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The Empire Strikes Back…1950’s Style
With all of the this talk regarding 3D Television and 3D Movies, I thought you might like this. For those who can't view the video - click here .
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...
Remembering The Duke
Marion Mitchell Morrison was born at Winterset, Iowa on this day in 1907. Small and shy, the bullies teased him about his name. His Airedale followed him to school, but as dogs weren't allowed at school he left "Duke" at a local fire station...
Filthy 13 Member Dies
John “Jack” Agnew, a member of the Demolitions Platoon Regimental HQ 506 PIR died on April 8, 2010.  Jack was a member of the group referred to as the “Filthy 13”, the group that inspired the movie “The Dirty Dozen”.  Jack, died in suburban...
We are living in exponential times
Remembering John Crichton
John Michael Crichton was born at Chicago, Illinois on this day in 1942. He started writing early with a travel column in the New York Times at fourteen. He pursued a degree in literature at Harvard but disagreed with faculty and switched to anthropology...
Heroes
The birthday list today includes three actors that suggested today's theme. Michael Douglas, son of another heroic figure, was born at New Brunswick, New Jersey on this day in 1944. Mark Hamill, Jedi knight Luke Skywalker, was born at Oakland, California...
Happy Birthday to Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman was born at Los Angeles, California on this day in 1937. He graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955 and enrolled at Santa Monica College. After a year he left to join the Pasadena Playhouse for two years. He moved to New York City...
Remembering Robin Hood, Captain Blood, et al.
Errol Flynn was born at Hobart, Tasmania, Australia a century ago today. He grew up at Sydney, failed in two businesses in New Guinea, and moved to England in 1933. Spotted by a Warner Brothers executive the next year he was quickly signed to a contract...
EE-O-LEVEN
Had the unfortunate opportunity to watch the latest version of Ocean’s Eleven with George Clooney, yeah, I know it’s been out for a while; however I really had no need to see it. It was on one of the movie channels late last night, so I tuned...
Posted: 06-10-2009 10:40 by jim® | with 8 comment(s)
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