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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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RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH IS 89 TODAY

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Richard Samuel Attenborough (Baron Attenborough) is an English actor,
director, producer and entrepreneur. He is the current President of the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

As a film director and producer, he won two Academy Awards for Gandhi
in 1982. He has also won four BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globe
Awards
. As an actor he is perhaps best known for his roles in Brighton
Rock
(1947), The Great Escape (1963), 10 Rillington Place (1971),
Miracle on 34th Street
(1994) and Jurassic Park (1993).

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From left: James Stewart and Richard Attenborough from “Flight
of The Phoenix”

 

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From “Miracle on 34th Street”

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ACTRESS TUESDAY WELD TURNED 69 TODAY

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Weld began her acting career as a child, progressing to more mature roles
during the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising
Female
Newcomer
in 1960. Over the following decade she established a
career playing dramatic roles in films.

Her work in supporting roles was acknowledged with nominations for a
Golden Globe Award for Play It As It Lays
(1972), a nomination for
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Looking for Mr.
Goodbar
(1978), an Emmy Award for The Winter of Our Discontent
(1983), and a BAFTA for Once Upon a Time in America (1984).

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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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TODAY IS SEAN CONNERY’S 82nd BIRTHDAY

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Connery in the Royal Navy 


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Sean Connery as James Bond

SEAN CONNERY TODAY

Sean Connery was the first actor to portray Ian Fleming’s iconic agent
007 James Bond when the franchise was launched in 1962 with “Dr. No”. 

 

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