Jackie horner biography

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Jackie Horner was born on August 9, 1932 in Buffalo, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Smilin' Through (1941), Panama Hattie (1942) and Calling All.
Jackie Horner was born on 9 August 1932 in Buffalo, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Smilin' Through (1941), Panama Hattie (1942) and Calling All.

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A "pure, lilting voice" (New York Times) that is "a wonder of unadorned beauty" (Boston Globe)

Dr. Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo-soprano, was a member of the world renowned vocal quartet Anonymous 4 from 2000-2016. She recorded twelve award-winning CD’s with the group, including American Angels which twice topped Billboard’s classical music charts, and The Cherry Tree, one of the top selling classical CDs of 2010. Anonymous 4′s performance of the Irish lament “Caoineadh” on Christopher Tin’s album Calling All Dawns, with Jacqueline as featured soloist, led to a Grammy for Best Classical Music Crossover Album. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of ModernMedieval, an organization created to promote performance and education in early and new music. It includes ModernMedieval Voices, a female vocal ensemble which fosters collaborative projects featuring early music in conjunction with music from later periods and newly commissioned works.

She has a reputation as a versatile and ac

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Jack Horner dreamed of becoming a paleontologist and of making contributions that would help our understanding of dinosaurs as living creatures. Because of his poor grades Horner knew that achieving this goal by getting a Ph.D. would be close to impossible. However; he held tight to his dreams, and followed his own path to success, and now directs his own research projects and teaches undergraduate and graduate students. His work has been honored with a MacArthur “Genius” Award, and when Steven Spielberg needed an advisor for his Jurassic Park films, he came to Horner.
by Liz Attebery

Jack Horner turned a childhood passion for fossil hunting into a career as a world-renowned paleontologist. During the mid-1970s, Horner and a colleague discovered in Montana the first dinosaur eggs and embryos ever found in the Western Hemisphere. Their findings provided the first known evidence of nesting and parental care among dinosaurs. Horner continues to be on the cutting edge of research on the evolution and ecology of dinosaurs.

In 2016, Horner retired as Regents Prof

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A remembrance of Jackie Horner, Catskills legend

Jackie Horner, who was the inspiration for one of the most beloved films of the 1980s, “Dirty Dancing,” died Saturday at Orange Regional Medical Center. She was 87.

Jackie herself was a beloved dance instructor, early on in the Catskills, and later in life at Liberty Fitness Center.

Despite the film’s popularity - and her association with it - Jackie said she couldn’t watch it. She felt too close to it. “Dirty Dancing” is a coming-of-age story about how a nice Jewish girl in 1963 meets a warm-hearted gentile dance instructor at an idyllic Jewish resort in the Catskills. Jackie said she cried the first and only time she saw the film.

From 1954 until the hotel closed in 1986 Jackie was the dance instructor at Grossinger’s resort. It was a job that allowed her the chance to meet and give dance lessons to the greatest stars of show business and sports, as well as tens of thousands of guests, including Eleanor Bergstein, who decades later wrote the screenplay for “Dirty Dancing.”

Bergstein was the real life “Baby” in “Dirty Dancin