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Robert Rodriguez

With $7,000 and guts to spare, Robert Rodriguez made the movie El Mariachi (1992), an action western that made him a star at the Sundance Film Festival and got him a deal with Columbia Pictures.…

Roger Ailes

Roger Miles was the founder and chairman of Fox News from 1996 to 2016, when he was forced out due to allegations of being a sexual predator. A 1962 graduate of Ohio University, Roger Ailes began…

Aileen Wuornos

Name at birth: Aileen PittmanSerial killer Aileen "Lee" Wuornos was executed in Florida in 2002, yet became more famous after her own death thanks to the Patty Jenkins feature film Monster (2003,…

1973 National Book Awards

Arts and LettersDiderot, Arthur M. WilsonBiographyGeorge Washington, Vol. IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793–1799, James Thomas FlexnerChildren's BooksThe Farthest Shore, Ursula K.…

Bill Paxton

Bill Paxton was a popular character actor and then leading man in a four-decade career that lasted until his untimely death in 2017. Born and raised in Texas, Bill Paxton took an unusual career path…

Top 10 PC Game Titles, 2010

/**/ Rank Game Title 1. Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty 2. 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa 3. F1 2010 4. Crackdown…

Michael Nesmith

Michael Nesmith was one of the four founding members of The Monkees, a made-for-TV musical group that was a pop phenomenon in the late 1960s. Michael Nesmith was born in Houston, dropped out of high…

Leopard Species Discovered

Genetic tests lead to the discovery on Borneo and Sumatra by Beth Rowen Related Links Classifying Animals Estimated Number of Animal Species…