A pacifist at heart and an inventor by nature, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel invented dynamite. However, the invention that he thought would end all wars was seen by many others as an extremely deadly product.
'The Newsroom' Star Alison Pill Is Engaged. The Newsroom may have ended, but one of its stars has a brand new beginning. Alison Pill, who played Maggie Jordan on the HBO series, got engaged to her actor beau Joshua Leonard, 39, at Joshua Tree National Park. Pill, 29, posted their happy pic on Instagram yesterday saying, Let's do this 2015!.
Thesp starred in 'Airplane,' 'Naked Gun'. Deadpan comic actor Leslie Nielsen, who started in dramas before finding his fame as a hapless doctor in âAirplane!â and the accident-prone detective Frank Drebin in the âNaked Gunâ comedies, died Sunday in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He was 84. His agent John S. Kelly said he was being treated for pneumonia.