Archive for April 18th, 2011

MARTIN DENNY ~ THE ‘’FATHER OF EXOCTICA’’

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(April 10, 1911–March 2, 2005)

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VINTAGE ANACIN AD FROM 1965

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ACTOR JAMES WOODS TURNED 6 4 TODAY

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James Howard Woods is a film, stage and television actor. He known for starring
in such films as The Onion Field (1979), Salvador (1986), and the movie Ghosts 
of Mississippi
(1996). Woods has won two Emmy Awards, and has gained two
Academy Award nominations. He has lent his voice to the Disney studios for the 
character Hades in Hercules (1997). He also has appeared in several episodes 
of Family Guy as an animated version of himself.

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jAMES WOODS FAMILY GUY
The animated James Woods in Family Guy

 
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Hades from Hercules

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE BOOK, PUBLISHED ON THIS DATE IN 1924

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The first known published crossword puzzle (above) was created by  journalist
Arthur Wynne (below) from Liverpool. The word game appeared in the Sunday
addition of  the New York World newspaper on December 21, 1913. Despite their enormous popularity, crosswords only appeared in the New York World. It wasn’t
until 1924 that a couple of recent graduates of the Columbia School of Journalism,
by the names of Dick Simon and Lincoln Schuster, set up their own publishing
company. Looking for something to publish, they settled on a book with puzzles
that had appeared in the New York World newspaper. The crossword book was
a huge hit and began a craze for the word puzzles worldwide.

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Arthur Wynne

 

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Left to right: Dick Simon and Lincoln Schuster with their first Crossword
Puzzle book

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TODAY IS BIRTHDAY 65 FOR HAYLE MILLS

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Hayley Mills is an English actress who began her acting career as a child
and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the British Academy
Academy Film Award for Most Promising newcomer for her role in Tiger
Bay
(1959), the Academy Juvenile Award for Pollyanna (1960), and
Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year-Actress in 1961. During
her early career, she appeared in several films for Walt Disney. In the
1960s she began performing in theatrical plays, and played in more
mature roles.Hayley has continued to make movies and television
appearances.

 

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Hayley Mills in Tiger Bay

SummerMagic
1963

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