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...Born in the southern Malian village of Niéna - a place that even today has no electricity or running water - Koné came to France at 10, unable to speak the local language. He got a prelaw degree in the hope of becoming a police inspector. A talent for boxing earned him two French amateur titles and selection to represent France in the 1996 Summer Games. But an auto accident in early 1995 shattered his left knee; Koné required 12 operations and five years of rehabilitation. The injury ended Koné's Olympic and career dreams...
...takes a specific kind of talent to pull off this type of performance, and it took Black almost two decades to figure out how to harness his talent successfully. "I first met him when he was 12," says Tim Robbins, who, as the co-founder of the Los Angeles theater troupe the Actors' Gang, gave Black a role in the play Inside Eddie Binstock. "After that, he just kept coming back and hanging out." Black's parents, divorced rocket scientists, encouraged their son's artistic hanging out, and as Black matured and enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles...
Holman had a talent for brushing up against interesting people and things--literally. He occasionally got into trouble for groping a piece of statuary or other priceless artifact, and his biographer takes full advantage of any occasion for a rich, satisfying digression. Holman met François Huber, a pioneering blind entomologist who, like Holman, had managed to carve out a career despite his disability. He studied bees using a special hinged hive that opened and shut like a book. Holman sailed with William Owen, the brilliant, illegitimate, eccentric naval captain who surveyed the coast of Africa...
...Sharp. “He developed a great department, not just doing all of the brilliant work himself, but having people around him who did brilliant work as well,†Sharp says, adding that over the years, Leder has identified and promoted “remarkable young talent.†Recruited by HMS, Leder says that the post was a “second opportunity†that allowed him “to change research directions and help build a new team.â€He now lives with his wife, Aya, in Chestnut Hill, Mass...
...asking another hot woman out on a date--sometimes for the second or third time, even if he didn't remember asking before. As a performer he's more frenetic, having made a career of playing supercharged supporting characters as if he were Al Pacino on a leash. His talent is being big and real simultaneously. Piven's brilliant, nuanced take on agent Ari Gold in HBO's Entourage (which returns to Sundays at 10 p.m. E.T. on June 11) is a cartoon of male rage--and Piven says he's holding back. "I could actually be a lot bigger...