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1. Execution by Burning
   Execution of an offender sentenced to death after conviction by a court of law of a criminal offense. Capital punishment for murder, treason, arson, and rape was widely employed in ancient Greece, and the Romans ... used it for a wide range of offenses. It also has been sanctioned at one time or another by most of the world's major religions. In 1794 the U.S. state of Pennsylvania became the first jurisdiction to restrict the death penalty to first-degree murder, and in 1846 Michigan abolished capital punishment for all murders and other common crimes. In 1863 Venezuela became the first country to abolish capital punishment for all crimes. Portugal was the first European country to abolish the death penalty (1867).
2. Katie Holmes -- April Burns
   Katie Holmes is outstanding as the title character in Peter Hedges' PIECES OF APRIL. Holmes stars as April Burns, the black sheep of her family who has left suburbia for a Lower East Side tenement.
3. Clifford Roberts -- Cliff Roberts
   Roberts instituted gallery roping, pairings sheets, course maps, stadium mounding and an elaborate scoring and leaderboard operation. These innovations helped cement The Masters as golf’s most prestigious tournament and are commonplace at golfing events today. According to Jack Nicklaus, “the standards and quality with which he conducted The Masters are unmatched anywhere.”
4. Robert Bunsen
   Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchoff were a pair of chemists who in 1859 began studying the spectra of gasses produced by different chemical elements when burned in a laboratory flame. They detected a series of lines in these spectra as well, but instead of dark lines on a bright background, they found bright lines on a dark background. While in the process of cataloging the bright emission spectra for all of the then known elements, Kirchoff found that he was able to match the series of bright lines in the laboratory spectra to the dark lines found in the solar spectrum. This was the first evidence that the Sun contained many of the same elements found on Earth.
5. Robert Altman
   Robert Altman is one of the most inventive, unpredictable, and hotly debated American filmmakers of the past thirty years. His movies include popular hits (M.A.S.H., Nashville), critical successes (Thieves Like Us, The Long Goodbye, Short Cuts), and outright disasters (Beyond Therapy). Through triumph and tribulation alike, Altman has never lost the experimental spirit that brought him into feature filmmaking after twenty years of refining his talent on industrial movies and TV episodes. He ... has maintained a gregarious, often garrulous nature, rarely missing an opportunity to discuss his work, life, and ambitions with the many critics and scholars who have plied him with questions throughout his career.
6. Robert Rossen
   Robert Rossen's 1961 feature is a somber morality play postulating as existential hero a pool hustler perfecting his craft (Paul Newman at his best). It makes wonderful use of its seedy locations (memorably filmed in black-and-white 'Scope by Eugen Schüfftan, who won an Oscar for his work) and its first-rate secondary cast (Piper Laurie, Jackie Gleason, George C. Scott, Myron McCormick, and Murray Hamilton). Adapted by Rossen and Sidney Carroll from a Walter Tevis novel, this picture is so much better than Martin Scorsese's belated sequel "The Color of Money" that they don't even belong in the same category. A postnoir melodrama with metaphysical trimmings, it does remarkable things with mood and pacing, and the two matches with Gleason as Minnesota Fats are indelible.
7. Robert J. Flaherty -- Robert Flaherty
   American documentary filmmaker and world traveler Robert J. Flaherty's 1934 Man of Aran was the most controversial film in the Flaherty's distinguished career. It's a portrait of the brutal living conditions endured by subsistence farmers and fisher-folk on the austere, isolated Aran islands off the western coast of Ireland. It's remembered for its visual beauty, its cast of craggy locals, and for the way Flaherty embellished a romanticized human essence instead of recording the authentic day-to-day facts of his subject. Flaherty's fellow documentarians turned up their noses at it, but it won international honors and was a commercial success with the public. undoubtedly the greatest film tribute to man's struggle against hostile nature."
8. Robert A. Heinlein -- Robert Anson Heinlein
   Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American novelist and science fiction writer. He is one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard science fiction". He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was the first writer to break into mainstream, general magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, in the late 1940s, with unvarnished science fiction. He was among the first authors of bestselling, novel-length science fiction in the modern, mass-market era. For many years, Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction.[1][2]
9. Bob Newhart -- Robert Hartley
   Newhart was introduced by Buddy Hackett to Virginia "Ginnie" Quinn, the daughter of late character actor Bill Quinn. She became his wife on January 12, 1963. The couple have four children (Robert, Timothy, Jennifer, and Courtney), and several grandchildren. His son Rob (who portrayed his father in 1993's Heart & Souls, with Robert Downey Jr.) maintains his father's official website.
10. John Roberts -- New York
    Born in Buffalo, New York, on January 27, 1955, Roberts was the son of steel mill manager John "Jack" Roberts and his wife Rosemary. He had three sisters. The family soon moved to Long Beach, Indiana, on the southern end of Lake Michigan, where Jack Roberts was sent by his employer, Bethlehem Steel, to help with the opening and administration of the electrical engineering section of a new plant in nearby Burns Harbor. The area was heavily Catholic, and John Roberts attended an elementary school affiliated with Notre Dame Church, where the family worshiped. For high school he was sent to a nearby Catholic academy, all-male La Lumiere School, in La Porte, Indiana. In a high school newspaper opinion piece he argued against making the school coeducational.

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