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Sunday, November 19, 2017

Did you know that Ann Wedgeworth, flirty divorcée from “Three’s Company” died she was 83??

Did you know that
Ann Wedgeworth, a Tony Award-winning Broadway actress better remembered for her extensive TV portfolio, including a brief turn as a flirty divorcée on the hit sitcom “Three’s Company” and her featured role on the Burt Reynolds series “Evening Shade,” died Nov. 16 in New York. She was 83?


Did you know that Wedgeworth won the 1978 Tony for best featured actress in a play for Neil Simon’s comedy “Chapter Two?”

Did you know that Wedgeworth played a soap opera actress hopelessly bored by her marriage?
John Ritter Ann Wedgeworth and Suzanne Summers

Did you know that Wedgeworth role on “Three’s Company” she played Lana Shields, an older woman with her eyes set on her young neighbor Jack, played by John Ritter?

Did you know that Wedgeworth said the producers wrote her out of the show without warning after nine episodes and that she never was able to get a good answer about why?

Did you know that Wedgeworth said that things were going good when she landed a key supporting role on the popular CBS series “Evening Shade” from 1990 to 1994 as a small town Arkansas doctor’s eccentric wife?

Did you know that Elizabeth Ann Wedgeworth was born in Abilene, Texas, on Jan. 21, 1934?

Did you know that Wedgeworth was 2 when her mother died, and she was raised by her father?

Did you know that in 1970, Wedgeworth married acting teacher Ernest Martin?

Did you know that Wedgeworth appeared in soap opera“Another World,” for six years?

 





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Did you know that Def Jam Recordings mogul Russell Simmons was accused of rape?



Did you know that Def Jam Recordings mogul Russell Simmons was accused of rape?

Model Keri Claussen Khalighi
Did you know that Model Keri Claussen Khalighi came forward on Sunday, telling the Los Angeles Times Simmons allegedly rapped her in 1991 when she was 17 years old and Brett Ratner allegedly watched?

Did you know that Khalighi claim that sShe met up with the powerful duo at a casting call. After going to dinner in New York, Simmons invited her to his apartment to watch a music video?

Simmons and Brett Ratner
Did you know that Khalighi claimed that Simmons started ripping off her clothes, and when she wanted Ratner to help her, she realized they were “in it together?”


Did you know that Simmons denied the allegations, saying their encounter was consensual?
 
Did you know that Simmons maintained the encounter was consensual. “Everything that occurred between Keri and me occurred with her full consent and participation?”

Did you know that Ratner’s attorney, Martin Singer, told the LA Times he didn’t remember the incident, or Khalighi asking for help?
 


 




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Did you know that Earl Hyman (know from “The Cosby Show,”) died on Friday in Englewood, N.J., he was 91?

Did you know that Earle Hyman, help to break racial stereotypes on Broadway and in Scandinavia in works by Shakespeare and Ibsen?

Did you know that Hyman was better known to millions of Americans as Bill Cosby’s father on “The Cosby Show,” died on Friday in Englewood, N.J., he was 91?
Phyllis Hyman

Did you know that Hyman was Hyman was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity?


Did you know that Hyman was the first cousin once removed of singer Phyllis Hyman?

Did you know that Hyman was Height: 6′ 4″?


Did you know that actors like Mr. Hyman love the stage, and he acted in television drama — soap operas and police dramas?

Hyman on the Cosby Show
Did you know that Hyman played Russell Huxtable, the father of Dr. Cliff Huxtable, in 40 episodes of Mr. Cosby’s hugely popular NBC situation comedy about an upper-middle-class black family, broadcast from 1984 to 1992?

Did you know that Hyman was only 11 years older than Mr. Cosby?

Did you know that Hyman was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in New York in 1997?

Did you know that Mr. Hyman appeared on and off Broadway in a score of productions over six decades, a lifetime of Beckett, O’Neill, Pinter, Albee and lesser lights as well as Shakespeare and Ibsen?

Did you know that Hyman was a major influence in developing black theater in America?

Did you know that Hyman appeared in black-cast productions on Broadway and in regional theaters and was a founder of the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Conn., which began in 1955 and often cast black actors in customarily white leading roles?

Did you know that Hyman lived and worked in England for five years and spent parts of each year in Scandinavia, mostly in Norway, for more than a half century?

Did you know that Hyman became fluent in Norwegian and Danish, spoke passable Swedish, and performed in Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm in plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen and O’Neill.
After his debut at the National Theater in Bergen in “Othello” in 1963?

Did you know that Hyman, was the first American to perform for Norwegians in their own language, was hailed by Norwegian critics?

Did you know that Hyman had performed in 50 consecutive sellouts while he was building international attention?

Did you know that he was born George Earle Hyman  in Rocky Mount, N.C., on Oct. 11, 1926?

Anna Lucasta poster
Did you know that Hyman first Broadway hit, in 1944, was “Anna Lucasta,” Philip Yordan’s play about a Polish family, turned into a story about blacks, with an American Negro Theater cast that also included Alice Childress Hilda Simms and Canada Lee?

Did you know that  “Anna Lucasta,” It ran for 957 performances and was one of Broadway’s longest-running nonmusical plays at the time?

Anna Lucasta
Did you know that after  “Anna Lucasta,”  closed in 1946, Mr. Hyman toured with the company in
America and Europe?
 
Hyman played Othello
Did you know that Hyman found little work on Broadway in the early ’50s, so he moved to London and over several years performed 13 roles in 10 Shakespeare plays, including the lead in a televised “Hamlet?” 

Did you know that Hyman played Othello in 1957 with the American Shakespeare Festival in Connecticut, and that year visited Norway for the first time?

Did you know that Hyman was impressed with Norway colorblind perspective on race?

Did you know that Hyman, never married, lived at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood?
 
Did you know that Hyman leaves no immediate survivors?

Did you know that Hyman appeared in a number of made-for-television films and movies, including “Macbeth” (1968), “Julius Caesar” (1979) and “Coriolanus” (1979)?

Did you know that Hyman also provided voices for numerous episodes of the 1980s animated TV series “ThunderCats?”

Did you know that Hyman was nominated for a Tony for his 1980 Broadway role in Edward Albee’s “The Lady From Dubuque,” and for an Emmy in 1986 for his “Cosby Show” work?

Did you know that Hyman won a CableACE Award in 1983 for best actor in a drama for “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”; an Outstanding Pioneer Award in 1980 from the Audience Development Committee, which recognized achievements by black theater artists; and the Medal of St. Olav from the King of Norway in 1988 for his work there?





 




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Did you know that Country music legend Mel Tillis died he was 85?


 Did you know that Country music legend Mel Tillis died he was 85?

Did you know that Tillis died at the Munroe Regional Medical Center in Ocala, Florida, after battling intestinal issues since 2016, the suspected cause of death was respiratory failure?

Did you know that Tillis was a prolific singer-songwriter who penned more than 1,000 songs and recorded more than 60 albums in a career that spanned six decades?

Did you know that many of Tillis songs were recorded by other country music stars such as Kenny Rogers, George Strait and Ricky Skaggs?

Did you know that Tillis commercial career peaked in 1970s when he had a string of top 10 hits, including "Good Woman Blues," "Heart Healer" and "Coca Cola Cowboy?"

Did you know that Tillis was was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007?

Did you know that before Tillis made his way to Nashville, Tennessee, as songwriter briefly attended the University of Florida?

Did you know that Tillis serve in the Korean War when he joined the US Air Force to and was stationed in Okinawa, where he spent his time cooking and singing on Armed Forces Radio?
Did you know that he was born Lonnie Melvin Tillis in Tampa, Florida?
Country music hall of fame award

Did you know that Tillis suffered a spell of malaria as a boy that left him with a chronic stutter, according to the Country Music Hall of Fame, but that stutter became a trademark that Tillis mined for laughs, although it disappeared when he sang?
Did you know that in 1998, Tillis  became spokesman and honorary chairman of the Stuttering Foundation of America, according to his website?
Did you know that Tillis also had an acting career, with small roles in a number of films such as "The Cannonball Run" and "Smokey and the Bandit II?

Did you know that Tillis also made a TV appearance in an episode of "The Dukes of Hazzard" in the late '70s?

President Barack Obama awarding Tillis 
Did you know that in February 2012 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts -- the highest honor given to artists by the US government -- by President Barack Obama?




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Saturday, November 18, 2017

Did you know that Ryan Seacrest is being investigated E! network for allegation of misconduct against from a stylist who used to work with Seacrest?

Did you know that Ryan Seacrest is being investigated E! network for allegation of misconduct against from a stylist who used to work with Seacrest?

Did you know that Variety says that whatever she’s accusing Seacrest  of reportedly happened “roughly a decade ago?”
Did you know that Seacrest said 25 years in the entertainment industry, the majority of my co-workers have been women, and I’ve endeavored to foster a positive work environment of mutual respect and courtesy?


 




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Did you know that Azzedine Alaïa, died from a heart attack he was 82?

Azzedine Alaïa, Fashion’s Most Independent Designer, Is Dead at 82



Did you know that Azzedine Alaïa, died on Saturday in Paris he is one of the greatest and most uncompromising designers of the 20th and 21st centuries?

Did you know that Azzedine Alaïa, died from a heart attack he was 82?

Did you know that Mr. Alaïa was a sculptor of the female form, and his designs were worn by women from Michelle Obama to Lady Gaga?

Did you know that Mr. Alaïa was equally famous for his rejection of the fashion system and his belief that it had corrupted the creative power of what could be an art form?

Did you know that Mr. Alaïa was a mischievous man and he often lied about his age?




Did you know that Mr. Alaïa introduced his first ready-to-wear collection in 1980 and was soon hailed as “the king of cling”?
Did you know that in 2007, Compagnie Financière Richemont bought a majority stake in the business, allowing it to expand at its own pace?

Did you know that Mr. Alaïa introduced a perfume the store expansion planned, and by last year Mr. Alaïa had more than 300 points of sale globally?
Did you know that beyond the runway, Mr. Alaïa created work for the ballet and the opera, began holding art exhibitions in 2004 in the space that also houses his showroom (regular programming began in 2015 with an exhibition by the Syrian poet Adonis) and was planning a bookstore?
Christoph von Weyhe
Did you know that Alaïa is survived by his partner, the painter Christoph von Weyhe?
 




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Did you know that even though Facebook bought Instagram back in 2012 for only $1 billion dollars, Instagram is expected to make nearly $3 billion in ad revenue in 2018?




 Did you know that most teens  on Instagram, nearly one in five have at least 300 followers


Did you know that Facebook back in 2012 bought Instagram for a cool $1 billion?

Nearly a Quarter of Americans ... is listed (or ranked) 1 on the list The Coolest Facts You Didn't Know About InstagramDid you know that Instagram is on top of the world as one of the most popular social networking sites around?

Did you know that Instagram is the most liked picture to how much some of the top users get paid per post?
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Did you know that Twitter seems to be losing steam, while Instagram is only getting more and more popular?

Did you know that some of the most popular celebrity accounts get more new followers in an hour than most of us will in a year?



Did you know that nearly a Quarter of Americans have an Instagram Account?

Did you know that around 77.6 million Americans are on Instagram?

Did you know that 24% of the country's overall population uses Instagram?


Did you know that in a little less than six years, 30 billion photos were uploaded to Instagram?


Did you know that since the Instagram platform was launched in 2010 it has become the go-to destination for sharing selfies and photos of your food?





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Did you now that New York's Time Square was the most Insta-popular location in 2015?

Did you know that  Paris's Eiffel Tower, London's Tower Bridge, Moscow's Red Square, and Los Angeles's Dodger's Stadium rounded out the top five?




Love Is the Most Popular Hasht is listed (or ranked) 5 on the list The Coolest Facts You Didn't Know About InstagramDid you know that Love Is the Most Popular Hashtag on Instagram?

Did you know that 70 Million Photos Are Uploaded Each Day?



Did you know that on average, 70 million photos a day are uploaded to the social media platform and that comes out to nearly 3 million an hour and almost 50,000 every minute?

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Did you know that 70% of Instagram Users Come from Outside the U.S.?


Did you know that Instagram is incredibly popular in the United States, but in its short existence, it has become a global brand?


The Majority of American Users is listed (or ranked) 8 on the list The Coolest Facts You Didn't Know About Instagram

 

 

Did you know that the Majority of American Users Check Instagram at Least Once a Day?


Did you know that Selena Gomez Is the Most Followed Person on Instagram (For Now)?

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Did you know that Selena Gomez is just barely the most followed person on Instagram with 69.26 ?
Did you know that Taylor Swift has  69.26 With million followers, she's just ahead of T 69.13  who has  million of her own followers.


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Did you know that even though Facebook bought Instagram back in 2012 for only $1 billion dollars, Instagram is expected to make nearly $3 billion in ad revenue in 2018?


Did you know that photos with faces get 38% more likes than photos without faces?

 

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Did you know that Kim, Kylie, and Kendall Have More Followers Than Russia Has Citizens?



Did you know that the Kardashian and Jenners combine for a whopping 169 million followers. In other words, they have 26 million more followers than Russia has citizens?
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Did you know that Taylor Swift is the second most followed person on Instagram?

 

 

Did you know that some Top Instagram Users Get Paid Hundreds of Thousands for Their Posts?


Some Top Instagram Users Get P is listed (or ranked) 14 on the list The Coolest Facts You Didn't Know About Instagram
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Product placement and celebrity endorsements are nothing new, but things are a little different with social media. Whenever a big name Instagram account posts a picture with a brand or in some way endorses it, they usually get paid big bucks. Some of the top users can receive as much as $300,000 for a single post?

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Did you know that an incredible 96% of top fashion brands are on Instagram?
 Did you know that te Most Liked Picture on Instagram Is a Selfie?

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Did you know that Kendall Jenner has the most liked picture on Instagram, the selfie.  has an impressive 3.5 million likes and 167,000 comments, surpassed a photo posted by her half-sister Kim Kardashian to take over the number one spot?

Did you know that by 2017, the total amount of Instagram users from America is projected to reach 98.9 million?


Did you know that the Instagram users will continue to grow and by 2020, expects to be closer to 120 million?
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Did you know that of all the accounts on Instagram, Instagram's own account is by far the most followed?

Did you know that Instagram has 144.25 million followers?





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Did you Know

Did you know that the average human brain contains approximately 86 billion neurons? These remarkable cells form intricate networks, allowing us to think, feel, and experience the world around us. Each neuron communicates with others through electrical impulses, creating a symphony of thoughts, memories, and emotions. So next time you ponder life’s mysteries, remember that your brain is orchestrating a cosmic dance of neurons!