James Curtis’s W.C. Fields: A Biography (2003) quotes director Norman McLeod:“[Fields] used to swear at the baby so much in front of the camera that I sometimes had to cut off the ends of the scenes in which they appeared.” Fields’ popular persona was a man who hated dogs and...
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a secret military base located in a barren area of Texas. Suspicious, “Jiggs” suspects that Scott and a group of other senior military are planning a coup. The military takeover is scheduled for the
John Lizzi. Actor: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. John Lizzi is an American freelance actor in film, television, stage and commercials. Lizzi grew up in Upstate New York. In his high school senior year, while sitting in the library, wondering what the
“By growing mycelium into the electronics of a robot, we were able to allow the biohybrid machine to sense and respond to the environment,”sayssenior researcher Rob Shepherd, a materials scientist at Cornell…. [Thanks to Cat Eldridge, SF Concatenation’s Jonathan Cowie, Steven French, Kathy...
In the Summer of 1939, Kennedy toured Europe, the Soviet Union, the Balkans, and the Middle East in preparation for his Harvard senior honors thesis. He then went to Czechoslovakia and Germany before returning to London on September 1, 1939, the day that Germany invaded Poland. Two days ...
By the time Colonial's lawyer replied, Curtis Candy had sent another letter advising the label to disregard the previous one: Sales had gone up 500 percent in the last month, as kids were eating the candy bars more and adults were sending roses and Baby Ruths to their sweethearts all over...
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One such project was the publication of a biography of Osama bin Laden and the origins of the al Qaeda network. 125. Defendant WAMY is an al Qaeda front. In particular, it is involved in the production and/or distribution of al Qaeda training manuals, propaganda, and hate lite...
McCoy Tyner was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer, noted for his technical virtuosity and dazzling improvisations. Tyner began performing with local jazz ensembles while in his mid-teens. He met saxophonist John Coltrane in 1955 and, aft