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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Audie Murphy

Audie Murphy won the Congressional Medal of Honor and was the most decorated American Army soldier of World War II. The orphaned son of Texas sharecroppers, Audie Murphy enlisted in the Army on his…

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…

Charlie Wilson

Charlie Wilson's adventures in governance, womanizing, and shipping guns to Afghan rebels were so colorful that Hollywood made a movie out of them. Charlie Wilson's War (2007), based on the 2003…