TODAY IS JULIANNE MOORE’S 50th BIRTHDAY

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Actress Julianne Moore’s career began in the mid 
1980’S with TV soaps like AS THE WORLD TURNS 
on CBS, shown above. Her many films include
THE BIG LEBOWSKI in 1998 and HANNIBAL
released in 2001.

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“LITTLE RICKEY” IS 60 YEARS OLD TODAY

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Richard Keith, born Keith Thibodeaux, played Little
Rickey
, left, on the CBS sitcom “I Love Lucy” which
originally aired from 1951 to 1957. Desi Arnaz, on the
right, made the name change for the shows credits.

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        Richard Keith ( “Little Rickey”) today.

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FIRST USE OF VIDEOTAPE ON THIS DATE IN 1956

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The first commercial use of Videotape in Television was
with the Ampex VRX-1000 video recorder, shown above.
The broadcast was Douglas Edwards with The News on
CBS. It was a telecast from New York to the Television 
City studios of CBS in Hollywood.

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         Douglas Edwards, on the right, in the CBS- Newsroom.

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URKEL IS 34 YEARS OLD TODAY

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Actor-screenwriter Jaleel White played the part
of Steve Urkel on the TV sitcom Family Matters
which was seen on ABC from 1989 to 1997,then
made the switch to the CBS network from 1997
to 1998. White also appeared on the comedy
series The Jeffersons. He got his start in the
business doing Kellogg’s cereal commercials
at the age of 3. 
 

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THE LAST AMOS ‘N’ ANDY RADIO SHOW

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Freeman Gosden (left) and Charles Correll (right) did
their last broadcast of the “Amos ‘n’ Andy” show on
this date in 1960. The comedy series began on the
NBC Blue network 1929. The final  program aired
on the CBS radio network.

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