Monthly Archives: December 2002

Helen Hayes: First Lady of the American Theatre

About Helen Hayes

Long regarded as "the First Lady of American Theater," Helen Hayes earned international esteem and affection during a career that spanned more than eighty years on stage and in films, radio, and television. As a screen actor she won two Oscars, as a stage actor ...

Allen Ginsberg: The Life And Times of Allen Ginsberg

About Allen Ginsberg

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who ...

A Duke Named Ellington

Duke Ellington biography

"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing." Considered one of the greatest jazz composers of all time, Duke Ellington had an enormous impact on the popular music of the late 20th century. Among his more than two thousand songs are such ...

Placido Domingo: A Musical Life

About Placido Domingo

Plácido Domingo is one of the most loved and listened to opera singers of the 20th- century. He was born in 1941, into a musical family in the Barrio de Salamanca section of Madrid. His parents were both singers, and when he was five they ...