Archive for August, 2011
NUMBER ONE ~ 51 YEARS AGO TODAY
DUSTIN HOFFMAN’S BIRTHDAY ~ 74 TODAY
Dustin Lee Hoffman is a actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since
1960. Hoffman began his acting career in the Pasadena Playhouse. He got the
favorable attention of critics for the 1966 Off-Broadway play Eh? for which he
won a Theater World Award and a Drama Desk Award. Hoffman’s first film break
role was The Graduate in 1967. Other movies that followed included Midnight
Cowboy (1969), All The Presidents Men and Marathon Man both in 1976. He
has won two Academy Awards, one for his role in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979),
and the other for his performance in Rain Man (1988). He is also received
five Golden Globes, three BAFTAs, three Drama Desk Awards’, a Genie
Award and an Emmy Award. Dustin Hoffman also received the AFI Life
Achievement Award in 1999.
Dustin Hoffman with Anne Bancroft in a scene from The Graduate
Hoffman with costar Tom Cruse
Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie (1982)
MARK HATFIELD HAS DIED AT 89
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Former Sen. Mark Hatfield, an outspoken critic of war
whose liberal views often put him at odds with fellow Republicans, died Sunday
at the age of 89.
Hatfield, who had become increasingly frail in recent years, died at a Portland
residence, said Gerry Frank, a longtime friend and former aide. The former
senator’s death was first reported by The Oregonian newspaper.
Also a former governor, Hatfield was the longest serving U.S. senator in Oregon
history, serving five terms from 1967 to 1997.
NUMBER ONE ON THIS DAY IN 1971
This song became the Bee Gees’ first number one hit on the
Billboard Hot 100 and also reached number four on the Billboard
Adult Contemporary chart.
B.J. THOMAS IS 69 TODAY
Billy Joe "B. J." Thomas is a popular singer known for his chart-topping hits
in the 1960s and 1970s such as “Hooked on a Feeling” in 1968 and in 1969
the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid featured Thomas singing the
Burt Bacharach/Hal David song “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”, which
won the Academy Award for best original song that year and became the
number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1970.
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