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Austin
City (pop., 1996 est.: 541,000), capital of Texas. It was founded in 1835 as the village of Waterloo on the Colorado River in S central Texas. In 1839 it was made capital of the Republic of Texas and renamed to honor S. Austin; when Texas became a state in 1845, Austin remained its capital. As the home of the Univ. of Texas, it has expanded as a research and development center for defense and consumer industries. The L. B. Johnson Library is on the university campus.
Huston
U.S. film director and screenwriter. Born in Nevada, Mo., the son of W. Huston, he was briefly a boxer, Mexican cavalry officer, reporter, and actor before becoming a scriptwriter. His first work as a director, The Maltese Falcon (1941), began an illustrious career studded with film classics: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, Academy Awards for best director and screenplay), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Night of the Iguana (1964), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Prizzi's Honor (1985), and The Dead (1987). He wrote screenplays for many of his own films and such others as Jezebel (1938), Juarez (1939), and High Sierra (1941). He continued to act throughout his career, notably in Chinatown (1974). His daughter Anjelica (b.1951) proved herself an accomplished actress in Prizzi's Honor (1985, Academy Award), The Dead (1987), Enemies, A Love Story (1989), and The Grifters (1990), and made her directorial debut with Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) for television.
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