Gillespie
Americannoun
noun
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Gillespie likes to champion difficult women, from Tonya Harding in “I, Tonya” to the Dalmatian-skinning Disney villain of “Cruella.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026
Briefly we hope that Gillespie and screenwriter Ana Nogueira are shaking up the superhero format like a bottle of gas-station champagne.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026
Organisers said Gillespie used moths that were humanely captured and released during the creation of the works.
From BBC • Jun. 20, 2026
Gillespie said: "Nature always has liked 'to be hid' but what is left now, it really must hide. We are the danger."
From BBC • Jun. 20, 2026
In the late 1940s, Billy Eckstine’s big band boasted among its ranks some of the rising stars of the bebop era: Blakey, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon and Fats Navarro.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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