More information on the Evri API can be found at: http://www.evri.com/developer/index.html. By using or accessing the Evri API, you are agreeing to be bound by our Terms of Use which are specified at: http://www.evri.com/developer/tos.htmlMusicianLes McKeownwikipedia_paragraphLeslie Richard McKeown (born November 12, 1955 at Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a pop singer. He was the lead singer for the '70s pop sensation the Bay City Rollers during their most successful period. McKeown joined the Bay City Rollers in late 1973, replacing original lead singer Nobby Clark. The group's intense popularity, nicknamed "Rollermania", took off shortly after that. He was with the band until 1978, at which time he left to pursue a career as a solo artist. He released a series of solo albums which saw modest success, primarily in Germany and Japan. One of McKeown's most unusual musical collaborations after leaving the Bay City Rollers was singing on Filigree & Shadow, the second album by gothic/dream pop band This Mortal Coil. In 1990 he participated in the UK heats of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Ball and Chain", which placed fifth. He was ordered by Harlow magistrates on August 23 2005, to appear at Chelmsford Crown Court on drugs charges, following his bail release, 1 On January 31 2006, McKeown admitted being a drug user but denied being a dealer. On 3 February 2006, he was acquitted of cocaine dealing. He suggested that he would sue the Metropolitan Police for earnings he lost from an overseas tour that was cancelled as a result of the proceedings. McKeown detailed many of these issues in his 2003 autobiography, Shang-a-lang: Life as an International Pop Idol.PERSONActorScreenwriterRobert Townewikipedia_paragraphRobert Burton Towne (born November 23, 1934) is an American screenwriter and director. He is the author of many notable film scripts, including Chinatown (1974), for which he received an Academy Award, plus its sequel, The Two Jakes (1990), and Oscar-nominated screenplays The Last Detail and Shampoo as well as the first two Mission Impossible films. Towne is also well-known in the motion-picture industry as an uncredited script doctor who has worked in such a capacity for The Godfather, Bonnie and Clyde, The Parallax View and dozens of other Hollywood films. After working for years on a script of Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) he grew dissatisfied with the production and credited his dog, P.H. Vazak, with the script. Vazak became the first dog nominated for an Oscar for screenwriting, but he did not fetch the award. Towne also wrote and directed Personal Best (1982), a fictional drama of female track-and-field athletes, and Without Limits (1998), a biopic based on the life of distance runner Steve Prefontaine. His crime story Tequila Sunrise (1988) co-starred Mel Gibson as a reformed cocaine dealer and Kurt Russell as a detective, with Michelle Pfeiffer as a woman who becomes romantically involved with both. A project Towne had long sought to bring to the screen came to fruition in 2006 with Ask the Dust, a romantic period piece set in Los Angeles based on the acclaimed novel by John Fante and starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek. The film failed at the box office and received mixed reviews. Towne is a graduate of Pomona College in Claremont, CA.PERSONCriminalRayful Edmondwikipedia_paragraphRayful Edmond III, (born November 26, 1964), was a notorious drug dealer who is largely credited with introducing crack cocaine into the Washington, D.C. area.PERSONCriminalRamón Arellano Félixwikipedia_paragraphRamón Eduardo Arellano Félix (August 31 1964 – February 10 2002) was a Mexican whom authorities linked to the Tijuana drug cartel (aka the Arellano-Félix Organization). The 188 cm (6 foot 2 inch) and 100 kg (220 lb) frame of Arellano Félix was allegedly one of the most ruthless members of the cartel and was a suspect in various murders. Arellano Félix had been linked by Mexican police to the 1997 massacre of twelve members of a family outside of Ensenada, Baja California. The family was related to a drug dealer that had an unpaid debt to the Arellano Félix Cartel. On September 18, 1997, Ramón Arellano Félix became the 451st fugitive to be placed to the Ten Most Wanted list. Leading to his Most Wanted Fugitive listing in the United States, he had been charged in a sealed indictment in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, with Conspiracy to Import Cocaine and Marijuana in drug trafficking. Some of his aliases were "Patrón", "Colores", "Comandante Mon". He was believed to have a soft voice. He also had gold incrustations in his gun. His favorite vehicles were Chevrolet Silverados and Tahoes. He also favored Chevrolet Suburbans.PERSONActorGordon Curriewikipedia_paragraphGordon Currie (born September 25, 1965) is a Canadian actor. He works in both the U.S. and Canada in television and film roles. Currie was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Both of his parents were American citizens. Currie rented a two bedroom flat off Melrose Avenue, where he lived for two years with roommate Brad Pitt. He worked for a while as a Ronald McDonald clown before moving on to roles on television and film, including two roles on Beverly Hills, 90210, playing both Bobby Walsh, Brandon's (Jason Priestley) and Brenda's (Shannen Doherty) wheelchair-bound cousin, and the role of Danny Five, Colin's (Jason Wiles) cocaine dealer. In 1987, he received one of his first roles as Officer Palone on the series 21 Jump Street, episode "Two for the Road". He played in Vancouver television and film roles, as well as roles in the Joel Schumacher film Cousins, Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, The Terror Within II and My Blue Heaven (starring Steve Martin, Rick Moranis and Joan Cusack) before making the move to Los Angeles in 1991. His most prominent role has been that of Nicolae Carpathia in the series of films Left Behind, based on the series of best-selling books by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. His character, Nicolae Carpathia, is the Antichrist, who will one day attempt to marshal the forces of the Global Community against the followers of Christ.PERSONWilliam Waszwikipedia_paragraphWilliam Benson Wasz was a robber, car thief, and cocaine dealer. Wasz took drugs himself and led a dangerous life.PERSONCriminalCiro Mancusowikipedia_paragraphCiro Mancuso (1949 - ) was a Nevada based drug dealer convicted of running a $140-million marijuana smuggling operation for more than a decade. In cooperation with a foreign exchange student from Thailand, Ciro Mancuso built one of the largest domestic drug cartels in U.S. history. The son of immigrants from Italy, Ciro was a real estate developer before venturing into the lucrative narcotics business. Ciro's smuggling operation began in the late 1960's when he teamed up with a group of college friends from Tahoe Paradise College. At first, they only sold marijuana at their college, but soon the business grew. When authorities moved in on their growing operation at a small farm in Clay County, Kansas, they began importing marijuana from Mexico. Later Ciro teamed up with a Thai exchange student to import more potent marijuana into San Francisco. Ciro soon realized that there was more profit to be made selling cocaine and integrated it into his marijuana operation. Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada Anthony White brought charges against Ciro Mancuso in 1990 and it was hailed as one of the largest drug conspiracy cases in state history. The indictment alleged that Mancuso used a multi-state cocaine and marijuana smuggling operation to buy ranches, mountaintop retreats, beach-front estates and anything else he might want.PERSONCriminalAndrew Daulton Leewikipedia_paragraphAndrew Daulton Lee (1952- ) a United States citizen and Los Angeles native, was portrayed by actor Sean Penn in director John Schlesinger's 1985 movie The Falcon and the Snowman based on the book by Robert Lindsey. The book and the film documented the true to life espionage activities of Lee (a heroin and cocaine dealer by trade, hence his nickname, "The Snowman") and his childhood friend Christopher Boyce during the mid-1970s. The Boyce character (nicknamed "The Falcon" because of his long interest in the sport of falconry) was played in the film by actor Timothy Hutton. For nearly two years, Lee (the 5'2" adopted eldest son of a wealthy physician) traveled to Mexico City operating as the courier for an espionage scheme which had consisted of his delivering to Soviet Embassy officials classified documents concerning how to decrypt secure US government message traffic and detailed specifications of the latest US spy satellites. These documents were supplied by Boyce, a code clerk employed with the large US defense contractor TRW, headquartered in the Los Angeles community of Redondo Beach. Boyce (whose father was an aerospace corporation security officer and a retired FBI agent) held a top secret clearance and worked in the company's "Black Vault" (classified communications center.)PERSONProducerBrian O'Deawikipedia_paragraphBrian O'Dea is a noted former Canadian drug smuggler. Born in Newfoundland in 1948, he first worked as a minor drug dealer in the province. Moving up he became an importer of marijuana to Canada from the United Kingdom. After being arrested on a minor charge in Canada he served a brief sentence before moving to Jamaica, where he coordinated marijuana and cocaine smuggling operations going from Colombia to the United States and Canada. Moving to California, he became one of the leaders in exporting marijuana from Southeast Asia in the years after the Vietnam War. Using fishing vessels as cover he brought boatloads of drugs into the pacific northwest United States. Controlling a trucking company, two hundred-foot fishing vessels, and a workforce of 120, O'Dea, partner Tony Franulovich and crew imported hundreds of millions of dollars worth of marijuana to ports in Washington at the business' peak in the early 1980s. He and his partners would then sell the drugs throughout the U.S. Under increasing threat from the DEA, he quit the business in 1986, but his life declined and he became addicted to drugs. After suffering an overdose in 1988 he rejected drugs, becoming a drug and alcohol addiction counselor. Three years later, however, the DEA finally had assembled a case against him and arrested him. He plead guilty and was sentenced to ten years in jail, being transferred to the Springhill Penitentiary in Canada in 1992. He wrote the book HIGH: Confessions of a Pot Smuggler -release date April 11 2006 (published by Random House) and in July (by Virgin Books in the UK and Australia). His book won the 2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best True Crime Book. HIGH will be published in the United States in May of 2009 by Other Press.PERSONCriminalChristopher John Boycewikipedia_paragraphChristopher John Boyce (born February 16 1953) was convicted of spying against the United States for the Soviet Union. He was arrested in January 1977 for selling U.S. spy satellite secrets to the Soviet Union. Boyce, the son of a security chief at McDonnell Douglas, along with childhood friend Andrew Daulton Lee, were raised in the very affluent seaside community of Palos Verdes Peninsula near Los Angeles. In 1974 Boyce was hired at TRW, a Southern California aerospace firm in Redondo Beach, California. His father, in his position as an aerospace security officer, was able to help get his son a job at TRW. Boyce was eventually promoted to a sensitive job in TRW's "Black Vault" (classified communications center) with a top secret security clearance. Instead he gathered a quantity of classified documents concerning secure U.S. communications ciphers and spy satellite development and had his friend Andrew Daulton Lee, a cocaine and heroin dealer since his high school days (hence his nickname, "The Snowman") deliver them to Soviet Embassy officials in Mexico City, returning with large sums of cash for Boyce (nicknamed "The Falcon" because of his long time interest in falconry) and himself. Boyce, then 24, was exposed after Lee was falsely arrested by Mexican police in front of the Soviet Embassy in December 1976 on suspicion of having killed a police officer. During his interrogation, Lee, who had top secret microfilm in his possession when arrested, confessed to being a Soviet spy and implicated Boyce. Arrested in January 1977, Boyce was convicted in April of espionage and sentenced to 40 years in prison at the federal penitentiary in Lompoc, California.PERSON