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Selections for the 1997 United States team were determined by a special Ryder Cup points system that ranked players from the beginning of 1996 through the 1997 PGA Championship ending on…

Leslie Nielsen Biography

Leslie Nielsen actorBorn: 2/11/1926Birthplace: Regina, SaskatchewanDied: 11/28/2010Deathplace: Fort Lauderdale, Fla. After beginning his career in radio, Nielsen studied drama and dance in New…

Breakfast of Champions

Director/Writer:Alan RudolphHollywood Pictures; R; 110 minutesRelease:9/99Cast:Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte, Omar Epps Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s brand of speculative fiction mashed with…

Best Laid Plans

Director:Mike BarkerWriter:Ted GriffinFox Searchlight Pictures; R; 90 minutesRelease:9/99Cast:Alessandro Nivola, Reese Witherspoon, Josh Brolin Best Laid Plans is late-1990s noir where plot…

Pat Conroy

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…

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…

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…