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Dexter Gordon
Name at birth: Dexter Keith GordonDexter "Long Tall Dexter" Gordon was one of the most famous tenor sax players of the 20th century, a towering figure of bop jazz (literally -- he was 6' 5" tall).…Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Nixon has been performing on stage and screen since her teen years, but it was her role as Miranda Hobbes on TV's Sex and the City (1998-2004) that made her a star. Nixon has worked steadily…Macy Gray
The Id Epic The party that started on Macy Gray's Grammy-winning 1999 debut disc, On How Life Is, is still very much in session on the Freudian-titled follow-up The Id. There's a house feel…James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones is particularly known for his resonant basso voice and commanding presence. His early successes were in the New York theater, first in Shakespeare's Othello and The Emperor Jones (…Harold Pinter
Called "the great English provocateur" and "the brilliant young Turk of postwar theater" by Newsday, Harold Pinter was a groundbreaking playwright, screenwriter and poet of the late 20th century. His…Tony Randall
Name at birth: Arthur Leonard RosenbergTony Randall played Felix Unger, the fastidious photographer who was half of TV's The Odd Couple, from 1970-75. (Jack Klugman co-starred as sloppy Oscar…W. H. Auden
Name at birth: Wystan Hugh AudenW. H. Auden was a young, sensational English poet of the 1930s who became an elder statesman of Anglo-American literature by the time he died in 1973. He made his…Laurence Fishburne
Laurence Fishburne played the tough, mysterious, leather-clad Morpheus in the box office hit The Matrix (1999, with Keanu Reeves) and its sequels. Fishburne was acting on a national level from a…Nanette Fabray
Nanette Fabray(Ruby Nanette Fabares)actress, singerBorn: 10/27/1920Birthplace: San Diego, California She had success as a singer and comedic actress in Broadway musicals, winning a Tony in Love Life…Charles Kuralt
Charles Kuralttelevision news reporter, producer, writerBorn: 9/10/1934Birthplace: Wilmington, North Carolina The recipient of thirteen Emmy Awards, Charles Kuralt began his illustrious career as a…Trending
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