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Director: Tod BrowningCast: Bela Lugosi, David Manners and Dwight FryeDirector: James WhaleCast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke and Dwight Frye How does one choose between Universal's…
Alpine skier Janica Kostelic of Croatia and cross country skiers Andrus Veerpalu and Jaak Mae of Estonia won the first Winter Games medals for their home countries.Short-track speed skaters…
Rosie Lee TompkinsAge: 70Effie Mae Howard reclusive African-American quiltmaker who gained unwanted acclaim for her unconventional creations, which fused vibrant colors and geometric forms in…
Mr. WizardFat Possum/Epitaph Junior Kimbrough's labelmate on Fat Possum, R. L. Burnside is another Mississippi hill country-bluesman rescued from obscurity in the early '90s. His seminal Fat…
Turner; $19.98; NRDirector: Fritz LangCast: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas, Marilyn Monroe, Keith Andes and J. Carrol Naish Stanwyck portrays tough gal Mae Doyle, a wayward woman…
(Encyclopedia) Williams, Tennessee (Thomas Lanier Williams), 1911–83, American dramatist, b. Columbus, Miss., grad. State Univ. of Iowa, 1938. One of America's foremost 20th-century playwrights and…
Faye DancerAge: 77 free-spirited outfielder in the women's professional baseball league of the 1940s, and the inspiration for "All the Way Mae" Mordabito, the character played by Madonna in…
