As the years ticked away, Kilmer developed a reputation for being “difficult to work with”. There were huge fallings-out on the set of John Frankenheimer’s famously disastrous adaptation of HG Wells’ The Island of Dr Moreau from 1996. Joel Schumacher, director ...
Drew up the first charter of the city of Boston in 1822-23; wrote the decision in Commonwealth v. Hunt, 1842, which exempted labor unions from the criminal conspiracy law. Related by marriage to the author Herman Melville. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 30, 1861 (age 80 ...
American satirist Samuel Clemens—better known as Mark Twain—commissioned Edward Tuckerman Potter to design hisAmerican High Gothic homein 1873. A masterpiece of the aesthetic movement, the interior surfaces of the home were decorated by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Twain wrote some of his best-known wo...
including “Rockets: The Future of Travel Beyond the Stratosphere” in 1944. In it, Mr. Ley reiterated his belief in the possibility of space travel: “I wish to affirm with great seriousness that the rocket to the moonispossible,” he wrote. “Whether it has any practical value...