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FAYE DUNAWAY BECAME 70 TODAY

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Actress Fay Dunaway’s big screen break came in 1967 with The Happening. 

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Faye Dunaway co-starred in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and was
nominated for an Academy Award for her performance.
 

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                      Fay Dunaway in China Town (1974)

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Faye Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best
Actress for her role in Network (1976)

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ROBERT STACK ~ JANUARY 13, 1919–MAY 14, 2003

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Robert Stack as Eliot Ness in The Untouchables on 
ABC-TV from 1959 – 1963.
  

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Robert Stack,right, with Lloyd Bridges in the 1980 comedy
film Airplane.
 

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COUNTRY CHART TOP ALBUM ON THIS DATE IN 1964

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This Johnny Cash album became the first to top Billboard’s
new Country LP Chart.

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ACTOR ROD TAYLOR IS 81 TODAY

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Australian-born radio, film, and TV actor Rod Taylor,right, made his
film debut in the Australian production of KING OF THE CORAL SEA
IN 1953.

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                 Rod Taylor in The Time Machine, 1960

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       Rod starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, 1963.

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DIRECTOR PETER YATES ~ DEAD AT 81

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British filmmaker Peter Yates, who sent Steve McQueen screeching through
the streets of San Francisco in a Ford Mustang in "Bullitt," has died at the age of 81.

Yates was nominated for four Academy Awards – two as director and two as producer
for the cycling tale "Breaking Away" and the backstage drama "The Dresser." (AP)

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