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‘’KING OF THE COWBOYS’’

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                          Roy Rogers (Leonard Franklin Slye) 

                             (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998)

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                  Roy and his golden palomino, Trigger

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Roy Rogers with his “Queen of the West” Dale Evans

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DORIS ROBERTS IS 87 TODAY

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Doris Roberts Green has received five Emmy Awards during
her acting career, which began in 1952. She is best-known for
her role
as Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond on CBS
television
from 1996 to 2005.

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Ray Romano and Doris Roberts in Everybody Loves Raymond

 

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TRADE PAPER DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1894

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Billboard is an international news weekly magazine devoted to music
and the music industry, and is one of the oldest
trade magazines in
the world. It publishes sever
music charts that track the most popular
songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis. The two
most notable charts are the
Billboard Hot 100, and the Billboard 200,
the corresponding chart for album sales.

Originally titled Billboard Advertising it was a trade paper for the bill
posting industry, hence the magazine’s name. Within a few years of
its founding, it began to carry news of outdoor amusements, a major
consumer of billboard space. Eventually Billboard became the paper
of record for
circuses, carnivals, amusement parks, fairs, vaudeville,
minstrels, whale shows and other live entertainment. The magazine
began coverage of motion pictures in 1909 and of radio in the 1920s.

With the development of the jukebox industry during the 1930s, The
Billboard
began publishing music charts.

Note: In 1954 the November issue of Billboard magazine listed Elvis
Presley at number 8 of the Most Promising New Hillbilly or Country
Singers.

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NEW TO DVD AND BLU-RAY THIS WEEK

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DISNEY IS BUYING LUCUSFILM LTD.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Disney is paying $4.05 billion to buy Lucasfilm Ltd.,
the production company behind "Star Wars," from its chairman and founder,
George Lucas. It’s also making a seventh movie in the "Star Wars" series.

The Walt Disney Co. announced the agreement to make the purchase in
cash and stock Tuesday. Disney added that "Star Wars Episode 7" is
scheduled for release in 2015.

The deal brings Lucasfilm under the Disney banner with other brands
including Pixar, Marvel, ESPN and ABC.

Kathleen Kennedy, the current co-chairman of Lucasfilm, will become its
president and report to Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn. Lucas
will be creative consultant on new "Star Wars" films.

Lucas said in a statement, "It’s now time for me to pass `Star Wars’ on to
a new generation of filmmakers."

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George Lucas                                 Kathleen Kennedy

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