Bonnie and Clyde
Despite their lowly deaths at the hands of Texas Rangers in 1934, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow have enjoyed second lives within America's popular imagination. Gunned down by ...
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Bonnie and Clyde
(Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow)
Bonnie Parker: 1911–1934 Clyde Barrow: 1909–1934
Romanticized for their devotion to each other and their devil-may-care lives on the ru...
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Born in 1909, Clyde Barrow grew up as one of eight children in the poor town of Telico, Texas, where his parents struggled as tenant farmers. At the age of twelve, he moved thirty miles southeast to D...
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The Beginning
Malcolm
Gerrie was a TV researcher
when he scored an surprise hit with his
Newcastle
production of the rock opera ‘Tommy’. This led to him being asked to devise a guts...
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Warren Beatty had two words to describe his reaction at learning he would receive the American Film Institute's career honor: "Concealed weepiness."Celebrating its 40th anniversary, the institute a...
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Guitarist Mike Samborn used to sketch out a song, play it, decide he didn't like it and toss it in the trash.But this month, he doesn't have that option.Samborn is one of more than 2,000 musicians ...
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Doris EdwardsDALLAS (AP) _ Doris Edwards, who is believed to be among the last surviving widows of nine policemen killed during Bonnie and Clyde's notorious crime spree in the 1930s, has died. She ...
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Earl Scruggs and the late Lester Flatt are now members of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.Flatt & Scruggs teamed as a bluegrass act in the 1940s. They recorded the theme song to "The Bev...
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Thomas and Rosemarie Uva were not exactly criminal geniuses.The couple liked to rob Mafia-run social clubs in Little Italy and elsewhere around the city, which, as just about everyone knows, is a r...
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Nazek al-MalaikaCAIRO, Egypt (AP) _ Renowned Iraqi poet Nazek al-Malaika, who was famous as the first to write Arabic poetry in free verse rather than classical rhyme, has died. She was 85.Al-Malai...
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In 1967, a Time magazine cover story trumpeted “The Shock of Freedom in Films,” praising Hollywood’s belated embrace of the French New Wave. The article mostly paid enormous resp...
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A husband and wife who robbed gangland social clubs in the early 1990s _ sometimes forcing their victims to drop their pants _ were rubbed out for humiliating the mob, a prosecutor said Wednesday a...
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