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Ernst Ingmar Bergman (pronounced ) (July 14 1918 – July 30 2007) was a nine-time Academy Award-nominated Swedish film, stage, and opera director. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition...

The Del McCoury Band is a Grammy Award-winning bluegrass band. Originally Del McCoury and the Dixie Pals with Del on guitar and his brother Jerry on bass, the band went through a number of changes until the 1980s when the band solidified its line-up...

Gene Wolfe (born May 7, 1931, New York, New York) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying a Catholic. He...

Ellen Kushner is an American writer of fantasy novels, and the host of the radio program Sound & Spirit, produced by WGBH in Boston and distributed by Public Radio International. Kushner was born in Washington, DC and grew up in Cleveland,...

Catherynne M. Valente (born May 5, 1979, Seattle, Washington) is an American poet, novelist and literary critic. Her writing tends to be postmodern, with rich language (drawing upon her Classics education) and surrealist elements. She has also...

Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novel whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. Powers was born in Evanston, Illinois, and his family later moved a few miles south to Lincolnwood, where his father was the...

Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known primarily for his science fiction works in the postcyberpunk genre with a penchant for explorations of society, mathematics, cryptography, currency, and the history of science...

Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American film director, actress, producer and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is the third female director, and only American woman, to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing, the...

Martin Brest (August 8, 1951) is an American filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, film editor, and actor. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1969, from New York University's School of the Arts in 1973 and from the AFI Conservatory with an M.F...

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is an American film actor. He garnered worldwide fame for his role as Jack Dawson in Titanic and has starred in many other successful films including Romeo + Juliet, Catch Me If You Can, and Blood...

Peter Seamus O'Toole (born 2 August 1932) is an Irish actor. O'Toole was born in 1932, with some sources giving his birthplace as Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, and others as Leeds, in West Yorkshire, England, where he also grew up. O'Toole...