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Born August 14, 1907, McHugh was a Ziegfield Follies dancer, but she is probably best known for her line “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”. The line was originally spoken in a television commercial for a medical service called Lifecall.
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National attention focused on Los Angeles Children’s Hospitalin Nov 1970 following the discovery of a tiny, mute, 13-year-old girl who’d been kept in isolation by her elderly, abusive father for over 11 years. Tied to a small “potty-chair” during the day and locked into a “chicken-coop” crib by night. The emaciated,diapered girl became the focus […]
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Paul Zaloom played the irreverent, wacky, brilliant Beakman on the science-oriented kids show Beakman’s World in the 90s. Zaloom’s bizarre appearance and brilliant comic timing turned each episode into an amazing learning experience that combined equal parts Albert Einstein and Groucho Marx. Zaloom occasionally reprises his Beakman role in a touring demontration called Beakman Live!
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Clara Peller was a retired manicurist in 1984 when American viewers watched her demand Where’s the Beef?! in Wendy’s fast-food commercials. Born on August 4, 1902, the firey octogenarian was an overnight success, inspiring millions of dollars of revenue in subsequent sales of T-shirts and underwear bearing the famous phrase. Even Presidential candidate Walter Mondale […]
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Dresslar was an entertainer and singer for nearly six decades. But his voice rang through millions of households when he sang the simple refrain, Ho, Ho, Ho in an ad jingle for Green Giant Foods.
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First male supermodel for Calvin Klein and played JD on Baywatch. Huge success as a male model for many designers in the 1990’s. Famed photographer, John Falocco, was the first to photograph Michael, and those images are now worth a fortune.
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Spokeswoman for the now-defunct Psychic Readers Network. Appeared as Miss Cleo in late-night TV infomercials, claiming to be a Jamaican born-and-raised shaman priestess and psychic. Her catchphrase, “Call me now for your free readin’!”, delivered in a Jamaican accent, became a pop-culture icon.
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She was the unknown, unnamed subject of one of the most riveting National Geographic photos ever. Taken in 1986, this teenage refugee was photographed at a refugee camp in Pakistan and known only as the “Afghan girl”.
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Remember Fabio, the male model, who used to grace the cover of millions of romance novels? In the early 1990’s, Fabio rose to great popularity as a male model and was well known for his long blonde locks and large physique. Fabio was born on March 15, 1959, in Milan, Italy. His father always wanted […]
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One of the protypical “shock jocks” of talk radio and front running right-wing loon, Morton Downey, Jr. made the transition to television with The Morton Downey Jr. Show in 1987. After an incident allegedly involving “neo nazis” who cut his hair and spray-painted a swastika on his face, the show was yanked. (It was never […]
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