Marina Sirtis Cinzano Bianco television commercial starring Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins, in which Collins was splattered with drink. In 1986, Sirtis relocated to the United States. When casting "", Gene Roddenberry was inspired to ask the exotic-looking Sirtis to audition for a role after seeing the film "Aliens" with Bob Justman, which featured the prominent Latina character Vasquez, played by Jenette Goldstein. Sirtis and Denise Crosby initially tried out for each other's eventual roles on "The Next Generation". Sirtis' character was going to be named Lt. Macha Hernandez, the Security Chief. Gene Roddenberry decided to switch them, and Macha Hernandez became
Walter Rossiter touch with the work of George Samuel Elgood and Ernest Arthur Rowe, both garden painters living in Kent. In 1918 after the Exhibition at the Pastel Society, Rossiter received a mention by the critic Ezra Pound on The New Age Magazine. Walter Rossiter was a member of the Pastel society and Founder of the Coventry and Warwickshire Society of Artists. Walter Rossiter Walter Rossiter PS (16 February 1871 - 1948) was an English landscape and garden painter mainly in pastel and watercolour although he also produced some fine examples in oil. Born in Bath, Walter studied in Paris and Rouen