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Billy Crudup Biography

Billy Crudup actorBorn: 7/8/1968Birthplace: Manhasset, New York Critically acclaimed actor whose Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (1995) earned him an Outer Critics Circle Award. His…

Without Limits

Director: Robert Towne Writers: Robert Towne and Kenny Moore Warner Bros. PG-13; 118 minutes Release: 9/98 Cast: Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, Monica Potter, William…

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

(Encyclopedia) O'Brien, Conor Cruise (Donal Conor Cruise O'Brien), 1917–2008, Irish author, diplomat, and politician. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he entered the department of external…

Philip Burke 2000 Deaths

Philip BurkeAge: 65 New York sports public relations executive in the 1960s who was a publicist at Columbia University and Roosevelt Raceway, then the nation's leading harness racing track,…

Martha Burk, 2003 News

chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations, led the much-publicized campaign against Augusta National Golf Club, Georgia's exclusive, all-male enclave that hosts the Masters…

Burke Marshall 2003 Deaths

Burke MarshallAge: 80 public official who served as assistant attorney general in charge of civil rights in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. A former antitrust lawyer, Marshall helped…

Byrne, Jane

(Encyclopedia) Byrne, Jane, 1934–2014, American politician, b. Chicago as Margaret Jane Burke. She was Chicago's consumer sales commissioner (1968–77) under Mayor Richard Daley before she became the…

Gillespie, Dizzy

(Encyclopedia) Gillespie, Dizzy (John Birks Gillespie)Gillespie, Dizzygəlĕsˈpē [key], 1917–93, American jazz musician and composer, b. Cheraw, S.C. He began to play the trumpet at 15 and later…

Windham, William

(Encyclopedia) Windham, WilliamWindham, Williamwĭnˈdəm [key], 1750–1810, British politician. Elected to Parliament in 1784, he was a friend of Edmund Burke, whom he assisted in the impeachment of…

Phoenix Park murders

(Encyclopedia) Phoenix Park murders, name given to the assassination on May 6, 1882, of Lord Frederick Cavendish, British secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Henry Burke, his undersecretary, in Phoenix…