The author of such award-winning novels as Dragonwings, Child of the Owl, and Dragon Steel, novelist and playwright Laurence Yep is noted for penning fiction that brings the history and culture of Chi...
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Born June 14, 1948 in San Francisco, California. "In our family's own personal story West Virginia is as much a mythical homeland as China, for my mother was born in Ohio and then raised in West Virgi...
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Because he was raised in a black ghetto and attended a grammar school in San Francisco's Chinatown, Laurence Yep has firsthand knowledge of cultural alienation and racial conflict. A third generation ...
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A community of Pacific islanders made their dreams come true in this rural Missouri town, far from the sandy atolls and turquoise lagoons they call home.Authorities say those dreams were threatened...
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Nov. 11-17:Nov. 11: Comedian Jonathan Winters is 82. Jazz singer-pianist Mose Allison is 80. Country singer Narvel Felts is 69. Guitarist Vince Martell of Vanill...
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Steve Carell is at his funniest when he's placed in painfully awkward situations _ having his chest waxed in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," for example, or being transformed into a babbling buffoon in "...
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One Hollywood writer throws punches at the gym to vent artistic frustration while a labor strike keeps him from working.Another jams with his rock band and scouts the picket lines for a potential b...
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