Archive for the 'THEN AND NOW' Category

BEFORE HE BECAME A HOUSEHOLD NAME

Tom Selleck without his famous mustache as 'Jed Andrews' on the soap opera "The Young and the Restless" (1974-75)

Tom Selleck without his famous mustache as ‘Jed Andrews’
on the soap opera "The Young and the Restless" (1974-75).

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Will Tom Selleck Be On The ‘Magnum PI’ Reboot? The Original Star Has Some Strong Feelings About ...
Thomas(Tom) William Selleck is 78 years old.

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FUNNY GUY MEL BROOKS IS 97 YEARS OLD

PAST WORLD NEWS HIGHLIGHTS | PDX RETRO

Comedy legend Mel Brooks turns 95: His life and career, in photos | Entertainment | richmond.com    
    
    
Mel Brooks Calls Political Correctness ‘The Death of Comedy’ | IndieWire   
Melvin (Mel) James Brooks (Kaminsky)

 

Mel Brooks is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker. With a career
spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and
director of a variety of successful broad
farces and parodies. A
recipient of
numerous accolades, he is one of 18 entertainers to
win the
EGOT
, which includes an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award,
an
Academy Award ("Oscar"), and a Tony Award. He received a
Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in
2010, the
AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film
Institute
Fellowship
in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a
BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and the Honorary Academy Award
in 2023.

He began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar‘s
variety show Your Show of Shows from 1950 to 1954.

  

Young Frankenstein - A Podcast From Beyond | Listen Notes
1974

35 Facts About The Movie Blazing Saddles - Facts.net
1974

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A CLOSER LOOK AT A FAVORITE SNACK FOOD

Little Debbie Fundraising | Little Debbie

McKee Foods Corporation is a privately held and family-owned
American
snack food and granola manufacturer headquartered
in
Collegedale, Tennessee.The corporation is the maker of
Drake’s Cakes, Fieldstone Bakery snacks and cereal, Little
Debbie snacks, and Sunbelt Bakery granola and cereal.
The
company also formerly operated Heartland Brands.

The company was founded during the Great Depression in
the 1930’s by Oather "O.D." McKee and Ruth McKee (below).

Oather started out selling 5¢ snack cakes from the back of
his 1928
Whippet
in the Chattanooga area.



McKee Foods Corporation History | McKee Foods

Od and Ruth Mckee Little Debbie Snacks Story
As a vice president and director on the McKee Foods Board
of Directors, real-life Debbie, aka Debra Mckee Flower (above)
manages the business.

Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies 2 BOXES Work School Snack - Picture 1 of 1

Ruth McKee, book lover, bookseller - StarTribune.com

Logo of McKee Foods Corporation


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THE RETRO BLOG THEN AND NOW FILE


Jones played offensive guard on Harvard’s undefeated
varsity football team in 1968. 

Kataweb.it - Blog - RED||Carpet entertainment, now » Tommy Lee Jones

Actor Tommy Lee Jones will be 77 on
September 15.

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THEN AND NOW PICTURES FROM THE BLOG

Angelina Jolie as a baby in the arms of her father, Hollywood acting legend John Voight.

Angelina Jolie's dad says he only found out about his daughter's double mastectomy on the ...
Father and daughter today.

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