When LeBron James, my hometown of Akron’s most famous son, takes flight to dunk, even I, a poet usually averse to battered clichés, am tempted to call it poetry in motion—if we agree that poetry can be stormy as well as smooth, thrillingly true yet downright mean as it lures you one way, pivots and drives its point home.
Who could have imagined that a basketball boy wonder, a prodigy from the projects, would bridge class and racial divides to evolve into King James of the International Courts? Read More...
Saturday Night Live cast member from 2000 to 2007 who co-starred in the smash hit comedy Bridesmaids in 2011. She also starred on the NBC sitcom Up All Night from 2011 to 2013 and has appeared in both of Adam Sandler's Grown Ups films. In 2018, she began starring as June in the Amazon series Forever.
Before Fame She attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she graduated in 1995 with a B.A. in photography. She joined the cast of SNL after her involvement as a member of The Groundlings, an improv troupe which has produced many famous comedians. Read More...
Michelangelo's Pietà, one of the most famous religious sculptures of all time, depicts the Virgin Mary holding the lifeless body of Jesus in her arms. Michelangelo created it in 1499 at age 24; it is the only sculpture he ever signed.
In 1972, Laszlo Toth, 33, a Hungarian-born Australian geologist, climbed over a guard rail in the chapel of the Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica. While yelling "I am Jesus Christ! Read More...