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Édouard Molinaro (13 May 1928 – 7 December 2013) was a Frenchfilm director and screenwriter.[1] He was born in Bordeaux, Gironde, .

He is best known for his comedies with Louis de Funès (Oscar, etc.), My Uncle Benjamin (with Jacques Brel and Claude Jade), Dracula and Son (with Christopher Lee), and the Academy Award-nominated La Cage aux Folles (with Michel Serrault and Ugo Tognazzi). Molinaro was active as a director until a few years before his death, although he had almost exclusively been producing works for television.[2]

In 1996, his cinematic work was awarded the Prix René Clair, a prize given by the Académie française for excellent film work.

Scola was born in Trevico, Avellino, and Campania. He entered the film industry as a screenwriter in 1953, and directed his first film,Let’s Talk About Women, in 1964. In 1974 Scola enjoyed international success with We All Loved Each Other So Much (C’eravamo tanto amati), a wide fresco of post-World War II Italy life and politics, dedicated to fellow director Vittorio De Sica. The film won the Golden Prize at the 9th Moscow International Film Festival.[1] In 1976 he won the Prix de la mise en scène at 1976 Cannes Film Festival for Brutti, sporchi e cattivi.

Since then Ettore Scola has made several successful films, including A Special Day (1977), That Night In Varennes (1982), What Time Is It? (1989) andCaptain Fracassa’s Journey (1990). Scola has directed close to 40 films in some 40 years, and is still active. His film Passione d’amore, adapted from a nineteenth-century novel, was adapted by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine into the award-winning musical Passion. He was a member of the jury at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.

LIO was born in Mangualde, Portugal.

In 1979, together with songwriter Jay Alanski, she and Duvall began working with Marc Moulin and Dan Lacksman from the electro-trio Telex. “Le banana split”, which sold over 1 million copies, and “Amoureux solitaires”, a song originally by punk rock band Stinky Toys. Both songs rose to the top of many pop charts in France, and Moulin and Lacksman also produced her self-titled first album. Her second album, Amour toujours, was produced by Alain Chamfort and released in 1983.The same year, she first appeared on the screen in Chantal Akerman’s film Golden Eighties, a lighthearted, humorous French pop musical about the people who work together in a Parisian shopping center. Lio plays a carefree hairdresser in the movie.

In 1985 she met record company executive and producer Michel Esteban, of ZE Records. She continued to have hit singles in Europe, including “Les brunes comptent pas pour des prunes”, and travelled to Los Angeles with Esteban to record her next album Pop model. In 1988, after she had given birth to a daughter with Esteban, she resumed her acting career, starring in Claude Lelouch’s film Itinéraire d’un enfant gâté.

She appeared in three films in 1990 and 1991, Chambre à part, Sans un cri, and Après l’amour. Her 1991 album, Des fleurs pour un caméléon, was produced by Étienne Daho – she had already contributed vocals for one of Daho’s earliest and biggest hits, “Week-End À Rome”. Her next album, Wandatta, presenting a more mature approach in contrast with her previous image, and with a sleeve designed by Guy Peellaert, was released in 1995. In 1998, she recorded with Esteban in Cuba, and in 1999 she appeared in 50 performances of the French adaptation of Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, a musical staged at the Folies Bergère. She had two kids that year. She released the single Je suis comme je suis and the album Chante Prévert containing interpretations of the poems of Jacques Prévert, in 2000. After performing the songs on tour throughout France, Europe and North Africa, she released the live album Cœur de rubis in 2004. She also appeared in over 250 performances of the theater play Le bébé, an adaptation of a book by Marie Darrieussecq staged by Marc Goldberg.

Since 2008, Lio has been a judge on the French”pop idol” showNouvelle Star. In 2009, she returned to music with the rock band Phantom. In 2011, she became a judge on The Voice Belgique.

Evelyne Bouix was born on April 22, 1953 in Charenton-le-Pont, Val-de-Marne, France. She is an actress, known for I miserabili (1982), Édith et Marcel (1983) and Un morceau de soleil (2000). She has been married to Pierre Arditi since May 31, 2010. She was previously married to Claude Lelouch.

Danny Quinn was born on April 16, 1964 in Rome, Lazio, Italy as Daniele Anthony Quinn. He is an actor and director, known for I 5 della squadra d’assalto (1986), I promessi sposi (1989) and David and Lola (1999). He is the son of the great Mexican actor, Anthony Quinn. Quinn works both in the United States than in Italy. One of his early work is Stradivari in 1889, directed by Giacomo Battiato; in this film, dedicated to the violinist Antonio Stradivari, Anthony played with his father, his older brother, Francesco Quinn, and the younger Lorenzo Quinn. In 2007, Quinn played in Go Go Tales, directed by Abel Ferrara.