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Mike Nichols

Name at birth: Michael Igor PeschkowskyMike Nichols was a celebrated director of Broadway plays and Hollywood movies and was the Oscar-winning director of The Graduate. He arrived in New York in 1939…

Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich lived through all the highs and lows of Hollywood in his long career as a writer, director, and auteur. The child of immigrants from Serbia and Austria, Peter Bogdanovich got his…

The Winter Guest

Director: Alan Rickman Writers: Alan Rickman and Sharman Macdonald Director of Photography: Seamus McGarvey Editor: Scott Thomas Music: Michael Kamen Production Designer…

State and Main

Director/Writer: David Mamet Fine Line Features; R; 102 minutes Release: 12/00 Cast: Alec Baldwin, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Sarah Jessica Parker, William H. Macy David Mamet's…

Ida Lupino

Ida Lupino was a Hollywood leading lady in the 1940s and ‘50s who was also a force behind the camera as a writer, producer and director. She was born in London, but the Lupino family had roots in…

Anna May Wong

Name at birth: Wong Liu-tsongAnna May Wong was a star of early silent films and "talkies," and is regarded as the first prominent Chinese-American actor in Hollywood movies. She was born Wong Liu-…

Joaquin Phoenix Biography

Joaquin PhoenixactorBorn: 10/28/1974Birthplace: San Juan, Puerto Rico Phoenix began acting at age 8, shortly after his hippie parents piled him and his two siblings in an old station wagon,…

Richard Burton

Name at birth: Richard Walter Jenkins, Jr.Richard Burton was a Welsh actor known for his many appearances on stage and in big screen costume dramas, and for being married to Elizabeth Taylor -- twice…

Lights! Camera! <i>Disaster!</i>

The greatest disaster films of all time by Beth Rowen Related Links DisastersDisaster QuizShips and ShipwrecksThe disaster movie genre flourished in the 1970s, long before effects became major…

A Tour of Rushmore, Part 2

Related Links Rushmore Official SiteEntertainment Reviews: RushmoreThe Movies of 1998The Movies of 1999Rushmore is more about the reality people create for themselves — in fantasies, obsessions,…