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LINDA BLAIR IS 54 TODAY!

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Linda Denise Blair is best known for her role of a possessed
child in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist, for which she was
nominated for an
Academy Award and two Golden Globes,
winning one. Prior to fame, Linda was a child model from
the age of six.

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ON DVD THIS WEEK!

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NBC television series, 1980-1981

This re-release DVD contains 4 Discs and includes a bonus, the
television version of the original pilot film, “Awakening”. It is 
the first time this version has been released on DVD. 

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LARRY STORCH IS 90 TODAY!

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Actor Lawrence Samuel "Larry" Storch is best known for his comic
television role as Corporal Randolph Agarn on ABC’s F Troop from
1965 to 1967. Storch is also known for his voice-over work for TV
cartoon shows, including Mr. Whoopee on Tennessee Tuxedo and
His Tales on CBS, 1963 to 1966.

FTroop dvd
(2006)

F Troop DVD with stars (clockwise from top) Forrest Tucker,
Larry Storch, Melody Patterson and Ken Berry.


1966

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PIONEER CHILDREN’S SHOW ON THIS DAY IN 1947

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Buffalo Bob Smith with Howdy

Howdy Doody is an children’s television program, created and
produced by E. Roger Muir and telecast on NBC from 1947 until
1960. It was one of the first television series produced at NBC in
Rockefeller Center, in Studio 3A, it was also a pioneer in early
color production as NBC (at the time owned by TV maker RCA)
used the show in part to sell color television sets in the 1950s.

The character Howdy Doody first came to life from the creative
mind of Bob Smith during his days as a radio announcer on
WNBC (AM).

 

April Fools Day, April 1, 1952

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SCI – FI WRITER BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1917

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    Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (December 16, 1917- March 19, 2008)

Clarke was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for
his short stories and novels, among them “The Sentinel” (1951) which partially
inspired Stanley Kubrick’s epic film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Clarke
co-wrote the screenplay with Kubrick.

2001

HAL

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