Comedic actor Adam Sandler’s best known films include Billy
Madison, The Waterboy, Mr. Deeds, The Wedding Singer, Happy
Gilmore and Big Daddy. He also voiced the character Dracula
in the Hotel Transylvania movies.
Sandler was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series
Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1995.
2006
“Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” an irreverent
comedy based in the outlandish (fictionalized) world of
American stock car racing, premiered in movie theaters
around the United States on August 4, 2006.
American Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell) stands up to his Gallic
rival Jean Girard (Sacha Baron Cohen).
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TIM MAGUIRE
Melvin James Brooks (Kaminsky) is a actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright. He’s 98 today.
1974
Burns started smoking cigars when he was 14.
On March 9, 1996, the legendary cigar-chomping performer
George Burns dies at his home in Beverly Hills, California,
just weeks after celebrating his 100th birthday.
George Burns is one of the few entertainers whose career
successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film and television.
Zenith Console Floor Radio
Model 11S474, 1940s.
Burns and Allen’s radio show was inducted into the National Radio
Hall of Fame in 1994.
Burns is also a member of the Television Hall of Fame, where he
and Gracie Allen were inducted in 1988.
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show premiered on
CBS on October 12, 1950 and ran through 1958.
1977
MIKE GRACIA
Art Carney as a young man in his school yearbook!
The sitcom originally aired from 1955 to 1956 on CBS.
Art Carney as a department-store Santa Clause
in The Twilight Zone TV episode “The Night of
the Meek”(1960).
Carney died at a care home in Chester, Connecticut, on November 9, 2003, five days after his 85th birthday.
