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Finding Forrester

Director:Gus Van SantWriter:Mike RichColumbia Pictures; PG-13; 136 minutesRelease:12/00Cast:Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin Finding Forrester is a conciliatory race-…

Bird, Robert Montgomery

(Encyclopedia) Bird, Robert Montgomery, 1806–54, American playwright and novelist, b. New Castle, Del., M.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1827. He wrote several prizewinning verse plays for the actor Edwin…

Forrest City

(Encyclopedia) Forrest City, city (2020 pop. 13,015), seat of St. Francis co., E central Ark., at the foot of Crowley's Ridge; inc. 1871. It is a rail…

León, region and former kingdom, Spain

(Encyclopedia) LeónLeónlā-ōnˈ [key], historic region and former kingdom, NW Spain, E of Portugal and Galicia, now part of Castile–León. It includes the provinces of León, Salamanca, and Zamora, named…

León, city, Spain

(Encyclopedia) León, city (1990 pop. 137,758), capital of León prov., NW Spain, in Castile and León, at the foot of the Cantabrian Mts. and at the confluence of the Bernesga and Torio rivers. It is…

Brown, John, Scottish essayist

(Encyclopedia) Brown, John, 1810–82, Scottish essayist. He was a physician. His writing was collected in Horae Subsecivae (3 vol., 1858–82), which included his unique picture of a dog, Rab and His…

Dorothy Fosdick Biography

Dorothy FosdickAge: 83 foreign policy expert who helped in creation of United Nations, the Marshall Plan, and NATO, in the 1940s. Died: Feb. 5, 1997.Leon Forrest1997 DeathsFrances Foster…

William Flynn Biography

William FlynnAge: 82 former athletic director at Boston College who helped the Eagles build a competitive Div. 1–A sports program, increasing the number of varsity sports from six to 33 when…