AKA Margot Louise Hemingway

Born: 16-Feb-1955
Birthplace: Portland, OR
Died: 2-Jul-1996
Location of death: Santa Monica, CA
Cause of death: Suicide
Remains: Buried, Ketchum Cemetery, Ketchum, ID
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Troubled actress OD'd on klonopin
Father: Jack Hemingway
Sister: Mariel Hemingway (actress)
Husband: Erroll Wetson (m. 1977, div. 1978)
Husband: Bernard Foucher (m. 1979, div.)
Boyfriend: Robert Evans

I am not a Hemingway aficionado.
Margaux Hemingway

AKA Vera Jane Palmer

Born: 19-Apr-1933
Birthplace: Bryn Mawr, PA
Died: 29-Jun-1967
Location of death: New Orleans, LA
Cause of death: Accident - Automobile
Remains: Buried, Fairview Cemetery, Pen Argyl, PA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Girl Can't Help It
Father: Herbert William Palmer (b. 1904, d. 1936)
Mother: Vera Jeffrey Palmer (b. 1903, d. 2000)
Husband: Paul Mansfield (m. 10-May-1950, div. 8-Jan-1958)
Husband: Mickey Hargitay (actor, m. 13-Jan-1958, div. 26-Aug-1964, d. 14-Sep-2006)
Husband: Matt Cimber (film director, m. 24-Sep-1964, div. Jul-1966)
Daughter: Jayne Marie Mansfield (b. 8-Nov-1950)
Son: Miklos Hargitay Jr. (b. 21-Dec-1958)
Son: Zoltan Hargitay (b. 1-Aug-1960)
Daughter: Mariska Hargitay (b. 24-Jan-1964)
Son: Antonio Raphael Ottaviano Cimber (b. 18-Oct-1965)
Boyfriend: Jorge Guinle (d. 2004)

A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.
Jayne Mansfield

Born June 28, 1902

All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.
John Dillinger

AKA Julia Hinds

Born: 27-Jun-1951
Birthplace: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Stephanie on Newhart
Husband: Jerry Lacy (m. 1984, one daughter, one son)
Daughter: Kerry Kathleen
Son: Danny
Julia Duffy began her professional career in her hometown of Minneapolis. Her first appearance was as an infant in 1951. After graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, she won a loyal following as the character of Penny on the popular soap opera "The Doctors" for four years. She also honed her skills on stage in regional theater, appearing in such productions as "Three Sisters," "The Enchanted" at the Kennedy Center, and the acclaimed revival of "Once in a Lifetime" on Broadway.

AKA Christopher Joseph Isaak

Born: 26-Jun-1956
Birthplace: Stockton, CA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Musician, Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Chris Isaak Show
Mother: Dorothy Isaak
Brother: Nick (older)
Brother: Jeff (older)
Girlfriend: Caroline Rhea (ex-)
Girlfriend: Margaret Cho (Korean-American comic, ex-)
Girlfriend: Bai Ling (Chinese-American actress, ex-)

The things that got me through grade school are helping me out later in life. It's like, I show up on time. If you buy a ticket to one of my shows, I'll show up. I'll be there. And if it says 10:00, I'll be on stage at 10:00.
Chris Isaak

AKA Matthew LeBlanc

Born: 25-Jul-1967
Birthplace: Newton, MA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Joey on Friends
Father: Paul (age 61 at time of son's wedding, mechanic, div. 1974)
Mother: Patricia (age 61 at time of son's wedding)
Brother: Justin (half-brother)
Wife: Melissa McKnight (model, met in 1997, m. May-2003 in Kauai, Hawaii, one daughter, div. Jan-2006)
Daughter: Marina LeBlanc (b. 8-Feb-2004)
Girlfriend: Andrea Anders (extramarital affair in 2006, per People magazine)

Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling.
Matt LeBlanc as joey from Friends

AKA Geoffrey Arnold Beck

Born: 24-Jun-1944
Birthplace: Wallington, Surrey, England
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Guitarist
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Exceptional rock guitarist

AKA Valerie June Carter
Born: 23-Jun-1929
Birthplace: Maces Springs, VA
Died: 15-May-2003
Location of death: Nashville, TN
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Country Musician
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Country singer wife of Johnny Cash
Father: Ezra Carter
Mother: Maybelle Addington Carter (country music singer, b. 10-May-1909, d. 23-Oct-1978)
Sister: Helen Carter
Sister: Anita Carter
Husband: Carl Smith (m. 9-Jul-1952, div. 1956)
Husband: Edwin L. Nix (m. 11-Nov-1958, div.)
Husband: Johnny Cash (musician, m. 1-Mar-1968, one son, four daughters)
Daughter: Rebecca Carlene Carter ("Carlene Carter", country music singer, b. 22-Sep-1955)
Daughter: Rozanna Lea
Son: John Carter Cash
June was born Valerie June Carter in Maces Springs, Virginia. She was born into country music and performed with the Carter Family from the young age of ten, beginning in 1939. In March 1943, when the Carter Family trio stopped recording together after the WBT contract, Maybelle Carter, with encouragement from her husband Ezra, formed "Mother Maybelle & the Carter Sisters" with her daughters Helen, Anita, and June. The new group first aired on radio station WRNL in Richmond, Virginia, on June 1. Doc and Carl rejoined them in late 1945. June, then 16, was a co-announcer with Ken Allyn and did the commercials on the radio shows for "Red Star Flour", "Martha White," and "Thalheimers Department Store," just to name a few. For the next year, the Carters and Doc and Carl did show dates within driving range of Richmond through Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania. She later said she had to work harder at her music than her sisters, but she had her own special talent, comedy. A highlight of the road shows was her "Aunt Polly" comedy routine. Carl wrote in his memoirs that June was "a natural born clown, if there ever was one." She attended John Marshall High School during this period.
Ezra Carter declined Grand Ole Opry offers to move the family to Nashville, Tennessee a number of times because the Opry would not permit Chet Atkins to accompany the group. Finally, in 1950 Opry management relented and the group, along with Atkins, became part of the Opry company. Here the family befriended Hank Williams and Elvis Presley (to whom they were distantly related), and June met Johnny Cash.
With her thin and lanky frame, June Carter often played a comedic foil during the group's performances alongside other Opry stars Faron Young and Webb Pierce

Born June 22, 1952

AKA Cynthia Anne Stephanie Lauper

Born: 22-Jun-1953
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Gender: Female
Religion: Born-Again Christian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer/Songwriter
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Father: Fred Lauper
Mother: Catrine Dominique
Sister: Elen Lauper (acupuncturist)
Brother: Fred Lauper ("Butch")
Husband: David Thornton (m. 24-Nov-1991)
Son: Declyn Wallace Thornton Lauper (b. 19-Nov-1997)
Boyfriend: David Wolff
Brooklyn born and raised (and no one would ever have reason to doubt it), Cynthia Lauper initiated her musical activity at the age of 12, writing her own lyrics and taking up the guitar. After leaving high school, she spent some time traveling around Canada on her own before returning to New York to launch her music career as vocalist for the Long Island-based covers act Doc West. This was followed by further covers work with bands like Flyer, and brought to an end in 1977 by the considerable damage she had done to her vocal chords. Despite a pessimistic prognosis from her doctors, a full year of therapy with voice coach Katie Agestra managed to put her back in action, and in 1978 she began performing original material with her band Blue Angel, formed in collaboration with John Turi. Their debut album finally materialized in 1980, but label problems brought the band to a messy end before the year was over, allowing the singer a few more years to bask in the carefree wonderland of retail work and cover songs before the demands of a successful career imposed themselves.
While performing in a New York bar in 1981, Lauper made the acquaintance of David Wolff, who soon assumed the role of manager (and later the role of husband) for the singer; by 1983 he had arranged a deal with the Columbia subsidiary label Portrait, and in December of that same year her debut album She's So Unusual was ready to roll. The album was an immediate success, launching four singles into the top 5 (Girls Just want To Have Fun, Time After Time, She Bop, and All Through The Night) and reaping numerous awards from a variety of sources. The track Girls Just want To Have Fun in particular made its presence felt endlessly -- not only on radio, but in brightly polka-dotted video form on the still-young (and not yet completely useless) MTV. Lauper then spent the entirety of 1984 on tour, before returning to the studio at the start of 1985 to participate in the benefit release We Are The World. In July yet another high-charting single appeared in the form of The Goonies 'R' Good Enough, recorded for the Richard Donner-directed adventure film The Goonies.
For her next album True Colors (1986), Lauper began to abandon her "quirky" media persona in favor of a more serious image, a change clearly reflected in the album's title single (in sharp contrast to this image, she also continued to involve herself in the absurd spectacle of American professional wrestling). For this second effort she increased her involvement in the both the songwriting and production, gathering a considerable roster of guest performers that included Adrian Belew, Nile Rodgers, Aimee Mann, Billy Joel and The Bangles. As with her first album, a procession of associated singles followed one other into the charts -- starting with the title track, continuing with Change Of Heart and Boy Blue, and finishing off with the Marvin Gaye cover What's Going On.
As has been the case with many popular music figures, in 1988 Lauper made an attempt at a parallel acting career, starring in the psychic comedy Vibes alongside (or somewhat below) Jeff Goldblum. The film was not very well-received, and heralded the beginning of a gradual decline of her poplarity as a musician. Her third album A Night To Remember (1989) (featuring contributions from Eric Clapton, Bootsy Collins and Cameo's Larry Blackmon) still sold reasonably well, but ended her past streak by failing to crack the top 20 and managing to chart only one single (I Drove All Night). Participation in various charity events marked her most significant output over the next two years (Roger Waters's restaging of The Wall in Berlin (to benefit the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief) and The Peace Choir's version of John Lennon's Give Peace A Chance), with occasional work for film (Off and Running, 1991) and television (Mother Goose Rock'n'Rhyme, 1990) gradually building up her resume as an actress.
In 1993 the singer released her most critically lauded album Hat Full Of Stars -- yet, despite the numerous glowing reviews, the album continued along the course of diminishing public interest and sales; a return to the top of the charts was contrived in 1994, but only in the form of a remix of Girls Just Want To Have Fun, and only in the UK. Her fortunes as an actress made some significant changes around this time, however, and an Emmy nomination for her appearance on the sitcom Mad About You in '94 ultimately led to an actual award for a second appearance in 1995. Regardless, Lauper never gave up on her recording career, and the albums Sisters Of Avalon (1997) and Merry Christmas -- Have A Nice Life (1998) were issued before the end of the decade. The completion of her journey from goofy pop imp to serious performer arrived with the standards collection At Last (2001), and a new album of original material finally surfaced in 2004 (although only in Japan) as Shine.

When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead
Cyndi Lauper

June 21, 2007
A solstice occurs twice a year, whenever Earth's axis tilts the most toward or away from the Sun, causing the Sun to be farthest north or south at noon. The name is derived from Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still), because at the solstice, the Sun stands still in declination, that is, its movement north or south is minimal. The term solstice can also be used in a wider sense as the date (day) that such a passage happens. The solstices, together with the equinoxes, are related to the seasons. In some languages they are considered to start or separate the seasons; in others they are considered to be center points (in English, in the Northern hemisphere, for example, the period around the June solstice is known as midsummer, and Midsummer's Day is 24 June, three or four days after the solstice itself).

Born June 20, 1953

It was like that when I got here
Ernie Yawn

On this day June 20, 1793 - Eli Whitney patents his cotton gin

Born: 19-Jun-1950
Birthplace: San Diego, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Musician
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Heart
Sister: Nancy Wilson (also in Heart)
Daughter: Marie (adopted 1991)
Son: (b. 2000)

AKA James Paul McCartney

Born: 18-Jun-1942
Birthplace: Liverpool, England
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic [1]
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Musician
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Beatle
Father: James McCartney (salesman/musician)
Mother: Mary Mohin (midwife, d. breast cancer)
Brother: Peter Michael McCartney (musician, b. 1943)
Girlfriend: Jane Asher (actress, engaged 1967-68)
Wife: Linda McCartney (m. 12-Mar-1969, d. 17-Apr-1998, breast cancer)
Daughter: Mary McCartney (photographer, b. 1969)
Daughter: Stella McCartney (fashion designer, b. 1971)
Son: James Louis McCartney (b. 1977, musician)
Daughter: Heather McCartney (adopted, potter, b. 1963)
Wife: Heather Mills (model/activist, m. 11-Jun-2002, separated, one daughter)
Daughter: Beatrice Milly McCartney (b. 28-Oct-2003)
One of the most widely-known performers and songwriters of the past four decades, Paul McCartney was born into the modest Liverpool household of James McCartney (a salesman/amateur jazz musician) and his wife Mary (who worked as a nurse and a midwife). In his early teens, shortly after the premature death of his mother from breast cancer, McCartney's interest in music became more prominent and he began making his first attempts at songwriting; it was during this time that he became friends with George Harrison, a schoolmate and fellow aspiring musician who shared the same bus route. Not long afterwards, a mutual friend brought him to see John Lennon, who was performing the song Be Bop A Lula at the Woolton village fete with his band The Quarrymen. The two were mutually impressed by each other's musical skills, and a few days later Lennon invited McCartney to join the band as a guitarist. Eventually McCartney brought Harrison on board as well (despite some initial reluctance from Lennon), bringing the Quarrymen three-quarters of the way toward becoming The Beatles.
After some personnel problems in the Quarrymen line-up, the three performed for a while in a trio format as Johnny and The Moondogs, making their recording debut in 1958 with a version of Buddy Holly and the Crickets' tune That'll Be The Day and the McCartney original In Spite Of All The Danger. Non-musician art student Stuart Sutcliffe was then suckered into acting as bassist, and short stints as The Beatals, The Silver Beetles and various other variations on that theme preceeded their final christening as the Beatles in 1960. Some less-than-promising gigs around the UK were undertaken, but it was the opportunity to work in Hamburg that finally pushed the band's fortunes in a positive direction. A last-minute audition brought in drummer Pete Best, and the five young men made their way to the seedy Reeperbahn district, where nightly performing allowed them to develop a distinct musical identity. Upon returning to England after a second German excursion they found their status considerably improved and -- with the band's line-up finally resolved by the shedding of Sutcliffe and Best, the enlistment of Ringo Starr (who had shared their adventures in Hamburg as member of Rory and the Hurricanes) and the 'promotion' of McCartney from guitar to bass -- the Beatles' unprecedented rise to fame was underway.
Aided by the skills of manager Brian Epstein and producer George Martin, McCartney and his bandmates began their domination of the British and European charts with their first #1 single Please Please Me in 1963 (the extension of their influence to the U.S. arrived the following year with the release of I Want To Hold Your Hand). The Lennon/McCartney songwriting team were responsible for the bulk of the group's material, although most songs were primarily written by one or the other, rather than being full collaborations. McCartney was the first of the four to be given somewhat of a 'solo' spotlight, the single Yesterday featuring a backing orchestra and none of the other members of the band; this song would eventually become one of the most covered compositions in popular music. As the band's career progressed, he assumed a more dominant role in creative and business matters, instigating projects such as the conceptual format of the Sergeant Pepper album, the Magical Mystery Tour film, and the original, disastrous attempt at what became the Let It Be documentary. Towards the end of the 60s, McCartney was also the most active in working with outside artists, producing and/or performing on recordings (some of which were released through the Beatles' own Apple label) by performers such as McGough and McGear, James Taylor, The Steve Miller Band, Jackie Lomax, Mary Hopkin, The Bonzo Dog Band, and Badfinger.
Internal and external pressures inevitably strained the relationships between the four Beatles, and in 1970 Paul McCartney announced the dissolution of the band. Later in the year, his home-recorded debut solo album was made available -- the first proper solo effort from the otherwise prolific musician outside of a soundtrack for the film The Family Way in 1966. Despite some backlash as a result of his 'Beatle-busting', McCartney climbed straight to the top of the American charts -- as did his first solo single Another Day, released at the start of 1971. A second self-produced album, Ram, followed in later in the year, this time billed as a collaboration with his wife Linda McCartney (formerly Eastman), an American photographer whom he had wed in 1969. Before the end of 1971, McCartney had assembled Wings: a band consisting of himself, Linda, drummer Denny Seiwell and former guitarist/vocalist for The Moody Blues Denny Laine. The band's first album Wild Life appeared soon afterwards, but received a somewhat poor reception amongst both critics and the record-buying public.
In 1972 McCartney made a return to touring for the first time since the Beatles had stopped in the mid 1960s. Playing primarily at different Universities around the UK with little or no advance promotion, he began to build up a new audience without any reference back to his earlier career. Difficulties in settling the line-up initially impeded his progress with Wings, but after the addition of former Joe Cocker/The Grease Band guitarist Henry McCullough the band released its second album Red Rose Speedway (1973), which climbed to the top of the U.S. charts and spawned the successful single My Love. Critical response still remained elusive, however, with many reviewers taking a dim view to the maudlin, love-themed nature of much of McCartney's new material. Perhaps as a response to such criticism, a second popular single was released that year in the form of McCartney's title theme to the James Bond film Live And Let Die, the lively orchestral backing for which was done in collaboration with his former Beatle producer George Martin. Both Seiwell and McCullough jumped ship just prior to the critical and commercial peak of Wings' career, 1974's African-recorded album Band On The Run and its singles Helen Wheels, Jet, Mamunia (U.S. only), Let Me Roll It, Band On The Run and Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five (also U.S. only).
Wings' popularity remained strong throughout the remainder of the 70s, the albums Venus And Mars (1975), Wings At The Speed Of Sound (1976), Wings Over America (1976) and London Town (1978) (as well as various non-album singles such as Junior's Farm (1974) and Mull Of Kintyre (1977)) making a consistently good showing in (at least) the American music charts, and the band's elaborately-staged world tours always attracting a substantial audience. This momentum was stalled at the end of the decade by a less enthusiastic reception to the 1979 album Back To The Egg, and then brought to a permanent halt early in 1980 when a planned tour of Japan was derailed by the bandleader's extremely public bust for marijuana possession. McCartney subsequently returned to his solo career, restoring his commercial standing with the electronics-heavy McCartney II and its freaky single Coming Up.
In the 1980s Paul McCartney kept his hat fluttering about the upper reaches of the pop music fray through best-selling records such as 1982's Tug Of War, and by recording high-profile duets other industry big shots like Stevie Wonder (Ebony And Ivory, 1982) and Michael Jackson (The Girl Is Mine, 1982, and Say Say Say, 1983). Jackson would later return the favor by outbidding his former musical collaborator for ownership of Northern Songs, the Beatles' publishing catalogue. In 1984 a return to the big screen was made in Give My Regards To Broad Street, a thinly-plotted musical written by and starring McCartney that also featured his old bandmate Ringo Starr and their respective partners Linda McCartney and Barbara Bach. The soundtrack album (which included updated versions of several McCartney-penned Beatle tunes) fared well, but the movie itself inspired far more head-scratching than applause. His next musical venture, Press To Play (1986), found him collaborating on half of the tracks with former 10 cc multi-instrumentalist Eric Stewart, a musican who had contributed to every McCartney offering since Tug Of War. After a collection of rock standards recorded for the Soviet market (whose title translates into Back In The USSR, 1988), a period of collaboration with Elvis Costello was undertaken; some of the results later appeared on McCartney's critically well-received release Flowers In The Dirt (1989), while others turned up on Costello's Spike.
In September of 1989 McCartney embarked on his first world tour in over a decade, beginning with a performance in Oslo and ending ten months later in Chicago; yet another such tour would be staged in 1993. The next decade saw him branching out in several different directions: composing the classical pieces Liverpool Oratorio (1991), Standing Stone (1997) and Working Classical (1999); composing a score for the animated short Daumier's Law (1992); creating two albums of ambient music (Strawberries, Oceans, Ships, Forest, 1994 and Rushes, 1998) with producer Youth under the pseudonym The Fireman; and putting together the first exhibition of his paintings in Germany in 1999. An extensive revisiting of his Beatle years took place starting in 1994 when he temporarily re-united with Harrison and Starr for the Anthology CD and documentary series -- the trio even created two 'new' Beatle songs for the project by elaborating on two demo recordings made by Lennon before his death. Despite this broadened range of endeavors, more typical projects were not entirely neglected, and after releasing Off The Ground and the live collection Paul Is Live in 1993 McCartney began collaborating with rabid Beatlemaniac and former frontman for The Electric Light Orchestra Jeff Lynne; their work togther eventually materialized in 1997 as Flaming Pie, an album whose title referred to John Lennon's fanciful description about the origins of the Beatle name. Two months before its release, the highly visible musician would receive the honor of being knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. Run Devil Run (1999), a second album of early rock and roll songs, followed two years later. This highly productive fourth decade of his career did not end without its trials, and in 1998 McCartney lost Linda, his partner of nearly 30 years, to breast cancer; A Garland For Linda, an album of choral music to benefit cancer patients (including one composition by Paul), was issued in 2000 to commemorate her life.
McCartney's diversification into new media continued in 2001 with the publication of Blackbird Singing, a collection of his lyrics and poems; the previous year, a book of his paintings had been published in association with exhibitions in Bristol and New York. His exploration of new audio territory also broadened to include a collage-based piece -- created in association with Youth and Super Furry Animals -- which was used as a soundtrack for an exhibit by artist Peter Blake at London's Tate Museum. In addition to the usual routine of awards and charity events, the lazy man managed to keep himself busy over the next few years by releasing his 36th album Driving Rain (2001), headlining the Concert For New York (also 2001), debuting his second oratorio Ecce Cor Meum, performing the Driving USA tour in 2002, re-marrying, touring again in 2003 and documenting it with the live album Back In The USA. Work on an animated feature, a children's book (High In The Clouds), the album Chaos And Creation In The Backyard (2005) and the remix project Twin Freaks was also somehow accomplished.
[1] Baptized Roman Catholic, though not practicing.

You know, I'm not one of these people that just because I've done all that I now become Superman. You can't touch me. You know, you can touch me. I'm very, unfortunately, very reachable,
Paul McCartney

5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate

I am not a crook
Richard M. Nixon

50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival

The Mamas and The Papas
The Association
Scott McKenzie
Canned Heat
Big Brother & The Holding Company with Janis Joplin
The Jefferson Airplane
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Who
The Byrds
Country Joe and The Fish
Lou Rawls
Laura Nyro
Otis Redding
Booker T. and The MG's
with The Mar-Keys
Ravi Shankar
The Grateful Dead
The Steve Miller Band
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
The Electric Flag
Hugh Masakela
Buffalo Springfield
Johnny Rivers
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Eric Burdon & The Animals
Moby Grape
Simon and Garfunkel
The Group With No Name
The Paupers
Beverly
Al Kooper
The Blues Project

AKA Courteney Bass Cox

Born: 15-Jun-1964
Birthplace: Birmingham, AL
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Friends
Father: Richard Lewis Cox (divorced when Courteney was 10, d. 2001)
Mother: Courteney Bass
Brother: Richard Cox (age 45 in 2003)
Boyfriend: Michael Keaton (actor, dated 1989-95)
Boyfriend: Ian Copeland (her stepcousin and Stewart Copeland's brother)
Husband: David Arquette (actor, m. 12-Jun-1999, at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco)
Daughter: Coco Riley Arquette (b. 13-Jun-2004 in Los Angeles)

I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point
Courteney Cox

AKA Yasmine Amanda Bleeth

Born: 14-Jun-1968
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor, Model
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Baywatch babe
Father: Philip Bleeth (Jewish)
Mother: Carina (d. 1992, breast cancer)
Brother: Tristan Bleeth (half brother, b. 1986)
Brother: Miles Bleeth (half brother, b. 1988)
Boyfriend: Grant Show
Boyfriend: Luke Perry (1987-88)
Boyfriend: Ricky Paull Goldin (1995, broken engagement)
Boyfriend: Matthew Perry (1996)
Boyfriend: Richard Grieco (1996-97)
Boyfriend: Ricky Goldin (1997)
Boyfriend: Richard Grieco (1998-2000, broken engagement)
Husband: Paul Cerrito, Jr. (club owner, m. 25-Aug-2002, reportedly met in Promises)

I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please
Yasmine Bleeth

Born: 13-Jun-1986
Birthplace: Sherman Oaks, CA
Gender: Female
Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Olsen Twin
Father: David Olsen (mortgage banker; b. 1953)
Mother: Jarnette Olsen ("Jarnie", ballet dancer; b. 1954; div. Feb-1996)
Mother: Martha Mackenzie Olsen (stepmother, m. 10-Mar-1996)
Brother: Trent Olsen (actor, b. 6-May-1984)
Sister: Ashley Olsen (twin)
Sister: Elizabeth Olsen ("Lizzie", b. 16-Feb-1989)
Sister: Taylor Olsen (stepsister, b. 1996)
Brother: Jake Olsen (stepbrother, b. 1997)
Boyfriend: Max Winkler (son of Henry Winkler, dated 2002, ex-)
Boyfriend: David Katzenberg (dating 2004)
In June 2004, Mary-Kate -- sans Ashley -- entered a treatment facility "to seek professional help for a health-related issue" -- anorexia.
In 2007, she joined the cast of Showtime's dark comedy Weeds, playing a very Christian woman who falls for the son of drug-dealer Mary-Louise Parker. It was her first work without her sister, and arguably her first adult role, and at age 20, her first job without her twin sister beside her.

Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family
Ashley
I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me
Mary Kate

AKA Annlies Mary Frank

Born: 12-Jun-1929
Birthplace: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Died: Mar-1945
Location of death: Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
Cause of death: Typhus
Remains: Missing
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Matter of Dispute
Occupation: Victim, Author
Nationality: Netherlands
Executive summary: The Diary of Anne Frank
Father: Otto Frank (d.1980)
Mother: Edith Frank (d. 6-Jan-1945, at Auschwitz-Birkenau)
Sister: Margot Betti Frank (d. Feb-1945)
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (listen (help·info)) (June 12, 1929 – early March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl from the city of Frankfurt, who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four friends in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.
Anne and her family moved to Amsterdam in 1933 after the Nazis gained power in Germany, and were trapped by the occupation of the Netherlands, which began in 1940. As persecutions against the Jewish population increased, the family went into hiding in July 1942 in hidden rooms in her father Otto Frank's office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Seven months after her arrest, Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, within days of the death of her sister, Margot Frank. Her father Otto, the only survivor of the group, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that her diary had been saved, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young Girl.
The diary, which was given to Anne on her 13th birthday, chronicles her life from June 12, 1942 until August 1, 1944. It has been translated into many languages, has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films. Anne Frank has been acknowledged for the quality of her writing, and has become one of the most renowned and discussed of Holocaust victims.
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Weimar Germany, the second daughter of Otto Heinrich Frank (1889–1980) and Edith Holländer (1900–45). Margot Frank (1926–45) was her sister. The Franks were Reform Jews and lived in an assimilated community of Jewish and non-Jewish citizens, where the children grew up with Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish friends. The Frank family did not observe all of the customs and traditions of Judaism. Edith Frank was the more devout parent, while Otto Frank, a decorated German officer from World War I, was interested in scholarly pursuits and had an extensive library; both parents encouraged the children to read.
On March 13, 1933, elections were held in Frankfurt for the municipal council, and Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party won. Anti-Semitic demonstrations occurred almost immediately, and the Franks began to fear what would happen to them if they remained in Germany. Later that year, Edith and the children went to Aachen, where they stayed with Edith's mother, Rosa Holländer. Otto Frank remained in Frankfurt, but after receiving an offer to start a company in Amsterdam, he moved there to organize the business and to arrange accommodation for his family. The Franks were among about 300,000 Jews who fled Germany between 1933 and 1939.
Otto Frank began working at the Opekta Works, a company that sold the fruit extract pectin, and found an apartment on the Merwedeplein (Merwede Square) in Amsterdam. By February 1934, Edith and the children had arrived in Amsterdam, and the two girls were enrolled in school—Margot in public school and Anne in a Montessori school. Margot demonstrated ability in arithmetic, and Anne showed aptitude for reading and writing. Her friend Hannah Goslar later recalled that from early childhood, Anne frequently wrote, though she shielded her work with her hands and refused to discuss the content of her writing. Margot and Anne had highly distinct personalities, Margot being well-mannered, reserved, and studious, while Anne was outspoken, energetic, and extroverted.
In 1938, Otto Frank started a second company in partnership with Hermann van Pels, a Jewish butcher, who had fled Osnabrück in Germany with his family. In 1939, Edith's mother came to live with the Franks, and remained with them until her death in January 1942. In May 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands, and the occupation government began to persecute Jews by the implementation of restrictive and discriminatory laws; mandatory registration and segregation soon followed. Margot and Anne were excelling in their studies and had many friends, but with the introduction of a decree that Jewish children could attend only Jewish schools, they were enrolled at the Jewish Lyceum.
Time period chronicled in the diary
Before going into hiding
For her thirteenth birthday on June 12, 1942, Anne received a book which she had shown her father in a shop window a few days earlier. Although it was an autograph book, bound with red-and-white plaid cloth and with a small lock on the front, Anne decided she would use it as a diary, and began writing in it almost immediately. While many of her early entries relate the mundane aspects of her life, she also discusses some of the changes that had taken place in The Netherlands since the German occupation. In her entry dated June 20, 1942, she lists many of the restrictions that had been placed upon the lives of the Dutch Jewish population, and also notes her sorrow at the death of her grandmother earlier in the year.
In July 1942, Margot Frank received a call-up notice from the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (Central Office for Jewish Emigration) ordering her to report for relocation to a work camp. Anne was told by her father that the family would go into hiding in rooms above and behind the company's premises on the Prinsengracht, a street along one of Amsterdam's canals, where some of Otto Frank's most trusted employees would help them. The call-up notice forced them to relocate several weeks earlier than had been anticipated.
Life in the Achterhuis
On the morning of Monday, July 6, 1942, the family moved into the hiding place. Their apartment was left in a state of disarray to create the impression that they had left suddenly, and Otto Frank left a note that hinted they were going to Switzerland. The need for secrecy forced them to leave behind Anne's cat, Moortje. As Jews were not allowed to use public transport, they walked several kilometres from their home, with each of them wearing several layers of clothing as they did not dare to be seen carrying luggage. The Achterhuis (a Dutch word denoting the rear part of a house, translated as the "Secret Annexe" in English editions of the diary) was a three-story space entered from a landing above the Opekta offices. Two small rooms, with an adjoining bathroom and toilet, were on the first level, and above that a larger open room, with a small room beside it. From this smaller room, a ladder led to the attic. The door to the Achterhuis was later covered by a bookcase to ensure it remained undiscovered. The main building, situated a block from the Westerkerk, was nondescript, old and typical of buildings in the western quarters of Amsterdam.
Victor Kugler, Johannes Kleiman, Miep Gies, and Bep Voskuijl were the only employees who knew of the people in hiding, and with Gies' husband Jan Gies and Voskuijl's father Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl, were their "helpers" for the duration of their confinement. They provided the only contact between the outside world and the occupants of the house, and they kept them informed of war news and political developments. They catered for all of their needs, ensured their safety and supplied them with food, a task that grew more difficult with the passage of time. Anne wrote of their dedication and of their efforts to boost morale within the household during the most dangerous of times. All were aware that if caught they could face the death penalty for sheltering Jews.
In late July, the Franks were joined by the van Pels family: Hermann, Auguste, and 16-year-old Peter, and then in November by Fritz Pfeffer, a dentist and friend of the family. Anne wrote of her pleasure at having new people to talk to, but tensions quickly developed within the group forced to live in such confined conditions. After sharing her room with Pfeffer, she found him to be insufferable and resented his intrusion, and she clashed with Auguste van Pels, whom she regarded as foolish. She regarded Hermann van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer as selfish, particularly in regards to the amount of food they consumed. Some time later, after first dismissing the shy and awkward Peter van Pels, she recognized a kinship with him and the two entered a romance. She received her first kiss from him, but her infatuation with him began to wane as she questioned whether her feelings for him were genuine, or resulted from their shared confinement. Anne Frank formed a close bond with each of the helpers and Otto Frank later recalled that she had anticipated their daily visits with impatient enthusiasm. He observed that Anne's closest friendship was with Bep Voskuijl, "the young typist... the two of them often stood whispering in the corner".
In her writing, Anne Frank examined her relationships with the members of her family, and the strong differences in each of their personalities. She considered herself to be closest emotionally to her father, who later commented, "I got on better with Anne than with Margot, who was more attached to her mother. The reason for that may have been that Margot rarely showed her feelings and didn't need as much support because she didn't suffer from mood swings as much as Anne did". Anne and Margot formed a closer relationship than had existed before they went into hiding, although Anne sometimes expressed jealousy towards Margot, particularly when members of the household criticized Anne for lacking Margot's gentle and placid nature. As Anne began to mature, the sisters were able to confide in each other. In her entry of January 12, 1944, Anne wrote, "Margot's much nicer.... She's not nearly so catty these days and is becoming a real friend. She no longer thinks of me as a little baby who doesn't count".
Anne frequently wrote of her difficult relationship with her mother, and of her ambivalence towards her. On November 7, 1942 she described her "contempt" for her mother and her inability to "confront her with her carelessness, her sarcasm and her hard-heartedness", before concluding, "She's not a mother to me". Later, as she revised her diary, Anne felt ashamed of her harsh attitude, writing "Anne is it really you who mentioned hate, oh Anne, how could you?" She came to understand that their differences resulted from misunderstandings that were as much her fault as her mother's, and saw that she had added unnecessarily to her mother's suffering. With this realization, Anne began to treat her mother with a degree of tolerance and respect.
Margot and Anne each hoped to return to school as soon as they were able and continued with their studies. Margot took a short hand course by correspondence in Bep Voskuijl's name and received high marks. She also kept a diary, however it is believed to be lost. Most of Anne's time was spent reading and studying, and she regularly wrote and edited her diary entries. In addition to providing a narrative of events as they occurred, she wrote about her feelings, beliefs and ambitions, subjects she felt she could not discuss with anyone. As her confidence in her writing grew, and as she began to mature, she wrote of more abstract subjects such as her belief in God, and how she defined human nature. She continued writing regularly until her final entry of August 1, 1944.
Arrest
Main article: The betrayal of Anne Frank
On the morning of August 4, 1944, the Achterhuis was stormed by the German Security Police (Grüne Polizei) following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified. Led by Schutzstaffel Oberscharführer Karl Silberbauer of the Sicherheitsdienst, the group included at least three members of the Security Police. The Franks, van Pelses and Pfeffer were taken to the Gestapo headquarters where they were interrogated and held overnight. On August 5, they were transferred to the Huis van Bewaring (House of Detention), an overcrowded prison on the Weteringschans. Two days later they were transported to Westerbork. Ostensibly a transit camp, by this time more than 100,000 Jews had passed through it. Having been arrested in hiding, they were considered criminals and were sent to the Punishment Barracks for hard labor.
Victor Kugler and Johannes Kleiman were arrested and jailed at the penal camp for enemies of the regime at Amersfoort. Kleiman was released after seven weeks, but Kugler was held in various work camps until the war's end. Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl were questioned and threatened by the Security Police but were not detained. They returned to the Achterhuis the following day, and found Anne's papers strewn on the floor. They collected them, as well as several family photograph albums, and Gies resolved to return them to Anne after the war. On August 7, 1944, Gies attempted to facilitate the release of the prisoners by confronting Silberbauer and offering him money to intervene, but he refused.
Deportation and death
On September 3, the group was deported on what would be the last transport from Westerbork to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and arrived after a three day journey. In the chaos that marked the unloading of the trains, the men were forcibly separated from the women and children, and Otto Frank was wrenched from his family. Of the 1019 passengers, 549—including all children younger than fifteen—were sent directly to the gas chambers. Anne had turned fifteen three months earlier and was one of the youngest people to be spared from her transport. She was soon made aware that most people were gassed upon arrival, and never learnt that the entire group from the Achterhuis had survived this selection. She reasoned that her father, in his mid fifties and not particularly robust, had been killed immediately after they were separated.
With the other females not selected for immediate death, Anne was forced to strip naked to be disinfected, had her head shaved and was tattooed with an identifying number on her arm. By day, the women were used as slave labour and Anne was forced to haul rocks and dig rolls of sod; by night, they were crammed into overcrowded barracks. Witnesses later testified that Anne became withdrawn and tearful when she saw children being led to the gas chambers, though other witnesses reported that more often she displayed strength and courage, and that her gregarious and confident nature allowed her to obtain extra bread rations for Edith, Margot and herself. Disease was rampant and before long, Anne's skin became badly infected by scabies. She and Margot were moved into an infirmary, which was in a state of constant darkness, and infested with rats and mice. Edith Frank stopped eating, saving every morsel of food for her daughters and passing her rations to them, through a hole she made at the bottom of the infirmary wall.
On October 28, selections began for women to be relocated to Bergen-Belsen. More than 8,000 women, including Anne and Margot Frank and Auguste van Pels, were transported, but Edith Frank was left behind and later died from starvation.[36] Tents were erected at Bergen-Belsen to accommodate the influx of prisoners, and as the population rose, the death toll due to disease increased rapidly. Anne was briefly reunited with two friends, Hanneli Goslar and Nanette Blitz, who were confined in another section of the camp. Goslar and Blitz both survived the war and later discussed the brief conversations that they had conducted with Anne through a fence. Blitz described her as bald, emaciated and shivering and Goslar noted that Auguste van Pels was with Anne and Margot Frank, and was caring for Margot who was severely ill. Neither of them saw Margot as she was too weak to leave her bunk. Anne told both Blitz and Goslar that she believed her parents were dead, and for that reason did not wish to live any longer. Goslar later estimated that their meetings had taken place in late January or early February, 1945.
In March 1945, a typhus epidemic spread through the camp and killed an estimated 17,000 prisoners.[38] Witnesses later testified that Margot fell from her bunk in her weakened state and was killed by the shock, and that a few days later Anne died. They estimated that this occurred a few weeks before the camp was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945, although the exact dates were not recorded. After liberation, the camp was burned in an effort to prevent further spread of disease, and Anne and Margot were buried in a mass grave, the exact whereabouts of which is unknown.
After the war, it was estimated that of the 107,000 Jews deported from the Netherlands between 1942 and 1944, only 5,000 survived. It was also estimated that up to 30,000 Jews remained in The Netherlands, with many people aided by the Dutch underground. Approximately two-thirds of these people survived the war.
Otto Frank survived his internment in Auschwitz and after the war ended he returned to Amsterdam where he was sheltered by Jan and Miep Gies, as he attempted to locate his family. He learnt of the death of his wife, Edith, in Auschwitz, but he remained hopeful that his daughters had survived. After several weeks, he discovered that Margot and Anne had also died. He attempted to determine the fates of his daughters' friends, and learnt that many had been murdered. Susanne Ledermann, often mentioned in Anne's diary, had been gassed along with her parents, though her sister, Barbara, a close friend of Margot, had survived. Several of the Frank sisters' school friends had survived, as had the extended families of both Otto and Edith Frank, as they had fled Germany during the mid 1930s, with individual family members settling in Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The Diary of a Young Girl
Publication
In July 1945, after the Red Cross confirmed the deaths of Anne and Margot, Miep Gies gave Otto Frank the diary, along with a bundle of loose notes that she had saved, in the hope that she could have returned them to Anne. Otto Frank later commented that he had not realized Anne had kept such an accurate and well-written record of their time in hiding. In his memoir he described the painful process of reading the diary, recognising the events described and recalling that he had already heard some of the more amusing episodes read aloud by his daughter. He also noted that he saw for the first time the more private side of his daughter, and those sections of the diary she had not discussed with anyone, noting, "For me it was a revelation... I had no idea of the depth of her thoughts and feelings...She had kept all these feelings to herself". Moved by her repeated wish to be an author, he began to consider having it published.
Anne's diary began as a private expression of her thoughts and she wrote several times that she would never allow anyone to read it. She candidly described her life, her family and companions, and their situation, while beginning to recognize her ambition to write fiction for publication. In March 1944, she heard a radio broadcast by Gerrit Bolkestein—a member of the Dutch government in exile—who said that when the war ended, he would create a public record of the Dutch people's oppression under German occupation. He mentioned the publication of letters and diaries, and Anne decided to submit her work when the time came. She began editing her writing, removing sections and rewriting others, with the view to publication. Her original notebook was supplemented by additional notebooks and loose-leaf sheets of paper. She created pseudonyms for the members of the household and the helpers. The van Pels family became Hermann, Petronella, and Peter van Daan, and Fritz Pfeffer became Albert Düssell. In this edited version, she also addressed each entry to "Kitty," a fictional character in Cissy van Marxveldt's Joop ter Heul novels that Anne enjoyed reading. Otto Frank used her original diary, known as "version A", and her edited version, known as "version B", to produce the first version for publication. He removed certain passages, most notably those in which Anne is critical of her parents (especially her mother), and sections that discussed Anne's growing sexuality. Although he restored the true identities of his own family, he retained all of the other pseudonyms.
Otto Frank gave the diary to the historian Annie Romein-Verschoor, who tried unsuccessfully to have it published. She then gave it to her husband Jan Romein, who wrote an article about it, titled "Kinderstem" ("A Child's Voice"), published in the newspaper Het Parool on April 3, 1946. He wrote that the diary "stammered out in a child's voice, embodies all the hideousness of fascism, more so than all the evidence at Nuremberg put together" His article attracted attention from publishers, and the diary was published in The Netherlands in 1947, followed by a second run in 1950.
It was first published in Germany and France in 1950, and after being rejected by several publishers, was first published in the United Kingdom in 1952. The first American edition was published in 1952 under the title Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and was positively reviewed. It was successful in France, Germany and the United States, but in the United Kingdom it failed to attract an audience and by 1953 was out of print. Its most noteworthy success was in Japan where it received critical acclaim and sold more than 100, 000 copies in its first edition. In Japan, Anne Frank quickly became identified as an important cultural figure who represented the destruction of youth during the war.
A play based upon the diary, by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, premiered in New York City on October 5, 1955, and later won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was followed by the 1959 movie The Diary of Anne Frank, which was a critical and commercial success. The biographer, Melissa Müller, later wrote that the dramatization had "contributed greatly to the romanticizing, sentimentalizing and universalizing of Anne's story." Over the years the popularity of the diary grew, and in many schools, particularly in the United States, it was included as part of the curriculum, introducing Anne Frank to new generations of readers.
In 1986, the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation published the "Critical Edition" of the diary. It includes comparisons from all known versions, both edited and unedited. It also includes discussion asserting its authentication, as well as additional historical information relating to the family and the diary itself.
Cornelis Suijk—a former director of the Anne Frank Foundation and president of the U.S. Center for Holocaust Education Foundation—announced in 1999 that he was in the possession of five pages that had been removed by Otto Frank from the diary prior to publication; Suijk claimed that Otto Frank gave these pages to him shortly before his death in 1980. The missing diary entries contain critical remarks by Anne Frank about her parents' strained marriage, and discusses Anne's lack of affection for her mother. Some controversy ensued when Suijk claimed publishing rights over the five pages and intended to sell them to raise money for his U.S. Foundation. The Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, the formal owner of the manuscript, demanded the pages to be handed over. In 2000, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science agreed to donate US$300,000 to Suijk's Foundation, and the pages were returned in 2001. Since then, they have been included in new editions of the diary.
Reception
The diary has been praised for its literary merits. Commenting on Anne Frank's writing style, the dramatist Meyer Levin commended Frank for "sustaining the tension of a well-constructed novel", and was so impressed by the quality of her work that he collaborated with Otto Frank on a dramatisation of the diary shortly after its publication. The poet John Berryman wrote that it was a unique depiction, not merely of adolescence but of the "conversion of a child into a person as it is happening in a precise, confident, economical style stunning in its honesty".
In her introduction to the diary's first American edition, Eleanor Roosevelt described it as "one of the wisest and most moving commentaries on war and its impact on human beings that I have ever read". John F. Kennedy discussed Anne Frank in a 1961 speech, and said, "Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank." In the same year, the Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg wrote of her: "one voice speaks for six million—the voice not of a sage or a poet but of an ordinary little girl."
As Anne Frank's stature as both a writer and humanist has grown, she has been discussed specifically as a symbol of the Holocaust and more broadly as a representative of persecution. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in her acceptance speech for an Elie Wiesel Humanitarian Award in 1994, read from Anne Frank's diary and spoke of her "awakening us to the folly of indifference and the terrible toll it takes on our young," which Clinton related to contemporary events in Sarajevo, Somalia and Rwanda. After receiving a humanitarian award from the Anne Frank Foundation in 1994, Nelson Mandela addressed a crowd in Johannesburg, saying he had read Anne Frank's diary while in prison and "derived much encouragement from it." He likened her struggle against Nazism to his struggle against apartheid, drawing a parallel between the two philosophies with the comment "because these beliefs are patently false, and because they were, and will always be, challenged by the likes of Anne Frank, they are bound to fail." Also in 1994, Vaclav Havel said that "Anne Frank's legacy is very much alive and it can address us fully" in relation to the political and social changes occurring at the time in former Eastern Bloc countries.
Primo Levi suggested that Anne Frank is frequently identified as a single representative of the millions of people who suffered and died as she did because, "One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did but whose faces have remained in the shadows. Perhaps it is better that way; if we were capable of taking in all the suffering of all those people, we would not be able to live."[54] In her closing message in Melissa Müller's biography of Anne Frank, Miep Gies expressed a similar thought, though she attempted to dispel what she felt was a growing misconception that "Anne symbolizes the six million victims of the Holocaust", writing: "Anne's life and death were her own individual fate, an individual fate that happened six million times over. Anne cannot, and should not, stand for the many individuals whom the Nazis robbed of their lives... But her fate helps us grasp the immense loss the world suffered because of the Holocaust."
Otto Frank spent the remainder of his life as custodian of his daughter's legacy, saying, "It's a strange role. In the normal family relationship, it is the child of the famous parent who has the honor and the burden of continuing the task. In my case the role is reversed." He also recalled his publisher explaining why he thought the diary has been so widely read, with the comment "he said that the diary encompasses so many areas of life that each reader can find something that moves him personally".[59] Simon Wiesenthal later expressed a similar opinion when he said that Anne Frank's diary had raised more widespread awareness of the Holocaust than had been achieved during the Nuremberg Trials, because "people identified with this child. This was the impact of the Holocaust, this was a family like my family, like your family and so you could understand this."
In June 1999, Time magazine published a special edition titled "TIME 100: Heroes & Icons of the 20th century". Anne Frank was selected as one of the "Heroes & Icons", and the writer, Roger Rosenblatt, described her legacy with the comment, "The passions the book ignites suggest that everyone owns Anne Frank, that she has risen above the Holocaust, Judaism, girlhood and even goodness and become a totemic figure of the modern world — the moral individual mind beset by the machinery of destruction, insisting on the right to live and question and hope for the future of human beings." He also notes that while her courage and pragmatism are admired, it is her ability to analyze herself and the quality of her writing that are the key components of her appeal. He writes, "The reason for her immortality was basically literary. She was an extraordinarily good writer, for any age, and the quality of her work seemed a direct result of a ruthlessly honest disposition."
Denials and legal action
After the diary became widely known in the late 1950s, various allegations against the diary were published, with the earliest published criticisms occurring in Sweden and Norway. Among the accusations was a claim that the diary had been written by Meyer Levin, and that Anne Frank had not really existed.
In 1958, Simon Wiesenthal was challenged by a group of protesters at a performance of The Diary of Anne Frank in Vienna who asserted that Anne Frank had never existed, and who challenged Wiesenthal to prove her existence by finding the man who had arrested her. He began searching for Karl Silberbauer and found him in 1963. When interviewed, Silberbauer readily admitted his role, and identified Anne Frank from a photograph as one of the people arrested. He provided a full account of events and recalled emptying a briefcase full of papers onto the floor. His statement corroborated the version of events that had previously been presented by witnesses such as Otto Frank.
Opponents of the diary continued to express the view that it was not written by a child, but had been created as pro-Jewish propaganda, with Otto Frank accused of fraud. In 1959, Frank took legal action in Lübeck against Lothar Stielau, a school teacher and former Hitler Youth member who published a school paper that described the diary as a forgery. The complaint was extended to include Heinrich Buddegerg, who wrote a letter in support of Stielau, which was published in a Lübeck newspaper. The court examined the diary, and, in 1960, authenticated the handwriting as matching that in letters known to have been written by Anne Frank, and declared the diary to be genuine. Stielau recanted his earlier statement, and Otto Frank did not pursue the case any further.
In 1976, Otto Frank took action against Heinz Roth of Frankfurt, who published pamphlets stating that the diary was a forgery. The judge ruled that if he published further statements he would be subjected to a fine of 500,000 German marks and a six-month jail sentence. Roth appealed against the court's decision and died in 1978, a year before his appeal was rejected.
Otto Frank mounted a further lawsuit in 1976 against Ernst Römer who distributed a pamphlet titled "The Diary of Anne Frank, Bestseller, A Lie". When another man Edgar Geiss distributed the same pamphlet in the courtroom, he too was prosecuted. Römer was fined 1,500 Deutschmarks, and Geiss was sentenced to six months imprisonment. On appeal the sentence was reduced, but the case against him was dropped following a subsequent appeal because the statutory limitation for libel had expired.
With Otto Frank's death in 1980, the original diary, including letters and loose sheets, were willed to the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, who commissioned a forensic study of the diary through the Netherlands Ministry of Justice in 1986. They examined the handwriting against known examples and found that they matched, and determined that the paper, glue and ink were readily available during the time the diary was said to have been written. Their final determination was that the diary is authentic, and their findings were published in what has become known as the "Critical Edition" of the diary. On March 23, 1990, the Hamburg Regional Court confirmed its authenticity.
In 1991, Robert Faurisson and Siegfried Verbeke produced a booklet titled The Diary of Anne Frank: A Critical Approach. It claimed that Otto Frank wrote the diary, based on assertions that the diary contained several contradictions, that hiding in the Achterhuis would have been impossible, and that the prose style and handwriting of Anne Frank were not those of a teenager.
The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and the Anne Frank Funds in Basle instigated a civil law suit in December 1993, to prohibit the further distribution of The Diary of Anne Frank: A Critical Approach in the Netherlands. On December 9, 1998, the Amsterdam District Court ruled in favour of the claimants, forbade any further denial of the authenticity of the diary and unsolicited distribution of publications to that effect, and imposed a penalty of 25,000 guilders per infringement.

"It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
It’s utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more"
Anne Frank July 15, 1944

Born June 11, 1949

AKA Frank Lee Beard

Born: 11-Jun-1949
Birthplace: Frankston, TX
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Drummer
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: ZZ Top
Wife: Catherine Alexander (m. 12-Apr-1978, div. 16-Jul-1981)
Wife: Debbie Meredith (m. 11-Nov-1982, three children)
Ironically, Frank Beard is the only ZZ Top member lacking a beard.

AKA Elizabeth Jane Hurley

Born: 10-Jun-1965
Birthplace: Hampshire, England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Vanessa Kensington in Austin Powers
Father: Roy Leonard Hurley (d.)
Mother: Angela Mary Titt
Sister: Kate (older)
Brother: Michael (younger)
Boyfriend: Matthew Perry (actor, ex-)
Boyfriend: Hugh Grant (dated early 2000s)
Boyfriend: Steve Bing (screenwriter and political donor, dated 2000-01)
Son: Damian Charles Hurley (b. 4-Apr-2002 Portland Hospital, London, with Bing)
Boyfriend: Ted Forstmann
Husband: Arun Nayar (Indian businessman, dated 2003-07, m. 2-Mar-2007)
I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest
Elizabeth Hurley

Born June 09, 1934

AKA Jack Leroy Wilson

Born: 9-Jun-1934
Birthplace: Detroit, MI
Died: 21-Jan-1984
Location of death: Mount Holly, NJ
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Buried, Westlawn Cemetery, Wayne, MI
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Lonely Teardrops
Father: Jack Wilson
Mother: Eliza Mae
Wife: Freda Hood (m. 1951, div. 1965, four children)
Girlfriend: Juanita Jones (shot Jackie in the stomach)
Wife: Harlean Harris (m. 1967, until his death)
Daughter: Denise (d. 1987 drive-by shooting)

Born June 08, 1953

AKA Gaynor Hopkins

Born: 8-Jun-1951
Birthplace: Skewen, Wales
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer
Nationality: Wales
Executive summary: Total Eclipse of the Heart
Mother: Elsie Hopkins
Husband: Robert Sullivan (Olympic judo athlete, m. Jul-1973)

Born June 07, 1943

AKA Kenneth Osmond

Born: 7-Jun-1943
Birthplace: Glendale, CA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Eddie Haskel on Leave It To Beaver
Military service: US Army
Wife: Sandy (m. 1970, two sons)
Son: Christian Osmond (also Eddie Haskell on Still the Beaver)
Son: Eric Osmond (Freddie Haskell on Still the Beaver)
After acting, an eighteen year career as a Los Angeles Police officer.

That's a lovely dress you're wearing, Mrs. Cleaver
Ken Osmond as Eddie Haskell

Born June 06, 1942
Larry Taylor (born Samuel Taylor in New York) is an American bass guitarist, best known for his work as a member of Canned Heat from 1967.
He played with Canned Heat at various festivals including the Monterey International Pop Festival and Woodstock. Before joining Canned Heat he had been a session bassist for The Monkees and Jerry Lee Lewis.
His band nickname was 'The Mole'. He also played lead guitar occasionally, for example on the track "Down In the Gutter, But Free", on the album Hallelujah. He toured with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers when Mayall moved to the Los Angeles area.
He is the younger brother of long-time drummer for The Ventures, Mel Taylor

AKA Nicole Avery Cox

Born: 2-Jun-1978
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: 36C-23-35: MAC and Me
Brother: Matthew Cox
Boyfriend: Bobcat Goldthwait (broken engagement)
Boyfriend: Josh Duhamel (actor, ex-)
Boyfriend: Jay Mohr (comic, dated 2005-06, m. 29-Dec-2006)

I was really, really, really skinny. Great big mouth on a little face. Just goofy-looking. More goofy than I am now. Really goofy
Nikki Cox

AKA Norma Jeane Mortensen

Born: 1-Jun-1926
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Died: 5-Aug-1962
Location of death: Brentwood CA
Cause of death: Suicide
Remains: Buried, Westwood Village Memorial Park, Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor, Model
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Some Like It Hot
Father: Martin Edward Mortensen (Norwegian)
Mother: Gladys Monroe (American)
Husband: James Dougherty (m. 19-Jun-1942, div. 13-Sep-1946, d. 15-Aug-2005)
Husband: Joe DiMaggio (m. 14-Jan-1954, div. 27-Oct-1954)
Husband: Arthur Miller (m. 29-Jun-1956, div. 24-Jan-1961)
Slept with: Robert F. Kennedy
Slept with: John F. Kennedy (unproven)
Slept with: Joan Crawford (unproven)
Boyfriend: Jorge Guinle (d. 2004)

I love to do the things the censors won't pass