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Burt Lancaster

Name at birth: Burton Stephen LancasterBurt Lancaster was one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the 1950s, when he blossomed into a square-jawed but sensitive he-man. Burt Lancaster started out as an…

Barry Diller

Film and television veteran Barry Diller is the chairman and chief executive officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp, a new media conglomerate specializing in e-commerce. In the 1960s Diller was a television…

Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp became a legend of the American West for his role in a 30-second gunfight in 1881 at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. For most of his life Earp was an itinerant…

Yves Montand

Name at birth: Ivo LiviYves Montand was a popular french nightclub singer and movie actor, most famous for his dramatic role in the 1953 thriller The Wages of Fear. Born in Italy, his family fled to…

Paul Greengrass

Paul Greengrass is a British filmmaker whose semi-documentary style in independent films led to smash success in Hollywood as the director of Jason Bourne movies. He got his start in British…

Jim Nabors

Jim Nabors was an actor and singer, known throughout his career as Gomer Pyle, a character he played on TV for five years in the 1960s. Nabors was a graduate of the University of Alabama who got his…

Ben Shapiro

Ben Shapiro is an American media celebrity who made his name with blunt arguments in favor of conservative politics. Long popular with the right for his tell-it-like-it-is pronouncements, Shapiro is…

Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen DeGeneres is a comedian best known for her daytime television talk show, Ellen. DeGeneres got her start doing standup comedy in New Orleans before going to Hollywood in 1986. Her successful…

George Gershwin

Name at birth: Jacob Bruskin GershvinGeorge Gershwin's popular songs and compositions from the 1920s and 1930s include "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," "They Can't Take That Away From Me" and the…

Jet Li

Name at birth: Jet Li Lian JieJet Li was a martial arts champion as a child and now he's a martial arts movie star in the U.S. and China. His first Hong Kong action movie, 1979's Shaolin Temple,…