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(born 1946) Director. Baltimore-born independent auteur/ cult director who sarcastically celebrates and skewers his city the middle class and suburbia gone bad. After his initial experience of pornographic film, his Mondo Trasho (1970) and Pink Flamingos (1972), showcasing the 300-pound transvestite Divine, offered visual offenses that rivaled Bunuel and Dali. This partnership and vision continued in Female Trouble (1975) and Polyester (1981). Waters has become more mainstream in his later work, although maintaining a wry vision of race relations (Hairspray, 1988), American domesticity (Serial Mom, 1994) and urban aesthetics (Pecker, 1998). See Waters’ autobiographical Shock Value (1995)
Industry:Culture
(born 1946) Michael Milken helped forge the corporate junk bond concept that fueled explosive profit earnings for Wall Street securities traders in the 1980s. After amassing a personal fortune in the hundreds of millions of dollars, Milken was arrested for his involvement in an illegal, insider-trading scheme with Ivan Boesky. He pleaded guilty to securities fraud in 1990 and served two years in federal prison, in addition to paying millions in government fines and civil damages. The Boesky—Milken scandal raised public awareness of the growing threat of white-collar crime. Since his release from jail, Milken has endeavored to establish a Consortium for Prostate Cancer Research.
Industry:Culture
(born 1946) The most financially successful Hollywood director/producer, with blockbusters E.T. the ExtraTerrestnal (1982), Jurassic Park (1993; 1997) and Indiana Jones (1981; 1984; 1989). Spielberg has also achieved critical success by attacking such subjects as slavery the Holocaust and the Second World War. His visually striking films, Schindler’s List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998), will likely represent the Second World War era for future audiences, a fact which troubles some documentary filmmakers and historians. Spielberg’s film Jaws (1975) is also credited with being the first “Summer Event” movie. In 1997, with David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, Spielberg created the film studio Dreamworks, SKG.
Industry:Culture
(1946 – 1984) Photographer. A master of neo-classical black-andwhite composition, Mapplethorpe challenged the art world and American society with his subject matter. Alongside stunning flowers and male nudes that recreated visions of light and form, he created equally stunning gay and sado-masochistic tableaux that sparked firestorms of controversy over exhibitions, censorship and federal funding for the arts. Cancellations and arrests sometimes overshadowed the sheer power of his art, although his photographs now hang in major museums worldwide.
Industry:Culture
(born 1947) Alternatively termed a “teflon novelist,” and the companion to “Sunday afternoons with a box of bonbons,” Danielle Steele remains unarguably a publishing sensation. Her romance novels, featuring often glamorous heroines grappling with the demands of work, love and family and moving through melodrama towards emotional catharsis, have soared to the top of the bestseller list over twenty-five times and sold 85 million copies in over forty-two countries. Steele’s readers run the gamut of age and income; 40 percent are male. Born to privilege (the Lowenbrau beer family), Steele found writing—poems, reviews and ad copy as well—a comfort from loneliness after a divorce, and quietude from the limelight. Her reign also encompasses the television miniseries, including ABC’s Crossings, Wanderlust and Thurston Place.
Industry:Culture
(born 1947) Born in South Dakota, Democrat Tom Daschle was first elected to the United States Congress in 1978 by only 139 votes. He served four terms in the House of Representatives before winning his current Senate seat in 1986. In the Senate, Daschle quickly got involved in the Democratic Party leadership, acting for six years as co-chair of the Democratic Policy Committee before assuming his leadership position in the 104th Congress. In the Senate’s history only Lyndon Baines Johnson had spent fewer years in the Senate before winning such a post. Daschle also serves on the Senate Agriculture Committee.
Industry:Culture
(born 1947) Cultural analyst, writer and professor known for her flamboyant style and provocative theories concerning American culture and sexuality. Her books include Sexual Personae (1990), Sex, Art, and American Culture (1992) and Vamps and Tramps (1994). She is generally considered a conservative anti-feminist, though she describes herself as a “radical 1960s libertarian” and is a vocal critic of what has been termed “political correctness.” Her supporters argue that she is a courageous independent thinker, while her critics claim that she is concerned primarily with self-promotion and that her work has been harmful to liberal causes.
Industry:Culture
(born 1947) Master of the American macabre in bestselling novels and chilling films. Born and resident in Maine, which provides apparently innocent settings for some stories, King specializes in nearly annual excursions to the horror beneath the normal, beginning with his revisit to high-school proms laced with telekenisis in Carrie (1973). If you cannot trust the prom queen, can you trust your family? No: The Shining (1976). Your car? No: Christine (1983). The dog? No: Cujo (1981). Your fans? No: Misery (1987). King seemed entrapped in his fictional universe when a driver severely injured him as he walked beside the road in 1999. In 2000, he became a pioneer in e-publication.
Industry:Culture
(born 1947) Mexican-born guitarist, considered one of the founding fathers of “world music,” who blends guitar-based rock ’n’ roll associated with the “British invasion” with blues music and AfroCuban rhythms. Also developing influences from jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, he developed rhythms and themes of a more eastern origin, which he explored in collaborations with guitarist John McLaughlin.
Santana burst onto the music scene, first in 1966 in San Francisco and then internationally at the Woodstock Festival of 1969. He followed up the Woodstock triumph with the double-platinum Santana (1967) and quadruple-platinum Santana Abraxas (1968). During his career he has produced many different kinds of albums from rock to experimental jazz with changing back-up bands. His 1999 album, Supernatural, gained widespread acclaim and a record-tying eight Grammy Awards.
Industry:Culture
(born 1947) Winner of the Heisman Trophy in 1968 while at the University of Southern California, O.J. Simpson signed for the Buffalo Bills where he broke single-season and single-game rushing records. Retiring in 1979, he went on to a career in television, movies and advertising, and was inducted into the football Hall of Fame in 1985. He acted in the Naked Gun series (1988, 1991, 1993), joined the commentary team for Monday Night Football and teamed up with Arnold Palmer to represent Hertz in his best-known commercials.
In 1994 he was the center of the sensational Los Angeles, CA murder case of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend. After a protracted trial, covered live and featured in talk shows and check-out counter magazines, Simpson was acquitted on all charges. But a wrongful death suit followed in 1997 in civil court, finding him liable to the sum of $33.5 million.
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