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Noah Beery, Jr. Biography

Noah Beery, Jr. actorBorn: 8/10/1913Birthplace: New York City He appeared in the Howard Hawks-directed movies Sergeant York (1941) and Red River (1948). He also appeared in Walking Tall (1973) and…

Gaylord Perry

Gaylord PerryBorn: Sept. 15, 1938Baseball RHP was only pitcher to win a Cy Young Award in both leagues until 1999 when Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez joined him; retired in 1983 with 314-…

Glenn (Pop) Warner

Glenn (Pop) WarnerBorn: Apr. 5, 1871Football innovator coached at 7 colleges over 49 years; 319 career wins 2nd only to Bear Bryant's 323 in Div. I-A; produced 47 All-Americas, including Jim…

Lavern Baker 1997 Deaths

LaVern BakerR&B singer Baker, an influential blues musician of the 1950s, saw her career flag in the 1960s but made a triumphant return in the late 1980s. Her recordings, which mixed…

C. Vann Woodward, Biography

C. Vann Woodward,Comer Vann Woodwardhistorian Born: 11/13/1908Birthplace: Vanndale, Arkansas Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller and historian who chronicled the upheaval of the turbulent…

Union Square

NBCThursday 8:30–9:00 p.m.; canceledCast: Constance Marie, Michael Landes, Harriet Sansom Harris, Jim Pirri, Jonathan Slavin, Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter and Christine Burke Hammocked between…

Airplane! <span class="date" >(1980)</span>

Director: Jim AbrahamsCast: Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges and David Zucker This hilarious spoof of those melodramatic '70s disaster flicks never relents with its sight gags, bad puns and sly…

2000 National Book Critics Circle Awards

Fiction: Being Dead, Jim Crace (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)General Nonfiction: Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, Ted Conover (Random House)Biography or Autobiography: Hirohito and the Making of…

Noah Beery, Jr.

Noah Beery, Jr. actorBorn: 8/10/1913Birthplace: New York City He appeared in the Howard Hawks-directed movies Sergeant York (1941) and Red River (1948). He also appeared in Walking Tall (…

Robbie Tilley Branscum Biography

Robbie Tilley BranscumwriterBorn: 6/17/1937Birthplace: near Big Flat, Arkansas A popular children's author, she drew on her own childhood in rural Arkansas to tell stories of hardship and good times…