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Saturday, September 27, 2008

Did You know who's birthday is today? Sept 27

Who was Born today:

1984 Avril Lavigne - singer (Color Me Badd)

1972 Gwyneth Paltrow - actress

1970 Mark Calderon - singer (Color Me Badd)

1958 Shaun Cassidy - singer, actor; son of actress Shirley Jones

1953 Greg Ham - horn player, keyboardist (Men at Work)

1949 Mike Schmidt - baseball player

1949 Robb Weller - TV host

1947 Meat Loaf - singer, actor

1943 Randy Bachman - guitarist, singer (Bachman Turner Overdrive, The Guess Who)

1941 Don Nix - sax player (Mar-Keys, Booker T and the MG's, Memphis Horns)

1939 Kathy Whitworth - golf champ

1934 Wilford Brimley - actor

1934 Greg Morris - actor (Mission: Impossible)

1934 Dick Schaap - sportscaster

1933 Kathleen Nolan - actress

1926 Jayne Meadows - actress

1922 Arthur Penn - movie director

1920 William Conrad - actor

1919 Johnny Pesky - baseball player

1898 Vincent Youmans - composer

1840 Thomas Nast - political cartoonist

1722 Samuel Adams - American patriot, Massachusetts governor

did you know that Paul Newman Died

Did you know that Paul Newman died at 83? Newman died Friday after a long battle with cancer at his farmhouse near Westport, publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was surrounded by his family and close friends.

The Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool was a racecar driver, political activist, and philanthropist. Newman's face appeared, on everything from movie posters to bottles of salad dressing. As of May 2007, he hade made donations that had exceeded $220 million.

Newman had appeared in over 50 films and had won these awards.

Academy Awards
Honorary Award

For his "many and memorable and compelling screen performances" (1986)
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

For his charity work (1994)

Golden Globe Awards
New Star of the Year — Actor

The Silver Chalice (1957)
Henrietta Award

World Film Favorite — Male (1964; 1966)
Cecil B. DeMille Award

Lifetime Achievement (1984)

Other
Newman won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for The Long, Hot Summer and the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for Nobody's Fool.

In 1968, Newman was named "Man of the Year" by Harvard University's performance group, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

Newman Day has been celebrated at Kenyon College, Bates College, Princeton University, and other American colleges since the 1970s.

Friday, September 26, 2008

Sopranos" actor Lillo Brancato Jr set to go to trial

Sopranos' actor's murder trial set

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"Sopranos" actor Lillo Brancato Jr. is set to go to trial next month in the death of an off-duty New York police officer.
A judge ruled Friday that Brancato and co-defendant Steven Armento would be tried separately. Prosecutors wanted them tried together. Authorities say they broke into an apartment to look for prescription drugs in 2005. Officer Daniel Enchautegui confronted them and was killed in a shootout. Armento is accused of firing the fatal shot.

Did you know man sued because doctor stapled a man's rectum shut?

Arguments began Monday in a federal lawsuit alleging that a Maryland doctor stapled a man's rectum shut during an operation, rendering him unable to move his bowels for 17 days, the Baltimore Examiner reported.
Ronald Watkins, 64, of West Virginia, has accused Dr. Manuel Casiano, a doctor in Frederick County, Maryland for botching a September 2004 surgery that left him with permanent bowel problems, according to the report.
But an attorney representing Casiano told jurors the doctor did not staple Watkins' buttocks shut.
Attorney Conrad Varner said Watkins’ bowels became “swollen shut” because of medical problems — not because of stapling and that his two-pack-a-day smoking habit added to his bowel problems, the Examiner reported.
Watkins' attorney, Julia Lodowski argued that the medical error was in fact caused by Casiano and has led Watkins to experience continual “rectal discharge," which requires him to wipe himself between 12 and 15 times a day.
Lodowski said Watkins also needed four “unnecessary surgeries” because of the alleged mistake.

Did You know who's birthday is today?

Born today:
1981 Serena Williams - tennis player
1972 Shawn Stockman - singer (Boyz II Men)
1965 Cindy Herron - R&B singer (En Vogue)
1962 Melissa Sue Anderson - actress
1956 Linda Hamilton - actress
1955 Carlene Carter - singer
1954 Craig Chaquico - guitarist (Jefferson Starship)
1948 Olivia Newton-John - singer
1948 Mary Beth Hurt - actress
1947 Lynn Anderson - country singer
1945 Bryan Ferry - singer (Roxy Music)
1942 Kent McCord - actor
1941 Joe Bauer - drummer (The Youngbloods)
1934 Winnie Mandela - wife of South African president Nelson Madela
1931 George Chambers - bassist, singer (Chambers Brothers)
1926 Julie London - actress, singer
1925 Marty Robbins - country singer
1914 Jack LaLanne - fitness guru
1898 George Gershwin - composer
1897 Pope Paul VI - 262nd pope of the Roman Catholic Church
1895 George Raft - actor
1888 T.S. Eliot - poet
1774 Johnny Appleseed - apple tree planter

Did you know what the headlines were for this day back in time?

In the headlines today:
1997
234 people die when an Indonesian Airbus A-300 jetliner crashes on approach to Medan Airport in Sumatra.
1999
Singer/actress Vanessa Williams marries NBA star/actor Rick Fox.
1995
The prosecution begins its closing argument in the murder trial of football star/actor O.J. Simpson.
1991
Eight people begin a 2-year experiment aboard a sealed capsule, Biosphere Two, in Arizona.
1986
William Rehnquist is sworn in as the 16th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.
1969
The spy spoof series Get Smart, starring Don Adams and Barbara Feldon, moves to CBS TV. The show began on rival network ABC four years earlier.
1960
US presidential candidates Richard Nixon (left) and John F. Kennedy square off in their first nationally televised debate. (photo credit: NARA)

1957
The musical West Side Story opens on Broadway.
1914
The US Federal Trade Commission is established.
1789
Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first US secretary of state.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Did you know what actor hold the record for most nominations without ever winning an Oscar in a competitive category?

Peter O'Toole
had eight acting nominations without ever winning an Oscar, for:

O'Toole's nomination	Year	Winner
Lawrence of Arabia	1962	Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird
Becket	1964	Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady
The Lion in Winter	1968	Cliff Robertson in Charly
Goodbye, Mr Chips	1969	John Wayne in True Grit
The Ruling Class	1972	Marlon Brando in The Godfather
The Stunt Man	1980	Robert DeNiro in Raging Bull
My Favorite Year	1982	Ben Kingsley in Gandhi
Venus	2006	Forrest Whitaker in Last King of Scotland

O'Toole did win an honorary Oscar in 2002 that was inscribed
"Whose remarkable talents have provided cinema history
with some of its most memorable characters." He originally intended
to turn it down feeling that the lifetime award signaled the end
of his career. He wrote the Academy a letter stating that he was
"still in the game" and would like more time to "win the lovely bugger outright."
It was only after the Academy informed him that they
were bestowing the award on him whether he came to collect it or not that he relented.

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