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Roger Corman

Often called the King of B-Movies, Roger Corman began making low-budget movies in the 1950s, many of them surprisingly good, some of them amazingly bad. A screenwriter, producer, director and…

Anna Sui Biography

Anna Suifashion designerBorn: 1955 Sui, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, grew up in Detroit, Michigan. She attended New York's Parsons School of Design, where she met renown Vogue fashion…

Cass Elliot

Name at birth: Ellen Naomi Cohen"Mama Cass" Elliot was a member of the hippie pop group The Mamas & the Papas, along with John Phillips, Michelle Phillips and Denny Doherty. Cass Elliot began…

Jerry Garcia

Name at birth: Jerome John GarciaJerry Garcia was the guitarist and acknowledged leader of the long-lived rock band The Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead was one of the original "jam bands," famous…

John Phillips 2001 Deaths

John PhillipsAge: 65 folk musician and songwriter whose band, the Mamas and the Papas, spoke to the '60s generation, with breezy songs that epitomized the laid-back, live-and-love attitude of…

Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary was a psychologist whose research on the effects of LSD and other mind-altering drugs made him a symbol of the American counterculture movement. As a teacher at Harvard in 1960, Leary…

Burt Shavitz

Name at birth: Ingram Berg ShavitzBurt Shavitz was co-founder and the name and face of Burt's Bees, producers of personal care products made from natural ingredients. Shavitz grew up in New York, and…

Michael J. Fox Biography

Michael J. FoxactorBorn: 6/9/1961Birthplace: Edmonton, Canada Emmy Award-winning television and film actor who played the conservative teenager of hippie parents on Family Ties (1982–89). His films…

Eden (Film)

Director/Writer:Howard GoldbergDirector of Photography:Hubert TaczanowskiEditor:Steve NeviusMusic:Brad FiedelProducers:Harvey Kahn and Chip DuncanLegacy Releasing; R; 106 minutesRelease:3/…

John Phillips Biography

John Phillipsfolk musicianBorn: 8/30/1935Birthplace: Parris Island, S.C. folk musician and songwriter whose band, the Mamas and the Papas, spoke to the '60s generation, with breezy songs that…