Compelling People — Interesting Lives
Friday
March 2015
COMMENTS
Written by Melissa Parker, Posted in Interviews Actors
Born on March 13, 1950, actor, writer, director William H. Macy has been nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo, won two Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award and is a four-time Golden Globe nominee. Since 2011, he has played the main character in the Showtime television series Shameless.
Friday
March 2015
COMMENTS
Written by Melissa Parker, Posted in Interviews Actors
Virginia Madsen is best known for her role as Helen Lyle in Candyman (1992) and for her performance as Maya in Alexander Payne’s film Sideways (2004) for which she received numerous awards and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Other film appearances include Long Gone, Ghosts of Mississippi, Gotham, The Rainmaker, A Prairie Home Companion, Red Riding Hood, Firewall and The Astronaut Farmer.
Thursday
March 2015
COMMENTS
Written by Melissa Parker, Posted in Interviews Musicians
Brian Wilson’s eleventh solo studio album, No Pier Pressure, will be released April 7, 2015 in standard thirteen-track and deluxe sixteen-track editions, each in CD and digital formats, as well as a sixteen-track 2 LP edition on vinyl. Digital preorder is available now and that provides an instant download of the lead track, “The Right Time,” featuring vocals by Wilson and Al Jardine and guitar by David Marks.
Thursday
February 2015
COMMENTS
Written by Marc Parker and Melissa Benefield Parker, Posted in Interviews Authors
Dr. Yuval Noah Harari has a PhD in History from the University of Oxford and lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in World History, medieval history and military history. He also teaches a Massive Open Online Course called “A Brief History of Humankind.” More than 80,000 students from throughout the world participated in the first run of the course in 2013. The second run began in August 2014, and in its first three weeks, 30,000 students joined.
