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Claude Brown 2002 Deaths

Claude BrownAge: 64 writer who vividly chronicled his experiences growing up poor in Harlem alongside drug dealers, murderers, and prostitutes in his 1965 bestseller Manchild in the Promised…

Paul Cadmus, Biography

Paul Cadmus,Age: 94 painter known for his painstaking realist style that was often confrontational and controversial. His works include “The Fleet's In”, a 1930's painting that depicted a…

Mifune

Director:Soren Kragh-JacobsenWriters:Soren Kragh-Jacobsen and Anders Thomas JensenSony Pictures Classics; R; 99 minutesRelease:2/00Anders Bethelsen, Iben Hjejle Mifune is a Danish film…

Shirley MacLaine

Name at birth: Shirley MacLane BeatyShirley MacLaine won a best actress Oscar for playing quirky matriarch Aurora Greenway in the tearjerker Terms of Endearment (1983, with Deborah Winger and Jack…

Hustler White

Directors/Writers:Bruce LaBruce and Rick CastroDirector of Photography:James CarmanEditor:Rider SiphronProducers:Jurgen Bruning and Bruce LaBruceStrand Releasing; NR; 82 minutesRelease:9/…

Beefcake

Director/Writer:Thom FitzgeraldStrand Films; unrated; 93 minutesRelease:10/99Cast:Daviel MacIvor, Josh Peace, Carroll Godsman Beefcake is writer-director Thom Fitzgerald's semi-fictional peek…

Silvio Berlusconi

Billionaire and media baron Silvio Berlusconi dominated Italian politics from 1994 until he resigned in 2011, having served three times as prime minister (1994-95, 2001-06 and 2008-11). A native of…

Jack Ruby

Name at birth: Jacob RubensteinJack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of president John F. Kennedy, on November 24, 1963. Jack Ruby was born in Chicago, and served in the U.S…

Gary Ridgway

Gary Leon Ridgway confessed on 5 November 2003 to 48 murders in Seattle's King County, making him the most prolific convicted serial killer in United States history. Ridgway grew up in the Seattle…

Meyer Lansky Biography

Meyer Lansky(Maier Suchowljansky)mobsterBorn: 7/4/1902Birthplace: Grodno, Russia Best known as Charles “Lucky” Luciano's right hand man and the financial mastermind behind the mob, Lansky was…