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1982 Academy Awards

The 1982 Academy Awards were presented April 11, 1983 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.Best PictureE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, producers (…

1983 Academy Awards

The 1983 Academy Awards were presented April 9, 1984 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.Best PictureThe Big Chill, Michael Shamberg, producer (Columbia)The Dresser, Peter Yates,…

1998 People in the News

Yasir Arafat,Richard Ashby,Mike Barnicle,Michael J. Blassie,Julian Bond,James Cameron,Viktor Chernomyrdin,Lieut. Col. Eileen CollinsBetty Currie,Matt Damon,Calista Flockhart,John Glenn,Alan…

Biographies of the Presidents

  Read bios on all of the U.S. presidents from George Washington to Ulysses S. Grant to Joe Biden. George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe…

2003 Deaths: A - F

Lucian AdamsGiovanni AgnelliIvan AllenIdi AminCholly AtkinsRobert AtkinsGeorge AxelrodHank BallardAlan BatesDavid BloomLuciano BerioFreddie BlassieJanko BobetkoBobby BondsAnita BorgRobert…

Entertainment News from August 1999

2 Barry Meyer and Alan Horn are named co-chairmen of Warner Bros., replacing Terry Semel and Bob Daly, who resigned in July. Meyer, who was in charge of Warner's television division, will…

2006 Deaths: R - Z

RajkumarLou RawlsSid RaymondDana ReeveJean-François RevelJason RhoadesAnn RichardsLloyd RichardsHam RichardsonPaul RigbyA.M. RosenthalJoe RosenthalMarie RudisillIbrahim RugovaLouis…

Seeger, Pete

(Encyclopedia) Seeger, Pete (Peter Seeger), 1919–2014, American folksinger, composer, and environmentalist, b. New York City. Seeger, a son of musicologist Charles Seeger and violinist Constance…

folk song

(Encyclopedia) folk song, music of anonymous composition, transmitted orally. The theory that folk songs were originally group compositions has been modified in recent studies. These assume that the…

Boy George

(George Alan O'Dowd) singerBirthplace: LondonBorn: 6/14/61