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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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JAMIE LEE CURTIS IS 54 TODAY

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JAMIE LEE CURTIS NOW

Jamie Lee Curtis was born in Santa Monica, California, to actor Tony
Curtis
and actress Janet Leigh.

Curtis’s film debut occurred in the 1978 John Carpenter horror film
Halloween which was very successful and is considered the highest
grossing independent film of its time, earning accolades as a classic
horror film. Her next film was the 1980 horror film The Fog, also by
Carpenter.

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Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode in a scene from “Halloween”

 

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Curtis in “Blue Steel” (1990)

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Jamie Lee Curtis with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1994
film “True Lies”

 

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Jamie’s parents, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh

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TRICK OR TREAT FROM CBS RADIO!

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Orson Welles

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CHRISTOPHER LLOYD IS 74 TODAY

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Christopher Lloyd, High School yearbook

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Christopher Allen Lloyd played Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the
Future
trilogy (1985 – 1990), He rose to fame in the 1980s as Jim
Ignatowski
in the television series Taxi (ABC, 1978 – 1982 & NBC,
(1982 – 1983).

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Christopher Lloyd as a psychiatric patient in One Flew Over
the Cuckoo’s Nest,
1975
. His first motion picture role.

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Lloyd in Taxi

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Christopher Lloyd from Back to the Future

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MARGOT KIDDER HAS TURNED 64

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Margot Kidder and Christopher Reeve in Superman

MARGOT KIDDER

Margaret Ruth "Margot" Kidder is a Canadian-born actress who is best 
known for her role as Lois Lane in four Superman movies opposite
Christopher Reeve, beginning with Superman: The Movie in 1978. She
also costarred in The Amityville Horror in 1979.

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James Brolin and Margot Kidder in The Amityille Horror

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