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PEGGY LIPTON TURNED 66 TODAY

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Actress Peggy Lipton best known for her role as Julie Barnes
in the ABC television series “The Mod Squad” (1968-1973). 

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DAVID SOUL IS 69 TODAY

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Soul is a actor and singer, best known for his role as Detective Kenneth
"Hutch" Hutchinson in the television program Starsky and Hutch which 
aired between April 30, 1975 and May 15, 1979 on the ABC network. 

 

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AUTHOR DIES IN NORTHWEST PRISON

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Oregon Department of Corrections photo of James Fogle, 1968 

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SEATTLE (AP) — The man who wrote "Drugstore Cowboy," an autobiographical
crime novel that led to an acclaimed 1989 film starring Matt Dillon, has died at
age 75.

A state corrections spokeswoman says James Fogle died Thursday at a prison
in Monroe, Wash., where he was serving time for holding up a pharmacy in a
Seattle suburb in 2010. The Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s office on
Friday says Fogle died of probable malignant mesothelioma.

The Seattle Times reports that Fogle had already spent half his life in prison
when he wrote "Drugstore Cowboy," based on his experiences in a band of
addicts who roamed the Pacific Northwest robbing pharmacies to feed their
addictions.

Filmmaker Gus Van Sant turned the novel into the acclaimed 1989 film. It
was filmed mainly around Portland, Oregon, including in an area in the
Pearl District that used to be a rail yard

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      Director Gus Van Sant

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ESPONAGE CONVICTION ON THIS DAY IN 1960

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U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers (center) during his Soviet tribunal

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The Lockheed U-2

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Wreckage of the downed spy plane

 

 

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TIMOTHY HUTTON IS 52 TODAY

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Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People

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Actor/director Timothy Tarquin Hutton has the distinction of being
the youngest actor to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actor, which he won at the age of 20 for his role as Conrad Jarrett
in the 1980 film Ordinary People.
Since 2008 he has starred in the
made in Portland TNT drama series Leverage.  

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