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photo: http://www.buddytv.com/articles/ER/Images/john-stamos-3.jpg Biography Early life Stamos was born in Cypress, California, to William John Stamos (a restaurant owner of Greek descent) and Loretta Phillips (an Irish immigrant); his paternal grandfather, Hermes Stamotopoulos, shortened the surname to Stamos upon emigrating from Greece to the USA. John has two sisters, Janeen ...

Biography Sam Shepard Shepard as Playwright 1964 Cowboys 1967 La Turista 1969 Oh! Calcutta! (contributed sketches) 1971 Mad Dog Blues 1971 Cowboy Mouth (co-written with Patti Smith) 1972 The Tooth of Crime 1978 Curse of the Starving Class 1978 Tongues 1979 Buried Child 1980 True West 1983 Fool for Love 1985 A Lie of the Mind 1993 Simpatico 2000 The Late Henry Moss 2004 The God of ...

Biography Wallace Shawn Shawn was born in New York City, where he still lives. He is the son of William Shawn, longtime editor of The New Yorker, and journalist Cecille Lyon Shawn; his brother Allen is a composer. Shawn attended The Putney School (a liberal arts high school in Putney, VT), and then graduated with a B.A. in history from Harvard University, and studied economics and ...