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Remembering Dennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper was born at Dodge City, Kansas on May 17th, 1936, he died at his home at Venice, California yesterday morning. His first film role was with James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause , and he worked sporadically ever since because of his tendency...
“And that’s the way it was…” – Remembering Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite, born at St. Joseph, Missouri on 4 November 1916, died last evening at New York City. While in high school at Houston, Texas he was a cub reporter at the Houston Post, and had a paper route, possibly the only journalist to deliver his...
Remembering Mel Blanc
Melvin Jerome Blank was born at San Francisco on this day in 1908, and grew up at Portland, Oregon. In high school he entertained his friends with jokes featuring multiple accents he picked up from his neighbors, and changed his last name to Blanc. He...
The Day the Music Died
As this is the anniversary of the death of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, I thought it only befitting to blog a little about this event, and how it effected me personally. Of course I wasn't born when it...
Posted: 02-03-2008 2:13 by jim® | with no comments