Biography: Bertolt Brecht, Betty Comden, Backstreet Boys, Bill Cassel, Bill Conti, Bill Graham, Bill Hicks, Bill McKinley, Bill Pierce, Billy Bletcher,

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Bertolt Brecht Biography, Photos, Pictures

Playwright, poet and lyricist Bertolt Brecht was among the most controversial figures ever to impact musical theatre; an avowed Marxist, he often worked in tandem with composer Kurt Weill to create one of the most provocative bodies of work ever staged

Betty Comden Biography, Photos, Pictures

The songwriting and screenwriting duo of Betty Comden and Adolph Green created some of the most enduring and beloved musical comedies of the post-war era, reaching their apex with 1952’s Singin’ in the Rain, widely acclaimed as the greatest film musical ever made

Backstreet Boys Biography, Photos, Pictures

The Backstreet Boys were, in many ways, a contradictory band Comprised entirely of white, middle-class Americans, the group sang a hybrid of new jack balladry, hip-hop, R&B, and dance club pop that originally found its greatest success in Canada and Europe, with their 1996 debut album charting in the Top Ten in nearly every country on the continent; ironically, success in their native land did not follow until nearly two years later

Bill Cassel is a writer, editor, witch doctor, and self-appointed holy man He plays basketball and guitar with great enthusiasm but poorly Bill lives and sometimes works in Oakland, California, City of the Proud

A prolific composer of film and television music, Bill Conti remains most closely associated with his work on the successful Rocky films Born April 13, 1942 in Providence, Rhode Island, he learned piano from his father, and later took up the bassoon

This bass vocalist’s performances with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus makes it sure as shooting that he is a different Bill Graham than the right-wing, anti-gay evangelist

Sometimes credited as the more formal William Hicks, the bass vocalist, choral singer, and keyboardist Bill Hicks has appeared in shows such as Sitting Pretty He should not be confused with the jazz trumpeter of the same name, nor the pro-marijuana comedian who died in 1994

Bill McKinley Biography, Photos, Pictures

It is a rare performer who emerges and is granted instant and universal legendary status, but the sheer power of Bill McKinley’s musical gifts have propelled him into mythic stature in a few short years

Photographer Bill Pierce’s postings since the ’70s have included the Washington office of Time magazine With that kind of presidential access, it is no surprise that director Oliver Stone sought counsel from Pierce for the mid-’90s cinematic portrait of Nixon, at least to the point where Pierce is listed as “technical director” on the original soundtrack

Billy Bletcher Biography, Photos, Pictures

The career of American comic actor Billy Bletcher stretched from the silent era through the late 1960s He began performing in vaudeville at age 19 and began his screen career at the Vitagraph Studios, Brooklyn in 1913

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