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Long before a foulmouthed Twitter-insult specialist actually became president, Julia Louis-Dreyfus began playing one on TV. Now, as Emmy magnet Veep begins its lame-duck season, 18 key talents open up [...]

Byline: Andrea Deckert The University of Rochester's commencement will be held in person on Friday, May 13 in Fauver Stadium in the Brian F. Prince Athletic Complex on River Campus. [...]

At the beginning Of 2020, naive to all that would happen in the coming weeks, I found myself watching Tom Hanks accept the Cecil B. DeMille award on the televised [...]

TV's top female stars unload on the power of producing, onscreen nudity (male and female), learning to say no and Hollywood's better-late-than-never push for gender pay parity: 'There was so [...]

Variety's New York Women's Impact Report spotlights creatives and execs who've rocked industry in the past year. (1) Alani Nicole 'La La' Anthony ACTRESS-PRODUCER-AUTHOR The secret to Anthony's stellar year? [...]

'Avengers' fans know Captain America stands for freedom, justice and the American way. So how fitting, then, that Chris Evans, star of the Marvel franchise, should choose to take up [...]

Actor, Sam Waterston delivered speech at Commencement at Green Mountain College at Poultney at Vermont on May 13, 2006 about the use of opportunities in the everyday life. He discusses about shortage of time and understanding the everyday routine by looking deep and making use of every opportunity in the right way.

An actor; comedian and an author, Bill Cobby, in his speech delivered at Wilkes University, Pennsylvania encourage the graduates to face the reality and to do their best in future. He also suggests the graduates to work hard and to put their mind to it and to put their mind to it and have a great deal of passion about themselves and respect themselves.

Actor, Mike Farrell addressed the members of the Michigan Non-Profit Association at the 'Grantmakers-Grantseekers 2003' conference in Michigan on May 19, 2003. He emphasized that people must conquer their fears and suggested that when one feels discouraged and despair in life, it is time to be fierce and show mercy towards others.

This paper is part of a large-scale investigation of the nature of the rhythmical performance of poetry.(1) It uses the computer to analyze delivery instances of verse lines within the [...]

Time, darkness, wind and sound with faith and acceptance of their natural movement of perfection lead into the ever lasting eternal light with its multiplicity's of colors, shapes and essences. [...]

Just one word described the ASHA Convention in Chicago, President Kate Gottfred told a huge crowd of members at the convention's opening session. She paused for dramatic effect--Supercalifragilisticexpeialidocious." The audience [...]

Many graduates recently turned their tassels, signifying the transition from typical college life to shocking reality. The real world doesn't come with a book of instructions, but there's always a [...]

Joanna Lumley will be the keynote speaker at the Advantage Conference in Malaga in May. She is best known for her role of Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous and as a [...]

TV adventurer Charley Boorman was the guest speaker at the Cohort Autumn Social, at The Swan at Shakespeare's Globe More than 60 guests from the luxury sector, including Cohort members, [...]

If you watched the Republican National Convention last night, or scanned the reports about it this morning, you've probably heard a lot about Clint Eastwood's truly surreal speech, which took [...]

NEW ORLEANS - Leading by example - whether at the corporate level or in-store - can be fun, Harold Lloyd has often said. One of the first speakers to lead [...]

The party kept going throughout FFANY market week as a bevy of events had attendees painting the town. On Dec. 5, H.H. Brown got transcendental at its Asian Zen cocktail [...]

Melissa Rivers, speaking for the first time following the death of her mother, reveals what Joan taught her about career ('we all have an expiration date'), how her mom's legacy [...]

Created by UNESCO in I 949, the International Them re Institute--of which TCG is the U.S. center--is an NGO that seeks to create peace and solidarity across borders and between [...]

Emma Watson is best known for playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies. But she also serves as the goodwill ambassador for a United Nations (U.N.) organization called U.N. [...]

My name is Felicia Day, and I make Internet content. I guess that's the easiest way to put it. When I was 6 years old, my parents had a CompuServe [...]

CIPRIANI MIDTOWN, GOTHAM, APRIL 24 Lena Dunham opened her speech at Variety's Power of Women luncheon with a not-so-shocking declaration. 'It will surprise nobody in this room that I identify [...]

Tony Award-winning actor-singer-dancer Ben Vereen, whose stage, film, and television career was threatened by a near-fatal car accident that left him struggling to speak, will give the keynote address at [...]

Comedian and author Russell Brand will deliver 'a manifesto on reading' at the third annual Reading Agency Lecture, to be held in November. The lecture was initiated by the charity [...]

As I enter the auditorium, there's a woman on the stage wearing denim dungarees and a hoodie, scrubbing a desk. Thinking that I'm clearly very early for Emma Thompson's lecture [...]

Actor, comedian and newly minted honorary doctor of laws at Harvard Law School Mindy Kaling, Dartmouth '01, gave a yuck-filled address the other day to the next crop of J.D.'s [...]

Ridley Scott (WME, Ziffren Brittenham) is in talks to direct Fox's The Martian, with Matt Damon attached to [...]

Noomi Rapace (CAA, Magnolia, Sweden's Agentfirman Planthaber/ Kilden, Hirsch Wallerstein) is in talks to join Will Smith in Legendary's [...]

TOM CRUISE'S JUNE 7 appearance at Walmart's annual shareholders meeting generated an unusual amount of controversy because he said the retailer is a 'role model' that is 'improving women's lives' [...]