Election Day 2000
ANP2000110705 - 07 NOVEMBER 2000 - ANNDANDALE, VIRGINIA, USA: Kraig Krist casts his vote at Edgar Allen Poe Middle School, a polling place in Annandale, Virginia, November 7, 2000. By 3pm more than 50 percent turnout was reported at Poe. rlw/Roger L. Wollenberg UPI
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BALTIMORE, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A 60-year tradition of someone placing roses and cognac at the Baltimore grave site of Edgar Allen Poe on his birthday may be nevermore, a Poe expert says.
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Hollywood actor John Cusak will play author Edgar Allen Poe in the upcoming film "The Raven," the project's producers announced.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- An unknown person who has been leaving cognac at Edgar Allen Poe's original Baltimore grave site for decades failed to show up this year, a curator said.
WESTMINSTER, Md., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Actor John Astin says he's been a loyal fan of the 19th century author Edgar Allen Poe, who he is portraying in tribute events in Baltimore.
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STIRLING, Scotland, April 6 (UPI) -- A graduate student at a Scottish university is working on what may be the first Ph.D. thesis on the work of author Stephen King.
HOLLYWOOD HILLS, Calif., May 10 (UPI) -- Curtis Harrington, an experimental filmmaker who earned a reputation as a master of the morbid, died in his Hollywood Hills, Calif., home. He was 80.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- British horror author Clive Barker is partnering with Walden Media for a film thriller about the ghost of iconic U.S. writer Edgar Allen Poe. The "Imajica" author, who has built a reputation based on horror novels, joined with the family-oriented studio t
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Producer Mark Williams is set to bring a novel about the late Chicago mob boss Sam "Momo" Giancana to Hollywood after purchasing the book's film rights.
NEW YORK, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- U.S. folk rock legend Bob Dylan says some of the titles his admirers have given him over the years are a bit over the top.
