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The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto

Author:Mario Vargas LlosaPublisher:Farrar Straus & Giroux Peruvian expatriate Vargas Llosa has left the dry political allegory of his most recent novel, Death in the Andes, and returned…

Carmen and Don José

One of opera's most beloved love stories by David Johnson A story by French writer Prosper Mérimée, Carmen is the basis for one of the best-loved operas. Carmen was a fiery gypsy girl…

Cats Don't Dance

Director: Mark DindalWriters: Roberts Gannaway, Cliff Ruby, Elana Lesser and Theresa PettengillArt Director:Brian McEnteeMusic:Randy Newman and Steve GoldsteinChoreographer:Gene…

Brewer's: Don Giovanni

Mozart's best opera. (See Don Juan.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Don JuanDon A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z…

Brewer's: Don Juan

A native of Seville, son of Don José and Donna Inez, a blue-stocking. When Juan was sixteen years old he got into trouble with Donna Julia, and was sent by his mother, then a widow, on his…

Brewer's: Don Quixote

(2 syl.). A gaunt country gentleman of La Mancha, gentle and dignified, affectionate and simple-minded, but so crazed by reading books of knight-errantry that he believes himself called…

Don Giovanni (Opera)

Wolfgang Amadeus MozartArchive PhotosMusic:Wolfgang Amadeus MozartLibretto:Lorenzo da PontePremiere:Prague, October 29, 1787 One of the most praised operas, Don Giovanni combines high drama…

Don Ameche Biography

Don Ameche(Dominic Felix Amici)actorBorn: 5/31/1908Birthplace: Kenosha, Wisconsin A popular leading man of the 1930s and '40s, he enjoyed a comeback in the 1980s starring in such movies as Trading…

Don Johnson Biography

Don JohnsonactorBorn: 12/15/1949Birthplace: Flatt Creek, Missouri Television actor best known for his two marriages to actress Melanie Griffith and his role as Sonny Crockett on the TV series…

Don Imus Biography

Don Imus(John Donald Imus, Jr.)radio host, writerBorn: 7/23/1940Birthplace: Riverside, Calif. This often crude, sometimes belligerent, proudly uneducated pundit daily reaches at least 15…