Archive for the 'Awards' Category

CATE BLANCHETT ~ 42 TODAY

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Catherine  "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian actress and theatre director. She has
won multiple acting awards, most notably two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award. Blanchett earned five Academy Awad nominations between 1998 and 2007. She is known for her portrayals of the elf queen Galadriel in Peter Jackson’s The lord of the Rings trilogy (2001,2002,2003), Colonel-Doctor Irina Spalko in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), and as Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese’s
The Aviator (2004), a role which brought her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Cate in The Aviator

 

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Cate Blanchett in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Skull.

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FIRST PRO RACE WON ON THIS DATE IN 1957

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Race car driver A.J. Foyt (seated) scored his first professional victory, in a U.S. Automobile Club (USAC) midget car race in Kansas City, Missouri. He was 22
years old. 

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A. J. Foyt has been named the pace-car driver for the 2011 Indianapolis 500

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CANDICE BERGEN IS 65 TODAY

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Actress Candice Patricia Bergen is a former fashion model is best known for
starring roles in two TV series, the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown (1988-1998),
for which she won five Emmy Awards ands two Golden Globe Awards, and the
ABC comedy-drama Boston Legal (2004-2008). She starred in several major
films throughout the mid 1960s to early 1980s such as The Sand Pebbles
(1966), and Gandhi (1982) and received an Academy Award nomination
for her role in Starting Over (1979). Bergen’s later career includes a role
in the 2000 film Miss Congeniality.

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A young Candice Bergen in 1966 with her father Edgar
Bergen and his puppet Charlie McCarthy

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Candice Bergen in The Sand Pebbles

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Candice in Gandhi

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Bergen in Starting Over

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1966 ad with Candice Bergen


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‘’MR. PERSONALITY’’ IS 78 YEARS OLD TODAY

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The R&B vocalist Lloyd Price is best know for one his biggest million-selling hits 
“Personality” (1959), from which he received his nickname. His first recording,
“Lawdy Miss Clawdy” was a huge hit on the Specialty Records label in 1952. He
was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. On March 9, of 2010,
Price was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. He currently manages
Icon Food Brands, which makes a line of primarily Sothern-style foods.

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GARY COOPER (May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961)

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Actor Gary Cooper  was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style which
was particularly well suited to the many Western films he made. His career was
from 1925 until shortly before his death, and comprised more than one hundred
films. Cooper received five Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, winning
twice for Sergeant York (1941) and High Noon (1952). He also received an
Honorary Award in 1961 from the Academy. The American Film Institute named
Cooper among the AFI’s 100 Years – 100 Stars, ranking 11th among males from
the Classic Hollywood cinema period.

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