Sammy Davis Jr nearly lost his life in an automobile accident in San Bernardino,
California. The impact of the crash had driven Sammy’s face into the steering
wheel, and his left eye was forced out of its socket by the bullet-shaped horn
button at the center of the wheel of his 1954 Cadillac. After wearing an eye
patch for years, he was fitted with a glass eye.

Debut studio album, released in January of 1955.

Samuel George "Sammy" Davis Jr.
(December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990)

TIM MAGUIRE

Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is 54 years young today.

Jodie Foster graduated from Yale’s prestigious theater program
magna cum laude in 1985 and received an honorary Doctor of
Fine Arts degree from Yale in 1997.

COMILLE BOHANNON

Martin Charles Scorsese is74 today.

Scorsese couldn’t play sports as a kid because of his asthma. He
was named to Time magazine’s 2007 list of the 100 Most Influential
People in the World.

In 2006, Martin Scorsese won his first Academy Award for Best
Director for his film The Departed after previously being nominated
five times.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Yitzhak Edward "Ed" Asner 

Ed Asner is an actor, voice actor and a former president of the
Screen Actors Guild. He is primarily known for his role as Lou
Grant during the 1970s and early 1980s, on both The Mary
Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series Lou Grant (both CBS),
making him one of the few television actors to portray the same
leading character in both a comedy and a drama. He is also
known for playing Santa Claus in the comedy film Elf (2003)
and its animated remake Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas
(2014). He attended the University of Chicago and served
in the U.S. Signal Corps.

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