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Danielle Steel

Danielle Steel's romance novels have sold millions of copies in dozens of languages and have kept her on the bestseller lists since the 1980s. Steel started her professional career in public…

Louis L’Amour

Name at birth: Louis Dearborn LaMooreLouis L'Amour is to westerns what Stephen King is to horror and Danielle Steel is to romance novels. One of the most prolific and popular authors in the world, L…

Trish Stratus

Name at birth: Patricia Anne StratigiasA brassy blonde in the Pam Anderson mode, Trish Stratus was a star of World Wrestling Entertainment, the pro wrestling conglomerate, in the early 2000s. She…

The Devil's Dictionary: Rope

by Ambrose Bierce ROMANCEROSTRUMROPE -n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long. It…

Bar Refaeli

Bar Refaeli is the Israeli supermodel who was on the cover of the 2009 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. A dark honey blonde with a practical blue-eyed gaze, Bar Refaeli is a rarity: a global…

Julia Stiles

Julia Stiles became a movie star thanks to standout performances in the teen romances 10 Things I Hate About You (1999, with Heath Ledger) and Save the Last Dance (2001). She has since earned a…

Janet Jackson

Velvet Rope Virgin Co-produced by longtime Jackson collaborators Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, this follow-up to the multiplatinum janet is exhilarating. Not only does Ms. Jackson deliver a series of…

The Devil's Dictionary: Robber

by Ambrose Bierce ROADROMANCEROBBER -n. A candid man of affairs. It is related of Voltaire that one night he and some traveling companion lodged at a wayside inn. The surroundings were…

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Name at birth: Elizabeth BarrettElizabeth Barrett Browning was a beloved English poet of the 19th century, famous for her love poems and for her marriage to poet Robert Browning. She wrote the line…

Jessica Brown Findlay

British actress Jessica Brown Findlay's screen career began with a bang as the politically progressive young Lady Sybil in the television series Downton Abbey. She trained as a dancer from an early…