Height: 5′ 6¼” (1.68 m)

Mini Biography:

At 12, Rita B-Lamotte was selected to be a part of a theatrical group called : “Le Theatre Du Grand Bleu”.At 17, she put her feet for the first time on the movie set: “Gladiator” by Ridley Scott. And “film biz” was discovered… From this point in, it all started…Then, Rita went to Nice, France to study psychology at Sophia-Antipolis University where she got her Master’s Degree.During her studies, her love for cinema never left her… . She then attended UCLA Extension where she received the Certificate in Film, Television and and Digital Entertainment Media. There she gets noticed by USC’s Teachers, and had the opportunity to follow the USC program.Rita is a fan of Sci-Fi/Fantasy movies .Today, Rita pursues her career as an actress and director…

Date of Birth: 9 October 1954

Birth Name: Scott Stewart Bakula

Nickname: Bak

Height: 6′ (1.83 m)

Mini Biography:

Scott Bakula came from a musical family. In the fourth grade, he started a rock band and wrote songs for them. Later, he sang with the St. Louis Symphony. He studied Law at the University of Kansas. In 1976, he was first hired professionally in the role of Sam in “Shenandoah” and went to New York. After several small roles on TV, he made “Quantum Leap” (1989).He won a Golden Globe in 1992 for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV series – Drama for “Quantum Leap” (1989) and was nominated for a Tony award in 1988. Today, he lives in Los Angeles and has a farm in upstate New York. IMDb Mini Biography By: A. Nonymous

Spouse:

Chelsea Field (1996 – present) 2 children
Krista Neumann (1981 – 1995) (divorced) 2 children

Trivia:

Children: Chelsy Bakula (b. 1984), Cody (b. 1991 – adopted) with Neumann; Wil (b. 1995) and Owen (b. 1999), with Field.
Appeared on the cover of the March 1995 issue of Playgirl Magazine. In the interview inside, illustrated with several photos of Scott baring his hairy chest, he stated that he wouldn’t have a problem doing a nude scene in a movie.
The white streak in his hair appeared when he was four years old. He had been helping a neighbor paint, and his mother thought he had gotten paint in his hair.
His daughter Chelsy appeared in the “Quantum Leap” (1989) episode “Memphis Melody.”
Last name means “flower”.
Member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
Has speculated (half jokingly) that Jonathan Archer’s middle name is Beckett. This is in reference to Dr. Sam Beckett, the character Bakula portrayed on “Quantum Leap” (1989).
The only actor to have two roles included in TV Guide’s “25 Legends of Sci-Fi,” One entry noted the character of Sam Beckett from “Quantum Leap” (1989), while the other entry noted all of the Captains from the various Star Trek series, which would of course include his role of Jonathan Archer from “Enterprise” (2001).
The song “Somewhere in the Night,” which appeared in an episode of “Quantum Leap” (1989), was sung by Bakula and can be found in a CD single format.
His 1988 Tony nomination was as Best Actor (Musical) for “Romance/Romance,” written by Barry Harman. The winner in that category that year was Michael Crawford for “Phantom of the Opera,” Scott was not the producers’ first choice for the role but was chosen after Armand Assante turned it down. When Scott left “Romance/Romance” to do “Quantum Leap” (1989), he was replaced by Barry Williams for the remainder of the show’s Broadway run.
Ran the Los Angeles Marathon on March 6, 2005 in 4 hrs 10 mins 41 secs.
Has starred in five different series which were canceled: “Gung Ho” (1986), “Eisenhower & Lutz” (1988), “Quantum Leap” (1989), “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” (1996) and “Enterprise” (2001).
Has been directed by James Whitmore Jr. in episodes of three different series: “Quantum Leap” (1989), “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” (1996), and “Enterprise” (2001).
His second wife Chelsea Field auditioned for the role of Captain Kathryn Janeway on “Star Trek: Voyager” (1995).
His father-in-law (Chelsea Field’s father) once sold a horse to William Shatner.
Coincidentally, his fictional character named Capt. Jonathan Archer is similar to real-life Star Trek: Voyager novelist Nathan Archer.
The surname Bakula is very common in Croatia and very rare in the Czech Republic. During the premiere of the first season of Star Trek: Enterprise in Croatia, some Croatian newspapers, like Slobodna Dalmacija, conducted a few interviews with Croatians named Bakula, especially with people from Dalmatia and Herzegovina, in an effort to determine Scott Bakula’s origin. It is also possible, as a lot of Croats have lived in the Czech Republic for centuries, that Scott’s ancestors are among them.
Best remembered by the public for his starring role as Doctor Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap (1989) and as Captain Jonathan Archer on Star Trek: Enteprise (2001).

Personal Quotes:

“When I used to do tours, I’d be anxious and nervous on the plane returning to New York. I now realize the reaction was because I was coming back unemployed. Actors are constantly being put to the test.”
On how he got the role of Captain Jonathan Archer: “Kerry McCluggage and Garry Hart were both at Universal when I did Quantum Leap. We had a long and very good relationship. My production company was already at Paramount when they approached me. I was excited, but wanted to meet Rick Berman and Brannon [Braga] and read the pilot script. Once I read that and met with the guys it was kind of a no-brainer in terms of a role to play, a place to work, with great collaborators, and it would keep me at home for the next few years.” (Sept/Oct 2006, Star Trek Magazine issue #1)
On the best thing about playing a Star Trek captain: “I was very excited. I was a huge fan of the original Star Trek, and I’d never even dreamed that I would someday be captain of a starship… I’m a big fan of the future of space programs on this planet, especially if it’s a space program that can proceed in a peaceful fashion, keeping weapons out of space.” (Sept/Oct 2006, Star Trek Magazine issue #1)
I like fantasy. I’ve always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in. I don’t know what makes you that kind of person. Some people probably don’t have time for fantasy. I probably have too much time for it.

Mini Biography:

Ralph Bakshi worked his way up from Brooklyn and became an animation legend. Born on October 29, 1938, in Haifa, Bakshi grew up in Brownsville after his family came to New York to escape World War II. Bakshi attended the Thomas Jefferson High School and was later transferred to the High School of Industrial Arts and graduated with an award in cartooning in 1957.At the Terrytoons studio, he started as a cel polisher then graduated to cel painting. Practicing nights and weekends, he quickly became an inker and then an animator. There, he worked on such shows as Mighty Mouse, Heckle and Jeckle, Deputy Dawg, Foofle and Lariat Sam. At 28 he created and directed a series of superhero spoof cartoons called The Mighty Heroes.In 1967, Bakshi moved to Paramount Studios. Working with producer Steve Krantz, Bakshi worked on episodes of the Spider-Man TV series and several short films. In the 1970s, Bakshi set out to produce films using his innovative vision for how animated films should be. Krantz suggested Robert Crumb’s “Fritz the Cat” comic book as Bakshi’s first feature. The two set out to meet with Crumb and get the film rights. In 1972, the film premiered and was extremely successful, as the first feature-length animated film to receive an X rating by the American rating system (when it was distributed worldwide, it generally received lower ratings the equivalent of an R rating, and was released as being unrated on DVD).The success of “Fritz the Cat” allowed Bakshi to produce films featuring his own characters and ideas, and so “Heavy Traffic” and “Coonskin” were produced, both of which were extremely controversial, but were praised by critics. During the same period, he shot and completed another feature titled “Hey Good Lookin’” for the Warner Brothers studio, who didn’t think that a combination of live-action and animation would sell, and forced Bakshi to go back and animate the live-action sequences.During this period, Bakshi also produced two very successful fantasy films: “Wizards” and part one of an animated film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.” Although these films were financially successful, they were misunderstood by critics, and United Artists, the studio that produced “The Lord of the Rings” refused to fund the second part, or sequel to Bakshi’s ambitious adaptation.During the 1980s, animation went into a decline. “American Pop,” done using the same style of realistic animation as “The Lord of the Rings” was not successful financially, and critics did not see the point of the film being animated. The finished version of “Hey Good Lookin’” was released during the same year as “American Pop,” but was also unsuccessful financially. Bakshi’s last film of the decade, “Fire & Ice,” a collaboration with famed artist Frank Frazetta, was a flop.Bakshi produced several television features with mixed results before returning to film with what would eventually become “Cool World” – the script was rewritten several times during production without Bakshi’s knowledge until it came to the point where Bakshi did not recognize his own work. The film was critically scorned, and was a box office flop. Fans feel that the film is not a true Bakshi film.Since then, the Internet and DVD releases of Bakshi’s work have brought him a new generation of fans and increased interest, encouraging Bakshi to produce another film. “Last Days of Coney Island” is currently in production. Bakshi currently lives in New Mexico. A three-day retrospective was held at American Cinematheque at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, California and the Aero Theater in Santa Monica, California in April, 2005. IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous

Spouse:

Liz Bakshi (? – present) 4 children

Trivia:

He directed The Rolling Stones’ “The Harlem Shuffle” music video.
Was the inspiration for the voice of the Comic Book Guy from “The Simpsons” (1989).
He left Hollywood and filmmaking to spend his remaining life painting pictures, but during the back-to-back recording for a guest appearance on “Ren & Stimpy ‘Adult Party Cartoon’” (2003) and the DVD commentary for his 1977 film Wizards (1977), he was bit by the animation bug again, and has recently (2005) begun work on his latest feature, currently titled “Last Days of Coney Island.”
Father-in-law of Jonathan Yudis.
Father of Preston Bakshi, Eddie Bakshi, Mark Bakshi and Victoria Bakshi. Mark Bakshi is president of Paramount production.
Comedian Richard Pryor, film directors Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino and Wu Tang Clan are credited as fans of Bakshi’s film, Coonskin (1975). Tarantino wrote the forward to the hardcover book “Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi”.
Greatly dislikes and is very critical of Don Bluth’s films.
Is an avid fan of Jean-Luc Godard.
Visualizes a scene by listening to music, which usually plays over the scene in the finished film.

Personal Quotes:

I think it’s impossible to do [J.R.R. Tolkien]. It’s impossible to get the brilliance of what he wrote about — just the medium, the book, the novel gives you other areas of imagination [that] film can’t allow. Film has to describe and show. With the brilliance of his words and his scenes, you imagine whatever you want. I’m sure various people imagine different things.
Sweetheart, I’m the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that’s all I’m going to say.
John and a bunch of guys were working for me in my studio on storyboards before Mighty Mouse. Bobby’s Girl was the project, Tri-Star bought the movie. John and a bunch of other artists designed it [the same guys who went to work on Mighty Mouse]. I was the producer/director. The studio would then have sequence directors, designers etc. as usual. The president of Tri-Star, Jeff Sagansky, got fired. The project was canceled by Tri-Star. In panic I sold Mighty Mouse and decided to make John a director to train him on a TV series. Roughly speaking, after that, John really wanted his own studio to produce and direct himself and never really felt comfortable working for anyone else. Even his giant friend Ralph.
[on directing The Rolling Stones music video of "The Harlem Shuffle"] I cast everyone and hired everyone – but my main concentration was taking care of the Stones. It was a lot of work choreographing . . . it was also a blizzard in New York the night we were shooting, and after I returned that night at 4 or 5 am they thought I had checked out without paying, so I spent the night in the lobby. The rest was a blur. Oh yes, there were about 350 groupies on the sound stage and various hangers around – and someone delivered three cases of Scotch or bourbon to Keith’s [Keith Richards] room. I do remember that. Never saw them again! Oh yeah, Keith Richards loved the zoot suit he wore. I had to buy the suits from the costume department because he took them back to England. I loved that. Mick [Mick Jagger] had his purple suit tailored especially for him, so he owned that.
Louise Zingarelli walked into my studio from Chicago and said to me that the guys that she worked with on the newspapers in Chicago told her that she should work for me. She was an extraordinary illustrator and a real tough lady. I thought her best work was Hey Good Lookin’ (1982) and American Pop (1981).
[on working with My Life with the Thrill Kill Cult on the Cool World (1992) "Sex on Wheelz"] “They were very professional, very tired from all the years they were doing punk rock–and very, very funny. The band that consisted of women and men used the bathroom as a dressing and make-up room. Hysterical studio employees walked out shaking their heads. I shot 8mm home movies of that. It’s in a box somewhere – I’ll look for it. It was a one-day shoot – fast and furious.
[about Cool World (1992)] The original concept, way back when I sold the film, was that a live-action cartoonist would go to bed with a cartoon woman in the cartoon world. They had a child immediately that was a strange combination of live action and animation in one character. This son of the underground cartoonist hates himself for what he is and isn’t and goes back to the real world to track his father down. The picture was originally an R-rated horror film. Slash and the rest of the characters in “Cool World” were just friends of Holli and looked nothing like their child.
When I had my own company on Heavy Traffic (1973) and Coonskin (1975), all metaphors were able to get to the screen clearly. In Cool World (1992), with the producer and Paramount watching me carefully to make sure I was in good taste, I instinctively poured stuff into the picture that I wanted to talk about. But when you force stuff, it’s not really very clear. But, I have a great love for Max Fleischer, especially some of his black-and-white Betty Boops with their strange Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong black folk tale jazz hipness that part of “Cool World” was a homage in style to those films and that style of cartooning. The Grim Reaper is right out of a Max Fleischer cartoon or old Terrytoons, which is why I hired and love Milton Knight the artist. He understands totally the Uncle Remus fable-like qualities behind Fleischer and Terrytoons. Milton Knight is probably the purest artist of that style in the business. He has a hard time because studios think he is old-fashioned . . . but that’s the point.
The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you’re Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that’s the line I kept walking.
None of my pictures were anything I could ever take my mother to see. You know it’s working if you’re making movies you don’t want to your mother to see.
You can’t be a cartoonist, I don’t care what kind of cartoonist you are, without having passed through this thing of loving fantasy.
I never learned to animate. And I’m not trying to be cute, either. The minute you think you learned it, you’re through. I’ve seen a lot of young animators coming up sensations. They get so good, so fast, so young, they never got any better, it’s extraordinary to see. They never worked hard, so they don’t get better. If you’re an artist, you learn, you keep learning, you keep working.
When you have a high budget, people are looking at you. Low budgets can be godsends for directors. Plus, with the number of people starving on this planet, it’s just wrong to spend that kind of money on films. When you have no money, no one’s looking at you, no one cares. No one cared when I was doing ‘Fritz the Cat’ (1972). Big budget films are filled with terror, filled with community consultations on all levels. But it’s too much money for one man to handle and I’m not a great believer in collaboration. I believe in a directed film, and the vision of a director.

Salary:

Wizards (1977) $100,000

Mini Biography:

Anand Bakshi was one of the greatest and popular lyricists of his time. He was the only lyricist, besides his associate Majrooh Sultanpuri, who enjoyed such a long and illustrious career in Bollywood lyricism and was still going strong after more than 40 years. Like Sultanpuri, Bakshi wrote simple poetry that could be understood by all, and he was in wide demand by all filmmakers.Born in Rawalpindi, 1930, Bakshi was an avid film buff and always dreamt of coming to Bombay and join Bollywood. As his family was against the idea, being composed of mainly bank/military officials, he ran away from home and joined the Navy with the hope of reaching Bombay. But his naval career was cut short with the naval mutiny that occurred in Karachi, and the subsequent partition of India forced him to rejoin his family in Lucknow and take a job as a telephone operator. But he was still determined to go to Bombay, and soon fulfilled his dream.Initially, he could make no headway. Disillusioned and dejected, he worked in Delhi as a motor mechanic. But Bakshi was persistent and kept coming back to Bombay, and in 1958 he got a chance meeting with the actor Bhagwan, who offered him a job to write the lyrics for his film Bada Aadmi (1961). Then followed more long periods of struggle until he got his big break in Mehndi Lagi Mere Haath (1962) and Jab Jab Phool Khile (1965), both films by Suraj Prakash. Their success, particularly the latter film with its Kashmiri love story, brought Bakshi to the fore. However it was only with the blockbuster Milan (1967) that he was recognized as a lyricist par excellence, with tunes from the film being hummed all over the country. Anand Bakshi had arrived, and from then there was no looking back for him.A golden age followed for Bakshi, during which he wrote lyrics for box-office hits like Amar Akbar Anthony (1977), Ek Duuje Ke Liye (1981), Sholay (1975) and his favourite film, Amar Prem (1971) – the first two having been composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal and the last two by Rahul Dev Burman. He also worked with renowned directors like Raj Kapoor, Subhash Ghai and his close friend Yash Chopra, and composed lyrics for all their successes, notably Bobby (1973) for the socialist Kapoor, Taal (1999) for masala director Ghai and Dil To Pagal Hai (1997) for the romantic Chopra. Indeed, it seemed that for a film to be a box-office success all it needed was great music – and lyrics by Anand Bakshi!Bakshi’s career kept at an all-time high until 30 March 2002, when he passed away in Bombay. He had been quite ill for a few months and had been undergoing treatment for cardiac-related problems. His death was a tragic loss to Bollywood Cinema, especially for those connoisseurs of great music and lyricism. However, even after his death, directors continued to use lyrics he compiled before his death. Such dedication and trust in a lyricist already gone proved why Anand Baskhi was truly one of the elite lyricists of all time… IMDb Mini Biography By: Q. Leo Rahman

Trivia:

Wrote the lyrics to over 4000 songs
He worked for several music/film directors whose sons went on to forge a career for themselves: Sachin Dev Burman and Rahul Dev Burman; Kalyanji Veerji Shah and Anandji Veerji Shah and Viju Shah; Roshan and Rajesh Roshan; Nadeem Saifi and Shravan Rathod and Sanjeev Darshan; Manmohan Desai and Ketan Desai; Gulshan Rai and Rajiv Rai; and Yash Chopra and Aditya Chopra.
His original intention was to be a playback singer and not a lyricist. However, he did sing a song with Lata Mangeshkar in Mom Ki Gudiya (1972).
He was the only lyricist, besides Sahir Ludhianvi who made it a point to attend all the recordings of film songs where his lyrics were featured.
His ancestors were from Kuri, near Rawalpindi, and had origins in the region of Kashmir.
Bakshi wrote the lyrics for the debut films of Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff, Kamal Hassan, Kumar Gaurav, Rajnikant, Rakhee Gulzar, Dimple Kapadia, Amrita Singh, Jayapradha, Manisha Koirala, Tabu, Mahima Chaudhry, Namrata Shirodkar and Arjun Rampal.
He worked for several music/film directors whose sons went on to forge a career for themselves: Sachin Dev Burman and Rahul Dev Burman; Kalyanji Veerji Shah and Anandji Veerji Shah and Viju Shah; Roshan and Rajesh Roshan; Nadeem Saifi and Shravan Rathod and Suneel Darshan; Manmohan Desai and Ketan Desai; Gulshan Rai and Rajiv Rai; and Yash Chopra and Aditya Chopra.

Personal Quotes:

“A lyricist is a poet at heart. But he does not write to satisfy his own creative urges, and does not unnecessarily display his knowledge of language. As a lyricist in films, one has to write for every conceivable situation and for characters ranging from a tawaif to a child, a boatman to a pop star. I hate using heavy language – anything can be written with simplicity. In our country we demand funny qualifications of a poet. You must write in obscure language, attend mushairas, contribute to Urdu magazines and publish books in verse! But look at our folk songs – many of them have greater depth than all the shaayari and heavy kavitayen!”
“A song always exists hidden in a given situation. All that I have to do is take it out!”
“I mentally tape a situation and try and see the circumstances, mood and story before and after the song. You cannot write the same song, even for the same feelings, when the lovers are meeting clandestinely and when they are meeting openly.”
“I miss writing the sad song, which is extinct today. Probably the people are very happy. Or maybe there is so much sadness that they cannot bear to see it on screen too!”
“The lyrics of any song depend on the story, the theme and the situation for which it is created. A song can be written to match any mood, occasion or whatever age group the script demands. So whether it is a story of the 1960s, 1970s or today, it doesn’t really make a difference.”

Birth Name: Jaimee Dimitra Bakoulis

Nickname: JJ

Height: 5′ 7″ (1.70 m)

Mini Biography:

Born to Mary and Angelo Bakoulis in the King George’s hospital, this Sydney girl was a child prodigy, after her brief appearance in a TV series, she decided to focus on her schooling. Now in her final year of school she plans to rekindle her career in Hollywood.Performed at the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Para Olympic closing ceremonies alongside Nikky Webster.She has 2 brothers Tommy (16) and Jonathan (6), 1 sister Kelly-Maree (10). IMDb Mini Biography By: Grace Fowler

Trivia:

Attends PLC Sydney, where she participated in Rowing, Productions and general Common Room partying.

Date of Birth: 10 August 1987

Birth Name: Jimmy Johannes Bakkum

Height: 6′ 3½” (1.92 m)

Mini Biography:

Jim Bakkum, born on the 10th August 1987, always had a thing for music. He, his brother (who now plays in his band) and two kids from around the block had their own band called ‘The Kids’. With parents who were also into music, the musical family performed many times. At the age of 15 Jim auditioned for Idols, and finished second. The boy got thousands of fans, and wasn’t able to walk on the streets any more. His first CD came out; impressed with several hits, and a duet with Idols winner Jamai. Jim won several awards, and in 2003 his second CD Ready came out. This one had two hits, and Jim also started to act. He made his debut with Baantjer, where he played Rick, and later he played in Snowfever, where he sang on the soundtrack. Jim also did Dancing with the Stars, which he won. And in 2005 he made a CD called ‘Dance with me’ inspired by Dancing with the stars. IMDb Mini Biography By: Jaiden

Trivia:

Has an older brother, Danny.
Released debut album, “Impressed”, on August 12th 2003.
Has had hits with the songs ‘Tell Her’ (platinum record), ‘This Love Is Real’ (golden record) and ‘The Way It Goes’. Also released a Christmas song which he wrote himself: ‘The Greatest Christmas Gift’. This song unfortunately did not do well at all.
Has a pet dog called Micky.
Became second in the Dutch “Idols!” (2002).
Along with dance partner Julie Fryer he won the Dutch “Dancing with the Stars” (2005/II).

Height: 5′ 10½” (1.79 m)

Mini Biography:

Rifaz started his martial arts training at the age of 6 in Kyokushin Karate. Very soon he got attracted to doing stunts and acrobatics. First he did some free-fighting and stunt-skating, and later on he got more attracted in doing stunts and acrobatics. Rifaz loved combining his acrobatic and martial arts skills. Then he find out about “martial arts trickz” and went training it with Ron Smoorenburg. Rifaz is addicted to extreme martial arts and trains everyday. Every training he is pushing himself to take his physical limits to extremes.In the past years, Rifaz has worked with the people from the B-Pro Stunt Team in the movies B-Team, Bum Fu and CineBAAAH! as an actor and stuntman. Rifaz also appeared in various magazines, videoclips, TV-spots, movies, and TV-programs with his skills as a stuntman, a b-boy, a martial artist, and an actor. Rifaz is also a member of the stunt company Team Trickz.nl. IMDb Mini Biography By: jonnieboy (Johan Aders)

Date of Birth: 10 November 1992

Height: 5′ 7″ (1.70 m)

Mini Biography:

Katya Baker-Lavine was born in San Francisco, California on November 10, 1992. She began acting when she was seven years old in local plays, and eventually began working in commercials, industrials, film, television and print. She lives in Northern California and regularly auditions in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. She plans to pursue acting and modeling in the future as well. IMDb Mini Biography By: bcal