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Lucia di Lammermoor

Music:Gaetano DonizettiLibretto:Salvatore Cammarano, based on the novel by Sir Walter ScottPremiere:Naples, September 26, 1835 Donizetti's tragic romance relates the fortunes of Lucy, sister…

Sandra Dee

Name at birth: Alexandria ZuckSporty, cheerful and squeaky-clean, Sandra Dee was the star of Gidget, the 1959 film that inspired a flurry of sun-and-fun surfing movies in the early 1960s. Dee began…

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is the grand literary figure of the Western world. During England's Elizabethan period he wrote Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, MacBeth, and dozens of other plays which continue to…

Frankie Avalon

Frankie Avalon(Francis Thomas Avallone)singer, actorBorn: 9/18/1939Birthplace: Philadelphia A popular singer of the 1950s who later turned to acting and is probably best remembered for his…

Frankie Avalon Biography

Frankie Avalon(Francis Thomas Avallone)singer, actorBorn: 9/18/1939Birthplace: Philadelphia A popular singer of the 1950s who later turned to acting and is probably best remembered for his…

Calista Flockhart

Calista Flockhart's appearance as the lovelorn lawyer Ally McBeal made her a hot item from the show's debut in 1997. Her ups and downs as a quirky young Boston lawyer made her one of TV's top comic…

Zhang Ziyi

Waiflike, ethereal and yet somehow a martial arts film favorite, Zhang Ziyi played high-kicking, fist-fighting heroines in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and House of Flying Daggers (2003).…

Brewer's: Roland

Count of Mans and Knight of Blaives, was son of Duke Milo of Aiglant, his mother being Bertha, the sister of Charlemagne. His sword was called Durandal, and his horse Veillantiff. He was…