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Growing up in the Bronx as a boy, Kwame Onwuachi is sent to rural Nigeria by his mother to "learn respect." However, the hard-won knowledge gained in Africa is not enough to keep him from the temptation and easy money of the streets when he returns home. But through food, he breaks out of a dangerous downward spiral, embarks on a new beginning at the bottom of the culinary food chain as a chef on board a cleanup ship, before going on to train in the kitchens of some of the most acclaimed restaurants in the country and appear as a contestant on "Top Chef."

Mark Kerr is born in Toledo, Ohio. From early childhood, he dreams of being in the World Wrestling Federation and holds mock fights with his younger siblings in the back yard. He comes a high school state champion wrestling for Toledo Waite. Later Kerr becomes known as The Smashing Machine, The Titan and The Specimen — and is a two-time UFC heavyweight champ, and is widely regarded as the best fighter in the world during his MMA career.

Launched on cable in 1981, MTV revolutionizes music and television. The cable network starts out with a concept few think can work: watching songs on TV. But what begins as a way simply to promote record companies’ latest products becomes the music video.