Archive for June, 2011

ALLY SHEEDY IS 49 YEARS YOUNG TODAY

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Actress Ally Sheedy arrives at the premiere of 'Harold' at the 62nd and Broadway Cinema in New York City, USA on April 30, 2008.   Photo by Gregorio Binuya/ABACAUSA.COM   (Pictured : Ally Sheedy) (Newscom TagID: krtabacaphotoslive396944)     [Photo via Newscom]

Ally Sheedy  is a film and stage actress, as well as the author of two books. She  
is best known for her roles in The Breakfast Club (1985,) St. Elmo’s Firs (1985), Wargames (1983), and Short Circuit (1986). Sheedy started acting in local stage productions as a teenager. After appearing in several made-for-television films
in 1981, as well as three episodes of the NBC-TV series Hill Street Blues, she
made her feature film debut in Bad Boys (1983).

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Ally Sheedy in Wargames

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Ally with Number 5 in Short Circuit

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RICHARD THOMAS TURNED 60 TODAY

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Actor Richard Earl Thomas is best known for his role as budding author John-Boy
Walton in the CBS-TV drama The Waltons (1972-1981). Thomas was seven when
he made his Broadway debut in Sunrise at Campobello (1958) playing John Roosevelt, son of future U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His television career began in 1959 when a appeared in A Doll’s House with Julie Harris, Christopher Plummer and Hume Cronyn. Richard then began acting in daytime TV, appearing in soap operas
such as The Edge of Night in 1961 and As the World Turns, 1966-1967. Thomas
received his first major roles in film, appearing in the  1969 pictures Winning with
Paul Newman and Last Summer with Barbara Hershey.

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DAD’S FAVORITE SMOKE FOR FATHER’S DAY

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TOP TUNE ON THIS DATE IN 1965

#1 (3) billboard hot 100

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ANNE FRANK WAS BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1929

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Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank is one of the most renowned and widely discussed
victims of the Jewish Holocaust. She gained international fame posthumously
following the publication of her diary, which documents her experiences hiding
during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War ll. Acknowledged
for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world’s most widely
read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films. Anne died of
typhus in a concentration camp in early March of 1945. She was only 15.           

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Anne Frank’s diary

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