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INFLUENTIAL FILM DIRECTOR IS 65 TODAY!

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John Howard Carpenter is a versatile member of the motion picture industry as a director, screenwriter, producer, editor and composer. He has worked in numerous
film genres, but is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction films
from the 1970s and 1980s such as Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Halloween
(1978), Starman (1984), and The Thing (1982).

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THE NEWS ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY!

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January 14,1982

Note: As of January 12, 2012, J. Fred Muggs and his "live-in girlfriend"
Phoebe B. Beebe (who also made appearances on the Garroway Show) 
were still alive in
Citrus Park, Florida. Muggs will be 61 on March 14. 

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Muggs and lady friend Phoebe with Dave

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A TRUE AMERICAN ORIGINAL IS 83 TODAY!

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Folk singer Glenn Yarbrough was the lead singer with The Limeliters
between 1959 and 1963. He has had a good
solo career, recording for
various
labels. Yarbrough is also an accomplished sailor who has
owned and lived aboard three different sailboats.

”Baby The Rain Must Fall” is from the 1965 movie of the same name
starring Steve McQueen and Lee Remick.   

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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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YVETTE MIMIEUX IS 71 TODAY!

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Yvette Mimieux’s acting career began in coming-of-age films like "Where
the Boys Are" (1960). She also played Weena in the 1960 H.G. Wells film
adaptation "The Time Machine". She retired from acting in 1992 and is
now an anthropologist and a real estate investor.

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