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12th Apostle

Even if you couldn't, you could still enroll in an art correspondence school. It worked for Charles Schulz.

Jake Rossen




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Bob Dylan—the legendary artist formerly known as Robert Zimmerman—has spent the past 50-plus years trying to keep a low profile.

Roger Cormier, Erika Wolf






Mel Gibson stars in George Miller's Mad Max (1979).

What began as director George Miller's ambitious action film about a solitary cop on a mission to take down a violent biker gang has evolved into the 'Mad Max' series—a post-apocalyptic sensory overload of a franchise.

Tara Aquino