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Denholm Elliott Biography

Denholm ElliottactorBorn: 5/31/1922Birthplace: London, England Actor who took to the stage and then film, after surviving three years in a Nazi POW camp during World War II. Known for his character…

Audrey Tautou

Audrey Tautou is a French actress who became an international star as the mysteriously smiling lead in the romantic comedy Amélie (Le Fabluleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, 2001). She was already well-…

Halle Berry

Halle Berry is the first African-American ever to win an Oscar as best actress, for her starring role in the drama Monster's Ball (2001, co-starring Billy Bob Thornton). Berry went from the world of…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Love's Baptism

by EmilyDickinsonRenunciationResurrectionLove's Baptism Love's Baptism I'm ceded, I've stopped being theirs; The name they dropped upon my face With water, in the country church, Is…

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Biography

Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharastrophysicistBorn: 10/19/1910Birthplace: Lahore, India (now Pakistan) Chandrasekhar was one of ten children born to a civil servant and an intellectual mother who…

Les Contes d'Hoffmann <br/>(Tales of Hoffmann)

Music:Jacques OffenbachLibretto:Michel Carré and Jules BarbierPremiere:Paris, February 10, 1881 Loosely based on the life of the German writer E.T.A. Hoffmann, Tales of Hoffmann portrays a…

Roger Ebert Biography

Roger Ebertfilm criticBorn: 6/18/1942Birthplace: Urbana, Illinois Best known as co-host with Gene Siskel of the popular television programs Siskel & Ebert (1986–1999) and At the Movies (PBS,…

Janet McTeer Biography

Janet McTeeractressBorn: 1962Birthplace: York, England An acclaimed British stage actress, McTeer made her big-screen debut in 1986's Half Moon Street. Although she appeared in several other…

John Keats: Modern Love

Lines Rhymed in a Letter from OxfordOver the Hill and Over the DaleModern Love And what is love? It is a doll dress’d up For idleness to cosset, nurse, and dandle; A thing of soft…

Poem: Love's Baptism

Poem 39 Poem 41 Love's Baptism I'm ceded, I've stopped being theirs; The name they dropped upon my face With water, in the country church, Is finished using now, And they can put it with my…