E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: 30th Anniversary Edition is priced at
under $30.00.
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SIGOURNEY WEAVER IS 63 TODAY
Sigourney Weaver was born Susan Alexandra Weaver in Manhattan, New
York City, the daughter of Elizabeth Inglis, an English actress, and NBC
television executive and pioneer Sylvester "Pat" Weaver. Her uncle
Doodles (Winstead) Weaver (below), was a comedian and actor. She
began using the name “Sigourney Weaver” in 1963 after a minor
character, Sigourney Howard in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The
Great Gatsby.
Sigourney in “Ghostbusters” (1984)
Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in “Aliens”, 1986. She
won an Academy Award nomination for her role.
NEW TO DVD THIS WEEK ~
The Six Million Dollar Man: Season 2 (1974-1975) DVD was released
Oct 02 by the Universal Studios Home Video studio. It contains 6-
discs for for under $40.
Original run on ABC, January 18, 1974 to March 6, 1978. The series is
based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin,
POPULAR SERIES DEBUT ON THIS DAY IN 1959
Earl Holliman in "Where Is Everybody?" was the first episode of the CBS
television anthology series The Twilight Zone. Screenwriter, novelist and
TV producer Rod Serling created the series. He was also the narrator of
the show. The original run, with 156 episodes, was October 2, 1959 to
June 19, 1964
Episode 8 “Time Enough at Last” starring Burgess Meredith as
the bookworm Henry Bemis. It was one of Serling’s favorite
episodes.
THE FIRST ‘’BIG BUG’’ FILM
Them!, was Warner Brothers’ highest grossing film of 1954 and was the first
motion picture to have “monsters” generated by mutations due to nuclear
activity. It was nominated for an Oscar for Special Effects and won a Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing. Leonard Nimoy appears as an Air Force sergeant (below) in the Communications Room (uncredited).
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