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Lawrence Treat Biography

Lawrence Treat(Lawrence A. Goldstone)mystery writerBorn: 12/21/1903Birthplace: New York City Employed as a lawyer before he turned to writing, Treat wrote hundreds of short stories and 17…

Lou Diamond Phillips Biography

Lou Diamond Phillips(Lou Upchurch)actorBorn: 2/17/1962Birthplace: The Philippines This handsome actor first distinguished himself in roles as rock star Richie Valens in La Bamba (1987) and a…

Crime

Below is a list of crime statistics in the United States, which includes total arrests, number of persons executed, hate crime and murder victims, law enforcement…

Back to Basics

The old-timers, once again, make for the best television. Law & Order, network television's longest-running drama, continues to boast intelligent scripts, compelling storylines and engaging…

The Devil's Dictionary: Homiletics

by Ambrose Bierce HOMICIDEHONORABLEHOMILETICS -n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. So skilled the parson was in…

Isaiah Washington

Actor Isaiah Washington played Dr. Preston Burke on the TV series Grey's Anatomy, but was dumped from the show in 2007, eight months after causing a hullabaloo by insulting cast member T.R. Knight.…

Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford starred in two of the biggest box office successes of the 20th century: as Han Solo in George Lucas's Star Wars series and as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, directed by…

Ned Beatty

Ned Beatty was known for the role that was his first part in the movies — a southern city slicker who gets brutally raped in the backwoods in 1970’s Deliverance. Throughout the 1970s Beatty was a…

Barry Levinson Biography

Barry Levinson director, screenwriterBorn: 4/6/1942Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland   After winning Emmy awards as a writer for The Carol Burnett Show in the 1970s, Levinson turned to screenplays,…

William H. Macy

The reliable actor and sometimes writer-producer William H. Macy worked steadily on stage and screen for more than 15 years before breaking out in the Coen brothers' 1996 movie Fargo (with Frances…