Herbert Kretzmer's protest anthem Do You Hear The People Sing? is one of the most recognisable songs from the musical Les Miserables, and now it has become the soundtrack to Hong Kong's discontent - protesters sung it at this year's July 1 march and the HKTV protests last year. The South African-born lyricist was also a television and drama critic. As a reporter, he interviewed many prominent personalities, including boxer Sugar Ray Robinson and writer Truman Capote …
As publisher of now-defunct newspaper New York World between 1883 and 1911, Pulitzer became a founding father of "yellow" journalism - the practice of sensationalising stories to sell papers. Such journalism, unsurprisingly, tends not to win Pulitzer prizes, a fact to which the august New York Times can attest. The Grey Lady, as the Times is also known, has won more Pulitzers (112) than any other paper, although it didn't scoop one for its breaking of the WikiLeaks revelations, leaked by another publisher of sorts Julian Assange …
Enlisted for combat duty in the army during the Vietnam war, Stone won two awards for heroism. He subsequently made four films about the war: Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Heaven and Earth and the short film Last Year in Vietnam. Another recurring theme for the director is American presidents - his White House films include Nixon (about Richard Nixon), W. (George W. Bush) and JFK, about the assassination of John F. Kennedy …