JUSTINE BATEMAN HAS TURNED 45

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Justine Tanya Bateman is an actress, writer, and producer. Her television
career included a regular role as Mallory Keaton on the CBS sitcom Family
Ties
from 1982 until 1989. She was nominated for two Emmy Awards and a
Golden Globe Award. Bateman currently runs a digital media production and 
consulting company called Section 5. 

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PORTLAND’S MATT GROENING IS 57 TODAY

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Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening, cartoonist, screenwriter and producer was
born in Portland, Oregon, the middle of five children. He attended Ainsworth
Elementary School and Lincoln High School. From 1972 to 1977, Groening
attended Evergreen State College Olympia, Washington. Groening is the
creator of the comic strip Life in Hell as well as two successful television
series, The Simpsons and Futurama. Groening has won 11 Primetime
Emmy Awards, ten for The Simpsons and one for Futurama.

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JAMES SPADER TURNED 51 TODAY

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James Todd Spader is best known for his unusual roles in movies such as
Sex,Lies, and Videotape (1989), Stargate (1994), and Secretary (2002). His
most famous television role is that of attorney Alan Shore from ABC’s The
Practice
and its spin-off Boston Legal, for which he won three Emmy Awards.

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                     Spader, left, in The Watcher (2000)

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GAME SHOW DEBUTED ON THIS DATE IN 1950

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What’s My Line? a panel game show which originally ran on the CBS Television
Network from 1950 until it’s cancellation in 1967. It is the longest-running game
show in the history of U.S. prime time television. It was hosted by John Charles
Daly with panelists Dorothy Kilgallen. Arlene Francis, and Bennett Cerf. 

The show won three Emmy Awards for “Best Quiz or Audience Participation Show”
in 1952, 1953 and a Golden Globe for Best TV show in 1962. After it was 
cancelled by CBS in 1967, it returned in syndication as a daily production
returned in syndication as a daily production which ran from 1968 until 1975.

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BIRTHDAY WISHES TO ALAN ALDA ~ 75 TODAY

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    Hawkeye

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Alan Alda ,an actor, director and screenwriter is a five-time Emmy Award and six-time Golden Globe Award winner. He is best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce ( above)
in the TV series M*A*S*H on CBS from September 17, 1972 to February 28, 1983. He was nominated for 21 Emmy Awards, and won five. He took part in writing 19 episodes, including the finale, and directed 32. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Stony Brook University School of Journalism.

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Alda as U.S. Republican Senator Arnold Vinick in West Wing on NBC-TV
from 1999 to 2006

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Alan Alda played  U.S. Senator Owen Brewster (above) in The Aviator
in 2004. He received his first  Academy Award nomination for the role. 

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