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Since I watched the morning news on TV, and since I am still digesting parts of it, I got a late start this morning so there will be no personal thoughts today... unless I decide to add some sometime soon.
Probably not, though.
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TRIVIA
Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.
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HISTORICAL EVENT
"Jack," as Kennedy was called, and Jackie were married at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island. The Catholic mass was attended by 750 guests and an additional 450 people joined the wedding reception at Hammersmith Farm.
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WORD FOR TODAY
celebrity [suh-leb'-rih-tee]
noun
1. A famous person.
2. Renown; fame.
A celebrity is a person, who has a prominent profile and commands some degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day news media.
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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Jesse Owens was an American track and field athlete who specialized in the sprints and the long jump. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: one each in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the long jump, and as part of the 4x100 meter relay team. He was the most successful athlete at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Linda Ann Gray
(born September 12, 1940)
(born September 12, 1940)
Linda Gray is an American film, stage and television actress, director, producer and former model. Gray is best known for her role as Sue Ellen Ewing on the long-running CBS television drama series Dallas (1978–1989). She played a leading role on the Fox drama series Models Inc. from 1994 to 1995, appeared on movies like Oscar and Expecting Mary, and performed in stage productions such as The Graduate and Terms of Endearment. As of 2012 she starred in the TNT series Dallas, which continues the original series.
Joseph Peter "Joe" Pantoliano
(born September 12, 1951)
(born September 12, 1951)
Joe Pantaliano is an American film and television actor. He played the character of Ralph Cifaretto on The Sopranos, Bob Keane in La Bamba, Cypher in The Matrix, Teddy in Memento, Francis Fratelli in The Goonies, Guido "the Killer Pimp" in Risky Business, and Jennifer Tilly's violent mobster boyfriend, Caesar, in Bound. He also played Deputy U.S. Marshal Cosmo Renfro in both The Fugitive and U.S. Marshals. He is often referred to as "Joey Pants", because of the difficulty
some people have pronouncing his Italian surname.
Rachel Ward is an English actress, columnist, film director, and screenwriter who has primarily pursued her career in Australia. In 1981 she received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her role in the film Sharky's Machine starring with Burt Reynolds. The following year she starred in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid with Steve Martin. Her big break came in 1983 when she starred opposite Richard Chamberlain as the lead role portraying Meggie Cleary in the television mini-series The Thorn Birds.
In 1984, she played Jess in the film-noir remake Against All Odds, with Jeff Bridges. After filming Fortress in 1985, Ward then disappeared from film for several years to study acting. She reappeared in 1987 playing opposite her husband, Bryan Brown, in The Umbrella Woman. In 2001, she was again nominated for the Golden Globe Award for her role in On the Beach (2000).
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
--Lord Byron
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