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May 13, 2024 · Updated 10:04 AM PDT, May 13, 2024. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Roger Corman, the “King of the Bs” who helped turn out such low-budget classics as “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Attack of the Crab Monsters” and gave many of Hollywood’s most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died. He was 98. Corman died Thursday at his home in ...
1 day ago · Synopsis Exposition (books 1–4) A mosaic depicting Odysseus, from the villa of La Olmeda, Pedrosa de la Vega, Spain, late 4th–5th centuries AD. The Odyssey begins after the end of the ten-year Trojan War (the subject of the Iliad), from which Odysseus (also known by the Latin variant Ulysses), king of Ithaca, has still not returned because he angered Poseidon, the god of the sea.
2 days ago · Virgil shows Dante the souls of the wrathful in the River Styx, engraving by Gustave Doré, 1861. The engraving depicts the fifth circle of Hell in canto VII of Inferno (The Divine Comedy). The poem begins with Dante at midlife—specifically, 35 years old—and lost inside a dark wood. He is guided by the Roman poet Virgil, who represents the ...
6 days ago · USA TODAY. 0:00. 1:15. Charlie Colin, one of the founding members of the San Francisco-born pop rock band Train, has died. He was 58. "When I met Charlie Colin, I fell in love with him. He was THE ...
3 days ago · Rumpole of the Bailey, Gangsters, Headmaster, Play for Tomorrow. Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted.
May 7, 2024 · To Όσκαρ Καλύτερης Σκηνοθεσίας (αγγλικά: Academy Award for Best Director) είναι ένα από τα βραβεία που ...
3 days ago · Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator ( Koinē Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Θεά Φιλοπάτωρ [note 5] lit. Cleopatra "father-loving goddess"; [note 6] 70/69 BC – 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. [note 7] A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its ...
