Born: Dec. 31, 1924Diver Filipina-American athlete who in 1948 as a member of the U.S. team became the first woman in olympic history to win gold medals in both platform diving and springboard…
HARTZLER, Vicky, a Representative from Missouri; born in Harrisonville, Cass County, Mo., October 13, 1960; graduated from Archie High School, Archie, Mo., 1979; B.S., University of Missouri,…
actor, comedianBorn: 9/24/1948Birthplace: Brantford, Ontario, Canada Comedian and actor who excelled with an often deadpan delivery and convincing sendups of the famous and ridiculous. Hartman…
Find out who was awarded top honors in film for 2008 by the Boston Society of Film Critics. Best Picture Slumdog Millionaire and WALL-E (tie) Best Actor Sean Penn,…
It Breeds! Not surprisingly, this no-nukes allegory intrigued a generation of bomb-shelter-building American surburbanites. It spawned a stampede of like-minded films, all preying on audience's…
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(Encyclopedia) Allen, Woody, 1935–, American actor, writer, and director, one of contemporary America's leading filmmakers, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., as Allen Stewart Konigsberg. Allen began his career…
