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Kenny Baker is British actor and musician that is best known as the person inside the android R2D2 in the Star Wars series. Aside from Anthony Daniels (C3PO) he is the only other person that appears in all six episodes of the Star Wars series.
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on: July 1, 2009
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I got my introduction to him via the Jeeves and Wooster series where he played Jeeves, the archetypical butler and model of efficiency to Hugh Laurie’s”Bertie Wooster”. But even before that, the duo had a comedy variety series for 4 seasons on the BBC called Fry and Laurie
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The Spelman College graduate began her long career as a talk show host on the Lifetime Network in 1987 with the short-lived show Attitudes. The following year, she was a correspondent on Inside Edition until 1993, when King World Enterprises (which syndicated Oprah), offered Watts her own show. Rolanda had a successful run from 1994 […]
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on: January 6, 2009
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First getting noticed in the 1975 Broadway musical Bubbling Brown Sugar, Stewart would finally get her lasting imprint on pop culture five years later when she covered the Eddie Floyd standby Knock on Wood to a disco beat. It earned her a Grammy nod and went platinum. Stewart’s follow-up hit, a disco cover of The […]
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Touted as the Boy Soprano, the Toronto-born Breen starred in seven b musicals for RKO from 1936 to 1939, entertaining Depression-era audiences. In 1942, the then 15 year old was embarassed after hearing his Mickey Mouse-like speaking voice in Johnny Doughboy and quit the movie business. He tried to revitalize his career with a nightclub […]
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n 1950, 27 year old secretary Bettie Page was approached by NY Policeman Jerry Tibbs to model for him. When she found out how much modeling paid verus banging typewriter keys, she didn’t need a degree in rocket science (although she did have a BA in the arts) to pursue that. Throughout most of the […]
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on: December 12, 2008
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Scottish bubblegum boy band from the 1970s who dominated the UK charts and briefly had an impact in the US from 1975-1977 cracking the Top 20 three times including their #1 hit Saturday Night. By 1981, the group had dissolved.
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on: November 11, 2008
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During the 1980s and early 1990s, Summer’s voice was among the most heard on television, mostly on Saturday mornings. From Penny on Inspector Gadget to Elmyra on Tiny Toons to Susie on Rugrats, Summer was usually cast as the sassy black girl or the impish child. Couch potatoes finally got to match the voice to […]
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on: November 11, 2008
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Please, give me a break already. I guess the only bright side to this media whorefest is the fact that in this “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow” category, he really will be for all intents and purposes…gone TOMORROW.
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on: November 3, 2008
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Making her first film appearance in 1932, Withers acheived stardom in 1934 playing Shirley Temple’s arch enemy in the film Bright Eyes. Soon after, 20th Century Fox put the Atlanta native in a series of b-movies that made her Temple’s equal at the box office. After Temple left the studio in 1940, Withers became the […]
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