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Damon Runyon
Damon Runyon (Alfred Damon Runyon), 1884-1946, American short story writer and journalist, b. Manhattan, Kans. He is best known for his humorous stories—written in a picturesque, slangy journalistic idiom (often referred to as Runyonese)—about New York City's Broadway and underworld... Read more |
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Ving Rhames
Ving Rhames 1959— Actor Forging his reputation by playing tough and often frightening characters, Ving Rhames has built a career as a stage, film, and television actor that has had few lulls since he landed his first role in the early 1980s. Many of the characters he has played have been... Read more |
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Dieudonne
Dieudonné1966— Comedian Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, who is known professionally as simply "Dieudonné," is France's most controversial comedian. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as part of a duo who poked fun at long-standing racial and religious stereotypes in France, but since 1997 Dieudonné has... Read more |
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James Cagney
James Cagney 1899-1986, American movie actor, b. New York City. He worked on Broadway as an actor and dancer before appearing in films. He is best remembered as a brash, sadistic, tough guy in such movies as Public Enemy (1931) and The Roaring Twenties (1939). He displayed equal vigor in... Read more |
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William Aitken Aitken Baron of Beaverbrook
William Maxwell Aitken William Maxwell Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook; 1879-1964) was a Canadian businessman and politician who left an indelible mark on politics and journalism on both sides of the Atlantic. Aitken rose to prominence as a merger king in Canada before gravitating into British politics... Read more |
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Isidor Isaac Rabi
RABI, ISIDOR ISAAC(b. Rymanow, Austria-Hungary [later Poland], 29 July 1898; d. New York, New York, 11 January 1988), physics, molecular beams, nuclear physics, physics statesman.When I. I. Rabi died at age eighty-nine, many of the world’s leading physicists called him the “dean of world physics.”... Read more |
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Guy Davis
Guy Davis Blues singer, composer, guitarist "I never picked cotton except my BVDs up off the floor," bluesman Guy Davis has been quoted as saying, according to the Denver Post. Yet by the early years of the twenty-first century Davis had emerged as a prime interpreter and creator of the acoustic... Read more |
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Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello Singer, songwriter Name Poked Fun at Stardom Early Efforts Showed Deadly “Aim” “Pop Expressionism” and Road Fatigue Increasingly Ambitious Songwriting End of Road for Attractions Accused of “Raiding His Own Catalogue” Selected discography... Read more |
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Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett Singer For the Record… Showed Early Artistic Aspirations Saw Both Sides of Fame The Painter Selected discography Sources Tony Bennett, the man who left his heart in San Francisco, experienced a sparkling resurgence in both popularity and record sales 40 years after first making... Read more |
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