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17
Nov
HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
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16
Nov
REMEMBER SHELLY LONG FROM ‘’CHEERS’’ ?
Thanks to her part on “Cheers,” Shelley Long became a household name, thanks to her vivacious looks and energetic acting. She made
the jump to movies in classic films such as “Night Shift”(1982) and
“The Money Pit”(1986).
NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993.
15
Nov
‘’THE KING’’ MADE HIS MOVIE DEBUT IN 1956
On November 15, 1956, Love Me Tender, featuring singer Elvis
Presley in his big-screen debut, premiered in New York City at
the Paramount Theater. Set in Texas following the American
Civil War, the film, which co-starred Richard Egan and Debra
Paget, featured Elvis as Clint Reno, the younger brother of a
Confederate soldier.
Originally titled The Reno Brothers, the movie was renamed
Love Me Tender before its release, after a song of the same
name that Reno sings during the film.
13
Nov
MYSTERIOUS CAR CRASH ON THIS DAY
On November 13, 1974, 28-year-old Karen Silkwood was killed
in a car accident near Crescent, Oklahoma, north of Oklahoma
City. Silkwood worked as a technician at a plutonium plant
operated by the Kerr-McGee Corporation, and she had been
critical of the plant’s health and safety procedures.
In September, she had complained to the Atomic Energy
Commission about unsafe conditions at the plant (a week
before her death, plant monitors had found that she was
contaminated with radioactivity herself), and the night she
died, she was on her way to a meeting with a union rep and
a reporter for The New York Times, reportedly with a folder full
of documents that proved that Kerr-McGee was acting negligently
when it came to worker safety at the plant. However, no such
folder was found in the wreckage of her car, lending credence to
the theory that someone had forced her off the road to prevent her
from telling what she knew.
The story was chronicled in Mike Nichols‘s 1983
Academy Award nominated film Silkwood in
which she was portrayed by Meryl Streep.
12
Nov
MAN WHO INSPIRED MOVIE HAS DIED AT 77
Mehran Karimi Nasseri (1945 – 12 November 2022)
(USA TODAY) – The Iranian man who inspired the Steven Spielberg
film "The Terminal” died in Paris’ Charles-de-Gaulle airport after
living there for almost two decades, French officials said today.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri, a political refugee, died after a heart attack
in the airport’s Terminal 2F, Paris airport authority officials reported.
Police and a medical team treated Nasseri but were not able to
save him, an airport spokesperson told Agence France-Presse
news agency.
Nasseri, who the Guardian reported called himself "Sir Alfred,"
got caught in an immigration trap in the late 80s – unable to
enter France. Born in 1945, Nasseri, lived in the airport’s
Terminal 1 from 1988 until 2006, first in legal limbo because he
lacked residency papers then later by choice, USA TODAY
archives show.
Tom Hanks in the Steven Spielberg film, The Terminal ( 2004)
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