In 1951 Yul Brynner, a Russian-born Mongolian, made a multi-award-winning Broadway debut in The King and I, and in 1956 he won the Best Actor Oscar for the screen version. He shaved his head for the role, and it is to this image of baldness as a badge...

Yul Brynner (July 11, 1920[1] – October 10, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning Russian-born Broadway and Hollywood actor. He appeared in many movies and stage productions in the United States. He is best known for his portrayal of the Siamese king in...

EMPIRE & ODYSSEY The Brynners in Far East Russia and Beyond By Rock Brynner Steerforth. 331 pp. $29.95 "Yul has an extra quart of champagne in his veins," an admirer once said of Yul Brynner, the exotic, charismatic actor who...

Photographer Victoria Brynner. Abrams, $39.95 (210p) ISBN 0-8109-3144-3 This collection of duotone and color photographs by the famed screen actor, who died in 1985, was put together by his daughter, herself a photographer and photography producer. Brynner took pictures of his...

Today is Tuesday, March 27, the 86th day of 2007. There are 279 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 27, 1977, 583 people were killed when a KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off, crashed into a Pan Am 747 on the...

Deborah Kerr, who shared one of Hollywood's most famous kisses while portraying an Army officer's unhappy wife in "From Here to Eternity" and danced with the Siamese monarch in "The King and I," has died. She was 86.Kerr, who suffered from Parkinson's disease, died Tuesday...