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When Roger Crawford got the finger on his right hand stuck in a tennis racket, he realized he could play the game. He has a condition called ectrodactylism, the absence of fingers or toes.

In the course of a single day, Tara Duncan might hear a pitch for a new series read a script for a show in production, and watch the dailies for yet another program. She might work on a show about women in prison, drug dealers in ’80s Colombia or eight telepathically linked people living from […]

We all get the same 24 hours a day, but what actor Paul Picerni managed to do with his across six decades in Hollywood is remarkable. Raising eight children with Marie, his wife of 63 years, Picerni, now 87, played in 63 motion pictures and guest starred in 455 television shows. His most prominent role […]

Corrine Beckwith Garbani ’92 is a member of the tribal council of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians in Temecula, California.

In the history of aviation, few people have piloted planes as varied as a British Supermarine Spitfire, a North American P-51B Mustang and a Soviet-era MiG-29.

As a young girl growing up in San Jose, Calif., Christina English, an eager student of dance, piano and voice, dreamed of performing in musicals on Broadway. Instead, she ended up in opera, with an appearance at Carnegie Hall.

Patrick Lynch teaches English and is the chair of the English Department at Marymount High School in Los Angeles.

Gloria Calderón Kellett is a Del Rey Players veteran and has worked in TV, theater and short films.

Most people in a position to rack up 1,000 wins over the course of their coaching career would probably revel in a milestone reached. Gene Pingatore revels in the work.

Bassam Yammine ’90, ’92 could have used his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and his investment savvy to make things happen on Wall Street. But an idea kept nagging at him.