Sorrell Booke was born in Buffalo, New York in January 1930 and passed away in February 1994. Booke was a counterintelligence officer in the Korean War. He then earned a theater degree from Yale University and spent a decade performing on stage in New York. During his career he had over 120 acting credits to his name. His best known role came starring as “Boss” Hogg in the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard, from 1979 to 1985 and in the spinoff series The Dukes in 1983....
Stacey also appeared in episodes of The Chisholms, Trapper John, M.D., Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, Simon & Simon, The A-Team, Murder, She Wrote, The Twilight Zone, 1st & Ten: The Championship, and Hunter. One of her known roles came as Christy Russell on the soap opera Generations in 1990. Nelkin dated Woody Allen and claims that his film Manhattan was based on their romantic relationship. She is a relationship expert who has her own website and YouTube channel and wrote the book You Can’t Afford to Break Up: How an Empty Wallet and a Dirty Mind Can Save Your Relationship....
She was listed in the Guinness Book of Records due to the high volume of letters and phone calls received in her show. Gimenez won the Golden Martin Fierro Award in 1997 and the INTE award for best Hispanic American TV hostess in 2002. Her first appearance came in the 1968 film En mi casa man do yon. As a film actress she mainly starred in adult comedies often appearing with Alberto Olmedo, Jorge Porcel, and Moria Casan....
William W. Cargill was born in 1844 in Port Jefferson, New York. When he was in his early 20s, he founded his own grain storage company in Iowa. He brought his younger brothers, Sam and Sylvester, into the business two years later, and expanded into lumber, as well. In 1875, ten years after he founded the initial business, he brought his other brother, James F. Cargill, on board. When he passed away of pneumonia in 1909, he willed the company to his wife....
For some reason, Peru is the largest producer of fake US currency. According to recent estimates, a mind-boggling 60% of the roughly $3 billion in fake US notes circulating the globe, originated in Peru. Today’s seizure is the largest bust of counterfeit money in the history of the Secret Service. In addition to the ‘funny money,’ police seized eight extremely high-caliber printing presses and 1,600 ‘plates,’ which came in various denominations....
IPG Photonics manufactures fiber lasers and amplifiers, which are used in everything from medicine to telecommunications. The company moved from Russia to Germany, and is now based in Massachusetts. Its products are manufactured in multiple countries, including the US, Russia, Germany, and Italy.
As part of the swap, the United States received three Iranian-American prisoners and Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian in exchange for seven detained Iranians. Despite assertions from the Obama Administration that the money had nothing to do with the prisoner swap, many – especially those on the right wing of the political spectrum – are speculating that the two events are intrinsically linked. Shortly after the story broke, Paul Ryan released a statement claiming that the report confirmed his party’s “longstanding suspicion that the administration paid a ransom,” and that its just another example of the Obama administration “misleading the American people to sell this dangerous nuclear deal....
The flight was via Emirates airlines, which is known across the world for its ridiculously luxurious flights for its highest-paying passengers. And Neistat wasn’t disappointed by his look at what a flight that costs more than twenty grand is like. For one, there’s the fully reclining seat, humorously given such attention by flight attendants that one can almost imagine it being annoying. There are motorized doors for privacy, a fully stocked minibar that’s also motorized, free goodie bags, and a first class a la carte menu the likes of which you wouldn’t even expect to encounter on solid ground, let alone in the air....
Penn also served as executive producer for the series Alphas and the TV series Ozzy & Drix from 2003 to 2004. He also produced the films Osmosis Jones, Incident at Loch ness, and The Grand. Penn directed the movies Incident and Loch Ness and The Grand. As an actor he has starred in the movies Politically Correct Party Animals, Star Maps, Chuck & Buck, and Osmosis Jones. In 2004 he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Ozzy & Drix....
Early Life Abigail Spencer was born on August 4, 1981 in Gulf Breeze, Florida to Lydia and renowned surfer Yancy Spencer III. She has two brothers. Television Career Spencer’s first major acting role was on the ABC soap opera “All My Children,” playing Becca Tyree from 1999 to 2001. After that, she had guest roles on “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “Killer Instinct,” and “Gilmore Girls.” Spencer went on to star as the titular character in the short-lived Lifetime series “Angela’s Eyes,” which ran for 13 episodes in 2006....
As an actor, Balthazar Getty made his acting debut in the 1990 film adaptation of “Lord of the Flies” and went on to star in such films as “White Squall,” “Lost Highway,” and “Slingshot.” On television, Getty had major roles on “Alias” and “Brothers & Sisters.” As a recording artist, he is a member of the indie band Ringside. Early Life and Career Beginnings Balthazar Getty was born Paul Balthazar Getty on January 22, 1975, in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles, California....
Smith has been making news lately – he was on the cover of Forbes Magazine’s Richest Americans issue, he married Playboy Playmate of the year Hope Dworaczyk in a splashy and expensive ceremony, donated $20 million to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and he is paying education of 24 girls from the Chibok community, including the 21 who escaped from captivity by Nigeria’s militant Islamist group, the Boko Haram....
He has appeared in many films including Johnny Shiloh, Dark Before Dawn, Big Bad John, Payback, Gettysburg, Tombstone, Wild Wild West, Comanche, Jericho, Grand Champion, Gods and Generals, The Alamo, The Wendell Baker Story, Truce, Miracle at Sage Creek, The Mist, Cowboys & Aliens, and more. Taylor won Golden Boot Awards for Gunsmoke in 1972 and Truce in 2007. He also won a Golden Boot Award in 1993. He was married to actress Judy Nugent from 1961 to 1983 and remarried in 1995....
Early Life and Military Service Charles Durning was born on February 28, 1923, in Highland Falls, New York. He was the son of James and Louise Durning. Charles was of German, English, and Irish descent and was raised Catholic. Durning was the ninth of ten children, five of whom passed away as children from smallpox and scarlet fever. At the age of 20, Charles was drafted into the US Army during World War II....
Things get even weirder from there. No one seems to know exactly who this Chinese billionaire is, and he’s taken some interesting lengths to keep it that way, having been photographed with Misake wearing a mask. He’s rumored to be an entertainment industry figure, known for his big spending, so perhaps those with a working knowledge of Chinese show-business billionaires have a good guess of what his actual identity might be....
Before SNL, Kattan performed with Los Angeles’ improv comedy troupe The Groundlings, following in the footsteps of his father, who was also a member. During his SNL tenure, he became known for his physical comedy and distinctive characters, including the hyperactive monkey-boy Mr. Peepers and the enthusiastic Broadway performer Suel Forrester. After leaving SNL, Kattan appeared in various films and television shows, including “Corky Romano” (2001), “Undercover Brother” (2002), and the TV series “The Middle....
Live Nation Earnings In October 2018, we learned some of the financial inner-workings of today’s Fleetwood Mac thanks to a lawsuit filed by on-again-off-again member Lindsey Buckingham. Buckingham sued his former bandmates after he was abruptly removed from the group’s 2018-2019 Live Nation tour. The lawsuit claimed that according to terms of their deal with Live Nation, each band member would receive $200,000 per show over 60 shows, for a total payout of $12 million....
Fritz played for Werder Bremen from 2006 to 2017 and scored five goals in 288 caps. He also represented Germany at the under-21 and senior levels scoring two goals and finishing runner-up at the UEFA European Football Championship. Playing for Werder Bremen Fritz won the DFL-Ligapokal in 2006 and the DFB-Pokal in 2008-09 and was runner up for the Bundesliga in 2007-08, the DFB-Pokal in 2009-10, and the UEFA Cup in 2008-09....
Weeks before the IPO, Coinbase’s private valuation was $65 billion. The world initially expected the company to debut at $250 a share. As I type this article, Coinbase is trading at $381, which gives the company a market cap of $100 billion. Company co-founder Brian Armstrong owns 20% of the company’s shares. At today’s market cap levels, that gives him a net worth of $20 billion. That means Brian Armstrong has been instantly propelled into the ranks of the 100 richest people in the world....
Since then, he has gone on to direct such projects as “The Strand”, “Believers”, “Solstice”, “The Objective”, and “Under the Bed”. He also co-founded a horror subsidiary of Warner Bros. Pictures, called Raw Feed, in 2006. His partners in the direct-to-DVD horror company are producers John Shiban of “The X-Files” and Tony Krantz of “24”.
