spent three years in Scotland. While in Scotland Taggert studied dramatic art at the Royal Scottish Academy and literature at the University of Edinburgh. Brian eventually decided to switch gears and focused on writing instead of acting. After spending six years breaking into the entertainment industry, Taggert began his writing career doing teleplays for episodic television in 1973. Brian went on to pen screenplays for several theatrical films and made-for-TV movies. In addition, Brian not only taught a script-writing course at UCLA's film school called "Things That Go Bump in the Night: Writing the Thriller/Horror/Sci-Fi Picture," but also wrote scripts on spec in his latter days. Taggert died on June 1, 2019 from a heart attack at age 81 at his home in Los Angeles, California.- Known as the "Queen of Creole Cuisine," Leyah "Leah" Lange Chase has fed Quincy Jones, Jesse Jackson, Duke Ellington, Thurgood Marshall, James Baldwin, Ray Charles, Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and countless others as Executive Chef of Dooky Chase's Restaurant - one of the best-known and most culturally significant restaurants in New Orleans. Leah Chase has more recently served as the inspiration for Princess Tiana in Disney's Princess and the Frog.
Born on January 6, 1923 in New Orleans, Chase was one of 14 children. She was raised in nearby Madisonville, LA. At the time, there were no catholic high schools for black girls in Madisonville, so after sixth grade, Chase moved to New Orleans to live with an aunt so that she could attend school. After high school, her favorite job was waiting tables in the French Quarter. It was here that she developed her love for food and feeding others.
In 1945, she met local musician Edgar "Dooky" Chase Jr., whose father had opened a street corner stand selling lottery tickets and his wife's homemade po'boy sandwiches. The couple married in 1946 and eventually took over the business, which had become a sit-down restaurant and a favorite local gathering place.
In a town deeply divided by segregation, the Dooky Chase Restaurant was one of the only public places in New Orleans where mixed race groups could meet to discuss strategy for the local Civil Rights Movement. Such gatherings were illegal through most of the 1960s, but Dooky Chase's was so popular it would have caused a public uproar if local law enforcement had interrupted the meetings. Black voter registration campaign organizers, the NAACP, backdoor political meetings and countless others often found a home at Dooky Chase's, and Leah cooked for them all.
Chase is also a patron of art and her collection - displayed on the walls of her restaurant - was at one time considered New Orleans' best collection of African American art. She served on the board of the New Orleans Museum of Fine Arts until her death, and she has even testified before Congress to lobby for greater funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. She has participated in countless political campaigns and has used her culinary talents and celebrity status to raise money for a myriad of charities and services. Her cookbooks, including The Dooky Chase Cookbook, And Still I Cook, and Leah Chase: Listen, I Say Like This, are popular and have received great praise among her most famous colleagues.
Chase has received many awards, including multiple awards from the NAACP, the New Orleans Times-Picayune 1997 Loving Cup Award, the Weiss Award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the Outstanding Woman Award from the National Council of Negro Women. Chase was inducted into the James Beard Foundation's Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America in 2010. She was honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Southern Foodways Alliance in 2000. Chase received honorary degrees from Tulane University, Dillard University, Our Lady of Holy Cross College, Madonna College, Loyola University New Orleans, and Johnson & Wales University. She is also the recipient of the Francis Anthony Drexel Medal, the highest award presented to an individual by Xavier University of Louisiana. The medal is not presented annually. The Southern Food and Beverage Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana named a permanent gallery in Chase's honor in 2009. She also serves on many boards, including the Arts Council of New Orleans, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Urban League. She is member of the Women of The Storm and the International Women's Forum. She has four children, sixteen grandchildren and twenty-two great-grandchildren.
Many were attracted to her warmth and mastery of culinary arts, that to this day still excite the minds of those she served. Ray Charles sang about her, and National and International Presidents have sought her out, but in all her ability to excite the palates of Leaders she has remained steadfast in her ministry to all. - Zhanna Sukhopolskaya was born on 7 January 1932 in Leningrad, USSR. She was an actress, known for Prostaya veshch (1958), Little Hare (1965) and Chetvero (1958). She died on 1 June 2019 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
- Salvador Wood was born on 24 November 1928 in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. He was an actor, known for I Am Cuba (1964), Death of a Bureaucrat (1966) and La segunda hora de Esteban Zayas (1984). He was married to Yolanda. He died on 1 June 2019 in Havana, Cuba.
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- Additional Crew
Keawe Thurston was born on 18 September 1978 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. He is known for Logan (2017), Ad Astra (2019) and Tears of the Sun (2003). He died on 1 June 2019 in Hawaii, USA.- Director
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Camille Billops started as a sculptor and painter, became a filmmaker, and amassed a treasure trove of books, documents, and photographs related to black culture.She was born in Los Angeles in 1933 and studied art at the University of Southern California there and later switched to childhood education, the field in which she got her degree in 1960, at California State University.Her putting up her daughter Christa for adoption two years later, because she did not want to be a mother, became a source of controversy, especially when Billops later made a documentary about their reunion.In this period and into the 197os, with a white scholar of black theater in New York City named James V. Hatch who would become her husband, she presided over a 4,000 square feet artistic loft in the Soho neighborhood of that city which served as a hub for collaborations, a salon for musicians and other performers.A grant from the National Endowment for the Arts allowed her and Hatch to record over 1,200 oral histories about black artists.These interviews and the other material she and her husband collected are now houses at Emory University.Billops died in Manhattan on June 1st of 2019.- Actor
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Michel Serres was born on 1 September 1930 in Agen, France. He was an actor and writer, known for L'enfant hors-taxes (1997), La légende des sciences (1997) and La grande allure (2e partie) (1985). He died on 1 June 2019 in Paris, France.- Gennadiy Matveev was born on 24 May 1946. He was an actor, known for Ekipazh (1980), Tyurma osobogo naznacheniya (2006) and Bastards (2006). He died on 1 June 2019 in Moscow, Russia.
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- Writer
- Director
Chase became interested in entertainment at a very young age, with no family or ties to the industry Chase started to work wherever he could, soon it became obvious that Chase was one of the filmmakers bringing work to his region of Lexington, Kentucky, his hometown. Chase has managed to work consistently and professionally even still being a young and hungry newcomer to the scene. His biggest obstacles has been navigating being there for his family which has given him a foundation of which to build this career off of, branching out of film and into music and so on, there is more to come for this young upstart.- Harish was born in 1979 in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India. He was an actor, known for Jai Gangaajal (2016), Appudappudu (2003) and When the Road Bends... Tales of a Gypsy Caravan (2006). He died on 1 June 2019 in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
- Nikola Dinev was born on 18 October 1953 in Nova Zagora, Bulgaria. He died on 1 June 2019.
- Christobel Mattingley was born on 26 October 1931 in Brighton, South Australia, Australia. She was a writer, known for Social Development Series (1982), Skeletons Aren't Scary (1981) and Inside the Magic Circle (1982). She was married to David. She died on 1 June 2019 in Glenside, South Australia, Australia.
- John Myers was born on 11 April 1959 in Carlisle, Cumbria, England, UK. He died on 1 June 2019 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear, England, UK.