“A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.” – Bruce Lee Lee gained a measure of U.S. celebrity with his role in the television series The Green Hornet, from 1966 to 1967, then went on to star in countless films until 1973, when he died […]
Born April 20, 1889, Braunau am Inn, Austria, Adolf Hitler was leader of the Nazi Party 1920-1921 and Fuehrer of Germany 1933-1945. His rise to power began when German president Hindenburg appointed him chancellor of a Nazi in 1932. During World War II, Hitler orchestrated the Nazi’s Holocaust under the Third Reich. He died of […]
Alfred Hitchcock entered the film industry in 1920, writing scenarios and assistant directing. In 1939 Hitchcock went to Hollywood, where his first film, Rebecca, won an Academy Award for best picture. During the next three decades Hitchcock usually made a film a year,including the classics Rear Window and Psycho. He received the AFI’s Life Achievement […]
Born in London on February 27, 1932, Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in One Born Every Minute (1942) and achieved stardom with National Velvet (1944). Although she won Academy Awards for her work in Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1965), Taylor was just as famous for her many marriages, extensive […]
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the runs scored […]