Dave Bautista went from being a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) champion to a crowd favorite on the big screen, as Drax the Destroyer in the Guardians of the Galaxy film franchise. From the mean…
Name at birth: Donald Edmond Wahlberg, Jr.Donnie Wahlberg launched his entertainment career in the 1980s as one of the original members of the boy band New Kids On The Block. He is the older brother…
Writer Dylan Marlais Thomas drank himself to death at the age of 39 and left behind some of the most celebrated poems of the 20th century, including "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night." Dylan…
Name at birth: Harold Eugene EdgertonHarold Edgerton was an electrical engineer whose work on strobe and underwater photography greatly influenced both art and science during the 20th century.…
Actress Hayden Panettiere is known as the wee, blonde cheerleader in TV's fantasy series Heroes (2006-10). Panettiere grew up outside of New York City and has been in the entertainment business since…
Charlie Chaplin was a superstar of silent comedies and one of the great icons of 20th-century film. Charlie Chaplin had a rotten childhood but got an early start in the entertainment business,…
Novelist Tom Clancy popularized the genre of "techno-thrillers": action-filled political intrigues stuffed with loving details of modern military technology. A former insurance broker, Tom Clancy…
The younger brother of actor Dick Van Dyke, Jerry Van Dyke was a journeyman actor before scoring a TV hit with Coach. Jerry Van Dyke joined the Air Force in 1952, where he entertained troops and…
(Encyclopedia) fair, market exhibition at which producers, traders, and consumers meet either to barter or to buy and sell goods and services. Before the development of transportation and marketing,…
