Stephen Edwin King is the celebrated author of contemporary horror, suspense,
science fiction and fantasy fiction novels. His books have sold more than 350
million copies, which have been adapted into a number of feature films, TV
movies and comic books. As of 2011, King has written and published 49 novels,
including seven under the pen name of Richard Bachman, five non-fiction
books, and nine collections of short stories. Many of his writings are set in his
home town of Maine. King has received numerous awards, including the Medal
for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters in 2003 from the National
Book Foundation.

 
 1976                                       1980

                  
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Mia Farrow

Peyton Place is a prime time soap opera, based upon the 1956 novel of the
same name by Grace Metalious, which aired on ABC-TV in half-hour episodes
from September 15, 1964 to June 2, 1969. The show was produced by 20th
Century Fox Television and was the only prime time series ever to run episodes continuously without reruns. Many guest stars appeared in the series for extended
times, such as Dan Duryea, Susan Oliver, Leslie Nielsen, Gena Rowland’s and Lee
Grant, who won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Drama. The series helped launch the careers of such actors
as Mia Farrow (above), Ryan O’Neal, Chris Connelly, and Mariette Hartley.

  

                          Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry     
                           (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991)

Gene Roddenberry was a television screenwriter, producer , best known for
creating the science fiction series Star Trek. He was born in El Paso Texas
and grew up in Los Angeles, California. Roddenberry flew 89 combat missions
in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War ll, and flew as a commercial airline
pilot after the war. He later followed in his father’s footsteps by joining the Los  
Angeles Police Department and soon began to focus on writing scripts for TV. 

As a freelance writer, Roddenberry wrote scripts for the syndicated TV series
Highway Patrol from 1955 to 1959, Have Gun, Will Travel on CBS from 1957 to
1963 and others, before creating and producing his own TV series on NBC, The Lieutenant from 1963 to 1964. It was in 1964 that Roddenberry created Star Trek, 
premiering in 1966, it ran for three seasons before cancellation.

Gene Roddenberry was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and the
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. His creation of Star Trek 
has spanned over four decades, produced six television series, 715 episodes 
and eleven films. A twelfth film is currently in development and is scheduled 
to be release in 2012.

Pictured is 1st lieutenant Roddenberry (2nd from left) and crew in front
of their Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in 1943.

Gene Roddenberry (third from right) and original Star Trek cast members are  
seen with NASA’s real-live Enterprise in 1976. 

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).

Ally Sheedy in Wargames

 
Ally with Number 5 in Short Circuit

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.           

Anne Frank’s diary