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The Devil's Dictionary: Proboscis

by Ambrose Bierce PRIVATEPROJECTILEPROBOSCIS -n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of…

Dark Angel

FoxTuesday 9:00–10:00 p.m. Cast:Jessica Alba, Michael Weatherly, John Savage, Alimi Ballard, Valarie Rae Miller, Richard Gunn, J.C. MacKenzie, Jennifer Blanc Titanic director James Cameron…

Aesop's Fables: The Stag and the Vine

by Aesop The Miller, His Son, and Their AssThe Lamb Chased By a WolfThe Stag and the Vine A Stag, pursued by the huntsmen, concealed himself under cover of a thick Vine. They lost track of…

The Closer

CBSTuesday 9:00–9:30 p.m.Cast: Tom Selleck, Edward Asner, Penelope Ann Miller, David Krumholtz, Suzy Nakamura and Heddy Burress Selleck's comeback wave crests with a return to CBS as Jack…

2001 National Book Awards

The 52nd Annual National Book Awards were presented November 14, 2001, at New York City's Marriott Marquis Hotel.Fiction:The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)…

Max A. SANDLIN, Congress, TX (1952)

SANDLIN Max A. , a Representative from Texas; born in Texarkana, Miller County, Ark., September 29, 1952; graduated from Atlanta High School, Atlanta, Tex.; B.A., Baylor University, Waco, Tex.,…

Elmer Gertz 2000 Deaths

Elmer GertzAge: 93 civil-rights attorney who in 1958 won parole for Nathan Leopold, who, with Richard Loeb, was convicted in the 1924 killing of 14-year-old Bobby Franks. He also had the…

Top 10 Western Movies

The American Film Institute asked more than 1,500 members of the film community to pick the ten best films representing ten American genres: animated, fantasy, gangster, science fiction,…

Aesop's Fables: The Farmer and the Stork

by Aesop The Wolf and the ShepherdThe Charger and the MillerThe Farmer and the Stork A Farmer set some traps in a field which he had lately sown with corn, in order to catch the cranes…