(Encyclopedia) Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in central Manhattan, New York City, between 62d and 66th streets W of Broadway. Lincoln Center is both a complex of buildings and the arts…
actressBorn: 10/28/1952Birthplace: Nashville, Tennessee This comic actress, who first made her mark as the loopy office coordinator in Ghostbusters (1984), has had an active career in television.…
actorBorn: 11/28/1950Birthplace: Englewood, New Jersey Highly respected, Oscar-nominated character actor who has played both the hero—John Glenn in The Right Stuff (1983)—and the antihero—E.…
actressBorn: 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 films, including…
(Steven Allan Spielberg)director, producerBorn: 12/18/1946Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio Academy Award-winning director whose films, which range from action-adventure to science fiction to…
(Encyclopedia) Boswell, James, 1740–95, Scottish author, b. Edinburgh; son of a distinguished judge. At his father's insistence the young Boswell reluctantly studied law. Admitted to the bar in 1766…
(Encyclopedia) Browning, Orville Hickman, 1806–81, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1866–69), b. Harrison co., Ky. One of the organizers of the Republican party in Illinois, Browning helped secure his…
