ROSS SIMPSON

ED DANAHUE

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Robert Anthony De Niro is 73 today.

De Niro played the Cowardly Lion in a production of The
Wizard of Oz when he was ten. He earned his first movie
role when Brian De Palma cast him in his 1963 film The
Wedding Party. The film was shot when De Niro was 20 
years old, then released six years later, in 1969.

Robert De Niro as Jake La Motta in the 1980 film Raging Bull.

ROSS SIMPSON

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr. is 86 today.

Eastwood worked as a lifeguard, a caddy, and a grocery clerk
while growing up in California.

The community of Vanport was a public housing project once located between
the city of Portland, Oregon and the Columbia River, what is now the site of
Delta Park and the Portland International Raceway. Construction began in
August 1942 to house the workers at the wartime Kaiser Shipyards in Portland
and near-by Vancouver, Washington. It was home to 40,000 people, making it
Oregon’s second-largest city at the time, and the largest public housing project
in the nation.

The city was destroyed at 4:05 p.m. on May 30, 1948, when a 200-foot section 
of the dike holding back the Columbia River collapsed during a flood, killing
fifteen people. The city was underwater by nightfall leaving its inhabitants
homeless.