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Cast Away

Director:Robert ZemeckisWriter:William Broyles Jr.20th Century Fox and DreamWorks; PG-13; 143 minutesRelease:12/00Cast:Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Wilson the Volleyball Arguably equal to the…

Jeff Bridges

A Hollywood leading man since the early 1970s and a four-time Oscar nominee, Jeff Bridges finally won an Oscar in 2010 for his performance as hard-living country singer Bad Blake in Crazy Heart. The…

Bob Newhart Biography

Bob Newhart(George Robert Newhart)comedian, actorBorn: 9/5/1929Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois The first of Bob Newhart's two stand-up comedy albums, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart (1960), became…

Mark Wahlberg

Mark Wahlberg was a pop singer and an underwear model before becoming an enduring Hollywood star in movies from Boogie Nights to Patriots Day. Mark Wahlberg grew up in the rough Dorchester…

Boris Johnson

Name at birth: Alexander Boris de Pfeffel JohnsonBoris Johnson became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on July 24, 2019, after the resignation of Theresa May. After a tumultuous three years…

Top Ten Coffee Shops in the U.S., 2014

Compiled by a group of panelists for The Daily Meal and USA TODAY, here are the top ten coffee shops in the United States. Shops were picked based on the quality of their coffee,…

EDtv

Director: Ron Howard Writers: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel Universal Pictures; PG-13 Release: 3/99 Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Woody Harrelson, Ellen…

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, established in 1980, annually honors an American fiction writer with a $15,000 prize. Three judges choose five finalists before…

Roth, Philip

(Encyclopedia) Roth, Philip (Philip Milton Roth), 1933–2018, American author, one of the most important novelists of the 20th cent., b. Newark, N.J., B.A. Bucknell Univ., 1954, M.A. Univ. of Chicago…

Updike, John

(Encyclopedia) Updike, John, 1932–2009, American author, one of the nation's most distinguished 20th-century men of letters, b. Shillington, Pa., grad. Harvard, 1954. In his many novels and stories,…