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Brian De Palmadirector, screenwriterBorn: 9/11/1940Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey Contemporary film director who has been, at times, as controversial as he has been successful. With movies…
(French). A sun-stroke, any malady produced by exposure to the sun. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Coup de TheatreCoup de Pied de l'Ane A B C D E F G…
The same as the Champs de Mars (q.v.), transferred after 755 to the month of May. Napoleon I. revived these meetings during the “Hundred Days” (June 1st, 1815). Source: Dictionary of…
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The finishing stroke. When criminals were tortured by the wheel or otherwise, the executioner gave him a coup de grâce, or blow on the head or breast, to put him out of his misery. “The…
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Dino De Laurentiisfilm producerBorn: 8/8/1918Birthplace: Torre Annunziata, Italy Having produced several widely acclaimed Italian films in the 1950s, including Fellini's La Strada (1954) and…
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