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Paul Thomas Anderson Biography

Paul Thomas Andersonwriter, directorBorn: 1970 Writer, director, and producer of Oscar-nominated Boogie Nights (1997), a sprawling, in-your-face examination of the Los Angeles porn scene in the 1970s…

Brannan, Charles Franklin

(Encyclopedia) Brannan, Charles Franklin, 1903–92, U.S. government official, b. Denver, LL.B. Univ. of Denver, 1929. He became a specialist in agriculture and mining law. In the Dept. of Agriculture…

Van Vleck, John Hasbrouck

(Encyclopedia) Van Vleck, John Hasbrouck, 1899–1980, American physicist, b. Middletown, Conn., Ph.D. Harvard, 1922. As a professor at Harvard, Van Vleck developed fundamental theories on the quantum…

2009 National Board of Review Awards

The National Board of Review includes teachers, actors, writers and movie-production workers. The organization publishes the magazine Films in Review. Find out…

Coffin, William Anderson

(Encyclopedia) Coffin, William Anderson, 1855–1925, American landscape and figure painter and art critic, studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts and under Léon Bonnat in Paris. His landscapes were…

Early, Jubal Anderson

(Encyclopedia) Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816–94, Confederate general, b. Franklin co., Va., grad. West Point, 1837. After fighting against the Seminole in Florida he resigned from the army (1838),…