comedian, actorBorn: 2/7/1966Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York Rock began his career by working the comedy clubs in New York City. Discovered by Eddie Murphy, he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live…
(Rosetta Jacobs)actressBorn: 1/22/1932Birthplace: Detroit Early in her acting career, Laurie played lighthearted characters in costume dramas. For her first major role, in The Hustler (1961), she…
(Walter Matthow)actorBorn: 10/1/1920Birthplace: New York City Veteran comedy actor known for his roles both on the stage and on the screen, he first appeared on Broadway in 1948 and made his film…
musicianBorn: 1/9/1944Birthplace: Heston, England Page started his music career in London, recording and rising to prominence while still in his teens. He then formed The Yardbirds, which included…
In two decades of tennis, U.S. player Andre Agassi went from being the young rebel with glam-rock hair to the grand "old man" with a head as smooth as a clay court -- and one of the greatest players…
Michael Eisner was the longtime chief executive and chairman of the board of the Walt Disney Company and the man generally considered responsible for Disney's monumental success in the 1990s. During…
Often called the King of B-Movies, Roger Corman began making low-budget movies in the 1950s, many of them surprisingly good, some of them amazingly bad. A screenwriter, producer, director and…
Charlie Wilson's adventures in governance, womanizing, and shipping guns to Afghan rebels were so colorful that Hollywood made a movie out of them. Charlie Wilson's War (2007), based on the 2003…
Errol Flynn was one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the 1930s and '40s, famous for his boundless devil-may-care energy in the rousing adventures known as swashbucklers. Errol Flynn spent his youth…
Kim Basinger won an Oscar for playing a mysterious Hollywood blonde in the 1997 drama L. A. Confidential (opposite Russell Crowe). Until then, Basinger had been known more as a beauty than as a…
