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Lisa Leslie

Lisa LeslieBorn: July 7, 1972Basketball C 2-time WNBA Finals MVP (2001-02) with the champion Los Angeles Sparks; 2001 regular season MVP; 3-time WNBA All-Star Game MVP (1999,2001-02); 3-time…

John Lewis 2001 Deaths

John LewisAge: 80 jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who founded and served as music director of the legendary Modern Jazz Quartet. The MJQ, known for its thoughtfully selected arrangements…

Bill Lewis

Bill Lewis Born: Nov. 30, 1868Football   College star at Amherst College and then Harvard; first Black player to be selected as an All-American (1892-93); also the first Black person admitted to…

Brewer's: Ban

A proclamation of outlawry; a denunciation by the church (Anglo-saxon, ge-ban, a proclamation; verb, ge-bannan). Marriage bans. (See Banns.) To ban is to make a proclamation of outlawry…

Doris Day Biography

Doris Day(Doris Kappelhoff)singer, actressBorn: 4/3/1924Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio America's No.1 female box office attraction during the late 1950s and '60s, she starred in a number musicals,…

Sammy Davis, Jr. Biography

Sammy Davis, Jr.singer, actorBorn: 12/8/1925Birthplace: New York City Popular singer and stage and film actor who started touring with his family's troupe, the Will Mastin Trio, at age three…

Israel: Prime Ministers

Prime Ministers David Ben-Gurion (1948–1953, 1955–1963) Moshe Sharett (1953–1955) Levi Eshkol (1963–1969) Yigal Allon, acting (1969) Golda Meir (1969–1974) Yitzhak Rabin (1974–1977, 1992–1995…

Big Fat Liar

Director:Shawn LevyWriter:Dan SchneiderUniversal Pictures; PG; 88 minutesRelease:2/02Cast:Frankie Muniz, Amanda Bynes, Paul Giamatti Neither family-fresh sweet nor post-pubescent naughty, Big…

Best in Show

Director:Christopher GuestWriters:Christopher Guest and Eugene LevyCastle Rock Entertainment; 89 minutes; PG-13Release:10/00Cast:Christopher Guest, Parker Posey, Jennifer Coolidge Sometimes…