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CLASSIC FILM IS CELEBRATING 30 YEARS

           


Back to the Future
opened on July 3, 1985, on 1,200 screens in North America. It
spent 11 weeks at number one had the fourth-highest opening weekend of 1985
and was the top grossing film of the year.

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SERIES DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1959

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Original air dates on CBS – TV: October 2, 1959 – June 19, 1964


The Twilight Zone
is a television anthology series created and hosted by 
Rod Serling (above). TV Guide ranked the Zone #4 in its list of the 60
Greatest Dramas of All Time.

    

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RAQUEL WELCH IS 75 TODAY

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Raquel Welch (born Jo Raquel Tejada in Chicago, Illinois)

International sex symbol Raquel Welch appeared in One Million Years
B.C.
(1966). Her other films include 2001’s Legally Blonde and 1967’s
The Oldest Profession. She performed ballet for ten years prior to
movie fame.

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PAST HEADLINE NEWS STORIES

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FORMER TV STAR HAS DIED AT 78

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Yvonne Joyce Craig (May 16, 1937 – August 17, 2015)

Yvonne was a ballet dancer and actress best known for her role
as Batgirl from the 1960s ABC television series Batman, and as
the Orion slave girl Marta in the Star Trek: The Original Series 
on NBC. Craig died at her home in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles,
on Monday from metastatic breast cancer that had spread to her
liver.

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Yvonne Craig in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode Whom
Gods Destroy”.


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