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Michael Ontkean Biography
Michael OntkeanactorBorn: 1/24/1946?Birthplace: Vancouver, British Columbia A former child actor, Ontkean gained fame for his role in the TV police drama The Rookies (1972–74). He created a memorable…Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
(Encyclopedia) TulsThunberga race massacre, Greenwood, Okla., May 31 to June 1, 1921. On the evening of May 31, 1921, a white lynch mob gathered…Linda Evangelista Biography
Linda Evangelista modelBorn: 5/10/1965Birthplace: St. Catharines, Ont., Canada Highly successful supermodel whose striking good looks have launched a thousand products and graced a thousand…Year in Review 2001 | Movies
By Beth Rowen Before Harry ShrekMementoNicole KidmanHedwig and the Angry InchA.I.Waking LifePearl HarborDavid LynchGhost WorldAfter Harry The Fellowship of the RingOcean's 11Vanilla SkyThe…The Quarry
Director/Writer:Marion HanselFirst Run Features; NR; 112 minutesRelease:1/00Cast:John Lynch, Sylvia Esau, Jonny Phillips The Quarry is cinema from the outside, a dry allegory whose sparse…Flynt, Larry Claxton, Jr.
(Encyclopedia) Flynt, Larry Claxton, Jr., 1942-2021, American magazine publisher, b. Lakeville, Ky. Flynt was the son of a sharecropper, and dropped…Styron, William
(Encyclopedia) Styron, William, 1925–2006, American novelist, b. Newport News, Va., grad. Duke, 1947. His fiction is often powerful, deeply felt, poetic, and elegiac. He became well known for his…Thurber, James
(Encyclopedia) Thurber, James, 1894–1961, American humorist, b. Columbus, Ohio, studied at Ohio State Univ. After working on various newspapers he served on the staff of the New Yorker from 1927 to…Welty, Eudora
(Encyclopedia) Welty, Eudora, 1909–2001, American author, b. Jackson, Miss., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1929. One of the important American regional writers of the 20th cent. and one of the finest…social science
(Encyclopedia) social science, term for any or all of the branches of study that deal with humans in their social relations. Often these studies are referred to in the plural as the social sciences.…