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!.
In the brilliant 1987 James Brooks film, Broadcast News, news director, Paul Moore (Peter Hackes), tells his producer, Jane Craig (Holly Hunter) that, It must be nice to always believe you know better, to always think you're the smartest person in the room, to which Craig bemoans, No. It's awful..