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Kristin Scott Thomas

Proud, fine-boned and just a bit remote, Kristin Scott Thomas jumped to international stardom as the gorgeous-but-doomed lover in 1996 Oscar champ The English Patient (also starring Juliette Binoche…

Greta Garbo

Name at birth: Greta Lovisa GustafssonGreta Garbo was an enigmatic superstar of silent films and early Hollywood "talkies" until her surprising retirement at age 36. She was discovered in Sweden and…

Poem: Suspense

Poem 29 Poem 31 Suspense Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity or doom. What fortitude the soul contains, That it can so endure The…

The Devil's Dictionary: Embalm

by Ambrose Bierce EMANCIPATIONEMOTIONEMBALM -v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between…

John Slattery

John Slattery plays Roger Sterling, the silver-haired senior partner and horndog on the TV series Mad Men. John Slattery grew up in Boston and earned a B.F.A. degree from Catholic University in…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Queen Mab Book 7

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 6 8 7 SPIRIT: 'I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there: The dark-robed priests were met around the pile; The multitude was…

John Milton - Paradise Lost: Book IX

Book IX Meanwhile the hainous and despightfull act Of SATAN done in Paradise, and how Hee in the Serpent had perverted EVE, Her Husband shee, to taste the fatall fruit, Was known in Heav'n;…