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Susan Hayward

Name at birth: Edythe MarrenerSusan Hayward was a Hollywood movie star who was Oscar nominated five times, winning her best actress award for the 1958 drama I Want to Live. A fierce redhead who…

William Goldman

William Goldman was the prolific author and screenwriter whose most famous work may now be the 1987 movie The Princess Bride, based on his 1973 novel of the same name. William Goldman burst onto the…

Books & Plays

Johannes Gutenberg's printing press revolutionized the production of books in the West. Entering the modern age, books supplanted many oral traditions as they became cheap to produce. Better access…

Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett is one of Australia's best-loved actors, known especially for her varied performances in Elizabeth, Lord of the Rings and Blue Jasmine. She has been nominated for an Oscar as a…

Nora Ephron

Nora Eprhon is the stylish and sharp-witted New York author who directed the hit romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail. Nora Ephron grew up in Los Angeles. Her parents were the…

William Friedkin

William Friedkin was a filmmaker who made his career in the 1970s with the box office hits The French Connection and The Exorcist. He got his start in television, starting in the mail room of a…

George Clooney

George Clooney spent 10 years as an acting unknown until his role as Dr. Doug Ross in the hospital drama E.R. made him TV's hottest heartthrob in 1994. He left the show in 1999 and moved on to an…

May 2003

WorldBush Says Combat Over in Iraq (May 1): In a speech from the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, president announces U.S. victorious in war in Iraq. Blair Postpones Northern Ireland…

Brewer's: Arnauts

[brave men ]. Albanian mountaineers. “Stained with the best of Arnaut's blood.” Byron: The Giaour. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Arn-monatArms of England A…

Brewer's: Philippius

A Russian sect: so called from the founder, Philip Pustoswiät. They are called Old Faith Men, because they cling with tenacity to the old service books, old version of the Bible, old hymn-…