Best known for his hit single "Crank That," which hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2007. His debut album Souljaboytellem.com became certified platinum that same year. Before Fame Born DeAndre Cortez Way, he moved from Chicago to Atlanta to Mississippi in order to pursue a career in music. Trivia He released the singles "Turn My Swag On" and "Kiss Me Thru the Phone," which was nominated for a Viewer's Choice Award in 2009.

Steven Spielberg, mostly to his credit but sometimes to his detriment, has an affinity for fantasy extravaganzas that aren’t wholly safe and cozy, pictures that come laced with a sense of menace. Occasionally, there’s a nasty misfire, like 1997’s too-sadistic The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Other examples of fantastical Spielbergiana like Minority Report and A.I. Artificial Intelligence are patchily imaginative but undone by excessive moralism. But with The BFG—which opens in July in the United States, and which is playing out of competition here in Cannes—Spielberg gets the tone just right.

When it comes to breaking new legal ground, the California Supreme Court is frequently a spadeful or two ahead of all others, including the U.S. Supreme Court. California’s ruling last August that local property taxes are an unfair method of financing public schools (Serrano v. Priest) has already been echoed by courts in Minnesota and Texas. Last week, in a 6-1 decision, the California court once again established an important precedent by extending the Miranda rule, which bars the use of confessions made by suspects who have been denied access to legal counsel.

When Americans remember the War of 1812 — if we remember it at all — we typically recall the stinging losses it entailed: dominion over Canada, for one, along with many of the brand-new buildings in our nation’s young capital. While we won the war, these humiliating deprivations made it “the bucktoothed stepsister of American military victories,” as TIME put it last year. On this day, Aug. 24, in 1814, following their victory at the Battle of Bladensburg, British forces marched on Washington and set fire to the White House — as well as the Capitol, the Library of Congress, and the U.

Served as head coach of the Denver Broncos from 1993 to 1994, the Buffalo Bills from 1998 to 2000 and the Dallas Cowboys from 2007 to 2010. He then went on to work as defensive coordinator of the Houston Texans from 2011 to 2013, finishing the 2013 season as the team's interim head coach. Before Fame He held a record for career assisted tackles at the University of Houston, where he played as a linebacker.