Archive for the 'Awards' Category

KATE WINSLET IS 36 YEARS YOUNG TODAY

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Kate Winslet in Titanic

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Kate Elizabeth Winslet is an English actress and occasional singer. She is the
youngest actor to receive six Academy Award nominations, and won a Academy
Award for Best Actress for her role in The Reader (2008). Kate has won a wards
from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the
Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and has been nominated twice for an
Emmy Award for her work in television. Winslet studied drama from childhood,
and began her career in British Television in 1991. She made her film debut
in Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures (1994). She is best known for her
leading role in Titanic (1997), the highest grossing film at that time.


 

 

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REMEMBERING ~ CHARLTON HESTON

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                     (October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008)

Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter) was a legendary actor of film,
theater and television. His most well known roles include such films as The
Ten Commandments
(1956), Planet of the Apes (1968), classis epic Ben-Hur
(1959) for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He was president
of the National Rifle Association (NRA) from 1998 to 2003.

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Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments

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NRA president Charlton Heston

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JOHNNY MATHIS IS 76 TODAY

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John Royce “Johnny” Mathis started his music career recording singles of
standards and soon became a popular album artist, with several dozen
achieving gold or platinum status, and 73 making the Billboard charts. The
Guinness Book of World Records, lists Johnny Mathis has having sold 350
million records worldwide. Mathis received the Lifetime Achievement Award
in 2003 from the  Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He was inducted
into the Grammy Hall of Fame, a special Grammy award established in 1973.

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“Chances Are” was Johnny’s first “Most Played” hit, October of 1957

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‘’THE KILLER’’ IS 76 TODAY!

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Jerry Lee Lewis is a early pioneer of the rock and roll era. He is the last surviving
member of both Sun Records’ “Class of 55” and the Million Dollar Quartet which,
both together, included Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Elvis Presley.

Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, and his music contributions has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. In 2004,
Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him number 24 on their list of the 100
Greatest Artists of All Time. The Hit Parade Hall of Fame inducted
Jerry Lee in 2008.

Clip from The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show, 1958

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SHAUN CASSIDY ~ 53 YEARS OLD TODAY

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Shaun Paul Cassidy is a actor, singer, writer and producer. He is the eldest
son of Academy Award winning actress Shirley Jones, and the second son
(his older half-brother is David Cassidy) of Tony award-winning actor Jack
Cassidy. Shaun is known for his role in the ABC- TV series The Hardy Boys-
Nancy Drew Mysteries
from 1977 to 1979. While still in high school, Cassidy
signed a contract with Warner Bros. Records and began recording music. A
series of singles were released, leading to a debut album in 1977. The album
netted Cassidy a Grammy nomination (for Best New Artist) and a number one
single, "Da Doo Ron Ron”. Cassidy concentrated on stage acting for most of
the 1980s and early 1990s.

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Shaun Cassidy, Pamela Sue Martin, and Parker Stevenson

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