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(born 1937) Ivan Boesky’s arrest signaled the end of the high-flying merger and buyout industry of the 1980s. As an arbitrageur, he sought to profit by speculating in the stock of takeover targets. As the author of a bestselling book, Merger Mania (1985), Boesky became a symbol of a booming industry. In 1985 he began accepting non-public, insider information which he used to make tremendous profits. Once caught, Boesky’s cooperation with authorities led to the fall of junk-bond king Michael Milken and other prominent securities operators. The scandal left Wall Street’s reputation permanently scarred.
Industry:Culture
(born 1937) Part bohemian beatnik and part establishment, three-time Academy Award winner Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 1975; Terms of Endearment, 1983; As Good as it Gets, 1997) has brilliantly painted the landscape of the American male of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. His expressiveness and intelligence as an actor are undeniable. Nicholson first played lead at twenty but his break came in the counterculture cult flick Easy Rider (1969). He has since worked with directing legends such as Stanley Kubrick, Antonioni, Polanski and Milas Forman. Refusing to give in to Hollywood’s casting conventions, Nicholson picked roles as disparate as dapper detective, mental patient, pothead anti-hero and devil—once with a capital D. His smile is phenomenal: its dazzling transformation from affectionate to demonic in The Shining (1980) renders the movie a horror classic.
Industry:Culture
(born 1937) Stage and film actor, Hoffman played in offBroadway theaters in the 1960s. In 1967 Mike Nichols noticed his talent. With Hoffman’s small stature, Nichols had him play a naive twenty year old in The Graduate (1967), for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination. In 1979 he won his first Best Actor Oscar for his role in Kramer vs Kramer.
His role in Rain Man earned him a second Oscar in 1988. Hoffman is also a director and producer of stage, television and film productions.
Industry:Culture
(1937 – 1966) Poet, composer, folk-singer and novelist of IrishCuban heritage. His Been Down so Long it Looks Like Up to Me (1966) has been recognized as a classic of post-beat generational unease. With his wife Mimi (sister of Joan Baez), he explored folk music, ballads and political satire before his untimely death in a motorcycle accident.
Industry:Culture
(born 1938) Born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero, this darkhaired, upbeat singer became a favorite among early 1960s youth. Her hits “Who’s Sorry Now?” (1958) and “Where the Boys Are” (1960) revealed a desirous but bubbly femininity. She became a film star with the rise of 1960s teenage/beach films, and appeared in Where the Boys Are (1960), Follow the Boys (1963) and Looking for Love (1965). She won a $3 million suit in 1974 against a motel in one of whose rooms she had been raped; the highly publicized episode left her emotionally scarred and she put aside her career until 1993.
Industry:Culture
(born 1938) Novelist. Oates combines strong naturalistic prose with elements of American Gothic.
Her works have also managed to combine literary quality with appeal to a wide audience.
Author of many novels, among her best-known works are the trilogy consisting of Garden of Earthly Delights (1967), Expensive People (1968) and them (1969), which won the National Book Award. Others include Because it is Bitter and Because it is my Heart (1990) and Will you always love me? (1996).
Industry:Culture
(born 1938) Political pundit and three-time candidate for US president, Buchanan has been a nationally recognized political figure since the 1970s, as well as a consistent and outspoken advocate of social conservatism and economic protectionism. In 1992 he challenged incumbent President Bush for the Republican nomination, and was widely blamed for aggravating tensions between the conservative and moderate wings of the party with his harsh “family-values” rhetoric. In 1996 Buchanan shifted his focus to economics. His attacks on corporate greed and the twin economic threats of unrestricted trade and immigration struck a resonant chord with working-class Americans. He declared his candidacy for the 2000 presidential election as a Reform Party candidate.
Industry:Culture
(born 1938) Ted Turner (R.E. Turner III) is largely credited for the popularization of cable TV with TBS, one of the first stations to reach a nationwide audience in 1975. This station carried only the minimal amount of news required by the FCC and showed mostly reruns.
Another one of his groundbreaking stations, CNN, was initiated in 1981, and has had an incredible influence both in news broadcasting and in reporting mostly national events to international audiences from its Atlanta base. An outspoken and controversial figure, he is married to actor Jane Fonda; he has challenged other wealthy men to give more with his planned $10 billion gift to the UN. In 1995 TBS was sold to Time Warner, Inc. and Turner rose to the position of vice-chair within the huge conglomer-ate. He also became the largest single land-owner in the US in 2000 with 1.7 million acres.
Industry:Culture
(born 1938) US Attorney-General (1993–). Nominated by President Clinton, Reno was the first woman ever appointed to the highest-ranking law-enforcement post in the nation. She has received mixed reviews from both sides of the political aisle. Some critics have accused her of being too deferential to both Clinton and Republican law-makers, while others say she has been too zealous in appointing special prosecutors to investigate the Clinton administration. Reno’s handling of armed stand-offs between government agents and religious and political extremists in the earlier part of her tenure, namely the 1993 Waco siege, also received criticism.
Industry:Culture
(1938 – 1988) Postwar writer who fashioned stark portrayals of twentieth-century American life in pared-down, elegant prose. Although he also wrote poetry and essays, Carver— sometimes called the ‘American Chekov”—is best known for his short stories. These often featured characters bumping into the limits of their worlds in sudden, subtle epiphanies. An exemplary and much anthologized example of Carver’s work is the story “Cathedral.” Carver was often credited with influencing the growth of an informal school of writing—dubbed “minimalism” or “the new realism”—that became increasingly popular in the 1980s. In 1993 American film-maker Robert Altman directed Short Cuts, a movie based on Carver’s stories.
Industry:Culture
