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Saul Zaentz Biography

Saul Zaentzmovie producerBorn: 2/28/1921Birthplace: Passaic, New Jersey Zaentz has a pretty good Oscar batting average. He has produced only eight movies since 1975 and three won the best picture…

Greta Van Susteren

Greta Van Susteren is a television legal personality whose show On the Record with Greta Van Susteren ran on the Fox News Network from 2002 until 2016. Greta Van Susteren grew up in Wisconsin and…

Hayden Panettiere

Actress Hayden Panettiere is known as the wee, blonde cheerleader in TV's fantasy series Heroes (2006-10). Panettiere grew up outside of New York City and has been in the entertainment business since…

Willie Nelson

Country music legend Willie Nelson began as a songwriter and grew into a durable troubadour of the late 20th century. Nelson wrote "Crazy" (the signature tune of Patsy Cline), "Funny How Time Slips…

Neal Cassady

Neal Cassady wasn't much of a writer, and yet he is considered a pillar -- a muse, it's said -- of the Beat Generation, the American narcotized literary movement of the 1950s and '60s that gave…

Frank Sinatra

Name at birth: Francis Albert SinatraFrank Sinatra was the 20th century's greatest icon of American musical cool. Frank Sinatra's official career was singing: he began as a rail-thin crooner during…

John Cusack

John Cusack proved himself to be a reliable and unconventional leading man in films like The Grifters (1990), Being John Malkovich (1999, also starring Cameron Diaz) and High Fidelity (2000, with…

Rita Hayworth

Name at birth: Margarita Carmen CansinoRita Hayworth was a top box office star and sex symbol of the 1940s, perhaps best known these days for the 1947 movie The Lady From Shanghai, and for a LIFE…

Katy Perry

Name at birth: Katheryn Elizabeth HudsonKaty Perry's sort-of-naughty single "I Kissed a Girl" was a big summer hit in 2008 and made the vampish singer a star. Lyrics like "The taste of her cherry…

S.J. Perelman

S.J. "Sid" Perelman was a writer of short comic pieces, many of which appeared in The New Yorker magazine between the 1930s and 1970s. Perelman was raised in Providence, Rhode Island, where he…