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BIRTHDAY WISHES TO ALAN ALDA ~ 75 TODAY

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    Hawkeye

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Alan Alda ,an actor, director and screenwriter is a five-time Emmy Award and six-time Golden Globe Award winner. He is best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce ( above)
in the TV series M*A*S*H on CBS from September 17, 1972 to February 28, 1983. He was nominated for 21 Emmy Awards, and won five. He took part in writing 19 episodes, including the finale, and directed 32. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Stony Brook University School of Journalism.

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Alda as U.S. Republican Senator Arnold Vinick in West Wing on NBC-TV
from 1999 to 2006

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Alan Alda played  U.S. Senator Owen Brewster (above) in The Aviator
in 2004. He received his first  Academy Award nomination for the role. 

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FIRST TARZAN MOVIE RELEASED ON THIS DATE IN 1918

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Tarzan of the Apes  is a silent, black and white action adventure film directed by Scott Sidney and stars Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan and Enid markey as Jane (both shown in the above poster).The movie was the first Tarzan movie ever made, and is based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ original novel of the same name. The movie was filmed in Morgan City, Louisiana utilizing Louisiana swamps as stand ins for African jungles. The movie is considered to be the most faithful to the novel of all the film adaptations. The film premiered at the Broadway Theater in New York.

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                                   Newspaper ad promoting the film

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JAMES CROMWELL IS 71 TODAY

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James Oliver Cromwell  is a  film and television actor. Some of his more notable roles are in Babe (1995), for which he earned Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, L.A. Confidential (1997), The Green Mils (1999), and in the television series Six Feet Under (2003-2005). He has been nominated for an Oscar, three Emmy Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards during his career.

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                                                Cromwell in Babe

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      James Cromwell as George H.W. Bush in the Oliver Stone film W. (2008)

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SCOTT GLENN BECAME 69 TODAY

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               Publicity photo of Scott Glenn in Personal Best (1982)

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                            Glenn in The Silence of the Lambs

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PAUL NEWMAN ~ JANUARY 26, 1925–SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

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