COMILLE BOHANNON
Martin Charles Scorsese is74 today.
Scorsese couldn’t play sports as a kid because of his asthma. He
was named to Time magazine’s 2007 list of the 100 Most Influential
People in the World.
In 2006, Martin Scorsese won his first Academy Award for Best
Director for his film The Departed after previously being nominated
five times.
The Buddy Holly Story is a 1978 biographical film which tells the life story
of rock icon Buddy Holly. It features an Academy Award–winning musical
score, adapted by Joe Renzetti and Oscar–nominated lead performance
by Gary Busey. It was adapted by Robert Gittler from Buddy Holly: His
Life and Music, the biography of Holly by John Goldrosen, and was
directed by Steve Rash.
The film received many positive reviews from critics and fans alike, but
Holly authorities and other music scholars criticized what they deemed
gross inaccuracies in the plot. The Crickets, after watching the film,
appreciated it but gave a thumbs down on their portrayal, calling it
"horrible" due to many reasons.
William Gary Busey will be 72 on June 29.
MIKE GRACIA
Henry Fonda Lt. jg U.S. Navy 1943-45 WW II.
Fonda was already a movie star when he enlisted in the U.S.
Navy saying, ‘I don’t want to be in a fake war in a studio.’ He
served as a Quartermaster 3rd Class on the destroyer USS
Satterlee. He was later commissioned as a Lieutenant jg in
Air Combat Intelligence in the Pacific and was awarded the
Bronze Star.
Fonda in 1981 with his Best Actor Oscar for "On Golden Pond”.
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982)
Anna Marie "Patty" Duke (December 14, 1946 – March 29, 2016)
Patty Duke, the teen who won an Oscar for The Miracle Worker (1962) and
later played "identical cousins" in her own TV sitcom on ABC, has died. She
passed away early this morning. A representatives statement said the cause
of death was sepsis from a ruptured intestine.
Original air dates:September 18, 1963, to April 27, 1966
"Theme from Shaft," written and recorded by Isaac Hayes, is the
soul and funk-styled theme song to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film,
Shaft. The song was well received by adult audiences, reaching
number six on Billboard’s Easy Listening chart.
The following year, "Theme from Shaft" won the Academy Award
for Best Original Song with Hayes becoming the first African
American to win that honor, or any Academy Award in a non-
acting category, as well as the first recipient of the award to
both write and perform the winning song.
Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr.
(August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008)
