Anthony Hopkins was well into his fifties when he became a Hollywood leading man, especially when he won the Oscar for Best ...

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The actor, born in Ohio on January 26, 1925, is an inseparable and indisputable part of the history of the United States in ...

The Pulitzer Prize winner and Tony nominee started out with Will Eisner, and his work appeared in The Village Voice for ...

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The writer, Viscount James Bryce, an English aristocrat writing for Europeans, made shrewd observations about the presidency ...