A giantess of modern suspense fiction, Mary Higgins Clark was the author of the novels A Stranger is Watching (1978), A Cry in the Dark (1982) and Nighttime is My Time (2004). Clark's specialty was…
Matt Groening's animated creations, the Simpson family, first appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show, which opened on the Fox network in 1987. The new network took a chance and gave The Simpsons a prime-…
Nathan Fillion is a Canadian-American actor known to TV audiences for his role as Captain Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds in the short-lived but well-loved Joss Whedon series Firefly (2002-03). Nathon Fillion…
Name at birth: Granville Oral RobertsOral Roberts was the first evangelist to lead large televised revivals in which worshipers claimed to be miraculously healed. He was raised in a Pentecostal…
Oscar Hijuelos was the Cuban-American writer who won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction with his 1990 novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. His parents were Cuban immigrants to New York City, where…
Name at birth: Jerome John GarciaJerry Garcia was the guitarist and acknowledged leader of the long-lived rock band The Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead was one of the original "jam bands," famous…
John Slattery plays Roger Sterling, the silver-haired senior partner and horndog on the TV series Mad Men. John Slattery grew up in Boston and earned a B.F.A. degree from Catholic University in…
The comedy team of Laurel and Hardy made hundreds of movies, both shorts and features, and the two men were among Hollywood's biggest stars from the 1930s to the 1950s. Stanley Laurel was an…
Name at birth: James Johnson, Jr.Rick James was a leading funk singer and songwriter of the 1980s. He remains best known for his song "Super Freak" -- and for being convicted of kidnapping and sexual…
Name at birth: Brian Ray TroutHis roles in the horror films Scream and The Craft made 1996 the year Skeet Ulrich captured the hearts of excitable teens. His appearance in Scream as Billy, the…
