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Norman Mailer
Name at birth: Norman Kingsley MailerCalled "the macho prince of American letters" by the Associated Press, Norman Mailer was one of America's most famous and controversial writers, the author of The…Josh Hartnett
Actor Josh Hartnett was a leading man of the boyish hunk variety when he got his start in the movies, appearing in the late 1990s in crowd-pleasers like Halloween H20: 20 Years Later and The Faculty…Kim Basinger
Kim Basinger won an Oscar for playing a mysterious Hollywood blonde in the 1997 drama L. A. Confidential (opposite Russell Crowe). Until then, Basinger had been known more as a beauty than as a…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…Richard Rodgers
Name at birth: Richard Charles RodgersRichard Rogers was one of the most successful and celebrated composers of the 20th century. His partnerships with lyricists Lorenz Hart (1895-1943) and Oscar…Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon is a celebrity of modern American literature and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000). Fresh out of the University of California…John A. WILCOX, Congress, MS (1819-1864)
WILCOX John A. , a Representative from Mississippi; born in Greene County, N.C., April 18, 1819; moved to Tennessee; attended the common schools; moved to Mississippi and settled in Aberdeen;…Martin Short
Comedian Martin Short became a star in the 1980s on the television comedy shows SCTV and Saturday Night Live, known for his broad, physical comedy and dead-on impersonations (including one of…Jaden Smith
Jaden Smith made his movie debut in the 2006 drama The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), playing the son of his real-life father, actor Will Smith. The son of Will Smith and actress Jada Pinkett Smith,…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,…Trending
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