100px|Brad Pitt at the 2008 premier of Burn After Reading
Brad Pitt (born 1963) is an American actor and film producer. Pitt
has received two Academy Award nominations and five Golden Globe Award
nominations, winning one. Described as one of the world's most
attractive men, Pitt's first leading roles in big-budget productions
came with A River Runs Through It (1992) and Interview with the Vampire
(1994). He was cast opposite Anthony Hopkins in the 1994 drama Legends
of the Fall, which earned him his first Golden Globe nomination. In
1995 he gave critically acclaimed performances in the crime thriller
Seven and the science fiction film 12 Monkeys, the latter securing him
a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award
nomination. Four years later, in 1999, Pitt starred in the cult hit
Fight Club. He then starred in the major international hit as Rusty
Ryan in Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels, Ocean's Twelve (2004)
and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). His greatest commercial successes have
been Troy (2004) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Following a high-profile
relationship with actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Pitt was married to actress
Jennifer Aniston for five years. Pitt lives with actress Angelina Jolie
in a relationship that has generated wide publicity. (more...)
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1475:
Moldavian–Ottoman Wars: Moldavian forces under Stephen the Great
defeated an Ottoman attack led by Hadân Suleiman Pasha, the Beylerbeyi
of Rumelia, near Vaslui in present-day Romania.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vaslui>
1901:
The first great gusher of the Texas Oil Boom was discovered in the
Spindletop oil field near Beaumont, Texas, US.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindletop>
1927:
The science fiction film Metropolis, which is inscribed in UNESCO's
Memory of the World Register, was released in Germany.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_%28film%29>
1929:
The Adventures of Tintin, a series of popular comic books created by
Belgian artist Hergé, first appeared in a children's supplement to the
Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin>
2003:
After Chicago police detective Jon Burge was discovered to have forced
confessions from more than 200 suspects, Governor of Illinois George
Ryan commuted the death sentences of 167 prisoners and pardoned four
more.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Burge>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
open book (n):
1. Something of which salient aspects are obvious or easily
interpreted.
2. A person who through naivete responds candidly to questions or
openly displays their emotions or intentions
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/open_book>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence
and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the
certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than
that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
--John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton%2C_1st_Baron_Acton>