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1998 Movie Awards

1998 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best PictureSaving Private RyanBest ActorIan McKellen, Gods and MonstersBest Actress (tie)Ally Sheedy, High Art Fernanda Montenegro, Central…

Clancy, Tom

(Encyclopedia) Clancy, Tom (Thomas Leo Clancy, Jr.), 1947–2013, American popular novelist, b. Baltimore, grad. Loyola Univ. Maryland (B.A., 1969). While working as an insurance agent he wrote The…

Ascham, Roger

(Encyclopedia) Ascham, RogerAscham, Rogerăsˈkəm [key], 1515–68, English humanist and scholar, b. Yorkshire. Ascham was a major intellectual figure of the early Tudor period. His Toxophilus (1545), an…

Sullivan, John Lawrence

(Encyclopedia) Sullivan, John Lawrence, 1858–1918, American boxer, b. Roxbury, Mass. After gaining a local reputation in amateur boxing, the Boston Strong Boy, as Sullivan came to be called, toured…

Devoy, John

(Encyclopedia) Devoy, JohnDevoy, Johndĭvoiˈ [key], 1842–1928, Irish-American journalist and Irish revolutionary, b. Ireland. He joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood (see Fenian movement) in 1861.…

Mitchum, Robert

(Encyclopedia) Mitchum, Robert (Robert Charles Duran Mitchum), 1917–97, American film actor, b. Bridgeport, Conn. He found extra work and bit parts in early 1940s movies, and first achieved wide…

1998 Movie Awards

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards Best Picture Nominees (winner will be announced January 25, 1999):A Simple PlanElizabethGods and MonstersLife Is BeautifulOut of SightPleasantvilleSaving…

Ireland Chiefs of State & Cabinet Members

Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign GovernmentsDate of Information: 10/5/2022[source] Pres. Michael D. Higgins Taoiseach (Prime Min.) Micheál Martin Dep. Prime Min. VACANT…

Matt Damon

actor, screenwriterBorn: 10/8/1970Birthplace: Cambridge, Massachusetts A Harvard University dropout, Damon struggled for years as a screenwriter and actor before becoming Hollywood's boy wonder as…