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Georg Luck, Swiss academic, died in Towson, Maryland (b. 1926) Mindy McCready, singer (b. 1975) February 18. Jerry Buss, basketball and hockey team owner, real estate investor, and chemist (b. 1933) Damon Harris, singer (b. 1950) Shayle R. Searle, New Zealand mathematician, died in Ithaca, New York (b. 1928) February 19. Armen Alchian ...
Roger Touhy (September 18, 1898 – December 16, 1959) was an Irish American mob boss and prohibition-era Chicago bootlegger.He is best remembered for having been framed by his rivals in Chicago organized crime for the fake 1933 kidnapping of Jewish-American organized crime figure and Chicago Outfit associate John "Jake the Barber" Factor, a brother of cosmetics manufacturer Max Factor Sr.
After they are fired from Columbia University, they start their own business investigating and capturing ghosts. Starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver , Annie Potts , and Ernie Hudson, it was released in the United States on June 8, 1984.
Chariots of Fire is a 1981 historical sports drama film directed by Hugh Hudson, written by Colin Welland and produced by David Puttnam.It is based on the true story of two British athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice.
At the time of Ricky's death, they had broken up but remained close friends. [7] [8] Robert died of AIDS-related causes in 2000 at the age of 22. [9] Shortly thereafter, their father, Clifford Ray, attempted suicide but survived. [10] Randy Ray married in 2001 and lived in Orlando, Florida. He managed his HIV through medication. [11] He died ...
And on May 2, 1954, the First Unitarian Church in Memphis screened one of his silent movies to a test audience with a capacity of 100 people. Binford replied that the church would "violate the law" if they screened the 1915 movie A Burlesque on Carmen. They did, the audience enjoyed it with heavy laughter, and there was nothing "morally" wrong ...
Ray Douglas Bradbury (US: / ˈ b r æ d b ɛr i / BRAD-berr-ee; August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
And it is such a grim and dreary enterprise. One prays for a flower or a ray of sunshine as those grotty warriors clamber into their cellars and over their slag heaps." [14] Reign of Fire was third at the US box-office receipts during its opening weekend (12 July 2002), taking in $15,632,281, behind Road to Perdition and Men in Black II. [15]