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Man Booker Prize
Man Booker Prize an annual prize of £50,000 (originally £20,000 ) for a work of fiction by a living British, Irish, or Commonwealth writer. Great Britain's premier literary award, it was originally known as the Booker Prize and in 1969 was underwritten by the British food-distrib...
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Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro , 1943-, American film actor, b. New York City. After studying for the stage, he acted in films directed by Brian De Palma . In 1973 he made his first major movies, Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets. In these and other motion pictures he has shown an impressive dramatic range...
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Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone 1946-, American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer, b. New York City, studied filmmaking with Martin Scorsese at New York Univ. (B.F.A., 1971). Stone enlisted (1967) in the army and saw combat in Vietnam, winning a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. He adapted the screenplay for Mid...
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Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep 1949-, American actress, b. Summit, N.J., as Mary Louise Streep. She attended Yale Drama School and appeared in many Broadway and off-Broadway productions during the early 1970s. Moving to Hollywood, she made her film debut in Julia (1977), and has become one of the most acclaimed fi...
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Bob Fosse
Bob Fosse (Robert Louis Fosse) , 1927-87, American choreographer and director, b. Chicago. Fosse first appeared on Broadway in Dance Me a Song (1950). He choreographed dances for The Pajama Game (1954), Damn Yankees (1955), and Pippin (1972). He also directed and choreographed the film Sw...
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Bette Davis
Bette Davis , 1908-89, American film actress, b. Lowell, Mass., as Ruth Elizabeth Davis. One of the most durable stars of the American screen, she made her debut in 1931. With a strikingly artificial yet emotionally compelling acting style and distinctive features that gave her an unconventional bea...
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Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (Clinton Eastwood, Jr.), 1930-, American actor and director, b. San Francisco. Eastwood, who began his acting career in 1955, came to public attention with his role in the TV Western Rawhide and in so-called spaghetti Westerns (usually filmed in Italy), such as A Fistful of Dollar...
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Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn 1929-93, film actress, b. Brussels as Audrey Kathleen Ruston. The daughter of an English banker and a Dutch baroness, she and her mother lived in the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation. Moving to London, she studied ballet and acting, modeled, danced, and played bit parts before ...
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Oscar Arias Sánchez
Oscar Arias Sánchez , 1941-, president of Costa Rica (1986-90, 2006-). He was financial adviser to the president (1970-72), minister of national planning (1972-77), and congressman (1978-82). As president, he attempted to address Costa Rica's massive economic problems; his chief concern, howe...
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Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman 1930-, African-American saxophonist and composer, b. Fort Worth, Tex. Largely self-taught, he began playing the alto saxophone in rhythm-and-blues bands. He later developed an unorthodox and impassioned style of free jazz characterized by broken rhythms, atonal harmonies, and impr...
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