Bob Redford announced at 82 his retirement. . He has been acting since he was 22 starting out in Alfred Hitchcock and Twilight Zone shows in the late 50’s — my particular favorite is with Dame Gladys Cooper in “Nothing in the Dark.” Like the other blond god, Steve McQueen, of 60-70’s cinema Redford dominated the Loew’s marquees and was a constant sellout. Tickets were $5.00, popcorn a dollar and soda 75 cents. That, the Army-Navy stores and the music was the best the era had to offer. Somewhere in there Woody Allen started making flicks that were amusing, you…
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Charles Van Dell Johnson was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the only child of Loretta (née Snyder), a housewife, and Charles E. Johnson, a native Swede and came to the United States as a young child, His mother was of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry and an alcoholic who left the family when he was a child. His father was remote figure in his son’s life as Ned Wynn, Van’s stepson wrote in his memoir of growing up in Hollywood, We Will always live in Beverly Hills. ¹ When Johnson became a star he invited his father to Los Angeles and took…
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Gary Busey playing Biff in Back to the Future is rather satirical, as he had a near death experience when he crashed a guard rail back in 1988. It made headline because he refused to wear a helmet and during the surgery to sew his head back together, the actor died on the operating table. Gary, born William Gareth Jacob Busey, won an Academy award for fellow Texan, Buddy Holley, another irony as Busey started out as a drummer in a country-western band and played for Leon Russell, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. He is a bundle temperament type, though…
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Our header picture is Mel Colm-Cille Gerard and Robyn Denise Gibson way back in 1981 when they newly married. He seems to favour that look: tall and dark haired, as all three mothers of his cumulative nine children resemble each other. This is a Midpoint Tree produced by Kepler software. Lots of other software packages do this as well, including the 60.00 WinStar Express first put out by Michael Erlewine’s Matrix software but now bought up by the Cochrane’s, , so this is no deal breaker when searching for a package. To save space I just did the Midpoints…
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A man of many talents Sam Shepard with his down home honesty and American good looks; seemed, like fellow actor Robert Redford to personify the Marlboro Man Mythic. But unlike Redford, Shepard smoked, heavily and like his father, destroyed his life and relationship with his alcoholism. Writing, booze and women His real name was Samuel Shepard Rogers IV. He was born at Fort Sheridan, Illinois on November 5, 1943 because his father was serving in the Army Air Corp during World War II. He is a western bucket highlighting his self-sufficiency with a Moon handle, a not uncommon combination for…
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Born in 1936 in Arkansas, the place seems to differ from bio to obit and it seems like other singers of the period, it was really between the two on a backcountry farm, Glen Campbell started as many singers did, apprenticing as a songwriter for the top stars of the 1960s. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005, and earned a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. Following a public battle with Alzheimer’s disease, the country music legend died on August 8, 2017, at the age of 81. He was the seventh of twelve children…
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I loved the television show, Barney Miller, and today watching a very old rerun, Fish caught my eye, with his deadpan lines and expressionless look, and so I decided to do his chart. You can read about him at his New York Times obituary here. Abe Vigoda was a solid actor, and part of the Hollywood tableau when minor or supporting actors were acknowledged as the meat and potatoes that hang a movie together. Director Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront) prophesied in the 1950’s, that with everyone wanting to be star, movies would die. Recently, director Martin Scorsese echoed that…
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Michael Moore was born April 23, 1953 in Flint, Michigan. We have rectified his birth time to 12:41 PM (or a quarter to 1 in the afternoon). He is infamous for his movie, Roger and Me, where he cuts between his childhood and Roger, then the GM CEO, highlighting their dissimilarities. From that small independent movie, he has gone to tackle many other social ills. He is divorced from his wife Kathleen, who was often the producer of his films. The couple had no children. Astrological Overview Astrotheme.com, now owned by Astro.com, has Moore with an an Ascendant of 16: …











