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Connecting Jim Parrack and Richard Branson



Ne-Yo American singer from Nevada (born 1979)
In January 2010, Ne-Yo was featured in a duet with singer Mariah Carey titled "Angels Cry".

Mariah Carey
On November 2, 2021, Carey teased a snippet of a new song titled "Fall in Love at Christmas", which features Khalid and Kirk Franklin.

Khalid (singer) American singer
On July 11, 2021, Khalid premiered his single "New Normal" during Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic Unity 22 spaceflight at Spaceport America, New Mexico.


Jonathan Liebesman South African film director
At Tisch, he co-wrote and directed an 8-minute short film, ''Genesis and Catastrophe'', adapted from a Roald Dahl short story.

Roald Dahl British writer and poet (1916–1990)
He is one of the company's six "British tail fin heroes", joining Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, England World Cup winner Bobby Moore, novelist Jane Austen, pioneering pilot Amy Johnson and aviation entrepreneur Freddie Laker.

Freddie Laker
He is remembered for his famous advice to fellow airline entrepreneurs Richard Branson, of Virgin Atlantic, and Stelios Haji-Ioannou, of easyJet, to "sue the bastards", a reference to the bullying tactics of British Airways in trying to force upstarts out of business.


Jim Parrack
He has also appeared in the film '' Battle: Los Angeles'' and as "Slim" in the 2014 Broadway production of ''Of Mice and Men'' alongside James Franco, Chris O'Dowd and Leighton Meester.

Leighton Meester American actress and singer
She then starred with Gwyneth Paltrow and Garrett Hedlund in the country music drama '' Country Strong''. Wesley Morris of '' The Boston Globe'' described Meester as the best part of the film, writing, "She's just doing Reese Witherspoon's June Carter Cash in '' Walk the Line'' with dabs of Miley Cyrus and Kellie Pickler.

Gwyneth Paltrow American actress and businesswoman
Later that year, Paltrow appeared in Steven Soderbergh's film '' Contagion'', featuring an ensemble cast consisting of Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet and her ''The Talented Mr. Ripley'' co-stars Matt Damon and Jude Law.

Kate Winslet
While holidaying at Richard Branson's estate on Necker Island in 2011, Winslet met his nephew Edward Abel Smith (legally known as Ned Rocknroll from 2008 to 2019) during a house fire, and Smith became her third husband.


Jim Parrack
He has also appeared in the film '' Battle: Los Angeles'' and as "Slim" in the 2014 Broadway production of ''Of Mice and Men'' alongside James Franco, Chris O'Dowd and Leighton Meester.

Chris O'Dowd
O'Dowd plays Felix Dennis, who later became the publisher of ''Maxim'', and his landmark indecency trial.

Felix Dennis
It contains more than 40 sculptures, life and a quarter in size, which include early man attacking a woolly mammoth, Galileo, Einstein, Winston Churchill, Crick and Watson, and more recent "heroes" such as Stephen Hawking, and is open to the public once a year as part of the National Gardens Scheme.

Stephen Hawking English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author (1942–2018)
In late 2006, Hawking revealed in a BBC interview that one of his greatest unfulfilled desires was to travel to space; on hearing this, Richard Branson offered a free flight into space with Virgin Galactic, which Hawking immediately accepted.





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