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SYLVESTER STALLONE IS 70 TODAY


Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone was born in New York.

Director, actor and screenwriter Sylvester Stallone is best known for playing
Italian-American boxer Rocky Balboa in the 1976 film Rocky. He reprised the
role in six sequels, released from 1979 to 2015. He was also John Rambo in 
the Rambo film franchise which ran from 1982 to 2008. 

His mother’s obstetricians used forceps during his birth, which paralyzed the
left half of his face and gave him his trademark facial expression.

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SINGER HUEY LEWIS IS 66 TODAY


Huey Lewis (Hugh Anthony Cregg III) was born in New York.

Lewis sings lead and plays harmonica for his band, Huey Lewis
and
the News, in addition to writing or co-writing many of the
band’s songs. He learned how to play the harmonica while
hitchhiking across the country.

"The Power of Love", also called "Power of Love", is a 1985
single by Huey Lewis and the News, written for and featured
in the 1985 blockbuster film Back to the Future
.  It gave the
band their first number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

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ACTRESS NOEL NEIL HAS DIED AT 95


Noel Neill as Louis Lane and George Reeves as Superman.


Noel Darleen Neill (November 25, 1920 – July 3, 2016)


Following an extended illness, Noel Neill died in Tucson Sunday July 3. She
had no immediate family members to survive her.

Neill is best known for her role as Lois Lane in the film serials Superman
(1948) and Atom Man vs. Superman (1950), as well as the 1950s TV
series Adventures of Superman.

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ITALIAN ACTRESS IS 89 TODAY


Luigina "Gina" Lollobrigida

Gina Lollobrigida appeared in movies in Italy and America, including Hotel
Paradiso
(1966). In 2008, she was awarded the National Italian/American
Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. She made her big screen debut
in the 1946 film Lucia di Lammermoor and placed third the 1947 Miss Italia
Pageant.

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Ms Lollobrigida in the movie Soloman and Sheba
Gina Lollobrigida starred opposite Yul Brinner in Soloman and Sheba (1959).

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EVA MARIE SAINT IS 92 TODAY

Born in Newark, New Jersey, Eva Marie Saint received an Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1954 classic
On the Waterfront with Marlon Brando and also starred with Jimmy
Stewart in the 1959 the Alfred Hitchcock spy thriller North by
Northwest.


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