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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Amazing Sports Celebrities and Their Spectacular Records

World’s Greatest Athletes of All-Time

Here’s a list of exceptionally spectacular athletes from around the world and their amazing achievements.

Rafael “Paeng” Nepomuceno
Rafael “Paeng” Nepomuceno, named the greatest Filipino athlete of all time by Philippine Congress, was also inducted into the International Bowling Hall of Fame in St. Louis, MO. He is bowling 6 times world champion in 4 different decades (1970s,1980s, 1990s, and 2000s)

He is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for three records: 1) for most Bowling World cup wins, 2) for being the youngest ever to win the Bowling World Cup (at 19 years of age), and 3) for having won the most number of bowling tournament titles. In total, Paeng has 118 career bowling titles.

He is the only bowling athlete in the world who has received the prestigious International Olympic Committee President's Trophy and was the first international male bowling athlete to be enshrined in the International Bowling Hall of Fame.

In 1999, the Federation Internationale des Quilleurs (FIQ) named Paeng as the "International Bowling Athlete of the Millennium”.

Roman Sebrle


One of the most spectacular athletes in the world is Roman Sebrle, a Czech decathlete could jump over Shaquille O’Neal. He could throw a 16-pound ball the length of a 53-foot yacht. From a running start, he could leap over a two-lane highway. He has won Olympic gold and silver medals for the Czech Republic and is the current world champion in Decathlon.

Jim Brown

Jim Brown was a NFL running back, named in 2002 by The Sporting News as the greatest professional football player ever. However he could potentially have also had a career in basketball, lacrosse, track and field, baseball and boxing. He is the only person to be admitted to the halls of fame for pro football, college football and lacrosse, and was offered a minor-league deal by the New York Yankees. To top it off, he finished fifth in the 1956 national decathlon championship.

Pete Sampras

Pete Sampras holds record of most number of All-Time Grand Slam singles win in lawn tennis with a total of 14.

Jack Nicklaus

Jack William Nicklaus, a Pro golfer, had won the most major championships in professional golf with 18. He is also known as “The Golden Bear”.

Bo Jackson

Bo Jackson played at the highest level of sports in the United States in both NFL and Major League Baseball, and became the first athlete to be named an All-Star in two major sports. In 1992 Jackson also tried his luck in basketball and he played briefly for a semi-pro team in Los Angeles.

Alex Rodriguez

Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez hit his 400th career homerun in 2005 making him the youngest player in MLB history to pass that milestone at the age of 29.

Jim Thorpe

Jim Thorpe could do it all in track and field, and he was the best football player of his era. Thorpe was an awesome runner, a tenacious tackler, and drop-kicked 50-yard field goals with ease. Thorpe also played baseball, putting in six major-league seasons with the Giants, Reds and Braves and hitting a career .252. After the 1912 Olympics, in which Thorpe won the decathlon and pentathlon, King Gustav V of Sweden called him "the greatest athlete in the world."

Mariusz Pudzianowski

Mariusz Pudzianowski is a five-time World's Strongest Man. He runs laps around the competition and is able to be both quicker and stronger than his fellow strongmen.

Paavo Nurmi

Paavo Nurmi is regarded by many as the best Olympian of all time.

Hank Aaron/Nolan Ryan/Pete Rose

The baseball player with most homeruns is Hank Aaron with 755 career homeruns while Nolan Ryan has the most strikeouts with 5,714 career strikeouts and Pete Rose has the most hits with 4,256 career hits.

LeBron James

LeBron James is the youngest-ever National Basketball Association or NBA All-Star MVP in 2006.

Jeff Gordon

Jeff Gordon is four-time NASCAR Cup Series Champion. At 16, he was the youngest person ever granted a racing license by the United States Auto Club or USAC.

Kareem Abdul-Jabar/ John Stockton

The All-Time NBA record for career points is Kareem Abdul-Jabar with 38,387 while record for career assists is John Stockton with 15,806.

Wilt Chamberlain /Reggie Miller

The rebound king in the National Basketball Association is Wilt Chamberlain with 23,924 and the 3-points king is Reggie Miller with 2,560.

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Amazing Sports Celebrities and Their Spectacular Records

World’s Greatest Athletes of All-Time

Here’s a list of exceptionally spectacular athletes from around the world and their amazing achievements.

Rafael “Paeng” Nepomuceno
Rafael “Paeng” Nepomuceno, named the greatest Filipino athlete of all time by Philippine Congress, was also inducted into the International Bowling Hall of Fame in St. Louis, MO. He is bowling 6 times world champion in 4 different decades (1970s,1980s, 1990s, and 2000s)

He is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for three records: 1) for most Bowling World cup wins, 2) for being the youngest ever to win the Bowling World Cup (at 19 years of age), and 3) for having won the most number of bowling tournament titles. In total, Paeng has 118 career bowling titles.

He is the only bowling athlete in the world who has received the prestigious International Olympic Committee President's Trophy and was the first international male bowling athlete to be enshrined in the International Bowling Hall of Fame.

In 1999, the Federation Internationale des Quilleurs (FIQ) named Paeng as the "International Bowling Athlete of the Millennium”.

Roman Sebrle


One of the most spectacular athletes in the world is Roman Sebrle, a Czech decathlete could jump over Shaquille O’Neal. He could throw a 16-pound ball the length of a 53-foot yacht. From a running start, he could leap over a two-lane highway. He has won Olympic gold and silver medals for the Czech Republic and is the current world champion in Decathlon.

Jim Brown

Jim Brown was a NFL running back, named in 2002 by The Sporting News as the greatest professional football player ever. However he could potentially have also had a career in basketball, lacrosse, track and field, baseball and boxing. He is the only person to be admitted to the halls of fame for pro football, college football and lacrosse, and was offered a minor-league deal by the New York Yankees. To top it off, he finished fifth in the 1956 national decathlon championship.

Pete Sampras

Pete Sampras holds record of most number of All-Time Grand Slam singles win in lawn tennis with a total of 14.

Jack Nicklaus

Jack William Nicklaus, a Pro golfer, had won the most major championships in professional golf with 18. He is also known as “The Golden Bear”.

Bo Jackson

Bo Jackson played at the highest level of sports in the United States in both NFL and Major League Baseball, and became the first athlete to be named an All-Star in two major sports. In 1992 Jackson also tried his luck in basketball and he played briefly for a semi-pro team in Los Angeles.

Alex Rodriguez

Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez hit his 400th career homerun in 2005 making him the youngest player in MLB history to pass that milestone at the age of 29.

Jim Thorpe

Jim Thorpe could do it all in track and field, and he was the best football player of his era. Thorpe was an awesome runner, a tenacious tackler, and drop-kicked 50-yard field goals with ease. Thorpe also played baseball, putting in six major-league seasons with the Giants, Reds and Braves and hitting a career .252. After the 1912 Olympics, in which Thorpe won the decathlon and pentathlon, King Gustav V of Sweden called him "the greatest athlete in the world."

Mariusz Pudzianowski

Mariusz Pudzianowski is a five-time World's Strongest Man. He runs laps around the competition and is able to be both quicker and stronger than his fellow strongmen.

Paavo Nurmi

Paavo Nurmi is regarded by many as the best Olympian of all time.

Hank Aaron/Nolan Ryan/Pete Rose

The baseball player with most homeruns is Hank Aaron with 755 career homeruns while Nolan Ryan has the most strikeouts with 5,714 career strikeouts and Pete Rose has the most hits with 4,256 career hits.

LeBron James

LeBron James is the youngest-ever National Basketball Association or NBA All-Star MVP in 2006.

Jeff Gordon

Jeff Gordon is four-time NASCAR Cup Series Champion. At 16, he was the youngest person ever granted a racing license by the United States Auto Club or USAC.

Kareem Abdul-Jabar/ John Stockton

The All-Time NBA record for career points is Kareem Abdul-Jabar with 38,387 while record for career assists is John Stockton with 15,806.

Wilt Chamberlain /Reggie Miller

The rebound king in the National Basketball Association is Wilt Chamberlain with 23,924 and the 3-points king is Reggie Miller with 2,560.

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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Interesting Facts About Leonardo Da Vinci: Creator of Mona Lisa and The Last Supper

Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the most famous men in history. He is well remembered for his Mona Lisa and The Last Supper – considered as the world’s greatest painting.

1.) Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Florence, Italy. He was never married and had no children.

2.) Da Vinci was left-handed. He is regarded as the most universally recognized left-handed artist of all time. Amazingly, he wrote in mirror image because of his left handedness.

3.) He was a person of exceptional talent and skills. He was a polymath, sculptor, painter, musician, architect, mathematician, scientist, inventor, engineer, geologist, anatomist, writer, cartographer and botanist.

4.) He is regarded as a “Renaissance Man”, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination".

5.) He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.


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6.) Leonardo appears to have had no close relationships with women except for his friendship with the two Este sisters, Beatrice and Isabella.

7.) Beyond friendship, Leonardo kept his private life secret.

8.) Da Vinci’s sexuality has been the subject of satire, analysis, and speculation.

9.) Leonardo's most intimate relationships were perhaps with his pupils Salai and Melzi.

10.) Melzi, writing to inform Leonardo's brothers of his death, described Leonardo's feelings for his pupils as both loving and passionate.

11.) Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, nicknamed Salai or Il Salaino ("The Little Unclean One" i.e., the devil), entered Leonardo's household in 1490.

12.) After only a year, Leonardo made a list of his misdemeanors, calling him "a thief, a liar, stubborn, and a glutton", after he had made off with money and valuables on at least five occasions, and spent a fortune on clothes.

13.) Nevertheless, Leonardo treated him with great indulgence and he remained in Leonardo's household for the next thirty years.

14.) Salai executed a number of paintings under the name of Andrea Salai, but although Vasari claims that Leonardo "taught him a great deal about painting".

15.) In 1515, Salai painted a nude version of the Mona Lisa, known as Monna Vanna.




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16.) Salai owned the Mona Lisa at the time of his death in 1525, and in his will it was assessed at 505 lire the equivalent of £200,000, an exceptionally high valuation for a small panel portrait.

17.) In 1506, Leonardo took on another pupil, Count Francesco Melzi, the son of a Lombard aristocrat, who is considered to have been his favorite student.

18.) Melzi traveled to France with Leonardo, and remained with him until the latter's death.

19.) Upon Leonardo's death, Melzi inherited the artistic and scientific works, manuscripts, and collections of Leonardo, and faithfully administered the estate. His brothers received piece of lands. Salai received half of Leonardo’s vineyards.

20.) Based on Florentine court records of 1476, Leonardo and three other young men were charged with sodomy with a male prostitute but were acquitted.

21.) Leonardo da Vinci was born out of wedlock to a Piero da Vinci, a legal notary and Caterina, a peasant woman.

22.) Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” is the most famous and most parodied portrait in the world.

23.) His “The Last Supper” is the most reproduced religious painting of all time.

24.) At the age of twenty, Leonardo qualified as a master in the Guild of St. Luke, the guild of artists and doctors of medicine.

25.) He died on May 2, 1519 at the age of 67. Da Vinci was buried in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert in Château d'Amboise.


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26.) Da Vinci’s Codex Leicester was bought in an auction for $30.8 million by Bill Gates in 1994. Presently, Codex Leicester is the most expensive book ever sold.

27.) Codex Arundel and Codex Atlanticus are other well known compilations of Da Vinci.

28.) Vitruvian Man is Leonardo Da Vinci’s most famous drawing. It is a study of the proportions of the human body, linking art and science.

29.) Leonardo Da Vinci was a vegetarian and wore brightly-colored clothes.

30.) He is tall, athletic and extremely handsome man.

31.) Leonardo drew the plans for the first armored car and also designed the cannon, a machine gun, gliders, turnspit for roasting meat and canal system to irrigate fields.

32.) Da Vinci was as much an inventor as an artist. Many of the inventions he designed are in use today such as the helicopters and parachutes.

33.) Leonardo Da Vinci was dyslexic.

34.) Leonardo was 23 when Michelangelo was born and 31 when Raphael was born.

35.) Raphael only lived until the age of 37 and died in 1520, the year after Leonardo, but Michelangelo went on creating for another 45 years.
 
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Interesting Facts About Leonardo Da Vinci: Creator of Mona Lisa and The Last Supper

Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the most famous men in history. He is well remembered for his Mona Lisa and The Last Supper – considered as the world’s greatest painting.

1.) Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Florence, Italy. He was never married and had no children.

2.) Da Vinci was left-handed. He is regarded as the most universally recognized left-handed artist of all time. Amazingly, he wrote in mirror image because of his left handedness.

3.) He was a person of exceptional talent and skills. He was a polymath, sculptor, painter, musician, architect, mathematician, scientist, inventor, engineer, geologist, anatomist, writer, cartographer and botanist.

4.) He is regarded as a “Renaissance Man”, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination".

5.) He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.


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6.) Leonardo appears to have had no close relationships with women except for his friendship with the two Este sisters, Beatrice and Isabella.

7.) Beyond friendship, Leonardo kept his private life secret.

8.) Da Vinci’s sexuality has been the subject of satire, analysis, and speculation.

9.) Leonardo's most intimate relationships were perhaps with his pupils Salai and Melzi.

10.) Melzi, writing to inform Leonardo's brothers of his death, described Leonardo's feelings for his pupils as both loving and passionate.

11.) Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, nicknamed Salai or Il Salaino ("The Little Unclean One" i.e., the devil), entered Leonardo's household in 1490.

12.) After only a year, Leonardo made a list of his misdemeanors, calling him "a thief, a liar, stubborn, and a glutton", after he had made off with money and valuables on at least five occasions, and spent a fortune on clothes.

13.) Nevertheless, Leonardo treated him with great indulgence and he remained in Leonardo's household for the next thirty years.

14.) Salai executed a number of paintings under the name of Andrea Salai, but although Vasari claims that Leonardo "taught him a great deal about painting".

15.) In 1515, Salai painted a nude version of the Mona Lisa, known as Monna Vanna.




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16.) Salai owned the Mona Lisa at the time of his death in 1525, and in his will it was assessed at 505 lire the equivalent of £200,000, an exceptionally high valuation for a small panel portrait.

17.) In 1506, Leonardo took on another pupil, Count Francesco Melzi, the son of a Lombard aristocrat, who is considered to have been his favorite student.

18.) Melzi traveled to France with Leonardo, and remained with him until the latter's death.

19.) Upon Leonardo's death, Melzi inherited the artistic and scientific works, manuscripts, and collections of Leonardo, and faithfully administered the estate. His brothers received piece of lands. Salai received half of Leonardo’s vineyards.

20.) Based on Florentine court records of 1476, Leonardo and three other young men were charged with sodomy with a male prostitute but were acquitted.

21.) Leonardo da Vinci was born out of wedlock to a Piero da Vinci, a legal notary and Caterina, a peasant woman.

22.) Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” is the most famous and most parodied portrait in the world.

23.) His “The Last Supper” is the most reproduced religious painting of all time.

24.) At the age of twenty, Leonardo qualified as a master in the Guild of St. Luke, the guild of artists and doctors of medicine.

25.) He died on May 2, 1519 at the age of 67. Da Vinci was buried in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert in Château d'Amboise.


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26.) Da Vinci’s Codex Leicester was bought in an auction for $30.8 million by Bill Gates in 1994. Presently, Codex Leicester is the most expensive book ever sold.

27.) Codex Arundel and Codex Atlanticus are other well known compilations of Da Vinci.

28.) Vitruvian Man is Leonardo Da Vinci’s most famous drawing. It is a study of the proportions of the human body, linking art and science.

29.) Leonardo Da Vinci was a vegetarian and wore brightly-colored clothes.

30.) He is tall, athletic and extremely handsome man.

31.) Leonardo drew the plans for the first armored car and also designed the cannon, a machine gun, gliders, turnspit for roasting meat and canal system to irrigate fields.

32.) Da Vinci was as much an inventor as an artist. Many of the inventions he designed are in use today such as the helicopters and parachutes.

33.) Leonardo Da Vinci was dyslexic.

34.) Leonardo was 23 when Michelangelo was born and 31 when Raphael was born.

35.) Raphael only lived until the age of 37 and died in 1520, the year after Leonardo, but Michelangelo went on creating for another 45 years.
 
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Saturday, October 15, 2011

25 Interesting Facts About Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg is one of the most successful film directors of all-time. Here are some entertaining and interesting facts about this commercially successful, multi-awarded and very popular film director.

1.) Steven Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA in 1946.

2.) Steven Spielberg is an American motion-picture director, producer, and executive.

3.) His movies feature action, suspense, special-effects wizardry, and memorable stories.

4.) Spielberg’s blockbuster films include Jaws (1975), E.T.—The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Jurassic Park (1993) and Schindler’s List (1993).

5.) His films enjoyed enormous commercial success and earned recognition for their craftsmanship.


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6.) Spielberg was educated at California State College at Long Beach now known as California State University at Long Beach.

7.) At age 12, he started making movies and by the time he left college he had at least eight amateur works to his credit.

8.) His short film Amblin’ (1968) came to the attention of Universal Pictures and signed him to a seven-year contract.

9.) Spielberg’s earliest commercial efforts were television movies, among them Duel (1971), a suspense film that brought him wider recognition.

10.) Spielberg’s first full-length feature film is Sugarland Express in 1974.


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11.) The film ”Jaws” catapulted Spielberg to stardom.

12.) His other blockbuster film in the 1970s is Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).

13.) He teamed up with writer-producer George Lucas in the 1980s to make the action-adventure Indiana Jones film series: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).

14.) His science-fiction fantasy E.T.—The Extra-Terrestrial, is one of the highest-grossing film ever made.

15.) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had honored him with the Irving Thalberg Award in 1987.


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16.) His Amblin Entertainment  produced such films as Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), *batteries not included (1987), Back to the Future II (1989), Arachnophobia (1990), Cape Fear (1991), and The Flintstones (1994).

17.) Spielberg also produced the animated features An American Tail (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991), and We're Back! A Dinosaur’s Story (1993).

18.) His Jurassic Park which was released in 1993 featured spectacular computer-created dinosaurs became one of top-grossing motion picture in history.

19.) His Schindler’s List won him an Academy Awards for best director and best picture. It was Spielberg’s first Academy Award for best director.

20.) Other outstanding films by Spielberg include Amistad (1997), the World War II film Saving Private Ryan (1998), Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001), Minority Report (2002), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), War of the Worlds (2005) and Munich (2005).


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21.) He married actress Amy Irving in 1985 and divorced in 1989. In their divorce settlement, Amy received $100 million from Spielberg after a judge controversially vacated a prenuptial agreement written on a napkin.

22.) Irving and Spielberg’s divorce was recorded as the third most costly celebrity divorce in history.

23.) Forbes magazine places Spielberg’s personal net worth at $3.0 billion.

24.) In 2006, Premiere listed Spielberg as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry, Time listed him as one of the `100 Most Important People of the Century and Life named him the most influential person of his generation at the end of 20th century.

25.) She is currently married to actress Kate Capshaw whom he met when he cast her in Indiana Jones and the Temple Doom. They married on October 12, 1991 and there are seven children in the Spielberg-Capshaw family.

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25 Interesting Facts About Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg is one of the most successful film directors of all-time. Here are some entertaining and interesting facts about this commercially successful, multi-awarded and very popular film director.

1.) Steven Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA in 1946.

2.) Steven Spielberg is an American motion-picture director, producer, and executive.

3.) His movies feature action, suspense, special-effects wizardry, and memorable stories.

4.) Spielberg’s blockbuster films include Jaws (1975), E.T.—The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Jurassic Park (1993) and Schindler’s List (1993).

5.) His films enjoyed enormous commercial success and earned recognition for their craftsmanship.


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6.) Spielberg was educated at California State College at Long Beach now known as California State University at Long Beach.

7.) At age 12, he started making movies and by the time he left college he had at least eight amateur works to his credit.

8.) His short film Amblin’ (1968) came to the attention of Universal Pictures and signed him to a seven-year contract.

9.) Spielberg’s earliest commercial efforts were television movies, among them Duel (1971), a suspense film that brought him wider recognition.

10.) Spielberg’s first full-length feature film is Sugarland Express in 1974.


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11.) The film ”Jaws” catapulted Spielberg to stardom.

12.) His other blockbuster film in the 1970s is Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).

13.) He teamed up with writer-producer George Lucas in the 1980s to make the action-adventure Indiana Jones film series: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).

14.) His science-fiction fantasy E.T.—The Extra-Terrestrial, is one of the highest-grossing film ever made.

15.) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had honored him with the Irving Thalberg Award in 1987.


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16.) His Amblin Entertainment  produced such films as Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), *batteries not included (1987), Back to the Future II (1989), Arachnophobia (1990), Cape Fear (1991), and The Flintstones (1994).

17.) Spielberg also produced the animated features An American Tail (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991), and We're Back! A Dinosaur’s Story (1993).

18.) His Jurassic Park which was released in 1993 featured spectacular computer-created dinosaurs became one of top-grossing motion picture in history.

19.) His Schindler’s List won him an Academy Awards for best director and best picture. It was Spielberg’s first Academy Award for best director.

20.) Other outstanding films by Spielberg include Amistad (1997), the World War II film Saving Private Ryan (1998), Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001), Minority Report (2002), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), War of the Worlds (2005) and Munich (2005).


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21.) He married actress Amy Irving in 1985 and divorced in 1989. In their divorce settlement, Amy received $100 million from Spielberg after a judge controversially vacated a prenuptial agreement written on a napkin.

22.) Irving and Spielberg’s divorce was recorded as the third most costly celebrity divorce in history.

23.) Forbes magazine places Spielberg’s personal net worth at $3.0 billion.

24.) In 2006, Premiere listed Spielberg as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry, Time listed him as one of the `100 Most Important People of the Century and Life named him the most influential person of his generation at the end of 20th century.

25.) She is currently married to actress Kate Capshaw whom he met when he cast her in Indiana Jones and the Temple Doom. They married on October 12, 1991 and there are seven children in the Spielberg-Capshaw family.

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