“The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shoc”
“I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.”
| Lance Bass, Musician (1979) |
| Gary Bauer, Public Servant (1946) |
| Ron Carter, Musician (1937) |
| Dick Dale, Musician (1937) |
| Andrew Denton, Comedian (1960) |
| Maynard Ferguson, Musician (1928) |
| Ruth First, Activist (1925) |
| Ana Gasteyer, Comedian (1967) |
| Paul Gleason, Actor (1944) |
| Keith Haring, Artist (1958) |
| David Hackworth, Soldier (2005) |
| Joseph Joubert, Writer (1824) |