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LINDSAY WAGNER TURNED 62 TODAY

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Actress Lindsay Jean Wagner was born near Pasadena, California. She later
moved with her parents to Portland, Oregon, where she attended David Douglas
High School and appeared in a number of school plays. She also studied at the
University of Oregon.  She is probably most widely known for her portrayal of
Jaime Sommers in the ABC/NBC television series The Bionic Woman, 1976-
1978.Wagner won an Emmy award for her work in the series. She has since 
maintained a lengthy career in a variety of other film and TV productions.

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CHET ATKINS (JUNE 20, 1924 – JUNE 30, 2001)

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Among many honors,Guitarist and record producer Chet Atkins received
were 14 Grammy Awards as well as the Grammy Lifetime Achievement
Award, nine Country Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year awards,
and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in
1973. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame in 2002.

 

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HALL OF FAME CLASS FOR 2012 ANNOUNCED

NASCAR HALL OF FAME 
Here are the inductees:

     

 

    

 

                                 

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‘’CLEOPATRA’’ PREMIERED ON THIS DATE IN 1963

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“Cleopatra” premiered at the Rivoli Theater in New York city and despite being a
critical failure, it won four Academy Awards and was nominated for five more. It was
the highest grossing film of 1963, earning a total of $57.7 million, yet made a loss 
due to its cost of $44 million, the only film ever to be the highest grossing film  
of the year yet to run at a loss.

 

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JACKIE WILSON (JUNE 9, 1934 – JAN. 21, 1984)

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Jackie Wilson was one of the most influential artists of his generation. A two-time
Grammy Hall of Fame Inductee, Wilson was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame in 1987. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Jackie Wilson #68 on their
list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

 


Rare footage of Jackie Wilson performing two of his biggest
hits, "Higher and Higher"(1967) and "Lonely Teardrops"(1958)
on a coast to coast televised show from 1974, with the intro
by Del Shannon and Roy Orbison.

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