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The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do.
| Ella Baker, Activist (1903) |
| Herman Cain, Businessman (1945) |
| Emily Carr, Artist (1871) |
| John Davidson, Celebrity (1941) |
| Tom DeLonge, Musician (1975) |
| Anna Eshoo, Politician (1942) |
| Steve Forbert, Musician (1955) |
| Otylia Jedrzejczak, Athlete (1983) |
| Ferguson Jenkins, Athlete (1943) |
| NeNe Leakes, Actress (1967) |
| Ella Baker, Activist (1986) |
| Eileen Caddy, Celebrity (2006) |
| Lord Edward Cecil, Soldier (1918) |
| Christian Furchtegott Gellert, Poet (1769) |
| Konrad Von Gesner, Scientist (1565) |
| Samuel Johnson, Author (1784) |
| Wassily Kandinsky, Artist (1944) |


