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Grammy, Emmy, and Academy Award winner Steve Martin. The World Premiere of Bright Star, a new American musical with music by Edie Brickell and Steve Martin, lyrics by Brickell, book by Martin, based on an original story by Martin and Brickell, and directed by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie, will run Sept. 14 - Nov. 2, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Sandee Bartkowski.

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"Steve" Martin is 70 years old today.

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KEVIN TIGHE IS 71 TODAY

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Kevin Tighe
(born Jon Kevin Fishburn in Los Angeles, California)

Tighe is best known for his character, firefighter-paramedic Roy DeSoto,
on the 1972-1977 NBC series Emergency!. He earned a Masters of Fine
Arts degree from the University of Southern California in 1967 and made
his first film appearance that same year as an extra in The Graduate.


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Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980)

When Hitchcock was about five years old, his father sent him to the local 
police station to be locked up for five minutes for behaving poorly, hence
his lifelong fear of the police.

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SINGER BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1929

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Buck Owens (born Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. in
Sherman, Texas)
(August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006)



Owens had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with
his band the Buckaroos. They pioneered what came to be called the
Bakersfield sound, a reference to Bakersfield, California. Owens co-
hosted the CBS-TV series Hee Haw with Roy Clark from 1969 to
1986. 

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TV HOST BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1925

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Mike Douglas (born Michael Delaney Dowd, Jr. in
Chicago, Illinois
) (August 11, 1925 – August 11, 2006)

Douglas was a "Big Band" era singer, entertainer, and syndicated 
television talk show host of The Mike Douglas Show. 

As a teenager, Mike Douglas was employed as a singer on a dinner
cruise ship on Lake Michigan. He served in the U.S. Navy during
World War II.


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