6word Portrait: Grace Slick

Summer of (Somebody to) Love Icon


Born this day in 1939.

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6word Portrait: Richard Dreyfuss

Close Encounters with the Goodbye Girl.

Born 70 years ago today.

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6word Portrait: Jonas Salk

Discovered polio vaccine; shared it freely.

Born this day in 1914 (d. 1995)

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6word Portrait: Roy Lichtenstein

With comics, dots, made art pop.


Born this day in 1923 (d. 1997)

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6word Portrait: Hillary Clinton

Would-be President trumped by private email.

Born 70 years ago today.

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6word Portrait: Pablo Picasso

Greatest artist of the 20th century.

Born this day in 1881 (d. 1973)

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6word Portrait: F. Murray Abraham

Best Actor for embodying Salieri's envy.

Born this day in 1939.

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6word Portrait: Johnny Carson

Heeeeere's the paragon of late-night television. 


Born this day in 1925 (d. 2005)

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6word Portrait: Catherine Deneuve

"Belle de Jour" of everlasting grace.

Born this day in 1943

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6word Portrait: Dizzy Gillespie

Billowy cheeks trumpeted birth of bebop.

Born 100 years ago today (d. 1993)

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