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ONE OF THE GREATEST SHOWS DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1972

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M*A*S*H is a television series adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH, which was
itself based on the 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, written by Richard Hooker. The medical drama/black comedy series premiered on September
17, 1972 and ended February 28, 1983. The final episode became the most watched television show in U.S. television history with 105.97 million viewers. In 2002, M*A*S*H was ranked #25 on TV Guide’s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

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MOVIE RELEASED ON THIS DATE IN 1953

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The Robe won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color,
and Best Costume Design, Color. It was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading
Role (Richard Burton), Best Cinematography, Color, and Best Picture. The film
also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture. The Robe was the first movie
filmed in the widescreen CinemaScope process. 

 

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STAR WARS ~ NOW ON BLU-RAY!

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The day has arrived, all six epic Star Wars films are available now on
Blu-ray Disc in high definition. The editions come in three variations:
including “Star Wars: The Complete Saga" (containing all six films
plus over 40 hours of bonus footage).

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LAUREN BACALL HAS TURNED 87 TODAY

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Actress Lauren Bacall ( born Betty Joan Perske) became a leading lady in
the 1944 film To Have And Have Not which starred her husband Humphrey
Bogart. She appeared in The Big Sleep (1946), and How Marry a Millionaire
(1943), just to name a few. Becall also worked in the Broadway musical
Woman of the Year in 1981. Her performance in the film The Mirror Has
Two Faces
(1996)  earned her a Golden Globe Award as well an Academy
Award nomination.  In 1999, she was ranked #20 of the 25 actresses on the
AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars list. Lauren Bacall was selected by the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive an Academy Honorary Award
at the inaugural Governors Awards in 2009.

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Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall from To Have and To have Not

bacall with oscar

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TOMMY LEE JONES IS 65 TODAY

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Actor Tommy Lee Jones was born in San Saba, Texas and moved to New
York to become an actor, making his Broadway debut in 1969’s A Patriot
for Me
. In 1970, he landed his first film role playing a college student in
Love Story.
His best known films include The Fugitive (1993) and it’s
sequel U.S. Marshals (1998), the Men in Black films (1997 & 2002),
The Hunted
( filmed in Portland -2003), and No Country for Old Men
(2007). A second sequel to Men in Black, Men in Black lll, is scheduled
for release in 2012. Tommy Lee Jones has received three Academy
nominations, winning one as Best Supporting Actor for The Fugitive.

 

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Tommy Lee Jones in
The Fugitive

 

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Jones with costar Will Smith in Men in Black

the hunted 2003
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Sheriff Bell (TOMMY LEE JONES)

Director: Joel & Ethan COEN

Tommy Lee Jones in a scene from No Country For Old men

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