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Benicio Del Toro

actorBorn: 2/19/1967Birthplace: Santurce, Puerto Rico Intense actor who has recently made the jump from intriguing supporting performances to more featured roles in Excess Baggage (1997) and Fear…

Waylon Jennings

country singerBorn: 6/15/1937Birthplace: Littlefield, Texas Grammy Award-winning country music singer who, with Willie Nelson, invented progressive or “outlaw” country music. His recordings…

Anne Heche

actressBorn: 5/25/1969Birthplace: Aurora, Ohio Rising actress who, for better or worse, is best known as comedian Ellen DeGeneres's former lover. Heche has had a number of eye-catching roles in a…

Joan Rivers

(Joan Molinsky)comedian, talk show host, actressBorn: 6/8/1933Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Emmy Award-winning talk show host, actress and comedian who gained notoriety while working as the…

Dick Cavett

talk-show host, entertainerBorn: 11/19/1936Birthplace: Gibbon, Nebraska Cavett began his career as a writer for Jack Paar, Merv Griffin,Jerry Lewis, and Johnny Carson. His series of talk-shows…

Barry Manilow

(Barry Alan Pincus)singer, songwriterBorn: 6/17/1946Birthplace: New York City Often maligned by critics, Barry Manilow was one of the best-selling balladeers of the 1970s. Although he began his…

1968 CMA Awards

Entertainer of the YearGlen CampbellSingle of the Year“Harper Valley P.T.A.,” Jeannie C. RileyAlbum of the YearJohnny Cash at Folsom Prison, Johnny Cash (Columbia)Song of the Year (Songwriter's…

Asian-American Athletes

Grace ParkAgbayani, Benny, baseball Chang, Michael, tennis Chow, Amy, gymnastics Chung, Eugene, football Darling, Ron, baseball Draves, Vicki Manalo, diving Fair, Lorrie, soccer…

Tinker to Evers to Chance

Chicago Cubs double play combination from 1903-10; immortalized in poem by New York sportswriter Franklin P. Adams—SS Joe Tinker (1880-1948), 2B Johnny Evers (1883-1947) and 1B Frank Chance (1877-…

Křenek, Ernst

(Encyclopedia) Křenek, ErnstKřenek, Ernstkrĕˈnĕk, Czech kerzhĕˈnĕk [key], 1900–1991, Austrian-American composer, b. Vienna. to Czech parents. He studied in Vienna and Berlin, and in the early 1920s…