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The Quarry

Director/Writer:Marion HanselFirst Run Features; NR; 112 minutesRelease:1/00Cast:John Lynch, Sylvia Esau, Jonny Phillips The Quarry is cinema from the outside, a dry allegory whose sparse…

Supreme Court Decision

The 2000 election will go down in history, not only for the gridlock in Florida, but also for the way in which it split the Supreme Court, which had never before stepped in to rule on a…

Double Take

Director/Writer:George GalloTouchstone Pictures; PG-13; 88 minutesRelease:1/01Cast:Orlando Jones, Eddie Griffin, Gary Grubbs On paper, Double Take is a black buddy chase comedy based on a…

Shirley Mason

Name at birth: Shirley Ardell MasonShirley Mason's story was told in Sybil, a bestselling book of the 1970s that described a woman with 16 personalities -- what was then called Multiple Personality…

Boys Don't Cry

Director:Kimberly PierceWriters:Kimberly Pierce and Andy BienenFox Searchlight Pictures; NR; 114 minutesRelease:10/99Cast:Hilary Swank, Chloe Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard Emotional complexity,…

The Gay Rights Movement of the 20th Century

Source: Excerpted from The Reader's Companion to American History. Copyright © 1991 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Late in the [19th] century, as large cities allowed for greater anonymity, as wage…

Adrienne Rich

Name at birth: Adrienne Cecile RichPoet Adrienne Rich was known for her activism as much as for her writing, and in the 1970s she became a leading voice for lesbians, feminists and anti-war…

The Parent Trap

Director: Nancy Meyers Writers: David Swift, Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer Director of Photography: Dean Cundey Editor: Stephen A. Rotter Music: Alan Silvestri Production…

Abu Zubaydah Biography

Abu ZubaydahAl-Qaeda leaderBorn: 1973Birthplace: Saudi Arabia Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Husayn Abu Zubaydah is a Palestinian long believed to be one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants.…