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Pat Conroy Biography

Pat Conroyfiction and nonfiction writerBorn: 10/26/1945Birthplace: Atlanta, GeorgiaDied: 3/4/2016Birthplace: Beaufort, SC Southern writer whose career was launched in 1972 with The Water Is…

Jack Nicholson Biography

Jack Nicholsonactor, director, producerBorn: 4/22/1937Birthplace: Neptune, New Jersey Academy Award-winning actor, director and producer known for portraying cynical, dissolute characters. His films…

The Devil's Dictionary: Frying-pan

by Ambrose Bierce FROGFUNERALFRYING-PAN -n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used…

Chicken Run

Directors:Peter Lord and Nick ParkWriter:Karey KirkpatrickDreamWorks; G; 89 minutesRelease:6/00Voices of:Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Jane Horrocks If you've had the pleasure of viewing the…

The Forsaken

Director/Writer: J. S. Cardone Screen Gems; R; 90 minutes Release: 5/01 Cast: Kerr Smith, Brendan Fehr, Izabella Miko In the American popular imagination, between the East and…

Lloyd Nolan

Lloyd Nolanactor Born: 8/11/1902Birthplace: San Francisco, California Lloyd Nolan was most famous for his role as the curmudgeonly Doctor Morton Chegley in the Diahann Carroll situation comedy Julia…

Lloyd Nolan Biography

Lloyd Nolanactor Born: 8/11/1902Birthplace: San Francisco, California Lloyd Nolan was most famous for his role as the curmudgeonly Doctor Morton Chegley in the Diahann Carroll situation comedy Julia…

Peggy Noonan Biography

Peggy Noonancolumnist, political writerBorn: 1950Birthplace: New York, N.Y. Working as a waitress, Noonan attended Fairleigh Dickinson University at night, earning a BA in English. Raised a…

Brewer's: Nicholas

(St.). The patron saint of boys, as St. Catherine is of girls. In Germany, a person assembles the children of a family or school on the 6th December (the eve of St. Nicholas), and…

Pudgy Red Elf vs. Little Green Men

Seventy-five years after Clement Moore penned The Night Before Christmas, which gave us the first detailed description of Mr. Claus, the jolly old elf made his debut in a minutes-long…