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Born On This Day: Julia Ormond turns 48 today An English actress who has appeared in film and television and on stage. She attended independent schools, where early lead performances in Guys and Dolls and My Fair Lady began to draw special attention. Ormond's stage credits include The Rehearsal, The Crucible, Hope and Charity, for which she won the London Drama Critics' Award for Best Newcomer, and David Hare's My Zinc Bed, for which she won an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress. Her film credits include First Knight, Legends of the Fall with Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins and Aidan Quinn; Sabrina with Harrison Ford; Resistance and Bille August's Smilla's Sense of Snow.

In Memoriam: T. S. Eliot died 48 years ago today A publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and "arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century." Although he was born an American, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalized as a British subject in 1927 at age 39. The poem that made his name, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock—started in 1910 and published in Chicago in 1915—is seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement, and was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including Gerontion (1920), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1945).

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