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(born 1939) American Indian activist. Means, an Oglala born on the Pine Ridge Reservation, founded and became national director of the American Indian Movement (AIM), which sought to both advocate for particular Indians and causes and to point out the racist assumptions in historical interpretations of treaties and events (like Columbus’ arrival in the New World). While remaining active with AIM, since the 1990s he has broadened his interests to include film, music and memoirs.
Industry:Culture
(born 1939) Director whose remarkable Godfather trilogy (1972, 1974 and 1990) defined an auteurial vision in American cinema through its sweeping mythic vision, lavish detail and extraordinary ensemble acting. Coppola directed and produced other singular films ranging from comedy (Peggy Sue Got Married, 1986) to the grim horror of Vietnam (Apocalypse Now, 1979). His career has also been plagued by numerous financial debacles that shuttered his independent studio, American Zoetrope in 1990. Coppola’s vision has almost always focused on America—dreams as well as nightmares and failures—which permeated his intriguing biographical study Tucker (1988), as much as his own life.
Industry:Culture
(born 1939) Writer, photographer, musician and former business-school professor. His novel The Bridges of Madison County was a slow, phenomenal bestseller and 1995 hit film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. The tale of two midlife characters involves a four-day love affair that changes the life of an Iowa farmer’s wife. The enduring popularity of a simple love story took the publishing world by stealth turning to storm. Waller also authored A Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend (1993), Old Songs in a New Cafe (1995), Border Music (1995) and Puerto Vallarta Squeeze (1995); his recording The Ballads of Madison County was released by Atlantic Records.
Industry:Culture
(1939 – 1984) Marvin Gaye helped to shape the “Motown sound” that moved soul music into mainstream American popular culture. He became Hitsville’s leading man when matched with Mary Wells in duets in 1964. After numerous hits, Gaye’s greatest moment came with the What’s Going On album (1971), when he turned from soul ballads to problems of the inner-city and Vietnam; this became the first soul-concept album. Gaye made a comeback with “Sexual Healing” (1981), which featured the return of his sweet, plaintive tones in one of pop music’s most sensual songs, rivaling his previous “Let’s Get it On” (1981). His personal life, however, had become increasingly difficult; his father shot him in an argument in 1984.
Industry:Culture
(1939 – 1995) Born and educated in New York City, NY, Bambara worked as an educator and social activist throughout her life. She began her literary career editing several anthologies of Black writers. She published her first short-story collection in 1972 and her first novel in 1980, winning the 1981 American Book Award. Her fiction usually revolved around her involvement in community activities and observations drawn from her students and her experiences in such places as Cuba and Vietnam. She also wrote screenplays, including an adaptation of her friend Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby, and worked on community documentaries.
Industry:Culture
(born 1940) American writer, essayist and gay activist whose works depict the evolution of gay life in the United States, particularly the complex issues of the AIDS epidemic. White worked as an editor for The Saturday Review and Horizon. He co-founded the Violet Quill, a group of gay writers, in the mid-1970s. His most notable works include two largely autobiographical novels and an anthology Gay Short Fiction (1991). His most recent works include a biography of Jean Genet, whose exploration of homosexuality through plays and novels long has interested White. White has lived and worked in France since 1983.
Industry:Culture
(born 1940) Born in Kentucky Mason worked as a journalist in New York before receiving a PhD in English from the University of Connecticut in 1972. Her first story collection, Shiloh and Other Stories (1982), describes the lives of rural people of her native state, and won the Ernest Hemingway Award in 1983. Mason’s most famous novel, In Country (1985), recounts the efforts of a young Kentucky woman to come to grips with her father’s death in Vietnam before she was born, and how her search for meaning helps others deal with the impact the war has had, and continues to have, on lives.
Industry:Culture
(born 1940) Chinese American author and activist. Chin’s work has included poetry, novels (Donald Duk, 1991), plays (Chickencoop Chinaman, 1981) and essays on literature, voice and identity As activist and coeditor of the groundbreaking anthology Aiiieeeee! (1974), Chin fought to find and preserve a variety of Asian American voices in literature and history while combating racism and stereotypes. This has also led him to bitter debates with novelist Maxine Hong Kingston over authenticity and assimilation in the Asian American experience.
Industry:Culture
(born 1940) Film actor and comedian known for his crude humor and hilarious characterizations of African American life. A great influence on comedians such as Eddie Murphy, Pryor provided the counterpoint to Bill Cosby’s more genteel and genial wit. In addition to movies of his live comedy routines, he also starred in Lady Sings the Blues (1972) with Diana Ross, Mel Brook’s Blazing Saddles (1973), Stir Crazy (1980) with Gene Wilder, and the third Superman movie. He injured himself badly in an accident involving cocaine, which later became a source for some of his routines. More recently he has been stricken with multiple sclerosis.
Industry:Culture
(born 1940) Novelist. Kingston’s vision of the struggles of Chinese American women of her family, seen through the prism of stories drawing on Chinese mythology in The Woman Warrior (1976), became a breakthrough in wider American acceptance of Asian American literature. Indeed, it became a widely used textbook in high schools and colleges. The sequel, China Men (1980), raised more political issues about historical discrimination against Chinese. In the 1980s, Kingston became involved in a bitter debate with Frank Chin over issues of authenticity and assimilation in Asian American literature. Her essay on fiction and identity Tripmaster Monkey (1989), was less successful than her earlier works.
Industry:Culture
