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CHET HUNTLEY WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1911

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Huntley, University of Washington in 1934 

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  Chester Robert "Chet" Huntley (December 10, 1911 – March 20, 1974)

Huntley was a newscaster and co-anchor of NBC’s The Huntley-Brinkley
Report
for 14 years beginning in 1956. He began his radio newscast
career at Seattle‘s KIRO-AM and worked his way down to Oregon and
Portland’s KGW-AM radio from 1936 to 1937 where he was a writer,
newscaster, and announcer.

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From left: Chet Huntley and David Brinkley

   

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JANE KEAN IS DEAD AT 90

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JANE KEAN HECHT

              Jane Kean (April 10, 1923 – November 26, 2013)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jane Kean, best known as Ed Norton’s beleaguered
wife Trixie on a TV revival of "The Honeymooners," has died. She was 90.

Kean, of Toluca Lake, died Tuesday at Providence St. Joseph Medical
Center in Burbank where she was taken after complications from a fall.

Her niece, Deirdre Wolpert, confirmed the death Thursday.

Kean began a decades-long career of music and comedy at 16, when she
appeared in her first Broadway show and worked for years in musical theater.

But she is best known for playing Trixie from 1966–1970 and 1976–1978 on 
TV revival of Jackie Gleason’s hit show.

Kean was born in Hartford, Conn. In addition to Wolpert, she is survived by a
stepson, Joseph Hecht Jr., his family and Wolpert’s husband and two children.

 

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HENRY WINKLER IS 68 TODAY

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Henry Franklin Winkler

Winkler is best known for his role as the leather-clad greaser Fonzie in
the ABC sitcom Happy Days (1974-1984).

He made his acting debut in his 8th grade school production of Billy
Budd and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from Emerson College
in 1967 and later graduated from Yale School of Drama in 1970.

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RICHARD DREYFUSS IS 66 TODAY

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Richard Stephen Dreyfuss 

Dreyfuss is best known for starring in a number of film, television, and 
theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Grafitti 
(1973), Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and 
Mr. Holland’s Opus which was filmed in Portland, Oregon (1995).

Dreyfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for his role
in The Goodbye Girl, and was nominated in 1995 for Mr. Holland’s
Opus
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Dreyfuss in Jaws

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TIM’S FAVORITE SKIT WITH HARVEY KORMAN

TIM CONWAY MAIN
Thomas Daniel "Tim" Conway will turn 80 on December 15

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