Nineteen thirty-eight was a fateful year for Waldo Salt. It was the year the young screenwriter saw his first screenplay, "THE SHOPWARN ANGEL," produced by Joe Mankiewicz, with a cast featuring James Stewart, Margaret Sullivan, and Walter Pidgeon. It was also the year he joined ...
"I’m complicated, sentimental, lovable, honest, loyal, decent, generous, likable, and lonely. My personality is not split, it’s shredded." Television and radio pioneer Jack Paar has been called the most imitated personality in broadcasting. He virtually created the late-night talk show format as the host of ...
Born in Port Arthur, Texas in 1925, Robert Rauschenberg imagined himself first as a minister and later as a pharmacist. It wasn't until 1947, while in the U.S. Marines that he discovered his aptitude for drawing and his interest in the artistic representation of everyday ...
"There is ... no definitive interpretation for Menuhin but the search for repose, for a place where music, far from any pretension, vibrates naturally, where it can breathe more than show off." -Eric Taver Yehudi Menuhin had one of the longest and most distinguished careers ...
For a short time in the middle of the twentieth century a small town in North Carolina became a hub of American cultural production. The town was Black Mountain and the reason was Black Mountain College. Founded in 1933 by scholar John A. Rice, the ...
From the late 1930s to the early 1960s, Billy Wilder dominated Hollywood’s Golden Age. With over fifty films and six Academy Awards to his credit, he is one of Hollywood’s all-time greatest directors, producers and screenwriters. His films range from stark melodrama, like DOUBLE INDEMNITY ...
For more than thirty years, Lucille Ball was one of the most recognized and loved entertainers in the world. Known to all simply as Lucy, she portrayed a scatterbrained housewife with the ability to turn simple chores into unparalleled fiascoes. Clumsy and unsophisticated at nearly ...
Location: Santa Monica, California Date: 1978 Features from the Web about this building: Great Buildings Online Guggenheim Frank Gehry: "Berta found the house. It was comfy and we could afford it. I realized I had to do something to it before we moved in. I ...
Location: Weil-am-Rhein, Germany Date: 1989 Features from the Web about this building: Official Site Great Buildings Online Guggenheim Galinsky.com Figure/Ground Frank Gehry: "I love the shaping I can do when I'm sketching. And it never... occurred to me that I would do it in a ...
(now known as Anaheim Ice) Location: Anaheim, California Date: 1995 Features from the Web about this building: Official Site Google Maps- Satellite View Michael Eisner, former CEO, Walt Disney Company: " I was looking for the next generation of American architects… and he was on ...
