(Nicolas Coppola)actorBorn: 1/7/1964Birthplace: Long Beach, California Academy Award-winning actor whose credits range from serious dramas to wacky comedies to action-adventure films. His films…
(Herbert Khaury)singerBorn: 4/12/1932Birthplace: New York City The ukulele-playing, childlike singer built his career on his signature song, 1968's “Tiptoe Through the Tulips with Me” and quivering…
(Henry Youngman)comedianBorn: 3/16/1906Birthplace: London, England King of the one-liner, Youngman was best known for his line, “Take my wife…please! ” In reality, he and wife Sadie Cohen were…
(Thomas Connery)actorBorn: 8/25/1930Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland Academy Award-winning, genially handsome film actor whose name became synonymous with James Bond, the imperturbable superspy…
actor, musician, composerBorn: 7/16/1948Birthplace: Panama City, Panama A popular salsa musician, he turned to acting in the 1980s, making his feature film debut in Crossover Dreams (1985), for…
(Coy Luther Perry III)actorBorn: 10/11/1966Birthplace: Fredericktown, Ohio After a rocky start in soaps (Loving 1987–88 and Another World), Perry landed the role of Dylan McKay on Beverly Hills…
composerBorn: 4/13/1942Birthplace: Providence, Rhode Island An incredibly prolific composer, he first earned critical acclaim for scoring Vittorio de Sica's Oscar-winning The Garden of the Finzi-…
(Louis Bert Lindley, Jr.)actor, cowboyBorn: 6/29/1919Birthplace: Kingsburg, California Pickens worked as a rodeo star before landing his first movie role in the western Rocky Mountain (1950). His…
(Encyclopedia) Colorado, University of, main campus at Boulder; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1877. There are campuses at Colorado Springs and Denver; the main medical campus…
(Encyclopedia) Château d'IfChâteau d'Ifshätōˌdēfˈ [key], castle built in 1524 on the small rocky isle of If, in the Mediterranean Sea off Marseilles, SE France. Long used as a state prison, it was…
