Puerto Rican actor who played Anita in "West Side Story." EGOT winner of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.
Russian writer and dissident who exposed the brutality of the Soviet Union's prison camp system in his searing works.
Singer best known for her song "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," which hit No. 1 in the U.S. 65 years after its initial release in 2023.
After a 13-year struggle with the bottle, stockbroker Bill Wilson takes his last drink of the hard stuff The following year, he would found Alcoholics Anonymous, the groundbreaking program that treated alcoholism not as a moral failing, but as a disease.
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