Martin Charles Scorsese has received many accolades, including
an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a
Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards.
He has been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997,
the Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute in 1998, the Kennedy
Center Honor in 2007, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010, and the
BAFTA Fellowship in 2012.
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William Franklin Holden (Beedle Jr.)
(April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981)
William Holden was one of the biggest box-office draws of the
1950s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film
Stalag 17 (1953) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding
Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for the
television miniseries The Blue Knight (1973).
Holden starred in some of Hollywood’s most popular and critically acclaimed films, including Sunset Boulevard (1950), Sabrina
(1954), Picnic (1955), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The
Wild Bunch (1969) and Network (1976).
According to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s autopsy report,
Holden bled to death in his apartment in Santa Monica, California,
on November 12, 1981, after lacerating his forehead by slipping
on a rug while intoxicated and hitting a bedside table.
Forensic evidence recovered at the scene suggested that he was conscious for at least half an hour after the fall. His body was
found four days later. Rumors existed that he was suffering from
lung cancer, which Holden had denied at a 1980 press conference.
His death certificate makes no mention of cancer
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On November 16, 1959, The Sound of Music opened on
Broadway, becoming a smash success from the first night.
The original Broadway production, starring Mary Martin
and Theodore Bikel, won five Tony Awards, including
Best Musical, out of nine nominations.
On November 15, 1867, the first stock ticker was unveiled in
New York City. The advent of the ticker revolutionized the
stock market by making up-to-the-minute prices available
to investors around the country.
Prior to this development, information from the New York
Stock Exchange, which has been around since 1792,
traveled by mail or messenger.
The ticker was the brainchild of Edward Calahan, who
configured a telegraph machine to print stock quotes
on streams of paper tape (the same paper tape later
used in ticker-tape parades).
The ticker, which caught on quickly with investors, got
its name from the sound its type wheel made.
Edward Augustin Calahan (1838–1912)
The First Stock Ticker – Postcard.
