Archive for October, 2012

SIGOURNEY WEAVER IS 63 TODAY

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Sigourney Weaver 

Sigourney Weaver was born Susan Alexandra Weaver in Manhattan, New
York City, the daughter of Elizabeth Inglis, an English actress, and NBC 
television executive and pioneer Sylvester "Pat" Weaver. Her uncle
Doodles (Winstead) Weaver (below), was a comedian and actor. She 
began using the name “Sigourney Weaver” in 1963 after a minor
character, Sigourney Howard in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The
Great Gatsby.
 

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Sylvester Weaver


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Doodles Weaver

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Sigourney in “Ghostbusters” (1984)

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Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in “Aliens”, 1986. She
won an Academy Award nomination for her role.

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TODAY IN HISTORY

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FORMER MOTOWN SONGWRITER DEAD AT 71

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Frank Edward Wilson (December 5, 1940 – September 27, 2012)

Frank Wilson, a Motown songwriter and producer who worked with 
The Supremes,The Temptations and Marvin Gaye, died Thursday,
Sept. 27 after a long battle with cancer. He wrote or co-wrote the
hits "Love Child," "All I Need" and "Chained." A rare copy of his
unreleased single "Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)" sold for a record
$39,294 in 2009, according to Guinness World Records. Wilson
left Motown in 1976 and became a born again Christian minister
in Los Angeles.


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POPULAR CROONER BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1911

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Vaughn Wilton Monroe
(October 7, 1911 – May 21, 1973)

Monroe was a baritone singer, trumpeter, big band leader and 
actor, most popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He sold over five
million records in 1944.

”Racing With the Moon (1941) was Vaughn Monroe’s signature song

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THIS 1958 IDEA MADE A COMEBACK

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