The Jurassic Park Trilogy (Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park,
and Jurassic Park III) one of the biggest movie trilogies of all time is
now available in both 3 Disc Blu-ray and 4 Disc DVD editions.
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RIN-TIN-TIN DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1954
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin originally aired with 166 episodes on ABC
from Friday October 15, 1954 until May 8, 1959.
SIGOURNEY WEAVER IS 62 TODAY
Sigourney Weaver (born Susan Alexandra Weaver ) is a actress best
known for her role of Ellen Ripley in the four Alien films. Other films with
Weaver include Ghostbusters (1984) and its sequel Ghostbusters ll
(1989) Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988), and
Working Girl (1988). Her most recent work was in James Cameron’s
Avatar (2009). Weaver has received three Academy Award nominations
and six Golden Globe Award nominations, two in 1988 (Best Actress
and Best Supporting Actress) for Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl.
Sigourney Weaver with Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd from
Ghostbusters
‘’CHECKERS SPEECH’’ ON THIS DATE IN 1952
The Checkers speech or Fund speech was a television and radio address given on
September 23, 1952 by Richard Nixon, who at the time, was the Republican vice
presidential candidate and junior United States Senator from California. Senator
Nixon had been accused of improprieties relating to a fund established by his
backers to reimburse him for his political expenses. During the speech in which he defended himself, he stated that regardless of what anyone said, he intended to
keep one gift: a black and white dog (above) named Checkers by the Nixon children,
thus giving the address its famous name. Nixon’s speech was broadcast from The
El Capitan Theater, now known as the Avalon Hollywood in California. He had been staying at a hotel in Portland, Oregon prior to making the address.
THE DEBUT OF ‘’LASSIE’’ ON THIS DAY IN 1954
The television series Lassie followed the adventures of a female Collie named
Lassie and her human companions. The show debuted on Sunday, September
12, 1954 and aired till March 24, 1973 on the CBS network. It was one of the
longest running dramatic series on TV, with seventeen seasons before entering
first-run syndication for the final two seasons. Lassie was initially filmed in black
and white, making the transition to color in 1965. It was the created by producer
Robert Maxwell and animal trainer Rudd Weatherwax. In its first years Lassie
won two Emmy Awards and its stars, Jan Clayton and June Lockhart were both
nominated for Emmys.
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