Archive for January, 2011

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEENA DAVIS ~ 55 TODAY

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Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis  is an actress, film producer, writer, former fashion model, and a women’s Olympics archery team semi-finalist. She is known for her roles in The Fly (1986), Beetlejuice (1988), Thelma & Louise (1991), and The Accidental Tourist (1988), for which she won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2004, she won the Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a Television Series Drama for her role in Commander in Chief on ABC (2005 – 2006).

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                          Geena Davis as Veronica in The Fly

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     Geena with her 1988 Academy Award for Best Supporting  Actress

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GOLD RECORD RECEIVED ON THIS DATE IN 1959

       This hit for The Kingston Trio sold over three million copies

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POSTCARD FROM PORTLAND ~ NOVEMBER 21, 1943

linen postcard nov 21, 1943
                                          Sunset on the Columbia

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AD FOR TYPEWRITER RIBBONS ~ 1950

typewriter ribbons 1950

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PAUL STANLEY OF KISS IS 59 TODAY

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paul-stanley kiss makeup 
Paul Stanley,above in makeup, is a hard rock guitarist and singer/songwriter best known for being the rhythm guitarist and primary lead vocalist of the rock band KISS. He is the writer or co-writer of many of the band’s highest-charting hits. Through a mutual friend of Gene Simmons’, Stanley joined Simmons’ band Wicked Lester in the early 1970s.

Wicked Lester soon fell apart and Stanley and Simmons placed ads for a drummer and a guitarist in various New York papers.This resulted in Peter Criss and Ace Frehley joining the group, and they named themselves KISS.The group released their self-titled debut album in February 1974.

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                                    Paul Stanley off stage

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