The Manny Files book1 (23 page)

Janet Leigh
-Film actress known for her role in
Psycho;
mother to actress Jamie Lee Curtis.

Sylvester Stallone
-American action star who most notably played the boxer Rocky in the movie
Rocky.

John D. Rockefeller
-A major figure in the oil industry, he was once thought of as the most successful man in the world.

Philip Johnson
-An architect who was as famous for his Glass House as he was for the dark-framed round glasses that he wore. He was the first architecture director for the Museum of Modern Art.

Kevin Bacon
-American actor who appeared in
Footloose
and
Apollo 13
as well as more than fifty other motion pictures.

David Hockney
-British painter whose works include his famed pool series and photo collages.

Barbara Cartland
-Twentieth-century British romance novelist.

Tom Hanks
-Two-time Oscar-winning actor who appeared in
Forrest Gump
and
Apollo 13.

Alex Trebek
-Host of the television game show
Jeopardy.

Rose Kennedy
-Mother of nine children, including President John F. Kennedy and two former senators, Robert Kennedy and Edward Kennedy.

Oscar de la Renta
-High-end fashion designer who created an empire with clothes, fragrances, and home apparel. He is originally from the Dominican Republic but now resides in New York City, where he sits on the board of several foundations, including UNICEF.

Hulk Hogan
-Wrestler with the World Wrestling Entertainment and then World Championship Wrestling who later went on to become a movie actor.

Alex Haley
-Author of the novel Roots, which traces his ancestry through six generations from Africa to America.

Jerry Falwell
-Baptist preacher who is known for his political activism. His controversial views propagate nonacceptance of the differences in people, including sexuality.

Malcolm Forbes
-American publisher who took over his father’s magazine,
Forbes,
which caters to and lists top businessmen.

Bill Clinton
-The forty-second president of the United States. He was raised in Arkansas and overcame an underprivileged childhood.

Coco Chanel
-Paris fashion designer who specialized in elegant casual wear, such as women’s slacks and suits.

Rocky Marciano
-Former shoe worker who became the heavyweight boxing champion of the world in 1952.

Lily Tomlin
-Actress and comedian who appeared in
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
and many other movies.

Gloria Estefan
-Latina singer who sang lead for the Miami Sound Machine.

Memphis Slim
-Jazz and blues singer and pianist.

Alan Ladd
-American actor who appeared in such films as
The Carpetbaggers, Citizen Kane,
and
Shane.

Marguerite Higgins
-A news reporter who became the first woman to win the Pulitzer for international reporting.

Beyoncé Knowles
-Pop recording artist who releases solo albums as well as albums with the group Destiny’s Child.

Paul Harvey
-Radio personality known for a segment called “The Rest of the Story.” Inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1990.

Daniel Burnham
-Architect who designed the recognizable Flatiron Building in New York City.

Grandma Moses
-American folk artist whose real name was Anna Mary Robertson Moses.

Queen Elizabeth I
-Daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She reigned as queen of England for forty-five years but never married or had children.

Buddy Holly
-A rock-and-roll legend from the 1950s. At the height of his popularity he was killed in a plane crash along with Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in 1959.

Patsy Cline
-Country singer from the 1950s and 1960s who opened doors for future female singers. She was
killed in a plane crash in 1963. She was thirty years old.

Peter Sellers
-Comic actor best known as Inspector Clouseau from the Pink Panther movies.

Pink
-Born Alecia Moore. A singer popular for both her music and her ever-changing hairstyles.

Dr. Amy Whittington
-Naturopathic doctor. Sister to the author of this book and mother to the author’s nephew, Fletcher Christian Whittington.

Sir William Golding
-British novelist who wrote
The Lord of the Flies.

Adam West
-Actor who played Batman in the 1960s television series.

Sister Kenny
-A nurse who worked in the fight against polio.

Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton
-a jazz and piano player who formed a band called the Red Hot Peppers.

Dr. Joyce Brothers
-Began career by winning $64,000 on the game show
$64,000 Question.
Currently writes daily newspaper column on psychology.

Brigitte Bardot
-French actress known for her beauty and acting as well as the famous men she dated and married

Ed Sullivan
-Host of the
Ed Sullivan Show,
which ran on Sunday nights for more than twenty years and had such guests as Elvi’s Presley and the Beatles.

Hilary Duff
—Actress and singer who starred in the television series
Lizzie McGuire
as well as the movie
A Cinderella Story.

Helmut Newton
—A visual artist whose photographs have been in fashion magazines such as
Elle
and
Vogue.

Dan Rather
—A former White House correspondent who was the anchor for
CBS Evening News.

John Keats
—An English poet whose work is both sensual and philosophical. He lived a tragic life, which ended at the age of twenty-five from tuberculosis.