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HENRY THOMAS BECAME 42 TODAY

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Henry Thomas in “ET”

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Actor and musician Henry Jackson Thomas, Jr. has appeared in more than 
40 films and is best known for his role as Elliott in the 1982 Steven Spielberg
film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

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1982

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SID CAESAR TURNED 90 TODAY

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1958

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Emmy award winning comedian Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar
is best
known for the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and
Caesar’s Hour
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RAQUEL WELCH BECAME 72 TODAY

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MITZI GAYNOR IS 81 YEARS YOUNG TODAY

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2009 Professional Dancers Society Gypsy Award to Bob Mackie at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California 03-15-2009
Photo by Scott Kirkland - Globe Photos, inc.
Image:  MITZI GAYNOR

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Actress, singer and dancer Mitzi Gaynor was born Francesca Marlene
de Czanyi von Gerber in Chicago. Her family first moved to Detroit and
when she was eleven to Hollywood where she trained as a ballerina as
a child and began her career as a chorus dancer. By the time Mitzi was
13 she was singing and dancing with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera
company.

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Mitzi Gaynor with Rossano Brazzi in “South Pacific”, 1958

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MICHAEL CLARKE DUNCAN IS DEAD AT 54

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Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan in “The Green Mile”

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Michael Clarke Duncan, the hulking, prolific character actor 
whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row 
inmate in "The Green Mile" (1999) and such other box office hits as “Armageddon” 
(1998) and "Planet of the Apes" (2001) has died..

Clarke died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where
he was being treated for a heart attack, according to his fiancée, Reverend Omarosa
Maniqauilt in a statement released by publicist Joy Fehily.  

The muscular, 6-foot-4 Duncan, a former bodyguard who turned to acting in his 30s
"suffered a myocardial infarction on July 13 and never fully recovered," the statement
said. 

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