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for example, if a celebrity is diagnosed with cancer, yes that is a tragedy... but no more tragic than a man or woman who manages the local deli, or an accountant or a teacher. i often find that the way the media treats the tragadies and triumphs of celeebrities, diminshes the triumphs and tragedies of everyday people.

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oh so true, but if it a specific disease more support and awareness, i find that a positive side effect.

for me, the person i most admire would have to be carl sagan. a complete genius who could meld his artistic and scientific sides.

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Originally posted by LeDaemon:
I'm just kind of curious. It can be actor, musician, scientist, activist, etc. And I'm thinking about what they do above what you would expect someone normally in that position would do.

Don't laugh, but I'm kind of keen on the loud mouth front man of the band Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickinson.

Aside from recording music with a band that's had 80 million in record sales world wide with little to no radio airplay he also has a few other credits under his belt.

taken from wikipedia:
Dickinson's interests include literature, writing (two novels to his credit no one has read including me), fencing (at which he has competed internationally, and he also founded a fencing equipment company under the brand name "Duellist", train technology and flying Boeing 757 charter jets for the UK charter airline Astraeus where he is employed as a First Officer. He was taught to fly by British Airways commercial pilot Captain Phil Dales.


In the summer of 2006, Dickinson flew about 200 UK citizens home from Lebanon during the Israel/Hezbollah conflict. On 12 February 2007, Dickinson was given permission to fly Rangers F.C. to Israel for their UEFA Cup game against Hapoel Tel Aviv. Dickinson asked if he could pilot this flight as soon as he found Astraeus had the contract for it. After the collapse of XL Airways UK in September 2008 he piloted an Iceland Express aeroplane and flew home 180 stranded holiday makers from Egypt, as well as a Boeing 757 with a group of british RAF pilots from Afghanistan. "A lot of them recognised him because they are Maiden fans, but he was there in his professional capacity as a pilot," says an RAF spokesman.

Dickinson currently presents the Friday evening "rock show" on BBC radio station 6 Music. He has recently taken the helm of BBC Radio 2 serial 'Masters of Rock'. He also presented the 5-part historical TV series about aviation; Flying Heavy Metal was shown on the Discovery Channel, which is now shown on the replacement for Discovery Wings, Discovery Turbo in the UK. He was also a guest on a Discovery Channel show where he shared his enthusiasm for trains. He was also a guest on the a tank show, where he drove a Russian T-34 tank. The most recent television programme he has presented was a show on spontaneous human combustion for Sky One called Inside Spontaneous Human Combustion with Bruce Dickinson, in which he investigates the phenomenon of this occurrence by enlisting the help of several experts and performing various experiments to determine its possible cause.

Dickinson has also turned his hand to scriptwriting, having written a film script entitled Chemical Wedding which has been made into a film starring Simon Callow. Dickinson played a few small cameo roles and has composed the soundtrack.

Bruce onstage back in '83


And his "day job" as a Boeing 757 airline pilot

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They just had an iterview with him on a t.v current affairs show about 5mins ago. They're in New Zealand at the mo'. I wouldn't of bothered to listen to the interview but since you've put him in a great light here, I didn't switch channels. He's a pretty cool cat . I've never really gotten into them but might start listening now.....

Too bad that both their NZ concerts are sold out, would of been interesting to go

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Originally posted by Panic:
Too many to list all, but I will say I admire Michael Houser. He was one of the founding members of Widespread Panic. I absolutely am in awe of his guitar playing and song writing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydWSZ0cLU_Y&eurl=http://panic2go.com/index.htm

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