"television critic Jack Gould called Rivers ""quite possibly the most intuitively funny woman alive"". In 2017, ""Rolling Stone"" magazine ranked her sixth on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time, and in October the same year, she was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame. Joan Alexandra Molinsky was born on June 8, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York, to Russian Jewish immigrants Beatrice (née Grushman) and Meyer C. Molinsky. She had an elder sister named Barbara Waxler. Rivers spent her early life in Prospect Heights and Crown Heights in Brooklyn, where she attended the progressive"
"Joanne Nosuchinsky Joanne Nosuchinsky (born September 26, 1988) is an American actress, beauty pageant titleholder, and co-host of ""Mornin'!!!"" on Compound Media. Joanne appeared as a permanent panelist on the Fox News Channel's late-night show ""Red Eye w/ Tom Shillue"", along with other Fox News programming. Nosuchinsky was also the 2013 Miss New York USA. Nosuchinsky is from Freehold Township, New Jersey. She went to the Performing Arts Center at Howell High School. In 2010 she graduated from Rider University (summa cum laude) with a BA in Fine Arts and a focus on theatre. She has Italian and Ukrainian ancestry"
"Her cancer worsened, and, on 15 June 2015, she died at age 40. Jeanna Friske Jeanna Vladimirovna Friske (; born Jeanna Vladimirovna Kopylova; 8 July 1974 – 15 June 2015), better known by the stage name Zhanna Friske, was a Russian actress, singer and model. She was a member of the girl group Blestyashchiye. Her father Vladimir Kopylov (later known as Vladimir Friske) is of German descent; his mother Paulina Friske was born to a Black Sea German family in the Odessa Oblast then in the Soviet Union. She graduated in 1991 from secondary school No. 406, Perovo District, Moscow."
"Joy Osmanski Joy Kathleen Osmanski (born October 29, 1975) is a Korean-American actress. She is best known for her wide range of comedic roles on the TV shows ""The Loop"", ""Samantha Who?"", ""True Jackson, VP"" and lately ""Devious Maids"". Joy is also known for her recurring role on ""Grey's Anatomy"" and her voicing of the Failsafe AI in the video game Destiny 2. Osmanski currently plays the recurring character ""Maggie Tompkins"" on the NBC show ""Save Me"" starring Anne Heche. She has also voiced ""Julie"" on the FOX animated show ""Allen Gregory"", created by and also starring Jonah Hill. She"
"asylum. He elevated feeling and action in his writing. A ""New York Times"" review said, ""How ironic that in erasing the real ugliness of his insanity, the old version silenced not only Nijinsky's true voice but the magnificently gifted body from which it came. And how fortunate we are to have them both restored."" This version inspired new artistic works - three plays in 1998 alone. (see below) Romola de Pulszky Romola de Pulszky (or Romola Pulszky), (married name Nijinsky; 20 February 1891 – 8 June 1978), was a Hungarian aristocrat, the daughter of a politician and an actress. Her"
"Jeanna Friske Jeanna Vladimirovna Friske (; born Jeanna Vladimirovna Kopylova; 8 July 1974 – 15 June 2015), better known by the stage name Zhanna Friske, was a Russian actress, singer and model. She was a member of the girl group Blestyashchiye. Her father Vladimir Kopylov (later known as Vladimir Friske) is of German descent; his mother Paulina Friske was born to a Black Sea German family in the Odessa Oblast then in the Soviet Union. She graduated in 1991 from secondary school No. 406, Perovo District, Moscow. She studied journalism at Moscow University, but abandoned it. Friske's common-law husband is"
"She divided her time between homes in Manhattan, Sandisfield, Massachusetts, and Domrémy-la-Pucelle, France, the birthplace of Joan of Arc. For the stage, she designed the costumes for George Balanchine's production of Tchaikovsky's ""The Nutcracker"", among others. Barbara Karinska was born Varvara Andreevna Jmoudsky () in Kharkov, now Ukraine, the Russian Empire, in 1886, to a successful textile manufacturer. She was the third and eldest female of the ten Jmoudsky siblings. Ukrainian embroidery was an art form filled with detailed shades and colors of varying texture of stitches – some tiny and fine and others broad and rough. This was Karinska's"
"Monica Lewinsky Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American activist, television personality, fashion designer, and former White House intern. President Bill Clinton admitted to having had what he called an ""inappropriate relationship"" with Lewinsky while she worked at the White House in 1995–1996. The affair and its repercussions (which included Clinton's impeachment) became known later as the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal. As a result of the public coverage of the political scandal, Lewinsky gained international celebrity status; she subsequently engaged in a variety of ventures that included designing a line of handbags under her name, being an advertising spokesperson"
"Joanna Salska Joanna Salska, also working under the pseudonym Uba Owl, is a Polish-American Visual artist known for her fine art gallery paintings and for founding the interdisciplinary art movement, Alterrealism. She currently works out of Berkeley, California. Salska initially came to the United States in 1982, funded by a Yaddo Foundation grant. Joanna Salska was one of 14 US artists chosen for the 4th Beijing International Art Biennale, 2010, taking place at the Beijing National Art Museum. She has exhibited widely in galleries and museums and throughout US, Europe and Asia. Joanna Salska as Uba Owl has created a"
"In 1934 Romola de Pulszky published her first biography of Nijinsky, covering his early life and dance career. She discovered his diary, written before he went into an asylum, which she published in a ""bowdlerized"" version in 1936. She published a biography of her husband's later years in 1952, two years after his death in London. Romola de Pulszky was born in Hungary as the second daughter of Emilia Márkus, the most renowned Hungarian actress of her time, and Károly (Charles) Pulszky (1853-1899), a Hungarian politician, member of Parliament and director of the Hungarian National Gallery of Art. His family"
"Maina-Miriam Munsky Maina-Miriam Munsky (born Meina Munsky: 24 September 1943 - 26 October 1999) was a German artist. She came to prominence in West Berlin during the 1970s with a series of ""larger than life"" (""""großformatige"""") paintings of births, abortions and . Meina Munsky was born the second of her parents' two daughters in Wolfenbüttel at the height of the Second World War. Oskar Munsky (1910-1945 or 1947), her father, was a young architect who had studied with Hans Poelzig and worked during the 1930s on several high-profile public projects such as the Reichswerke Hermann Göring (industrial complex) and the"
"Terézia Vansová Terézia Zuzana Vansová née Medvecká, pseudonyms Johanka Georgiadesová, Milka Žartovnická and Nemophila (1857–1942) was a pioneering Slovak female writer and editor during the period of realism. She wrote poetry in both German and Slovak, founded the first Slovak women's journal ""Dennica"", and went on to write plays and novels. She became widely known for her novel ""Sirota Podhradských"" (The Podhradskýs' Orphan, 1889) which was deemed suitable for girls. Terézia Medvecká was born with a twin brother in Zvolenská Slatina on 18 April 1857. She was the seventh child of Terézia (née Langeová) and the Lutheran pastor Samuel Medvecký."
"Ivan Olinsky Ivan Gregorewitch Olinsky (1 January 1878 – 11 February 1962) was a Russian-American painter and art instructor. Olinsky was born in Elizabethgrad, Russia (now Kirovohrad, Ukraine). After immigrating to the United States at the age of twelve he studied at the National Academy of Design, then worked for the American muralist George Willoughby Maynard, then for Elmer Garnsey, then for John La Farge in Boston until about 1906. Olinsky became best known for his female portraits in a style that tended towards Impressionism. He was awarded full membership in the National Academy of Design in 1919, and served"
"in 1985. She studied at the London School of Journalism and worked as a journalist for the ""Daily Mail"", contributing a page for the financial section. She moved back to the United States in 1989. She worked as a council trainer and facilitator at Crossroads School, Santa Monica, California and several others schools from 1989 to 1995. She has been Director of Leadership Directories, Inc. since 1993. She is currently married to Bob Sorel. Jill Townsend Jill Townsend (born January 25, 1945) is an American actress best known for her roles as Elizabeth Chynoweth in ""Poldark"" and Dulcey Coopersmith in"
"Poland. Jadwiga Smosarska Jadwiga Smosarska (23 September 1898 – 1 November 1971) was a Polish film actress. She appeared in more than 25 films between 1919 and 1937, as well as various stage productions. Smosarska was known for playing characters representative of Polish clichés that reflected the suffering of the country's citizens. Patriotic, romantic and in good social standing, her the characters often struggled with malaise and a tragic love life. In the 1920s she rose to fame in Poland as one of Sfinks Film Studio's leading stars after Poli Negri left the country for Germany. Smosarska fled Warsaw in"
"famous. He helped promulgate the myth Lana Turner had been discovered there, when actually, it had been another Sunset Boulevard establishment, The Top Hat Cafe, which was closer to Lana's alma mater, Hollywood High. He helped champion and was very close to Marilyn Monroe. While Skolsky might not have created the nickname ""Oscar"" for the Academy Award, he is the first person to use the nickname in print for Hollywood's premier award, in his 16 March 1934 column. In 1946, he became a movie producer with ""The Jolson Story"" (1946), which was nominated for several Academy Awards. He followed it"
"she painted a series of pictures of sombre and unoccupied rooms, along with views out through faint window panes and house fronts. Maina-Miriam Munsky Maina-Miriam Munsky (born Meina Munsky: 24 September 1943 - 26 October 1999) was a German artist. She came to prominence in West Berlin during the 1970s with a series of ""larger than life"" (""""großformatige"""") paintings of births, abortions and . Meina Munsky was born the second of her parents' two daughters in Wolfenbüttel at the height of the Second World War. Oskar Munsky (1910-1945 or 1947), her father, was a young architect who had studied with"
"four million additional citizens to the category. Orshansky, a native-born U.S. citizen, was characterized incorrectly in the show as an Eastern European immigrant who created a United States ""cost of living formula ... based on life in Poland during the Cold War."" Mollie Orshansky Mollie Orshansky (January 9, 1915 – December 18, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who, in 1963–65, developed the ""Orshansky Poverty Thresholds"", which are used in the United States as a measure of the income that a household must not exceed to be counted as poor. Miss Orshansky was born January 9, 1915, the third"
"of ""Marle Springer"". Her information led to localization and destruction of the German battleship . Stanislaw Danielewicz worked on breaking Enigma machine ciphers. Karola Uniechowska(1904–1955) was voluntary medical doctor during World War II, she also participated in the Battle of Monte Cassino while Zofia Uniechowska (1909–1993) - achieved Order of Virtuti Militari for conspiracy against Nazi government in Poland. Stefan Ścibor-Bogusławski (1897–1978) was richly awarded Colonel, also for his decisive actions in the Battle of Monte Cassino. Stanisław Chrostowski (1897–1947) was a professor and artist. Maxim Rylski (1895–1969) became a famous poet in Ukraine. There is a park and institution"
"Jane Wymark Jane Wymark (born 31 October 1952) is an English actress. The daughter of English actor Patrick Wymark (1926–1970) and the American writer and playwright Olwen Wymark, she is best known for playing Morwenna Chynoweth Whitworth (Morwenna Carne by the close of the series) in the 1970s BBC television period drama ""Poldark"" (1977), and more recently as Joyce Barnaby (1997–2011) in the ITV detective series ""Midsomer Murders"". She has appeared in UK television dramas such as ""The Bass Player and the Blonde"", ""A Touch of Frost"", ""Dangerfield"", ""Lovejoy"" and ""Pie in the Sky"". She also appeared as Jill Mason"
"and from the University of California, San Diego with an MFA from the graduate acting program. Joy Osmanski Joy Kathleen Osmanski (born October 29, 1975) is a Korean-American actress. She is best known for her wide range of comedic roles on the TV shows ""The Loop"", ""Samantha Who?"", ""True Jackson, VP"" and lately ""Devious Maids"". Joy is also known for her recurring role on ""Grey's Anatomy"" and her voicing of the Failsafe AI in the video game Destiny 2. Osmanski currently plays the recurring character ""Maggie Tompkins"" on the NBC show ""Save Me"" starring Anne Heche. She has also voiced"
"Maggie Kirkpatrick Margaret Anne Kirkpatrick (née Downs; born 29 January 1941) is an Australian actress who is best known for her portrayal of the character Joan Ferguson, a sinister and cold lesbian prison officer, nicknamed ""The Freak"", in the popular Australian television soap opera ""Prisoner"". She performed as Madame Morrible in an Australian production of the musical ""Wicked"". Kirkpatrick has appeared in such popular series as ""Water Rats"", ""Home and Away"" and ""All Saints"". Margaret Anne Downs was born in Albury, New South Wales, to James and Crissie Downs. When she was seven months old her father was killed while"
"while Karinska worked in Hollywood. Under this arrangement she won her Oscar for Joan of Arc and her Oscar nomination for Hans Christian Andersen. These were the “Golden Years”. The label “KARINSKA Stage and Art Inc.” was sewn into costumes for Ice Shows, Musicals, legitimate theater, motion pictures, lyric opera and the most important for the Lady from Kharkov –Ballet. At the end of the German occupation of Paris, Irène Karinska reopened her costume atelier and worked successfully until retirement in the 1970s. Due to the fact that Irène's work was often credited as ""Costumes par Karinska"", researchers have credited"
"Hope"" alongside Delany. After living 18 years beyond the original prognosis, Monsky died on May 11, 2002, at age 48, due to complications from the disease. Sharon Monsky Sharon Monsky (1953–2002) founded the Scleroderma Research Foundation. Monsky was born in Omaha, Nebraska on October 23, 1953. She was a competitive figure skater as a teenager. Monsky received a BA in Economics at Pitzer College, where she also met her future husband Mark Scher. She received her MBA from Stanford University in 1980, while living in San Francisco and working on the Pacific Stock Exchange. In 1982, while working as a"
"she would executive producer season 2 of ""The Girlfriend Experience"". She was instrumental in instigating Jenkins' sophomore feature, ""Moonlight"", including getting him to decide on concepts, scouting locations and recommending Mahershala Ali for the role of Juan. She won an Academy Award for Best Picture for producing her 2016 film ""Moonlight"". In addition to producing, Romanski has also written and directed the 2012 film ""Leave Me Like You Found Me"". In February 2018, she was selected to be on the jury for the main competition section of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival. Adele Romanski Adele Romanski () is an"
"Mollie Orshansky Mollie Orshansky (January 9, 1915 – December 18, 2006) was an American economist and statistician who, in 1963–65, developed the ""Orshansky Poverty Thresholds"", which are used in the United States as a measure of the income that a household must not exceed to be counted as poor. Miss Orshansky was born January 9, 1915, the third of six daughters of Samuel and Fannie Orshansky; Jewish immigrants who settled in the Bronx after leaving Ukraine. She attended Hunter College High School, and received an A.B. in mathematics and statistics from Hunter College in 1935. Orshansky continued graduate studies in"
"Magalski is a certified holistic health coach (HHC) specializing in emotional eating & “spiritual” food, lifestyle entrepreneur, motivational speaker, author, TV host, and philanthropist. Whether struggling with a lack of energy, anxiety, major life change, or weight loss, her mission is to support others with tools to feed their spirit, mind, and body. Magalski founded Divine Lifestyles, a weekly podcast and Healing is Hot (Healthy on-Going Transformation) TV to create a platform to share her experiences with others who seek to live a happy, healthier, and purpose driven life. She has been featured on FOX 5 LIVE, as a health"
"Gabriela Zapolska Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska (1857–1921), known as Gabriela Zapolska, was a Polish novelist, playwright, naturalist writer, feuilletonist, theatre critic and stage actress. Zapolska wrote 41 plays, 23 novels, 177 short stories, 252 works of journalism, one film script, and over 1,500 letters. Zapolska received most recognition for her socio-satirical comedies. Among them, ""The Morality of Mrs. Dulska"" – a tragic-farce about petty-bourgeois – is considered the most famous internationally. It is regarded as a landmark of early modernist Polish drama. Her stage plays were translated into foreign languages, and performed at Polish and European theatres, as well as"
"Joan Palevsky Joan Palevsky (February 23, 1926 – March 21, 2006), a former wife of Max Palevsky, was an investor and philanthropist who contributed to many charitable organizations during her lifetime and after. On October 30, 2006, it was announced that her estate had made a $200 million bequest to the California Community Foundation. There is also a classical literature imprint of the University of California Press named after her. With Max Palevsky she had two children, Madeleine Moskowitz and Nicholas Palevsky. Joan Palevsky grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from UCLA. She earned her master's degree in French"
"Nijinsky (film) Nijinsky is a 1980 American biographical film directed by Herbert Ross. Hugh Wheeler wrote a screenplay that explores the later life and career of Vaslav Nijinsky; it was based largely on the premier danseur's personal diaries (a bowdlerized 1936 version was edited and published by his wife, Romola de Pulszky), and her 1934 biography of Nijinsky, largely ghostwritten by Lincoln Kirstein, who later co-founded the New York City Ballet. The film suggests Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality. He became involved with Romola de Pulszky, a society girl who joined impresario"
"Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, ""née"" Kossak (24 November 1891 – 9 July 1945), was a prolific Polish poet known as the ""Polish Sappho"" and ""queen of lyrical poetry"" during Poland's interwar period. She was also a dramatist. Born in Kraków into a family of painters, Maria Kossak grew up surrounded by artists, writers, and intellectuals. Her grandfather, Juliusz Kossak, and father, Wojciech Kossak, were both professional painters famous for their depictions of historical scenes and horses. Her younger sister, Magdalena Samozwaniec, was also a popular writer of satire. Fluent in French, English, and German, in her youth, Kossak divided her"
"Juliya Chernetsky Juliya Chernetsky (, ""Yulia Chernetska""; born July 10, 1982), is a television personality best known for her popularity on the music-themed network Fuse, formerly known as MuchMusicUSA. She is best known by her stage name Mistress Juliya. She hosted the heavy metal-themed program ""Uranium"" and a call-in and e-mail advice program called ""Slave to the Metal"". She formerly hosted ""Fuse Top 20 Countdown"" along with several online programs that she self-promotes. Chernetsky was born in Ukraine and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Fort Hamilton High School and Hunter College. She was a big fan of MMUSA"
"Jadwiga Smosarska Jadwiga Smosarska (23 September 1898 – 1 November 1971) was a Polish film actress. She appeared in more than 25 films between 1919 and 1937, as well as various stage productions. Smosarska was known for playing characters representative of Polish clichés that reflected the suffering of the country's citizens. Patriotic, romantic and in good social standing, her the characters often struggled with malaise and a tragic love life. In the 1920s she rose to fame in Poland as one of Sfinks Film Studio's leading stars after Poli Negri left the country for Germany. Smosarska fled Warsaw in 1939,"