Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Lane Garrison

Lane GarrisonWho is Lane Garrison?

Lane Garrison is a young American Actor best known for his role as David 'Tweener' Apolskis on "Prison Break." Lane Garrison was born in Dallas, Texas on May 23, 1980 and other acting credits include 2007's Shooter starring Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña and Danny Glover, "Night Stalker," and Crazy starring Ali Larter and Waylon Payne.

When it seem liked he was on his way to having a promising acting career, he is now known for pleading guilty to vehicular manslaughter and now serving time for drunken driving on December 2, 2006 which lead to the death of a 17 year old kid after a crash.



Lane Garrison Links:
Lane Garrison @ IMDB.com
Lane Garrison @ Wikiepedia.com


Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer Who is Octavia Spencer?

Octavia Spencer is an is an American comedian and actress from Montgomery, Alabama. She is best known for her role as Serenity Johnson on Halfway Home which made its debut in March of 2007.

As Serenity Johnson, she lived in a residential rehab facility after being convicted for armed rubbery, and while the cast had great chemistry, (which included Jordan Black, Regan Burns, Jessica Makinson, Oscar Nunez and Kevin Ruf.) the show was not renewed for another season. Despite this, she has continued on as a working actor and set the appear in "Pretty Ugly People" with Missi Pyle, "Next of Kin," and "Small Town Saturday Night."

Octavia began her acting career in 1995 and has since made a slew of appearances in film and television. Shows and movies she has appeared in include "Ugly Betty" Pulse, "CSI: NY" "Medium" Beauty Shop, "LAX" Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous, "NYPD Blue" Coach Carter, "Titus" "City of Angels" "Malcolm in the Middle" Big Momma's House "The X Files" "Roswell" "Moesha" and much more.

Octavia Spencer

Julie Smolyansky

Julie SmolyanskyWho is Julie Smolyansky?

Julie Smolyansky is the President, CEO, and Director of Chicago-based "Lifeway Foods," which was founded by her father; Mike Smolyansky. Mike Smolyansky came to the United States of American in 1976 from Russia and he founded Lifeway Foods in 1986. Lifeway Foods provides specialty dairy foods such as Kefir, Farmer's Cheese, and Sweet Kiss to stores such as Whole Foods and Wild Oats. After Mike Smolyansky died in 2002, Julie Smolyansky took over the company at the young age of 27.

Julie Smolyansky attended the University of Illinois studying to become a Psychologist however delved into the family business in 1997 after she realized she had a lot to contribute to the Marketing Strategies. After Julie took over in 2002 shares of Lifeway Foods have constantly been on the rise and an annual revenue of $27.7 million.

In October is 2007 Lifeway Foods, Inc. reported a record number of sales for the third quarter of the year (which ended September 30, 2007). The increase has been noted to be based on the Lifeway and Helios Kefir lines. This has put Julie Smolyansky in the spotlight of one of the top CEOs under 40.

Julie Smolyansky at NASDAQ
Julie Smolyansky on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at NASDAQ's MarketSite in Manhattan, NY ringing the closing bell