Happy Birthday, Vincent Van Gogh
Today is the birthday of painter Vincent Van Gogh. Born in 1853, he would have been 158 years old if he hadn’t shot himself and died when he was 37.
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Wonder Woman is Back. Why?
Wonder Woman is back, in the form of Adrianne Palicki (of Friday Night Lights fame) in a new TV show produced by David E. Kelley (of Ally McBeal fame). Here’s a …..
Andrew Garfield Was Once at Cannes with Verne Troyer
Our new Andrew Garfield biography is now live, which gives us the chance to run this photo from the Cannes Film Festival in 2009.
So Long to Paul Baran, Internet Pioneer
Paul Baran, a giant of early Internet technology, has died at age 84.In the early 1960s, while working at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, Mr. Baran outlined the fundamentals for packaging data into discrete bundles, which he called “message blocks.” The bundles are then sent on various paths around a network and reassembled at their destination. Such a plan is known as “packet switching.”
“Which of You Two Has the Checkbook?”
Shawn Southwick King tries to determine which lifelike figure is her 77-year-old husband at Madame Tussaud’s on Friday.
Geraldine Ferraro Biography: Five Things You Didn’t Know
Geraldine Ferraro has died at age 75.
Bob Herbert’s Last Column for The NY Times
“When the most powerful country ever to inhabit the earth finds it so easy to plunge into the horror of warfare but almost impossible to find adequate work for its people or to properly educate its young, it has lost its way entirely.”Bob Herbert, godblesshim,
Just a Nice Photo: Tom Hanks and a Baby
Tom Hanks meets a random baby outside the Ed Sullivan Theater while doing the David Letterman show in 2009. I just like the matching expressions (and noses).Things hadn’t started out quite so badly…
Happy Birthday, Aretha Franklin
Today is the 69th birthday of pop and soul singer Aretha Franklin.
Elizabeth Taylor Late for Her Own Funeral
Per her own request!”The service was scheduled to begin at 2 PM but at Miss Taylor’s request
started late. Miss Taylor had left instructions that it was to begin at
least 15 minutes later than publicly scheduled, with the announcement,
‘She even wanted to be late for her own funeral.'”See our biography of Elizabeth Taylor >>